Invitation to a pun
September 20th 2010 06:17
The British know how to make a point.
It seems they, like many countries, have double broadband standards, with rural areas being treated as poor cousins.
Some Brits got sufficiently fed up with poor their broadband speeds yesterday that their decided to make a point by organising a race between a computer and a carrier pigeon.
A computer in rural Lincolnshire was set to download a five-minute video at the same time as a pigeon, carrying the same video on a memory card, set off from neighbouring Yorkshire.
When the bird, whose name was Rory, arrived 75 minutes later, the computer was still grinding away at the download.
You can read more about the story here.
It's the sort of story which news editors love because it is quirky, and which sub-editors love because of the punny headline possibilities. An organiser of the pigeoen-computer race got the pun ball rolling by saying Lincolnshire locals refer to areas of slow broadband as internet "not spots".
We thought we would have some pun fun of our own and come up with some heading ideas for the story. You are invited to do the same in a comment, with good ones getting promoted, with accreditation, to the main post list.
Net loss
Information super-fly-way
Pigeon wins on soar board
Coo's who in computing
Poor service a home-flown truth
Enough from me. Your turn.
image: thesun.co.uk
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