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Tom Dodds on transport matters »You know it's been a good day in The Journal newsroom when a Top 10 accompanies a story in the next day's paper.
Top 10s are basically lists of puns that go alongside existing stories and there's nothing a bunch of journalists like better than trying to outdo each other in the pun department.
A few months ago, for example, we had a story about a library being set up in the village pub and came up with a Top 10 Literary Classics on a Alcohol Theme.
"Tequila Mockingbird" was my favourite, but the Top 10 also included Stout of Africa (in which a Danish plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a freespirited big-game hunter over a couple of pints of Guinness) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Gin.
We also had a story about a North East college that was teaching an unusual course in aliens, which allowed us to think up the best places in the North-East to spot little green men (ETeasington Colliery and Newbiggin-by-the-CP30, etc).
To mark the 30th anniversary of Elvis' death tomorrow, we have a cracking Top 10 of songs which The King might have sung if he had been from the North-East.
I won't spoil the surprise, but let me just say that neither "Rock a Wooler, Baby" nor "Hetton-le-Hole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" are the best ones!
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