Showing posts with label Journalese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journalese. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Word of the Day: Thingo

With nothing significant to report from Canberra, the front page of today's Hun is devoted to the dastardly 'West Gate Bomb Plot' of recently convicted terrorist wannabe Abdul Benbrika. According to The Hun's Keith Moor:

One of the most chilling conversations taped by police was between Benbrika terror network member Fadi Sayadi and an associate as they discussed destroying the West Gate Bridge...

Sayadi suggested it would be possible to snorkel or scuba dive under the bridge and plant "thingos underneath".


Obviously Sayadi wasn't talking about water-lilies; nonetheless he sounds completely clueless. Anyone wanting to plant thingos under the Westgate Bridge need only take a walk through Westgate Park in South Melbourne. Once you had your thingos in place at the base of the Eastern pier you could hop on the ferry to Science Works, where a short walk will take you to the Western pier with its memorial to the workers who died when the bridge collapsed during construction.

If Sayadi had ever made that little trip he might have seen how difficult it would be to bring down the West Gate Bridge with thingos, however well placed. Still, it's a good excuse for THe Hun to milk the story for another day while they wait for the man who would be Prime Minister eventually to make his move on Malcolm Turnbull. Since that's going to take at least six years we can all look forward to a lot more well beaten-up crap on The Hun's front page.

Friday, August 08, 2008

We're All Political Editors Now

So says Dennis Shanahan:
On Wednesday I raced to the new [GroceryChoice] website to see how I was to be empowered as a consumer and use detailed information to save money on my weekly grocery bill. Unfortunately, like so many other consumers ... I was disappointed as a shopper and vindicated as a political editor.
Status at last!

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Word of the Day - Expert

expert n: 1. (obs) a person with special knowledge or skill; 2. A single-issue lobbyist or agitator.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Headline of the Day

Iguanas witness cover-up


What I want to know is - who lagged on the iguanas? Will they come forward to give us their account of events?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Aargh!

'Ouch!' is quite simply inadequate for this:

Police Taser naked man in cavity