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[challenge entry] wasn't it actually the express that used it first?
i'll check.
and have my other mail pearoats while i'm at it

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(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:15, archived)
# Might have been, I dunno. It's just that it is a perfect example of Universal Headline Language.
Immediately understandable, yet content-free.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:20, archived)
# i can't quite track it down for sure using internets
but it was a real headline, either in the mirror or express

i think it's either from around the release of the first manhunt game in around 2003-4,
or it's really old and was used to call for the ban of child's play 3 after the jamie bulger killing
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:28, archived)
# The Manhunt one was
"BAN THESE EVIL GAMES", and was in the Mail, if my memory serves correctly.
(greem, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:31, archived)
# belly pfft
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:27, archived)