So who won editors' prizes last week...?
Pleased at the hits rate, but disappointed at the number of people who didn't feel confident enough to enter last week's comp.
The result is that both entrants won boozy prizes!
Steve Hayes wins for his multiple entry for Thursday's page one headline. The official version read:
Brum beach is
all washed up
Steve offered three alternatives. To quote him direct:
"1) Brum beach plans all at sea
OR
2) Tide goes out on Brum beach plans
OR even (a Sun-esque)
3) Wave goodbye to Brum beach (with some sort of effect on 'wave' of course!)"
A bottle of vino awaits you, Steve, so please email me your postal address at steve.dyson@birminghammail.net
For the same day, Colin Peel's "No more sandy bottoms for city office workers" was a good (and only) second.
But Thursday aside, the rest of the field was clear for Mr Peel. For last Monday's news on HP erasing Brum's role in it's sauce, we wrote:
What a
sauce!
Mr Peel's offering of HP wiped out again wins a bottle of plonk.
Mr Peel's Tuesday entry (see previous blog for details) was judged too bland... no prize. But his Wednesday entry for the Tata Land Rover/Jaguar deal of Posh car workers' Indian takeaway raised a smile and wins another bottle.
Mr Peel also entered for Saturday, but again scored zero.
Send me an email, Mr Peel, and I'll have your two bottles of vino delivered. Plus a bottle of bubbly for entering the most times! Well done.
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Cor! It worked!! My email address has been sent. Happy boozy days to come...!!
Cor! It worked!! My email address has been sent. Happy boozy days to come...!!
Shouldn't the heading on this be "editor's prizes" not "editors' prizes"?
Also noticed in your more recent blog a reference to the "morale of the story" instead of "moral".
Any jobs going in subs?
Dunno about a job, but you should certainly have tried your skills in the comp!
For info, you're 50% right. It's Editors' Prizes, as they are the prizes now owned by would-be editors.
You're right about 'morale', although the experience was rather depressing!