Paper Monitor
09:58 UK time, Thursday, 2 November 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor’s body is a temple. Not that it likes to deny itself the finer things in life. So it was with great glee, while supping on coffee from its checked thermos and flicking through the newspapers, that Paper Monitor saw this headline:
CLUES TO LONG LIFE FOUND IN RED WINE - Daily Telegraph
Back of the net!
The Sun reports that mice fed a diet high in the drink and fatty foods were healthy and active. But trust the Independent to rain on the parade - it points out that the human equivalent would be 100 bottles a day.
Now Paper Monitor enjoys a tipple as much as the next man - or woman - but all things in moderation. For waking up in a ditch, minus a kidney but plus a thumping headache, is no way to start the day.
Meanwhile, the Guardian is about to start another trend (yesterday’s fashion dispatch quite put Paper Monitor in touch with his/her feminine side).
Having been first off the blocks with wallcharts, the paper - like a teenager who ditches the footless tights now even Mum wears them - is about to try a new tactic in the battle of the giveaways.
Its weapon of choice? Stickers! Of Dinosaurs! On Saturday!
Paper Monitor for one will be emptying its coin jar of coppers to be first in the queue at the newsagents this weekend.
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