Paper Monitor
11:14 UK time, Thursday, 27 December 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Boxing day is sofa day. At least that's the conventional wisdom.
But leafing through the papers, two alternatives to homo couchpotatiens hove into view.
The Daily Mail - the story of the Christmas sales. Meet homo retailiens.
The paper tells readers how police were deployed "to control the hordes as they run screaming through stores". A picture of the Selfridges perfume department is offered as exhibit A.
"Their eyes blazed as their arms stretched out in desperation," goes the not-at-all melodramatic drop intro. "The frenzied scene at a London perfume counter was repeated around the country as shoppers besieged stores on the first day of the sales."
The other interesting creature on view is homo outdoorsiens. The Daily Telegraph front page shows a scarlet-coated member of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire hunt leaping over a fence amid a pack of hounds.
The Daily Mirror takes a different line. "They are back killing foxes," is its take.
A less controversial branch of homo outdoorsiens can be seen in many of the papers - winter swimmers.
In Sidmouth, Devon it was a bit of a close shave after some of the swimmers were swept onto barnacled rocks. "Swimming into terror" is the Mail's once again not-at-all melodramatic take.
The Mirror concentrates on the many bracing bathes that passed off safely. Oh, and.
"Here's a cheeky way to promote your home town while splashing around in the chilly sea," the story says beneath a picture of two bikini-covered bottoms spelling out the word Tenby. "The giggling pair were among hundreds of revellers up and down the land enjoying a traditional Boxing day dip."
Ah, the reveller. Homo revelliens. We'll be hearing more of him and her in the coming days, Paper Monitor suspects.
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