The Daily Star today took its turn using the now-obligatory 'They Sphinx It's All Over' headline amid its print coverage of President Mubarak's defeat in Egypt. The Sun used the very same headline on 2 February at an earlier stage of the same story:
But this pun hasn't just been a gift to sub editors during the recent revolution in Egypt. Here is an outing it was given way back in 2002, now only discoverable as a result on the search pages of The Sun (again):
And how about this from The Mirror in 2008 (when no element of the forward-looking story was even 'over'):
Or The Sun (again) in 2009 to mark Italy losing to Egypt in a football match:
Don't get me wrong, it's a decent enough pun, but I sphinx it's been a little overused now.
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