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| Friday, 17 January, 2003, 17:50 GMT Amazing tales from Planet Tabloid ![]() This week, naked holidays, the perfect luggage in which to pack that factor 50, and our regular pun-writing competition. But first... A:Well that rather depends. It's either the aforementioned former mousketeer (Mirror) or it's tattooed badboy Fred Dunst of Limp Bizkit (Daily Mail and Sun). You decide.
Yes, combat is one of the hottest hobbies for 2003, and before long we will all be boxing, kick-boxing, and martial arting - all in the aim of getting fit. And, of course, being fashionable (cooking, DIY and yoga now officially being frowned upon). Meanwhile, the Mirror has played cupid with the lovelorn unfortunates on Corrie, Brookie et al. As soap love = pain + heartache + humiliation, the only thing for it is to look beyond the character's street/square/close for their perfect match. EastEnders' Kat Slater and Coronation Street's Dev Allahan are both natural-born flirts; and Enders' hardman Phil Mitchell is surely the soulmate of Brookside's Jacqui Farnham. Hark - is that wedding bells we hear? No room No room this week to bring you news about a number of exciting stories, including Kate Winslet's Photoshop diet. Last week GQ admitted to digitally trimming her curves; now Harper's Bazaar stands accused of grafting her head onto a slim body double.
And there's no space whatsoever to tell you about how MPs have been banned from sending rude e-mails. One Lib Dem complained that such a move would stymie even the grey man of politics: "Even John Major was known to describe colleagues as bastards." Last week we invited you to pun away on the worrying warning from doctors that wearing Britney Spears-style hipsters can be a health hazard, trapping a nerve and then giving the wearer "tingling or burning" sensations. Racing up the charts were Stephen Thompson and Phil Groves with their rival renditions of "Hip me baby one more time". But the pair face stiff competition from the melodious Bek Barker with a cover version of "Hipster be square"; "I've got the hippie hippie ache" from Darren Spicer is a new entry, while Robbo The Doc storms into the top ten with "It could cause a cute sciatica". Not 'alf! But still top of the pops is Ian Carson with that old classic "Midriff crisis". Now that's over, please turn your attention to next week's offerings. Your puns, please, for the story that Sylvester Stallone is to bring back Rambo one more time, and the ultimate enemy he's going to be taking on is none other than Osama bin Laden. | Top UK stories now: Links to more UK stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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