Damn

So that's where I've been going wrong... no wonder my scrambled egg on toast doesn't seem to work quite right; let alone when I try to fry them... to think, I've been using the wrong thing all this time!

What a nice place Keswick is.

The kids there don't do drugs, don't throw bottles, don't burn cars and don't drop bricks onto trains.

international conspiracy?

The object doesn't seem to meet the EU standards. It is missing a stamp, and should look like this...

http://www.britegg.co.uk/lionquality05/startlionquality.html

Wrong caption!

It should surely have read "An egg, yesterday" in homage to Private Eye, for whom this has been a running gag for many many years.

Uhhh, horrible puns!!

see title

What exactly do you expect them to illustrate the article with?

An anchovy?

Very helpful

But I'm afraid it only raises more questions. If THAT'S an egg, what the hell were we throwing?

Duh!

I can't decide: Whoever said "cracked the case" either needs a medal or shooting!

I now know why all my cooking recipes have been going wrong: I thought an egg was that powdery thingy!

@Wrong caption

Ha. Beat me to it. At least I can add that Viz also used the caption template from time to time.

Which came first?

The baking911.com egg, or the news and star egg?

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=egg

Ok.. so we're going down this route are we?

Ok......

Next stop, we'll be commenting on Google being like google.....

Not just in Keswick!

I opened my door lastnight just a little so I could have a sly fag (smoke) and was shocked to have an egg launched at me from behind my house. So it happens in HULL too! I bet it wasn't free range as I do live on an estate full of Netto shoppers!

Paris.... as I'd like to do something with her eggs and I bet she could get anyone to come out of their "shell"!

Hehe.. Its a cracker!

Missed opportunity

Definitley a Bacon and Eggs joke in there somewhere.

Hmm...

The runny stuff on my windows doesn't look like that round brown thingy, so it must be something else they threw at me...

Don't know what the fuss is about.

I'd be a lot more concerned about the fruit the kids are throwing.

Pineapple through your window?

Mango related impact injury?

Star fruit has some quite point edges.

BAN ALL FRUIT NOW!

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Escalation.

Rumour has it that the army have now been called in and they're using shells!

Intial reports indicate serious casualties in a friendly fryer incident....

Where is the Register's sense of humor?

If El Reg is going to reprint the story & pic of an egg, I would have expected a photo gallery of other, better egg pictures, by gum!

Paris...just because!

@The answer to the problem

better still, aim for the eggs when they're about to throw them.

<sarcasm>

Wonder how long before the government insiste that you need proof of ID before you can purchase these dangerous weapons?

</sarcasm

Mines the one in the nice duck egg - err - yellow?

@ Tim Schomer

In Cheltenham you cannot buy eggs unless you are over 18, or maybe its 16. The Jet Garage has a notice on the door from the local plod saying so.... no honestly, it does.

@ <If THAT'S an egg, what the hell were we throwing?>

Q: <<But I'm afraid it only raises more questions. If THAT'S an egg, what the hell were we throwing?>>

A: Simple, according to the article: fruit.

Age limits

Are the local shops in Keswick selling eggs to children under age? Do they not know the penalty for selling prohibited goods? What? Eggs are not prohibited yet?

No wonder this country is going down the pan. Next thing we know it will be impossible to collect firewood from our local forest. What?...

@ Steven Raith

Need help clarifying, are you advising me to aim at the eggs (PULLL!!) or the hoodie-donned-chav acting as the egg launcher?

Think I'll go for the latter - is probably easier and much more effective (and satisfying?)

Eggcellent

Now, that pic does not look too realistic to me, for some reason...

Please, no more egg puns...

...un oeuf already.

Paris for the French connection.

@Steven Raith

"but don't aim for the head...."

Ha Ha...at least, don't aim for the big head.

So why isn't local undercover plod hanging out at the local grocers? Numpties.

Paris, 'cos I would check her eggs a few times.

so they've had to shell out for extra patrols?

They catch the culprits before the story's ova...

Do you have an icon for really bad puns?

Google Earth is evil

The scallys are using Google Earth to navigate the back streets!

It's a new Govt initiative

We've all got it wrong - this is actually a new Government food distribution campaign - they just need to work on the delivery. When tried in France, residents quickly said they'd had an oeuf.

Re-name to The Eggister??