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If you’ve never read the Otago Daily Times, you and I could probably be friends. I have to read it, but out of that hard slog every morning comes the glorious ridiculousness that is ODT Watch. You see, the ODT is no ordinary daily paper. Its dedication to bad puns and dad jokes is unsurpassed in NZ media. They are obsessed with Shrek the Sheep, icebergs, AMP shows and Scarfies behaving badly, and in no way do they find this embarrassing. Each week, ODT Watch will bring you just a little taste of the ODT, so that you know what you aren’t missing out on.



That’s right, a kitchen sink joke. See, Kitchen is a cricketer, but if you put Kitchen next to sink … yeah, well, you probably get it …



From reading the article, Critic wasn’t able to figure out exactly how alcohol could be used as a tool in pregnancies. We assume they were trying to attract the South Dunedin market.

Critic’s very own Editor came down with a bad dose of the ODT yips, when he was interviewed for a piece about changes to the oversight of student media. Instead of whipping out an awesome quote, Stockman ended up sounding like a washed-up hippy with three kids and two mortgages.



Mayor Dave Cull got in on the act too, ripping on the residents of Milton and Balclutha for being simply uncontrollable:



And it wouldn’t be the ODT without a daily update on the goings-on of the happy royal couple. The ODT was visibly upset that the two lovers should have to spend Valentine’s Day apart …