My picture! In one of the major UK newspapers! And I missed it!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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ARGH!!! :mad:
My picture got taken when I was promoting my Go Society (it’s a kind of “chess”), and I didn’t think much of it at the time. But then, someone gives me a call today.
Guy: “Hey, did you read the Guardian yesterday?”
Me: “No, why?”
Guy: “DUDE! Your picture was in the paper, man! Together with [otherguy]!”
Me: “No way.”
Guy: “Look, I’m serious here!”
Me: “OMGOMGOMGOMGBBQ!”
Guy: “Yeah, it was some article about international students. Look, I don’t have the paper either, but I’m gonna ask around.”
Me: “OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGROTFLYMMVBBQ!”
Guy: “See you later, man.”
And, of course, it being YESTERDAY’S (Tue, 8th Feb, 2005) paper, and TODAY being (Web, 9th Feb, 2005), I can’t find a single copy of that paper! And the online version of the Guardian doesn’t have pictures!

:frowning: [sub]sniffle[/sub]

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Check with your local library. They probably have a copy you could photocopy.

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Contact the newspaper’s circulation department or head to the library and microfiche that bitch.

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What section of the paper? (Tuesday = Society, right?) - I’ll have a rummage…my parents normally have about a week of back issues waiting for recycling…

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Right on about the pic. Hope you get a copy.

It’s even cooler that they did a story on Go. I play(badly) and one of the big problems I have is finding another real life player.

Slee

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If none of the previous helpful offers work, my School keeps copies of all the broadsheets.

Let me know if required. :slight_smile:

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I can top the OP’s story. Along about 1983 or '84, a schoolmate told me someone had had Garrison Keillor send me a greeting from them on the Prairie Home Companion show. (Keillor reads people’s greetings to their friends & family about midway through the program.) I wasn’t tuned in, and inquiries to several friends revealed no one who had been at a PHC broadcast.

I suppose it could have been some other Beware of Doug…

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Front cover of the Education section? I’m looking at it right now :D. If GorillaMan can’t find a copy in the recycling pile email me and I’ll send you it. It’s a little creased but basically fine.

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Waitaminute, front cover has some guys playing Go, inside front has a couple of guys from overseas, I’m saving both now.

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Wait I’ve got it here too, it’s on page 3.

My God you have huge breasts!

Oh wait The Guardian, not The Sun… ah… here we go… The Education Section

My God you have huge breasts!

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Waitaminute. You mean I’m on the FRONT PAGE?
[sub]faint[/sub]

I did manage to find a website selling old issues, although they are £4.5 per copy (wow, 400% profit margin increase overnight)… I’ve got a friend to has a copy though, so thanks for all your offers. :slight_smile:
BTW, for all you guys playing along at home, I’m male. [deadpan] I might have manboobs, but they aren’t anywhere near “huge”[deadpan]
I’m the one in the brown trenchcoat. I was told that my face wasn’t visible, though. :frowning:

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My school only keeps back copies of The Times and the Financial Times. Bleh.

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Give them a bell - they’ll post you a copy as they’ve used your piccie, it’s common practice.

here’s the department you need to deal with - let me know if you get nowhere - my Missus is a journalist and knows people who work on the Gaurdian and Observer. She’ll get one of them to steal a copy.

The Guardian Newsroom
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