Comments on: Poor Wee Peter

By: mighty red pen

mighty red pen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:39:00 +0000

Oops, flagrant overuse of the word “xmas” in that one sentence. Sorry.

By: mightyredpen

mightyredpen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:38:00 +0000

What makes these headlines extra funny is that they refer to people by their first names. They assume an interesting level of familiarity and read almost like those terrible xmas letters that people send to their friends and loved ones at xmas. “Dear all, Peter was kicked by a zebra this year. And oh yes, in remarkable news, Cathy was saved by her hair!”

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:28:00 +0000

By the way, my Dad, 56, is called Peter and lives in Welwyn Garden City. I don’t know of a Dorothy or a Philip, though, except for the characters of the same names on Neighbours in the mid-1990′s.Another one of those tomorrow.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:26:00 +0000

It really should be brought back in. They should do it for everyone:

"PRIME MINISTER BROWN, 56, SAYS BRITISH WITHDRAWAL FROM BASRA IS NOT A SIGN OF DEFEAT".

I tried to find Zebra Peter, 40 this year, on the internet, but to no avail. Perhaps I should look up copies of the Daily Record from the days subsequent to the kicking to see if they did a follow up.

Christ, what if he still can't speak properly because he got kicked in the mouth by a zebra?

By: Paddy

Paddy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0000

I love that old fashioned way of including people’s ages in headlines. You’d never see it these days. I wonder if they sometimes went even further and had headlines like: “ASTHMATIC INTROVERT PHILIP, 24 FROM WELWYN GARDEN CITY, SON OF PETER AND DOROTHY FROM THE BOTTOM END OF THE VILLAGE, BUDDHIST, WITNESSES BIRTH OF PUPPIES.”

By: Gez

Gez — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:14:00 +0000

Brilliant, in my head there is a really aggro zebra talking in a cockney accent:”So I kicked a kid in the mush, you wanna make sammink of it, you mug?”