My former colleague and friend Simon Butler-White, now well ensconced Down Under, was a night sub at the Daily Dispatch. On a quiet Sunday night, Simon got a story for the front page to sub. A man was down at the mouth of the Buffalo River to buy fresh fish for supper. He came across a woman screaming. Her dog had fallen in the river and was swirling around in the tidal bore. With nary a thought for his safety, he dived in and rescued the dog. The Dispatch reporter happened to be in the area, and interviewed him. He explained he just wanted two fish for supper, and really, it was nothing big. So Simon wrote as a headline: “Man buys two fish”, and it got through all the systems and the next morning there was the headline.
It entered the halls of immortality, far more than “Man rescues dog”.
From there he and fellow expat Clive Archer, a deeply funny man, would juxtapose movie, album, and other names. So: "Fish Times", "Fish Wars II", "Fish Attraction", and of course, they were proven spot on with "A Fish Called Wanda".
More to come on these unique men.
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