“It’s only a slight change of emphasis”, said a Met Office spokesman, “to acknowledge the deep cuts in our funding. Most viewers won’t actually notice any difference. They will still be reassured by the authoritative tones of our elderly male presenters, and they’ll still be able to fantasise about our younger, more attractive weather girls. The charts will be much the same too, covered in indecipherable squiggles. But by focusing on what the weather was like yesterday, rather than what it will be like tomorrow, we can offer a far more accurate service. Before the changeover we only got the weather right about 50% of the time - about the same as tossing a coin, really - but now, with our retrospective reports, we’re up to a creditable 82%. The weather tomorrow? I'm not sure. Do you think there's a chance of rain?”...
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Stan Laurel
offlineMemberPersonalised Weather Forecast: 'You will poked in the eye by a fat woman's umbrella as you leave the tube station.'
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