Paper Monitor
17:34 UK time, Thursday, 4 October 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
"When times get rough/And friends just can't be found/Like a bridge over troubled water/I will lay me down".
Paper Monitor's bridge over troubled water in Text Maniacs in the Daily Star.
When Times are rough and friends just can't be found, the nation's wisest owls can always provide solace.
It's a game of two halves.
There's political discourse: "Agree with JIFFER. Cut MOD pen pushers. I'm a MOD Labourer. Work hard to get gear ready for squaddies while office staff play solitaire all day." - LongD
But there's also social comment: "I must be stagnant. I fancy some pineapple jam but can't find any. I think Hartley's used to make it. Any help?" - Dar10
In any other era, a message as cryptic as this would be considered to be a coded communication with a spy.
Then there are the jokes: "saw a job for a chess referee. apparently it was piece work. got an interview and asked how do i get payed. he said 'check mate'."
And there's always a picture. This week "m pook" asked for a picture of "beautiful sexy roxanne pallett".
Instead the editors of the Star have gone for a picture of French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy.
No, wait a second. It is indeed Ms Pallett in a bikini.
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