Supermodels my ass

Annoyed at seeing my newspaper publishing another piece on a supposed 'supermodel', I spoke to one of the head honchos at the paper and queried how it is some Irish model (Katy French), who I certainly had never heard of before she got into the news for a cocaine overdose, could be called a supermodel.

To my mind, a supermodel is at least, well known. I heard a while back that there are only about nine in existence and that probably seems about right to me: Whether Naomi Campbell, Claudi Scheiffer, Cindy Crawford or that Aussie chick - whatsisname - are even around anymore, I don't even know - but the point is - you can't just call any model a supermodel.

However my boss replied by asking me 'who decides who's a supermodel?' and saying that since there's no league table for models (there should be we agreed), he thought using 'supermodel' in the paper was fine. I agree with his logic - to a point, but just because no-one has the exclusive rights to decide, who is and who isn't, doesn't mean that just anyone can or should. Or does it?

With this in mind, I have decided that seeing as there is no league table for sub-editors in the world, or for people in general, I shall now call myself a super-sub when I am at work and a super-person just in general.

I'm probably as well known as Katy frikkin French anyway.