An AW favourite gets its own book, and Grauniad article. It also comes within a whisker of actually using the legendary phrase itself…
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It’s a fun piece and a subject that tickles me, but I’d be surprised if there was a whole book on it. If they’ve succeeded, good luck to them..
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Fabulous! Love this sort of thing. Nice to see it in the typo-ridden news organ.
I can see that selling well, although no doubt loads will end up in the bin to be collected by the waste management and disposal technician.
It feels like the kind of thing that might catch on in the same way Nigel Rees’ graffiti books did in the 70s, perhaps.
The style is very much from the tabloid press and then parodied brilliantly by 80’s Smash Hits in particular. Where NME might describe Tony Hadley as “Spandau Ballet’s lead singer” , Smash Hits might say “Spandau’s foghorn-adjacent warbler-in-chief”.