Journalists love nothing more than a good "knobbly monster" - a desperate attempt not to use the same word again . . . when there is only one. Named after Paul Hudson, who was writing about alligators when, having used up "reptiles", he resorted to "the knobbly monsters".
Here are some classic funny newspaper knobbly monsters (compiled by Tom Churchill of The Scottish Sun
Henry VIII: the crew-cut king (The Sun)
World Cup: the solid 18-carat gold trophy (News of the World)
A road in Sorrento: the cobbled, pedestrian-unfriendly thoroughfare (The Sun)
Thursday 21 February 2008
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