..and deep down we always knew they would!

“I’m going to give the Bundy rum a real fucking nudge today!” one of the bitter and twisted, washed-up, old hacks who compile this column declared after seeing today’s (Thursday’s) The Sydney Morning Herald online.

“How will we be able to tell?” some of his uncharitable colleagues replied.

Good point but what has driven this chap to at least attempt to up his daily intake of distilled cane juice?

That a sub-editor at the SMH overnight has shattered his and all our hopes here at The Bug that our long campaign to teach them how to number edition pages correctly had finally succeeded a month ago.

Here’s the reason why our drink-fridge bound compiler is really going to give it his best shot to destroy that final protective layer before cirrhosis of the liver finally takes him out.

Yes, this klutz of a sub has decided that a story that had flowed over from PAGE THREE has in fact come FROM FRONT PAGE.

And weren’t we fucking stupid to finally believe that SMH subs had got their page numbers and descriptions right whenever the likes of Hardly Normal have a four-page wraparound and the real front page, the cover page, is folioed as PAGE ONE and the fake cover page inside is PAGE THREE.

Maybe we can be excused. For the past month or so, the Thursday and Saturday editions of the SMH – the ones most likely to fuck things up – have nailed things perfectly. To use Donald Trump language, both editions have been some 900 per cent correct until today in advising readers of inside pages that stories there had flowed from PAGE THREE! Some weeks ago, FOUR stories that flowed from PAGE 3 of just one Thursday edition were shown as coming from PAGE THREE! We at The Bug were so proud!

But as we said at top, we are heartbroken now that our campaign now has to resume so let’s kick off once more with this educational graphic for that klutz who fucked up last night.

And we so grateful that we hadn’t erased from our library the images at top and below that have peppered our campaign over, oh, so fucking long now. And that we also hadn’t dumped our remaining supply of fridge magnets for SMH subs to take home (at bottom).

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