the truth is between the lines
Thursday, 18 October 2007 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtThis morning's Sun headline was lovely:
CAPE VROU SPOTS UFO!
This works better if you know (as most of you do) that "vrou" rhymes with "throw", and thus with "UFO". The headline is a tiny, catchy piece of doggerel poetry in its own right: you could put a beat to it and rap it. It also perfectly mirrors the classic UFO-spotting scenario, with the Cape vrou an economical encapsulation which gracefully substitutes for the traditional red-neck trucker, without in any way disrupting the cliché's assumptions about class and education. (Consider the different implications of "Cape wife". "Cape" in this particular conjunction with "vrou" clearly connotes "Cape Flats".)
I am happy to see that The Sun is keeping alive the best traditions of tabloid journalism, thus carrying the torch for the defunct Weekly World News.
Last Night I Dreamed: I was at a rave. In fairy wings. And, for some reason, no underwear. And the less said about any of it, the better. Sigh.
CAPE VROU SPOTS UFO!
This works better if you know (as most of you do) that "vrou" rhymes with "throw", and thus with "UFO". The headline is a tiny, catchy piece of doggerel poetry in its own right: you could put a beat to it and rap it. It also perfectly mirrors the classic UFO-spotting scenario, with the Cape vrou an economical encapsulation which gracefully substitutes for the traditional red-neck trucker, without in any way disrupting the cliché's assumptions about class and education. (Consider the different implications of "Cape wife". "Cape" in this particular conjunction with "vrou" clearly connotes "Cape Flats".)
I am happy to see that The Sun is keeping alive the best traditions of tabloid journalism, thus carrying the torch for the defunct Weekly World News.
Last Night I Dreamed: I was at a rave. In fairy wings. And, for some reason, no underwear. And the less said about any of it, the better. Sigh.
