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My favourite example was "Foot heads arms body" which was allegedly created although not perhaps used by the Times when the UK politician Michael Foot was put i
by KineticLensman 7y ago
My favourite example was "Foot heads arms body" which was allegedly created although not perhaps used by the Times when the UK politician Michael Foot was put in charge of a disarmament committee [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot
[Edit: emphasised the ambiguity picked up Confiks]
- Confiks 7y agoHowever, Wikipedia suggests [1] (the primary source is unreachable for me) that "the headline does not, however, appear in The Times Digital Archive, which includes every day's newspaper from 1785 into the 21st century. It is found in a letter published in The Guardian in 1978. [2]" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot#In_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foot#In_popular_cultur... [2] https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39001580/foot_heads_arms_body/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39001580/foot_heads_arms_bod...