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[Simon]

I love The Sun, even if they took Dear Diedre off the net.

[slatts]

She's crap. Check out No. 6 in this week's viral emails. As they say at the current bun PHOOAAARRR!!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,13-2004312474,,00.html

[Tony.T]

As the Velvet Underground asked all those years ago ...

"Who loves the Sun?"

I do.

PS: That's one nasty traffic harard, Slatts.

[Harry Hutton]

Is there an Australian equivalent of The Sun?

[Tony.T]

How about that! I was just over at your joint, Harry.

In answer to your question, sadly, no. There used to be The Truth, but it was long on sleave and short on content. It was kind of a down-market Sun. That last makes sense to me, at least.

For our absurdia we must consult the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and especially, The Sunday Age. Although the latter DOES have an exemplary sports section. But you're not a sports fan are you Harry? He asks accusatively.

[Tony.T]

Sleave? Holy shit! I flippin' well hate typos.

That'd be sleaxe ... SLEAZE.

[Harry Hutton]

There is a great book if you can get hold of it: the last two thousand years of history in Sun front pages. Very funny.

There are some really clever people working on the tabloids. A while back Celtic got beaten by Caledonia, apparently a hopeless team in one of the Scottish lower leagues. Their headline writers came up with "Super Cally were fantastic, Celtic were atrocious". (I think that was The Sun.)I think the only reason they had that big campaign against Abu Hamza was so that they could write headlines like, "Sling your hook!"

Not really a sports fan, no, though I was as a kid. Football fans, in their English form, are a major pain in the arse.

[Tony.T]

Thanks Harry, I'm going to hunt down that book. I love the Sun. I don't mistake it for highbrow reading, but it's a bloody funny paper.

My favourite headline was after England got beaten by Sweden in football -- Swedes 2 Turnips 0.

PS: In some other forum I seem to remember something about "Celtic Were Atrocious", but I can't remember where it was used. That headline though, is a pearler.

PPS: The Drivelwarehouse server is playing up today, so comments (everything actually) take ages to post.

[Brett Pee]

'The Sun' is a massive read down Pom way- a true working class paper-full of 18 year old bums & tits, humourous cartoons, problem pages, good sport- and somewhere inside a bit of world news (just to spoil everything)-but the way they take the piss out of their National teams amuses me,which means something funny every day!!

[Tony.T]

Is ANYONE reading the previous comments?!? They -- the COMMENTS -- are taking time to post, so just do it once and wait.

Thank you. That is all.

Oh yeah, the Sun's grouse, Brett.

[Brett Pee]

The Sun deserves a sister paper over here- one with countless butts & tits, problem pages, one-eyed sports reporting, trashy and made up stories of drunken nude vicars riding naked through a small town- and even space for silly little items like world news!!

[Tony.T]

Get it back off the Gee-Gees and send the Truth national ...

http://www.sportstruth.com.au/

Phil Cleary recommends it ...

Thank you very much for the invitation to be here to talk about the press gallery. Look, my brush with the press gallery began courtesy of that prestigious rag, the Melbourne Truth newspaper, back in the halcyon days of the Wills by-election in 1992. For those who don't know much about that newspaper, it was a kind of scandal rag that showed quite a lot of flesh in its pages and had sections like "Heart Balm" and the like and everyone who bought it claimed they were only getting it, of course, for the racing or the form guide, which I think was a convenient way of avoiding the real reason for purchasing it.

Read on ...

http://acij.uts.edu.au/forums/1998gmforum1a.html

[Tony.T]

By the way, Phil Cleary's a hard core lefty and I think Tim Blair used to edit the Truth.

I wonder if it was Tim who asked: "Phil, we've heard that you will be standing for Wills should Bob Hawke resign from Federal politics."