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[sab]

It's the parenthetical in that last sentence that does it, natch.

BREAKING NEWS:

DOCTOR WHO - TENNANT 'ALMOST DIED' AFTER OP

DOCTOR WHO actor DAVID TENNANT was almost exterminated in real life - after a deadly bout of appendicitis.
The British actor needed emergency surgery on a burst appendix - and almost died after the operation.
Tennant's friend tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "It was touch and go and it was feared he might not make it." The 36-year-old - who was nine at the time of the operation - was hospitalised for two weeks.

Comments

[birdsflying]

AHAHA! oh, the Daily Mirror, you bastion of excellent journalism! hee hee hee!

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

THAT IS AMAZING. Thank god this news finally reached us!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

OMG BOOK GROUP ICON.

[miss-jaffacake.livejournal.com]

haha! genius!

[general-jinjur.livejournal.com]

STOP THE PRESSES.

man, i <3 the news media.

[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

Don't you just love the Daily Mirror? wait, not, what's the other thing? ah, yes, hate.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abulafia/]

Ahaha. Breaking news! Breaking.

Now I'm imagining the article as read by Russell Brand.

[aurora]

The 36-year-old - who was nine at the time of the operation - was hospitalised for two weeks.
OH GOD.

[sevenall.livejournal.com]

To think I didn't know.

[sevenall.livejournal.com]

I mean, for the last 27 years I didn't know! :-)

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

As Flanders and Swann used to say: "O tempora, o mores. (O Times, O Daily Mirror.)"