WOTM Sep 2022

This month's winner claims to be neither a man nor a trumpet - both presumably true but we can add great comedic writer to the list as well.  Ragmans Trumpet has scored points in all of the main categories, including a very creditable 14 tickers.  

As usual the full list of FPs, NiBs and LAs (AKA Features) with hyperlinks are below, plus this months cartoon of the month andd the full list of tickers.



A.L.Shaw

1,922 ways in which Truss Ministry could fall by Friday, anonymous experts confirm

apepper

IMF 'bunch of bellends' or 'absolutely brilliant' depending if we need to borrow money

Queen tells Boris she'll meet him in Balmoral as she boards plane for Barbados

Trump's legal woes mount as Lieutenant Columbo assigned to his case

Waiting list to see people looking at queue closed

Chipchase

Destitute Red Wall Tory voter delighted by Kwarteng’s budget

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked details of Truss's upcoming keynote conference speech

Exclusive Truss's Conference walk-on music will be The Prodigy's Firestarter

Chrisf

How long is the queue now? Government issues common-sense units of measurement

Man worried about 'peaking too early' in grieving for Queen

The 6 most useless items of school stationery

Dagular

Charles III going straight to cable

Deceangli

GP’s receptionist struck off after patient death

Kremlin colleagues urged to give Putin a hug

Thatcher’s ghost dictating economic policies via p*ssed medium

World’s worst boyband to re-unite for farewell gig

Dominic_mcg

Britain's strictest school bans students from wearing vegetables

Filthy Rich

Anal insertion champion accused of playing chess during live squeezathon

Bare-chested Putin Celebrates Victory Over Rogue Gorbachev Republic

Basalt enthusiasts celebrate devastating annihilation of seabirds

‘Catch Me If You Can’: Queen Taunts PM Candidates

Hibernation: the on-trend way people in YOUR neighbourhood are subsisting NOW!

New Memorial Queue Commemorates Endpoint of Previous Queue

Queen’s funeral “to showcase her abiding veneration of Nora Batty”

Ian Searle

Super Kwasi Facile Dipstick Fiscal Plan Is Hopeless

Irrelevant

Cast on or cast adrift?

Scientists warn about the effects of Nicholas Witchell

Midfield Diamond

Kitchen sink missing from Brighton's training ground

Overpaid front benchwarmers released in transfer window

Modelmaker

Buckingham Palace Flower Show draws huge crowds

Chancellor asks for Commons whip round as UK credit card declined

Next monarch to be chosen by Tory party members

Palace uncertain what to do about cash hidden in Queen's mattress

Royal memorabilia sales, boost failing Chinese economy but impacts value of collectors' assemblages

NickB

All teams to wear black strip when football resumes

Oshaughnessy

NHS bed shortage solved as Thérèse Coffey turns up outside IKEA in a Transit

Rees-Mogg assures the British public that earthquakes are perfectly safe

The Borrowers face eviction if interest rates skyrocket

Ragmans Trumpet

Bah, humbug! A glimpse into the future... A Carolean Christmas

Dulwich woman finds the a*se of Jesus in a packet of Monster Munch

Family falls apart when the internet goes off for 10 minutes

Poet Laureate marks the sad death of the Queen, with a limerick

The 10 stages of grief you must go through to mourn the Queen’s death

The fat b*stards guide to gaining weight while on a diet

UK wonders if it's suffering from mass hallucination

Woolly postbox toppers have the Royal Mail in stitches

Sarah Tipper

Tumble dryers wondering why they've been ostracized

Sir Lupus

Bankers welcome budget help with cost of skiing crisis

Britain appoints bottom of barrel as Prime Minister

Redundant Clarence House staff to be buried alongside Queen

Woman calls transport police over train leaving on time

SteveB

A final salute to the greatest Prime Minister Britain ever had

Brits break world record for biggest and longest ever game of real life Snake

Energy crisis entirely down to pointless baking in a tent in the middle of summer

Millions lining M6 to see funeral cortege pass through England left disappointed

'No state funeral for Mikhail Gorbachev' say those who owe their existence to him

