The main story on the leisure page in this week’s Herts Advertiser is ostensibly promoting a kids dinosaur show for school half-term week…but we suspect the headline-writer may have been having a bit of a laugh at the expense of venerable folk-rockers Fairport Convention.
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Great headline! Nuff said
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Really? Perhaps not, but what a Jurassic lark, eh.
Didn’t the publisher axe its regional production hub (subs/designers and production eds) last year? Mmmm.
And is it Fair port Convention in the caption?
http://www.hertsad.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/dinosaurs_take_to_the_stage_at_alban_arena_1_3952465?usurv=skip
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How standards have slipped.
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The headline joke is fine. Witty even. Allowing the auto text to dissect the name Fairport in the caption is not.
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Idle Rich – it could be worse. I remember another title from the Archant stable doing a piece in its leisure section about an open day at a wolf sanctuary. Readers were encouraged not to miss the opportunity to meet these “mythical” creatures. I’m not sure whether they did a piece on the local minotaur sanctuary the following week.
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I went to junior & senior Brum schools with Dave Pegg of the Fairport Convention group. He was talented then & still is now. He must be the same age as me….67. I haven’t seen him for 51 years.
Ron
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