(Insert Headline For Blog About British Newspaper Completely Mailing In Their Front Page Headline By Printing A Place Holder Instead Here)

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Shout out to our pals across the pond for reminding us that the phenomenon of December Mailtime is not just a U.S. thing. I feel like Americans really start mailing in their work lives right after Thanksgiving. But since other countries don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, they may are on a different schedule. If I had to imagine, I would say it’s once December 1st hits and Christmas music is playing. From there on out, any sort of oversight can probably be blamed on Christmas Brain.

As someone that works for a media company that never has typos in they’re headlines or blogs, I have to admit seeing this kinda shook me to my core. I imagine Portnoy never stood for anything less than AP Style perfection when he slinging the Barstool newspaper while throwing bows against the metro rag dealers and the homeless. And the fact this happened in England, home of the most proper people on the planet that also love dropping the most smug burns with their hoity toity accents gave me the willies big time. That poor headline writer will probably break out in hives next time he or she has to hit the Print button.

Then again, there really is no excuse for this to happen. There is literally a phrase called “Stop the presses!” for if something like this were to go down. If news broke or someone fucked up, all you had to do was smash that STOP THE PRESSES button and problems like this were avoided.

I imagine that front page was looked at by a bunch of people before it was printed and after it was printed. But again, everyone is worried about what gifts they are going to get their family and friends instead of if the headline was good, bad, or just a filler place holder.

On the bright side for the headline writer, the same thing kind of happened to Markelle Fultz on draft night and it’s not like he has disappeared from the NBA amidst whispers of having the yips.

Then again, since this is the age of #wokeness, this could have all been a ploy by the Cambridge News to fuck up on purpose in order to get people to buy a rare collector’s item as paper continues to die a slow death everywhere outside of Scranton, PA. Pretty much the British newspaper version of the Billy Ripken Fuck Face card.