Numbers want their hashtag back

'We need to let Truss have a go and see how she does' agrees never in better shape

stewartbarclay

Homeless move to London to get looked after on the streets

It's what she would have wanted

Johnson’s letter of no confidence in whoever his successor is

KLF sound cash inferno alarm as government sends entire UK economy up in smoke

Kwarteng higher than a banker's bonus

Liz Truss offers hope to idiots everywhere

Syntaxerror01

Following the commemorative coin we now get a stamp

thatwasbeast

iPhone 14 just an abstract vapour

Throngsman

Archbishop of Canterbury 'well aware' September the 19th is also 'talk like a pirate'

Center parcs release final U turn instructions for residents

FBI ordered to return Trump colouring books

First coin depicting King Charles III to be the new £2,000,000 coin

Government admits it is now a parody account

Liz Truss reveals ambition to become Queen

Man on walking tour of London claims it is too slow

Scientists dispute Gogo fish find predates Jacob Rees-Mogg

Smirking top of Truss agenda

The new CFO of Yew Kay limited claims paying directors 150% of earnings 'not a gamble'

Ukraine 'frustrated' by failure to retake area the size of Wales

Water found in Winchcombe meteorite 'incredibly similar to rainwater' say scientists

Westminster Abbey 'not available for Coronations' until 2025

Why earthquakes caused by fracking are a Brexit bonus

Titus

Household Cavalry to provide 18th Duke of Norfolk with a horse during his driving ban

Zoo closes after Animals Can No Longer Afford To Rent Cages In Bristol City Centre

urbanhermit

Queueing To Become Official Olympic Sport

Wrenfoe

Action hero actually prefers a leisurely stroll to parkour

Energy crisis solved by rubbing the nation's batteries

Holly & Phil to host Ukraine vote

NASA to prevent Earth colliding with second Trump Presidency

Poundland devalued

Rings of Power worse than Brexit Festival

UK has 10 days to spend all the old currency

Ukraine doing well is 'bitter sweet' says arms manufacturer

UN peacekeepers determine whose turn it is ‘to put out the bins'


Cartoon of the Month

 This month the cartoon of the month is 'On the outskirts of London' by Lockjaw.  


Tickers (AKA Headlines)

Adrian Bamforth         

Great Escape tunneller successfully buried on third attempt

Man who had sex with pasta says he was just feeling cannelloni

Prince Andrew also to be sealed in royal vault

apepper          

Dogs escape as pound collapses

Journalists queue for 15 hours to attack Schofield and Willoughby

Beau-Jolly       

HM the Queue

Letter boxes to be marked C3 PO

Camz  

Government Minister wears hard hat and Lo-vis vest to drive home

Much awaited documentary on Camilla will not be titled: 'Bride of Chuckie'

chrisf   

Frogman conducting archival research will do deep dive

Deskpilot3       

58% of teachers are on free school meals

Avanti Chief Exec leaves faster than any of his trains

Charles wishes that his Mum had taken out a prepaid funeral plan

Claudia Later unclear why she missed out on weathergirl job

Controversial ornithologist ruffles feathers

Drought latest: water companies to impose shower cap

Hairdressers to be taxed on fringe benefits

In-debt chef has his wages garnished

Minister for ballooning let go

More explosions are in the pipeline

Nation consoled after a really good queue

Nutritionists confirm that a Polo is not a wholefood

Overworked firefighters are suffering from burnout

Peppa Pig to feature first openly Tory character

Police investigating report of shots at coffee shop

Rogue origamist brought back into the fold

Ryan Giggs gets a replay

Truss already speaking to donors about getting new wallpaper

Twitter to offer users a 'get a life' button

dominic_mcg  

"Schrodinger's coffin" theory in very poor taste says eminent scientist

Apathetic student applies for no interest loan

Chancellor reaches out to the incontinent with trickle down budget

Cost of living crisis improves slightly after launch of webuyanychild.com

Failed ballet student leaves university with just a 2:2

Rees Mogg promises price cap on phosphoric lucifers

She touched so many people around the world - Andrew wanted to be just like her

FlashArry        

Aaww bless ! Boris thinks he is still relevant

Granger          

Official - Truss' only aim, to be worse than Johnson

ian searle        

Russian oil chief dies in fall from hospital window trying to get a view of Salisbury Cathedral

Irrelevant        

Hello Balmoral here...is this fecking ambulance coming or not?

