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September 8th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

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  1. WolfDog
    September 8th, 2008 at 05:46 | #1

    I think the phone numbers might be a bit bad too.

  2. Nick
    September 8th, 2008 at 05:57 | #2

    Er, a funny fail but it was meant to be as this appeared in Private Eye, a satirical and current affairs magazine.

    As Wikipaedia puts it, “Obvious headline – the trite and banal stories about celebrities’ antics that receive extensive reporting in the national press are often rewritten … as ‘SHOCK NEWS: MAN HAS SEX WITH SECRETARY’. This is usually ‘EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS’.”

  3. Ryan
    September 8th, 2008 at 08:19 | #3

    Yeah, sorry but this is an english fail blog fail and likely a Kaylee fail too. Unless Kaylee is trying to make a point about the submission review and selection process here.

  4. September 8th, 2008 at 09:29 | #4

    She was alive BEFORE she was killed ten years ago?
    I should hope so.

  5. jordanwb
    September 8th, 2008 at 09:32 | #5

    That’s sortof how dying works.

  6. Hoff
    September 8th, 2008 at 12:15 | #6

    How can nobody see this is clearly a photoshop… fail in all levels.

  7. Anonymous
    September 8th, 2008 at 18:31 | #7

    People are alive before they are dead? It all makes sense now!

  8. Sarah
    September 8th, 2008 at 18:36 | #8

    Jay Leno would be proud.

  9. Cirieno
    September 9th, 2008 at 08:20 | #9

    There’s nothing linguistically wrong with this image and it doesn’t warrant submission to a Language Fail blog.

    If it was in Private Eye then clearly it’s satire and so doesn’t even warrant the Logic Fail.

  10. Ryan
    September 9th, 2008 at 15:35 | #10

    well no dip. i will be alive hours before i die. and everyone else will be too!

  11. dep
    September 10th, 2008 at 19:41 | #11

    Actually, there is a linguistic error in the article–look at the comma (mis)placement.

  12. Jim Smith
    September 13th, 2008 at 02:22 | #12

    This was in Private Eye. A satirical piece and therefore not eligible for this otherwise excellent blog!

  13. Anonymous
    September 13th, 2008 at 05:52 | #13

    Definitely a Private Eye piece - the cont p.94 is one of their hallmarks. This was printed as a joke, and succeeds as such.

  14. Anonymous
    September 13th, 2008 at 07:27 | #14

    Submission fail. As has been said already this is a Private Eye joke.

  15. ade t
    September 15th, 2008 at 05:33 | #15

    Yeah,that is Private eye for sure,taking the piss out of the EXTENSIVE coverage the Daily Express has given the conspiracy theories all this time.

  16. Jer
    October 25th, 2008 at 02:42 | #16

    She was alive hours before she died?
    Wow, thats surprising.

  17. Anonymous
    November 2nd, 2008 at 01:35 | #17

    Whoa! She was ALIVE before she was DEAD? Wow. I’m shocked.

  18. Jabroney
    January 16th, 2009 at 09:21 | #18

    I love that in spite of the 20 previous comments that point out it was a satirical piece, the last two clowns above me took the time to point out the obvious. Well done!

  19. Hottielamatiee
    July 6th, 2009 at 21:57 | #19

    LOL what’s private eye?

  20. nomi
    November 6th, 2009 at 04:06 | #20

    i actually remember this headline

  21. BaoBerry
    November 7th, 2009 at 06:06 | #21

    Lmaos this made mt da ahaha

  22. BaoBerry
    November 7th, 2009 at 06:06 | #22

    my*

  23. Me
    November 7th, 2009 at 12:00 | #23

    @Hoff
    It is real, just from a magazine that is taking the p***

  24. Ange
    November 19th, 2009 at 15:26 | #24

    Exclusive to ALL newspapers? Was I the only one that caught that?

  25. Ange
    November 23rd, 2009 at 23:01 | #25

    I am a dumb dyke

  26. Elsie
    December 27th, 2009 at 10:39 | #26

    This is from Private Eye, a satirical paper, see: http://www.private-eye.co.uk/ - I’m pretty sure I remember it. It is funny, though…

  27. megajester
    January 6th, 2010 at 16:35 | #27

    @Hoff
    oh come on it’s PRIVATE EYE ya looney! its basically a FAIL MAGAZINE! written ON PURPOSE!

  1. March 15th, 2009 at 23:31 | #1