Paper Monitor
12:06 UK time, Wednesday, 9 September 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
OK, so it's 9/9/9, but the real number today is 10. Your Guardian is costing you 10p more than you're used to and what are you getting for your extra wedge?
Well, the return of "Pass notes" to the new-look G2 for one thing. After a gap of several years - during which it temporarily shacked up with T2 in the Times - the series is back.
It's the same old format, and the numbering has picked up from where it left off. Today is 2,644 and .
"Age: 38. Or whatever else he  subliminally suggests to you in the course of an apparently innocuous conversation. Appearance: In the tradition of all master magicians - David Blaine, Paul Daniels, Harry Potter - indefinably annoying. It's often something to do with the hair."
The only innovation is a byline at the bottom, which Paper Monitor doesn't remember featuring in the heyday. Today's question and answer isn't the funniest there has ever been, but it's good to see it back anyway.
Away from the salubrity of the Grauniad, over to the red tops and there's some beautiful headlineage.
In the Daily Star, who cannot thrill to the following?
"Fears of World Cup bloodbath as England's wildest soccer nutters line up a showdown".
In the Sun there is a one-par nib about tourists being banned from climbing Ayers Rock because so many go to the toilet on the top. Headline? "Didgeripoo".
A number of the papers have photos of an orange-jacketed worker lying fast asleep on a grass verge, but the Daily Mirror nails the headline. "CAUTION: Men at shirk".
And finally, there's a curious phenomenon in the Daily Star - a column with healthy eating tips underneath a logo for a discount supermarket, which gives the prices of various healthy foods at said supermarket.
But there's no indication it's an advert. What's going on?
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