Doctor Who Comeback

ElGuapoGolf writes "According to the Daily Telegraph, Doctor Who is set to return to the airwaves. According to the article, it's going to be written by the same guy who created the series 'Queer As Folk'. Not sure if we'll get to see it in the US, but I guess it's a good time to start bugging your cable company to carry BBC America if they don't already."

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Sad News -- Robert Palmer dead at 54

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I was just listening to talk radio and heard that rock singer Robert Palmer has died of a heart attack at age 54. His suave image and slick videos helped define the MTV image in the 80's, and I'm sure he'll be missed by many music fans around the world.

Please, please. Get with the program! It's supposed to go like this:

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Brit Rock singer/composer Robert Palmer was found dead in Paris this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly a British icon.

Here's an example; here's another; and this is a third. I suppose you can paraphrase a little, as in this example.

But the format must follow the traditions of Slashdot:

• start with "I just heard some sad news on talk radio"; "listening" doesn't scan corectly
  
• follow with the 'no details' bit, even if there were details
  
• then the 'contributions' sentence, qualified with the "even if you didn't enjoy" (possibly with "agree" substituting for "enjoy")
  
• and ending with the "Truly a(n) _______ icon.
  

Just as a sonnet's not an Italian sonnet unless an eight line octet precedes a six line sestet, it's just not Slashdot poetry unless you follow the traditional format.