That pizza story is v. funny!
Yes - as for Mr. Boatman. Actually, in this case - the newspaper 'archive' was written by none other than................er...............Jive Lad.
When I came to the guy hiring out the dinghy......I thought a bit of nominative determinism would be fun (well, actually it just came into my head to try and show it was a spoof). As was the 'white bearded coastguard' called Alf Badger (is anyone called that?).
There was a spelling mistake (or two) - notably, the local councillor, who was meant to be D. Bailey (guess who?) - but ended being D.S. Baiey.
I thought also, the headline gave it away (a bit crude on reflection).
Did anyone really think it was from a real newspaper?
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