The only 7 responses you need to that ancient cultural reference on the Sun’s front page
Tuesday was a veritable feast for satirists, political journalists, T-shirt salespeople, democracy and spider lovers – in fact just about everybody apart from the government. This being the case, you’d think Wednesday’s front pages would be top notch, having had so much material to choose from, yet the Sun decided to do this:
Those cats at the Sun are clearly hep and happ’nin, but that didn’t stop people from taking the piss.
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Dick Emery died in 1983. Is this really the best The Sun backbench could come up with on a day like today? pic.twitter.com/oI2dq8Io5m
— David Yelland (@davidyelland) September 24, 2019
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Well done to The Sun for mangling a phrase no-one’s said since 1973. pic.twitter.com/Gj16yU497v
— katie (@pipterino) September 25, 2019
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RT if you're under 50 and understand the reference in that Sun headline.
— Long Starbird (@Sourdust) September 24, 2019
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Sun headline to reference Max Miller on Thursday
— Mrs Gladys Steptoe (@GladysSteptoe) September 24, 2019
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Hope The Sun uses other catchphrases from elderly comedy and entertainment shows in its headlines.
There was a bloke on Mind your language who used to say "a thousand apologies". They could use that.
Or "Bernie, the bolt".
Buy a job lot of dvds from Network and they're sorted— Ern Malley – angry penguin 🐧 (@GeoffShadbold) September 24, 2019
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Utterly bizarre front page of tomorrow’s Sun newspaper which goes with a headline about its readers being appalled by the actual news that the Prime Minister illegally suspended Parliament pic.twitter.com/4U0nKEN8Cb
— Cllr James Denselow (@cllrjdenselow) September 24, 2019
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In case anyone’s wondering what this is about – it’s a pun on a Dick Emery song from the early 1970s. (DE was a comedian. TV, radio, who died some time ago) ……. pic.twitter.com/bhBxScLODG
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) September 25, 2019
Dmitry Grozoubinski wasn’t in a joking mood; instead he called out the Sun for its dog-whistling.
The Sun ceaselessly stoking the fury of its readership and then running headlines on how angry they are is the press version of Human Centipede.
The editors don't want to slam the Supreme Court themselves so use the anger of their loudest readers as a proxy.
Cowardly and vile. pic.twitter.com/vmdYRbytVi
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) September 25, 2019
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