Quack
11/04/2004, 11:25 PM
Does anyone else find that Burton's Window, the Sunday Tribune's "humourous" football bit, evokes no laughs whatsoever? Not even a wry smile. It really is a textbook example of how "trying to be funny" means you end up not being funny at all.
Take today's one - "Who'd Win in a Fight Between Jose Mourinho and Jose Maria Olazabal".... "If Alan Shearer was a cartoon character, he'd be The Good Guy' (?), an unfunny "Emily Dickinson" poem about Arsenal's Champions league exit.... all are bits that might have been funny on websites, but on the printed page don't work at all.
At least they got rid of the really really stupid "six degrees" thing that the Evening Herald briefly adopted (or do they still have it? Probably do, it's bad enough!)
Take today's one - "Who'd Win in a Fight Between Jose Mourinho and Jose Maria Olazabal".... "If Alan Shearer was a cartoon character, he'd be The Good Guy' (?), an unfunny "Emily Dickinson" poem about Arsenal's Champions league exit.... all are bits that might have been funny on websites, but on the printed page don't work at all.
At least they got rid of the really really stupid "six degrees" thing that the Evening Herald briefly adopted (or do they still have it? Probably do, it's bad enough!)