Monday, January 17, 2005

Work Log

Today on MLK's birthday observed, an anonymous caller brought to my attention the phone message for the Mississippi State Tax Commission's main hotline (which I confirmed): "On Monday, January 17, the State Tax Commission will be closed in observance of Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King's Birthdays..."

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Grumpy Editor, short a few inches of copy in the evening's first edition, to crime reporter over the phone: "Do you have any old worthless piece of shit I can add to the blotter?"

Grumpy Editor-hating Copy Editor to no one in particular: "New York Times is 'All the News that's Fit to Print. [Our paper] is 'any old worthless piece of shit' we can find."


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