Simply the most epic story you’ll ever read told in a single paragraph
You’ll be familiar with the format, if not the name, those short newspaper stories that run down a single column known as ‘NIBS’, or ‘news in briefs’.
And you surely won’t read a more epic news in brief than this one, a single paragraph story that begs so many questions we don’t know where to start.
A lot to chew on here pic.twitter.com/hn2UOaRogN
— Eoin Kelleher (@eoinyk) March 27, 2022
And just in case that’s tricky to read, here it is again.
And here are just a few of the things people were saying about it.
https://twitter.com/rosamundi/status/1508168914219454470?s=20&t=uVYB7OUVkx0MT1bDeUktoA
That’s going to be 15 episodes on Netflix at some point.
— Discworld Girl❄️ is back 🤩 (@discworld_girl) March 27, 2022
Never has so much been packed into twelve lines. https://t.co/mDgF0SZzGa
— Kieran Maguire (@KieranMaguire) March 27, 2022
@clapifyoulikeme this seems a solid contender for your “at no point in this story did I know what was coming next” files.
— Warren Terra (@warren__terra) March 27, 2022
For anyone currently writing a synopsis of their novel. https://t.co/1rbnrN2XPD
— Mumblin' Deaf Ro (@MumblinDeafRo) March 28, 2022
— Michelle Corry 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 (@michellecorry) March 27, 2022
Kinda feel this warranted more than a nib. https://t.co/TVkP0ulmWD
— alexmassie (@alexmassie) March 27, 2022
Love how it’s in the briefs column. Like, what the he’ll did this paper have for a lead that day?!
— Winston Aldworth (@WinstonAldworth) March 28, 2022
The beauty of journalism – getting all this into a nib is a work of genius https://t.co/6nYMvUTYGe
— George Parker (@GeorgeWParker) March 28, 2022
As lots of people pointed out, the newspaper clipping is not entirely new.
If she is really only 58 years old now, then the 1977 incident would have happened when she was just 13 years old.
Somehow this doesn’t add up!
— Neil Maybin (@NeilMaybin) March 27, 2022
The dog cloning story was 2008, I’m still looking for the rest. https://t.co/BGSix5qxD2
— Deirdre O’Hara 🇮🇪🚣🏻♀️🇹🇿🤿 (@DeirdreOHara8) March 27, 2022
And also this.
There was even a ’90s UK punk band named after her (Joyce McKinney Experience)
— Simon 🇨🇦 (@Othersatires) March 27, 2022
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