Honestly I have no reason to write this post, other than it amuses me. I hope it’ll amuse you too, because otherwise I’m wasting my time. Allow me to introduce you to the Huddersfield Daily Examiner — a paper I knew nothing about until today. Okay, so I still no nothing about it, except that Wikipedia tells me it has existed since 1851 and its chief sports correspondent is a man named Mel Booth. And of course we all know Wikipedia is an absolute rock of truth. Presumably Mel Booth is either the only writer of note of the paper, or the man who wrote the wiki article, as he is the only guy mentioned.

But we’re not here to talk about Mel, we’re just here to talk about his paper. According to an article appearing January 24th in the Huddersfield, the police in those parts recently came into custody of a stolen Nintendo Wii, and are hoping to use the Miis created on it to help identify the person who it originally belonged to. Which, I must say, is much better than using the Miis on a Nintendo to discover your wife is cheating on you. The best part of the article, however, is not the story, but rather the manner in which the author (not Mel Booth) describes the Nintendo Wii:

“The Wii is an interactive computer sports game, usually played through TV, in which players devise their own named characters.”

I must say, this is the best description I’ve heard for the Wii yet.* Somebody apparently knows absolutely nothing about the Wii, other than what they’ve heard from their middle aged friends about “that bowling machine with the wireless pointer gizmo that you can play on your televisions.” That’s some excellent reporting there, Hudderfield Daily Examiner. Almost as good as checking your facts on … well, Wikipedia. *Ahem.*

*At least the best one that was intentionally serious.