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Mathematicians at top boffin coffin Oxford university have uncovered a secret code in the pages of The Daily Mail.
Close study of the text has shocked the egghead community - revealing a series of cogent, legible messages, cunningly hidden within the rambling paragraphs of the unreasonable right-wing rabbit hutch liner.
Dr Jonathan Arms and Dr Rebecca Sh, the authors of the research, which is published in this month's Science magazine, say they first noticed the phenomenon after staring blankly for several hours at a single Daily Mail article about laboratory conditions.
"The journalist seemed to be blaming asylum seekers for him not liking the winning entry for the Turner Prize," Dr Arms explains "We just couldn't make head nor tail of it. But then I thought of just reading every 50th letter."
"And there it was." says Dr Sh. "A secret message - 'HELP HELP I AM AFRAID OF EVERYTHING'."
Astonished by their findings, the pair continued and uncovered the tear-jerking "DESPITE MY COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE I AM JEALOUS OF THE POOR AND NEEDY" woven into an otherwise senseless Lynda Lee Potter piece about babysitting, "I DON'T TRUST ANYBODY" in a seemingly unintelligible article on why the new breed of working Mums can have it all; and the phrase "COLOUREDS WILL EAT MY CHILDREN" threaded through a weeks worth of Fred Bassett cartoons.
Close study of the text has shocked the egghead community - revealing a series of cogent, legible messages, cunningly hidden within the rambling paragraphs of the unreasonable right-wing rabbit hutch liner.
Dr Jonathan Arms and Dr Rebecca Sh, the authors of the research, which is published in this month's Science magazine, say they first noticed the phenomenon after staring blankly for several hours at a single Daily Mail article about laboratory conditions.
"The journalist seemed to be blaming asylum seekers for him not liking the winning entry for the Turner Prize," Dr Arms explains "We just couldn't make head nor tail of it. But then I thought of just reading every 50th letter."
"And there it was." says Dr Sh. "A secret message - 'HELP HELP I AM AFRAID OF EVERYTHING'."
Astonished by their findings, the pair continued and uncovered the tear-jerking "DESPITE MY COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE I AM JEALOUS OF THE POOR AND NEEDY" woven into an otherwise senseless Lynda Lee Potter piece about babysitting, "I DON'T TRUST ANYBODY" in a seemingly unintelligible article on why the new breed of working Mums can have it all; and the phrase "COLOUREDS WILL EAT MY CHILDREN" threaded through a weeks worth of Fred Bassett cartoons.
