Meanwhile, TV's Mr Nasty, Simon Cowell, got a fist-full from cartoon character Homer Simpson in Sunday's episode of The Simpson's after telling Maggie she was not talented enough to get into nursery (The Herald).
And for those of you who've never heard the word 'chav', which has been branded 'buzzword of the year', The Sun says it means someone who wears 'Burberry caps and bling-bling jewellery', while The Times reported that it came from the mid-19th century Romany word chavi, meaning child.
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