Paper Monitor
11:19 UK time, Thursday, 23 November 2006
In Thursday鈥檚 papers, the most striking images, appearing prominently in both tabloid and broadsheets, are a set of within-the-womb wildlife pictures. These pre-birth elephants, dolphins and dogs are portrayed in their floating, unearthly state, unaware of the weird world on the outside. These innocent animals still haven't even heard of wallcharts.
The fad for science-type pictures continues in the Daily Mail, with the modestly-entitled 鈥渕ost amazing space photographs in the universe鈥. These pictures, taken by the Hubble space telescope, provide two pages of multi-coloured spirals and splurges 鈥 with names such as the Sombrero Galaxy and the Ant Nebula.
The latter, a shimmering cloud of colours, 6,000 light years from earth is called an 鈥渁nt鈥 because it 鈥渞esembles an ant鈥. Space ants maybe, not the kind in Paper Monitor鈥檚 back garden.
The Sun has an intriguing feature. What was Hitler saying in those silent film clips of his home life? According to a fancy piece of lip-reading technology, in one clip, he says to Eva Braun: 鈥淚 understand you didn鈥檛 like the movie last night. I know what you want. You want Gone With the Wind.鈥
It鈥檚 one of those fragments of small talk that raises more questions than it answers. Did they ever get to see the film? What did they watch instead? Did they like comedies or tragedies?
Meanwhile the Daily Mail delivers the ultimate royal gossip headline, combining a heady mixture of nudge-nudge and reader offer: 鈥淟ove nest where you can sleep in Charles and Camilla鈥檚 bed.鈥
As the Sun explains, Prince Charles is 鈥済oing into the B&B business鈥, renting out a cottage in Wales. And the perks for prospective renters? 鈥淕uests can use their bed, sit on their loo and soak in their bath when the royal couple are away.鈥 It鈥檚 beginning to sound more like the Royle Family than the royal family already.
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