Jack the Quipper        

Queuers on Lambeth Bridge receive council tax demands from City of Westminster

jackyates        

1922 Committee in talks with Labour Party

World’s oldest zoo remains open in Westminster

Jane Bostin     

“I bet we don’t look so bad now, do we?” laugh Boris and Rishi

UK queues for 5 miles to see Queen, as a rehearsal for food bank queues this winter

jim Skinz         

ITV’s This Morning competition prize is a free bus ride to a food bank

Jockey “good to firm” in hospital after Viagra overdose

micca  

Submarine company goes under

Mick Turate     

Pound reaches parity with the cowrie shell

UK pound to be renamed shitcoin

Modelmaker    

Charles III, formerly known as Prince, new double A side: "Sign 'o' the Times" and "Purple Reign"

Doctors request more funding new PM brings sharp rise in demand for Vallium

oshaughnessy

Boris threatens legal action over Lying-in-State allegations

Drive Thru option boosts queue speed

Man claims pint of milk in his fridge has lived through two prime ministers and two monarchs

Relief that the Queen died of old age and not a falling anvil as first thought

Surprise as Windsor Castle features on Homes Under the Hammer

Paul L 

Controversial barber razes some eyebrows

Sporting events cancelled; work and drudgery allowed to continue

Ragmans Trumpet      

A man who accidentally sat on a bicycle pump says it really put the wind up him

Boris only made 2 mistakes as PM – everything he said, and everything he did

Man arrested for public order offences, after ‘looking at the Queen’s coffin a bit funny’

Man in hospital after eating memory foam mattress. Doctors say he’s comfortable

Man who went shopping for camouflage trousers couldn’t find any

Meghan hugs mourner in poignant TikTok opportunity

Milk now more expensive than petrol - but petrol on cornflakes doesn’t taste very nice

New children’s book about the travels of the Queen’s coffin is called ‘Where’s Lizzy?’

Nirvana baby loses lawsuit. Nevermind

Thanks to Kwasi, the pound’s down the khazi

The man who invented autocorrect has died. Restaurant in peace.

Train driver sacked for crashing train admits his career has gone off the rails

Unemployed ventriloquist can’t afford to buy gread & gutter, or a gottle of geer

Woman who keeps forgetting her email password has had to rename her cat 5 times

rogerg 

Liz Truss accused of being only superficially human

ron cawleyoni  

Putin to keep Nordic Stream 1 on the back burner

SimonJMr       

Children think Halloween has come early after Therese Coffey appears on BBC Breakfast

Direct hit as Kwarteng smashes reckless fiscal policies into UK economy

Kwarteng’s budget aids Rees-Moggs plan to scrap decimal currency

Westminster Hall Trip advisor * : long queues, no gift shop at the end

sinnick

Falsified photo of Mariana Trench found to be a deep fake

Sculptor goes bust

Sir Lupus        

Kwarteng saves pound by betting whole budget on "Truss out by Xmas" at 5-2

SteveB

BBC withdraws all comedy shows as mark of respect. Mrs Brown's Boys can still be shown

Don't believe anything until you've heard it from a GB News anchor

Heroic astronaut completes longest ever spacewank

IKEA clarifies its flat packs to not contain entire flats

Meghan did it

New Prime Minister off to a lying start

'Sterling takes a dive'. Southgate furious

'We will not hesitate to raise interest rates' says Bank of England, hesitating

stewartbarclay

Piers Morgan still looking for way to make Queen's death about him

'There's only room for one Liz at the top' fumes Queen

Sydalg

New "5 condolences or less" express queue to speed things up

Titus   

British economy successfully knocked off course by launching incompetent Chancellor at it

Industry Complains Of Being 'Kept In The Dark' Over Possible Winter Power Cuts

Russia To Buy Bows, Arrows & Sharpened Sticks From North Korea

Russian Military Operation In Ukraine Described As A 'Run-Away' Success

Will

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