Re: Bad words intentionally left in the text

["Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM>]

     Coleen MacKay wrote <<One of the typesetters had the habit of
     inserting a very bad word into a document when he took a break, so he
     could find his place when he returned.Yes, you guessed it, one day he
     forgot to delete one of the very bad words.  Luckily the editor
     proofing his work found it, but unluckily she took it as a personal
     attack.>>

This isn't strictly related, but it falls into the "slipped out unchecked"
thread that's tagging along with this. The Green Bay Press-Gazette was running a
story on how our Governor, Thompson by name, had used his line-item veto to
slash things out of the recent budget bill. The front-page headline was written
as:

     Thompson's
   Pen is a Sword

Unfortunately, there wasn't room above the story to run the headline, so when it
was set in type, some of the extra space was removed from the second line. Yep,
you guessed it. Most of the "extra space" was taken from between the first two
words of the second line. Last I heard, the Gov still had the front page
prominently displayed in his scrapbook.

Since then I've been real careful to check the proofs from the typesetter. :{>}


Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 24

Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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