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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( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, 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.
( The Alchemist get scurrilling!, 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
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, 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

( elvisweathercock, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:27, archived)