Friday, October 22, 2004


The finest minds in tabloid punnery can only come up with "HARRY POTTY"? If only I had a job as a headline writer:
KEEP YOUR HEIR ON
HARRY'S PARRYS
ROYAL RUMBLE / BATTLE ROYALE
THE PRINCE AND THE POPPER
To be fair I quite enjoyed "HEIR RAGE", "IN THE BLUE-BLOODED CORNER", and "HEIR GOES SPARE" from various other corners of the UK press. The Daily Star frontpage: "KNOW WHAT I MEAN, HARRY?", is however truly an inspired headline. (For US readers the reference is to 80s UK heavyweight boxing champ Frank Bruno, who in post-match interviews (usually but not always with "The voice of boxing" Harry Carpenter) would inarticulately end every sentence with "...know what I mean, Harry?) Any further excellent suggestions welcome via the comments.
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