http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 21:31:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-62024 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:18:41 +0000 riesler 62024@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Gods have spoken... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-62016 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:09:34 +0000 newsbiscuit editorial team 62016@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>NIBs are generally 80-130 words, but FPs can be any length between about 250 and 400 words. It's generally the strength of the idea that determines whether it's more appropriate to run a story as a NIB or an FP.</p> <p>There's more info in the <a href="http://www.newsbiscuit.com/about/guidelines-for-contributors/">Guidelines for Contributors</a> that we updated a while ago. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61979 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:02:34 +0000 Danny 61979@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant idea. Could it turn out the tortoise have been mistaken for Ming Campbell? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61957 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:24:48 +0000 Anonymous 61957@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>deserves a front page gong, and some *s </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61956 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:24:05 +0000 Qoxiivi 61956@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61949 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:08:17 +0000 riesler 61949@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61909 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:49:22 +0000 NewSuburbanDad 61909@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What's the limit for front page consideration these days? Would I need to find some more words? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61889 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:38:34 +0000 John Wiltshire 61889@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent! And probably very close to the truth... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61888 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:37:27 +0000 Oxbridge 61888@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bwahahahahahaha. Nib of the year. 5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22915#post-61886 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:16:59 +0000 NewSuburbanDad 61886@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Chancellor George Osborne confirmed yesterday that that the death of Paul the Octopus, known for picking world cup winners, caused the treasury to revise growth forecasts downwards by a half of one percent. <br /> 'We'd already crunched half the numbers when Paul died, said Mr Osborne, 'and his successor as treasury advisor brought a new methodology. We over-egged the previous forecast because we couldn't reconcile the two approaches until last week.  Still, it's only half a percent.'</p> <p>Paul was known to be a devotee of von Hayek, but his replacement, Carla the tortoise, appears sympathetic to the Stiglitz school of thought, despite having impeccable right-wing credentials.</p> <p>The treasury has a long history of using talented pets for financial forecasting. Nicholas Vansittart brandished  Billy the Budgerigar aloft in his cage so often that regency wags took to calling the annual ceremony "Budgie day". George Brown used a dog called Churchill who could only say "arr, yes", and in Thatcher's first term Geoffrey Howe deputised to a goldfish named James when out of town.</p> <p>'Yes, Carla's day rate is expensive, but we've plumped for a tortoise because they last for ages' declared Mr Osbourne. 'We will not adopt the short termist use of hamsters advocated by the opposition, even if they are so cheap they're practically disposable. We have interns for that' </p>