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)
Bridge: The bow-shaped steel link (Copyline)
Magnus Magnusson: The wrinkly intellectual-worrier (News of the World)
David Sneddon: The Hamster-faced warbler (The Sun)
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