Why are newspapers called The Comet?

[tonyvid]

I was watching Poirot last night and the paper was caller The Sunday Comet, it occured to me that loads are called The ***** Comet so why? I have asked about the office but no one knows!

[V8mate]

tonyvid said:

I was watching Poirot last night and the paper was caller The Sunday Comet, it occured to me that loads are called The ***** Comet so why? I have asked about the office but no one knows!

The Sun, The Globe ... just an historical theme for giving papers celestial names

[Andy Zarse]

tonyvid said:

I was watching Poirot last night and the paper was caller The Sunday Comet, it occured to me that loads are called The ***** Comet so why? I have asked about the office but no one knows!

Come to Crawley Tony, we've got the Mid Sussex Bassoon.

[merc_man]

"The ***** Comet" - now that would liven up Poirot no end.

Captain Hastings "I say Poirot, how did you know the the victim was not Mr. Brown?"
Poirot "Because I read his obituary in The Comet last year you tt"

[mybrainhurts]

tonyvid said:

Why are newspapers called The Comet

And why aren't they called The Dixons...?

[tonyvid]

at you lot!

[Simpo Two]

Because comets were regarded by the ancients as messengers from the heavens - usually linked to plague, war, victory etc.

[Rebuker]

Are you also saying that depending on the answer to your question, there should be more, or less, astronomically named rags?


I feel there are other names that may be equally suitable. Like the daily Pulsar, or the Chicago Star.

But I would stop short of the Anglican Church Black Hole, or the Congolese Red Dwarf.

Edited by Rebuker on Monday 15th September 17:22

[tonyvid]

Rebuker said:

Are you also saying that depending on the answer to your question, there should be more, or less, astronomically named rags?


I feel there are other names that may be equally suitable. Like the daily Pulsar, or the Chicago Star.

But I would stop short of the Anglican Church Black Hole, or the Congo Dwarf.

Quite right, I shall be looking for the Hunts Globular Cluster on the way home.



Simpo

[Neil_H]

tonyvid said:

Rebuker said:

Are you also saying that depending on the answer to your question, there should be more, or less, astronomically named rags?


I feel there are other names that may be equally suitable. Like the daily Pulsar, or the Chicago Star.

But I would stop short of the Anglican Church Black Hole, or the Congo Dwarf.

Quite right, I shall be looking for the Hunts Globular Cluster on the way home.



Simpo

The Evening High-Mass X-ray Binary System. Catchy no?

Edited by Neil_H on Monday 15th September 16:59

[Andy Zarse]

Newsgasm:

'Portillo's Face Felt Like Guts" Says Girl'.

'Boiled Dog Could do Maths Claims Experimenter'.

'Arafat Ablaze in Kerosene Oyster Hell'.

[Rebuker]

What on earth are you blithering on about Zarse?

[Andy Zarse]

The Express go with 'Lord Mayor's Pirouette in Fire Chief Wife Decapitation'.

[central]

tonyvid said:

Hunts Globular Cluster.

Painful??

[central]

"You could blow holes across his head" says Sinatra doc.

Headmaster suspended for using big-faced child as satellite dish.

[ChristianZS]

Ooooh.. The Surrey Comet is also a cracking read.. A few found the comments section rather good!

[Horse_Apple]

Simpo Two said:

Because comets were regarded by the ancients as messengers from the heavens - usually linked to plague, war, victory etc.

Mercury and Herald are in the same vein. It's all to do with messengers.

[Neil_H]

"Bryan Ferry bathmat poisonous, say lab"

[Zad]

Spookily (or sadgittishly) I did a screen grab of that paper so I could see what the other stories were. Prop designers often insert jokes and rude things into stuff like this. None that I can see though.

http://www.digital-wizardry.co.uk/Poirot-Comet.png

(Link rather than embedded image because it is 1MB)

[Andy Zarse]

The Herald Tribune go with 'Boiled dog could do maths claims experimenter', The European, 'Elastic song strangles Hucknall' and just to let you know that police are still looking for the actor Burt Reynolds after he stole a dodgem and drove it out of a fairground in Islington. The 59 year old actor escaped police after a low speed car chase, and was last seen heading north on the M11 near Saffron Walden.