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July 31st, 2007 · Posted by Skuds in Life · 1 Comment · Life

Newsagents often have a board outside with whatever shock-horror headline the local paper can think up to generate excitement/fear/interest in that week’s edition. Sometimes they can’t generate quite as much excitement as they want…

I wish I had managed to get a photo of it, but as we passed through Binstead on the way home yesterday I saw that the most significant thing happening there was TEACHER RETIRES AFTER 30 YEARS.

I expect that previous headlines were along the lines of POSTMAN DELIVERS MAIL, WOMAN HAS BABY, or MAN CUTS GRASS and I kind of envy them for that.

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  • skud's sister // Jul 31, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    The paper shop we pass on the way to work has one board outside which, when it doesn’t have an official T & A headline in it has been graffited by the local kids. It reads ‘Fred is a fat bastard’. Always a quiet news day here…

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