I read "Shocked and Appalled" at the time and remember with pleasure the letter from the subscriber who wondered why his letter to the editor had not been published in full. He concluded that portions of it " had been lost in the mail."
My first and needed laugh out loud today. "There’s a great apocryphal tale of a copy editor being told that a foreign country had taken umbrage. He knew this was important, even though he couldn’t locate umbrage on a map. This gentle soul prepared a headline for the next day’s paper: “Umbrage Captured; Defenders Retreat in Disarray.” Thanks!
I read "Shocked and Appalled" at the time and remember with pleasure the letter from the subscriber who wondered why his letter to the editor had not been published in full. He concluded that portions of it " had been lost in the mail."
Ha! I’ll admit I think of the pre-Thorsell Globe as the greyest newspaper ever published, but going back through that book made me nostalgic.
My first and needed laugh out loud today. "There’s a great apocryphal tale of a copy editor being told that a foreign country had taken umbrage. He knew this was important, even though he couldn’t locate umbrage on a map. This gentle soul prepared a headline for the next day’s paper: “Umbrage Captured; Defenders Retreat in Disarray.” Thanks!
The question then becomes, what country is Umbrage in? Gotta be in the Francophonie, n’est pas?
Love the Lichtenberg quote. Aptly illustrated by comedian Ricky Gervais. Currently three specials on Netflix. One of my guilty pleasures.