Very effective wake up call this morning courtesy of Sky News. Whilst waiting for Eamonn Holmes, the British Dan Rather, to commence his daily programme the indefatigable MP, Stephen Pound, went through the morning newspapers. And what news there was. Pound devoted especial attention to the Daily Express (already you know you're on a winner here, don't you) who was most taken with the paper's wheeze of showing what various bald celebrities would look like should they take the new medication that might-but-probably-won't-but- what-the-hey-why-let-that-spoil-a-potential-'news'-pegged-feature cure baldness.
And what hoots were to be had, looking at how the guy from Little Britain might look with some hair - yes, that's why Ted Turner invented 24 hour news. "So which one of them do you fancy?" inquired the Sky news presenter (it wasn't Eamonn, so who cares what his name was?) And with nary a pause Pound immediately plumped for "Telly Savalas." And why? Because Monsieur Kojak had a bit of "an Ewok hairstyle." So now you know, boys - you want to get it on with Stephen Pound, go for a hairstyle from the forest moon of Endor. Hubba the hubba! Why this man isn't on the front bench is beyond my ken.
Mind you, none of this was quite as enjoyable as the following item on Sky news in which the entertainment correspondent actually used the term "ex-squeeze", a phrase LiS had never heard beyond the pages of a tabloid and uttered into the ether.
