The Internet exploded this morning amidst claims that The Rochdale Herald is not only guilty of making up the news but has been plagiarising The Southend News Network.
Professor Bryan Cocks of Rochdale’s Community University is a world renowned statistician and refutes those claims;
“Well given that there are a finite number of jokes but an infinite number of jokers writing stuff on the internet there’s a better than evens chance that two satirical, local online newspapers could accidentally happen across the same idea, within six months of each other. It could definitely happen.”
When pushed a little harder about whether or not two equally talented satirists could come up with the same joke and write an article that was almost word for word identical he replied;
“Word for word you say? Well that’s unlikely. But not completely impossible, if you gave an infinite number of northern monkeys with typewriters an infinite amount of time they’d eventually write the Complete Works of Alan Bennett, so I suppose they could come up with exactly the same article about Mr Tumble. It’s pretty unlikely, but statistically possible I suppose.”
So there you have it. We intend to issue libel proceedings against The Southend News Network and have commissioned our solicitors to pen them another cease and desist letter.
Unless they give us our Corbyn on a train meme back those meme thieving mockney wankers.
