I’m betting Rupert Murdoch had money invested in a Kevin Rudd victory. The new PM is a headline writer’s dream.
Watching the election coverage at a party full of journalists in Sydney on Sunday night, the 'punny' headlines were coming thick and fast under the influence of vast quantities of champagne.
And, it’s with amusement I note that the (hopefully) soberer sub-editors on the nation’s newspapers have already employed some of our suggestions.
From the list of slightly drunken party-goers’ contributions:
“It’s a Rudd-Slide”; “Ruddy Hell, We Won!”; “It’s a Kev-olution”; “The Libs are Rudd-erless”; “The Kev-inator”.
How about we start a repository of ‘punny’ headlines here to ease the burden of the inevitable corniness on our comrades at the subs desks? Come on, have a go!
For criticism that the Prime Minister is too bland and insufficiently exciting: Middle of the Rudd.
ReplyDeleteFor the first Ministerial stuff-up: Coming to Earth with a Rudd.
For the first inadequate explanation for a Ministerial stuff-up: Rudd-iculous
For a series of Ministerial stuff ups: Ruddy Hell
For a series of Ministerial stuff ups that seem to have no end: Stuck in a Rudd
For the slip in the polls after the series of Ministerial stuff ups: Rudd-slide
For allegations of impropriety by or against the Prime Minister: Throwing Rudd
For substantiated allegations by or against the Prime Minister: Rudd Sticks
For any announcement involving the intelligence services: Double 0 Kevin...
That's just off the top of my head, but then I always wanted to be a subbie.
Pure genius, Mereweather! Consider yourself hired! :)
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