Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/10/british-celebrity-freddie-star.html
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Not just merely dead but really most sincerely dead?
I assume the “definitely” is used because people might be tempted to believe this is a prank?
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eighteen with a bullet
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They swore up and down that Freddy was dead in 1991 but he’s appeared in at least three more films in the franchise since then.
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The news got out by someone saying “Hi, I’m Freddie’s manager. He’s dead.” (I paraphrase) via Starr’s Twitter account.
It’s taken a while for a more definitive account to emerge (if it even has), so relatively-reputable media outlets have just been saying “it’s reported that…”.
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Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
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IIRC The Register seems to have come up with headlines that are variants on supercalifragilistic on a few occasions, but I can’t find one right now.
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Yes, but I like the suggestion that it implies “we did a good job, how dare you suggest otherwise.”
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This one popped up yesterday:
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I think that particular formation was made first about Trump:
Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS
It’s basically perfect.
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“The Sun’s favourite pet-eating comedian” sort of implies there is/was more than one of them, and they have a list.
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I think you might enjoy the NT News
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I suppose one could class Ozzy Osbourne as a comedian.
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The Caley-Celtic one is from 2000. It probably isn’t the first supercalifragilistic headline, but I don’t know of any earlier ones.
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