Richard Littlejohn’s Problem With Barack The Dog
RICHARD Littlejohn’s column has, as his wont, gone to hell in a handbasket, as the Mail’s great sage tells his readers of Shropshire’s Kate Pong, who gave birth to quintuplets Beyone, Barack, Bobbi, Tyra and Earl.
My first reaction was that this must be a wind-up, probably placed for a bet by someone at the swine flu hotline with nothing better to do.
We rang The Times advertising department and they assured us it was genuine. There’s no mention of a Mr Pong, or any father’s name for that matter.
If true, which I still doubt, somewhere out there in Shropshire is a single mother called Kate Pong with quins, variously named after an American pop singer, a model and the U.S. President. You couldn’t make it up.
No, but you could check your facts. MacGuffin looked up the story and discovered that it is true:
Why didn’t he just enter Kate Pong in Google and find out from the Newport Advertiser that it’s a labrador?
As it says:
Newport mother, Kate Pong, has sensationally given birth to five beautiful babies this week.
That was the news published in Tuesday’s announcements section of the Times paper.
But after a little digging from the Advertiser team we found things were not quite as they seemed.
For the proud quintuplet mother is in fact a dog.
Richard Littlejohn can not be made up – well, why would you want to?
Posted: 8th, September 2009 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
