How Rebekah's clueless proofreaders failed to spot parting shot in NotW crossword

[Lars77]

Source: Daily Mail

Aware that News of the World staff might use their final edition to fire a parting shot at her, Rebekah Brooks is said to have instructed two senior executives to read the paper with a ‘fine toothcomb’.

According to sources, they received the simple instruction to ‘ensure there were no libels or any hidden mocking messages of the chief executive’ of News International.

However, while the news pages may have been sanitised of any subliminal messages, the proofreaders appear to have failed to spot some less subtle jibes in the crossword section.

Among the clues in the ‘Quicky’ puzzle were: ‘Brook’, ‘stink’, ‘catastrophe’, ‘digital protection’, ‘cease’, ‘lamented’, ‘servant’ and ‘prestige’.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013133/Rebekah-Brooks-News-World-staff-parting-shot-crossword.html

[nolabear]

1. NEVER underestimate a wordsmith.

:fistbump:

[LaydeeBug]

2. They should have made FINE TOOTHED COMB one of the answers. nt

[stevedeshazer]

4. +1

Correct.

[lillypaddle]

7. What, you don't comb your teeth!?!

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

3. Oh, they saw it. Believe me, they saw it.

Trust me on this: they left that shit in there on purpose.

They should only be glad I didn't proofread the Final Issue, as I would have been putting things in there myself, like the URL for the "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketch into the masthead.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. That sort of thing used to happen in the USSR under Brezhnev.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. They used to say "There is no pravda in "pravda".

There is no truth in "Truth" (the official newspaper).

[Kingofalldems]

6. Kick and Rec one time for the teabaggers