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Punorama updated

12:34 UK time, Wednesday, 13 September 2006

The rules are simple. We choose a news story, and you write a punning headline for it.

_41855460_tuc_203.jpgThis week, which has been driving round Brighton giving lifts to folk. Now Burberry, with the help of m'learned friends, has complained about breach of copyright, and the vehicle is being redesigned. Your extra task this week was to invent a headline without using the word chavrolet.

Judge's verdict

Lots to play with this week. But as ever, while tortuously complicated headlines might have the superficial novelty of a matching beige checked pram cover and poodle coat, the real class is displayed by those with an eye for simplicity.

Go naffer stripes
, suggests Rob Falconer. Sue Le Taxi, says Lee Pike. Tuk Boxed says Nigel Macarthur.

Simon Rooke has a good thing going, with A tuk of the clones, Hackneyed carriage and Taxi rank (and, thanks to our new functionality allowing you to "check" all the other entries by clicking the link below, you'll see they weren't the only entries from the Rookemeister).

It was good to read Burberry apes from Helene Parry, Blight on breach of copyright from O.G Nash, and Down and out in Burberry ills from Candace, if only because it shows that old friends of this parish have not been scared off by the advent of Monitor 2.0.

But there's one winner at the head of the queue who will get home in comfort rather than having to rely on the magic scooter: Nick Jones with Tacky cab.

(Click here to see all the losing entries, because that's what they are.)

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