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Back in the Jurassic Period - Redrum - 04-25-2014

...when I was a  copy editor and reporter,  the staff or our newspaper waved the AP Style Book around like it was Mao's Little Red Book.  Same time that was happening in China.  No questioning or deviation was allowed either place. 

Re: Breaking copy-editor news - yvonne - 04-25-2014

I am unable to reconcile the concepts of Redrum and copy editing.

Re: Back in the Jurassic Period - CompSci87 - 04-25-2014

(04-25-2014, 08:37 AM)Redrum link Wrote:the staff or our newspaper

Quote:I am unable to reconcile the concepts of Redrum and copy editing.

No kidding.  ;)

Awww, that's nothing - Redrum - 04-25-2014

I've been abused by tougher newspaper editors than you guys.  And back then, when copy editing, I wasn't distracted by having to keep looking over my shoulder to see if coworkers and bosses were checking up to see if I was goofing off posting on the internet.  I was good enough to know that just now I crammed four prepositions (  over my shoulder...checking up...goofing off...posting on )... into an otherwise perfectly innocent sentence. 

The difference is that nowadays I just don't care that obsessively about layout, format, style and grammar.  Bugs the living daylights out of Yvonne.  And I was a better reporter and writer than a copy editor, but that was where everybody started out on that paper.   Heaven for me was when I got to go cover news and some other obsessive compulsive got their big job break and had to fix all that stuff when I turned in my stories.

Re: Breaking copy-editor news - Leftcoast - 04-25-2014

Garvin, you buried the lede.  There's GAME FILM!?!?  Now you tell us.

Think of all the arguments this could resolve.  We NEED to know if that female Michigan running back really did bat her eyes at Redrum before the missed tackle as so often is implied.  Worse, I hear Mrs. Redrum is also in the market for conclusive evidence.  (Heck, I just want to know that game really happened.)

(Imagine Eric Cartman voice on this) ... Goddammit!! - Redrum - 04-25-2014

Does the worst copy editor on this board have to fix everything?? 

It was GARVIN who was tied up with the female Michigan lineperson.  She was a "healthy", formidible girl... er, woman. If he hadn't spent a deliciously long time tied up with her, the Michigan QB wouldn't have had time to run the keeper around end and then throw the pass when I came up to stop him.  Little pursuit from the inside would have helped.  There was pursuit there, just not of the QB.

I expected better of you Lefty.  You've only heard the story a gazillion times. 

Re: Breaking copy-editor news - Leftcoast - 04-25-2014

Oh, right!  Garvin was the DL matched up against the lissome (or not) female OL.  Got it.

See ... we NEED that game film.  And not JUST to verify the curious attraction of the Michigan female.

No explitive this time...just an explanation - Redrum - 04-25-2014

If she were "lissome"  I could understand garvin lingering over the experience.  But, nope.  She was a big gir...er, woman.  Formidible. The kind you'd choose to block an aggressive-- but somewhat short-- rusher up the middle.  She actually played a decent amount of the game.

Re: No explitive this time...just an explanation - Mick - 04-25-2014

(04-25-2014, 01:41 PM)Redrum link Wrote:If she were "lissome"  I could understand garvin lingering over the experience.  But, nope.  She was a big gir...er, woman.  Formidible. The kind you'd choose to block an aggressive-- but somewhat short-- rusher up the middle.  She actually played a decent amount of the game.

National Lampoon's thinks lissome and formidable can co-exist, at least they did in April 1976

[Image: nl073-apr1976.jpg?w=291&h=393]

Re: Breaking copy-editor news - yvonne - 04-26-2014

love the shorts!

(So typical of the Cold War)