SubScribe is not a fan of puns. Well, not puns that you've seen a thousand times before or are so obvious that they appear everywhere - like Heir's Rock yesterday.
The Mirror today has a succession of headlines that use a play on words; they aren't sophisticated, but by and large, they do work.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge tried their hands at being djs, for example.
The Mail says:"DJ Kate makes the royals a hit in Oz"
The Express: "Kate's great, but Wills is not up to scratch"
The Times: "Kate's a dab hand at the decks, but William is really not up to scratch"
The Sun does much better with "Wills.i.am"
...and then along comes the Mirror with this:
The Mirror today has a succession of headlines that use a play on words; they aren't sophisticated, but by and large, they do work.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge tried their hands at being djs, for example.
The Mail says:"DJ Kate makes the royals a hit in Oz"
The Express: "Kate's great, but Wills is not up to scratch"
The Times: "Kate's a dab hand at the decks, but William is really not up to scratch"
The Sun does much better with "Wills.i.am"
...and then along comes the Mirror with this:
 | It's in a class of its own. Other efforts today were less imaginative - the elephants who'd overindulged in fermenting fruit elicited the same headline wherever it appeared, but they were still bright and breezy rather than tired and lame and overworked as puns can be.  |
The Jamaica Inn effort is simple, as is the one about the marooned snorkellers' plea for help - but they work. Happy days all round.
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