Supermarket tabloid pet peeves:

[qnr]

Why do they tell you that the world will end in 60 days, but still take three year subscriptions?

[In_The_Wind]

1. They think you won't remember what's written from one page to the next

:shrug:

[qnr]

2. True....

I liked the one this month about the Titanic survivors that were found, with a photo of people younger looking than me.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Don't ya know ...

cold slows the metabolism ...

[qnr]

6. must be wet cold, my years in the Antarctic didn't help me :) n/t

[CanuckAmok]

14. a couple of years ago...

Someone brought a "Globe" to work...

You know how they have a photo caption of some "expert" who's quoted in the article? This Globe had the same guy...no, the exact same photo of the same guy in three different parts of the paper:

1) Dr. so-and-so, expert on the Loch Ness Monster

2) Mr. son-and-so, who witnessed UFO activity over Las Vegas

3) some "guy on the street interview" subject.

They didn't even try to disguise the guy. He kind of looked a little like Martin Mull.

[In_The_Wind]

17. That Has Got To Be The Funniest Post Of The Day!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray:


Except that there are a whole lot of stupid people who actually buy that crap :cry:

[Redstone]

4. I absolutely love "Weekly World News," because they're such blatant liars,

and don't give a shit who knows it. And in these days when you get a free copy of Photoshop Elements when you buy just about anything, their "Monkey Boy Son of Elvis Found on Mars With Yeti's Dog-Man Love Child" pictures are still made from seventh-generation Xerox copies, cut with scissors and pasted with Elmer's Glue.

Redstone

[qnr]

5. Still, that provides a little bit of retro panache.... :) n/t

[Redstone]

8. Precisely. That's why I like them. No pretension at all.

Redstone

[qnr]

16. I never really cared for the stories when I'd read the copies my

mother bought, but I thought some of the advertisements were hilarious.

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. easily the funniest paper ever

"Albert Einstein's brain goes on rampage!" just about killed me in the express lane.

[Redstone]

9. Can you just IMAGINE being in one of their editorial meetings?

I bet it's a riot, and that they have damn good booze and drugs as well.

It must be a great place to work, and I'm NOT being sarcastic here.

Redstone

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. I WISH I had an in at their place

I would step over my own mother to write for them.

[Redstone]

11. Have you called them? Do you know anything about them?

I know the Enquirer is pretty secretive (though not fun to work for); are those folks the same way?

Redstone

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. all I know is that they are in Florida

but that's about it. I will research it more of the holidays when I have more time.

[Redstone]

13. Maybe they're a division of the Enquirer, off in a broom closet somewhere

with their scissors and glue and IBM Selectrics...

Redstone

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. that's entirely possible

[Archae]

18. The funniest one I remember from recent days...

Right before the Iraq invasion, the picture showed an old Soviet submarine, and the headline blared, "Saddam Has Submarine In Lake Michigan!"

I told one guy chuckling about it that the writer was simply mistaken, it wasn't a submarine, it was just a Lake Michigan carp. :rofl:

What does piss me off though is when the tabloids try and convict people in big name trials, even before they go to trial. :mad: