Sunday 14 October 2012

Dear Headline Writers, News Perusers, Bored People


I've come up with an absolute belter of a game you can all play at home, entitled Punctuate The News. The concept is simple: take an existing news headline, and - without adding or removing any words - change the punctuation so that it completely recontextualises the story.

I'll start with this zinger, which is perhaps unfortunate since it may prove hard to top:

           
Boss asked Savile about 'Rumours'

...in which Bruce Springsteen had a thoroughly enjoyable chinwag with renowned TV kiddy-fiddler Sir James Savile about Fleetwood Mac's seminal 1977 album.


Now you try!

Regards,
Davis.


Dear All

It might be too soon to call at this stage, but I think I may have just solved two of music's longest-running mysteries.


Regards,
Davis.