As my tipster says:
Or, if not a copy editor, at least someone doing page design in the classified section who’s paying just the slightest bit of attention to the content of the comic that’s running on a black-and-white page.
His tip is a result of this cute little syndicated feature that ran lately among the classifieds in the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, N.Y.
Let’s zoom in and sharpen the bit with all the text.
Yep. That’s a color graphic that explains how newspapers print color comics. And it was printed in black and white.
Thanks much to my tipster, who’s sent me several of these things now. You’ve got a good eye there, dude.
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You know who else needs copy editors? Local TV news operations. Chicago’s WMAQ-TV in particular. And other local TV news operations. And Baseball jersey manufacturers. And Kansas State University. And the New York Jets, the Minnesota Vikings, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals (boy, do they need a copy editor). And Fox Sports. And college athletic department ticket offices. And the Virginia general assembly. And college alumni magazines. And pharmacies. And the makers of Sudafed. And Borders bookstore. And Tea Party candidates. And city and county Boards of Elections. And government agencies. And South African traffic cops. And Google News’ ‘bots. And billboard companies. And sign painters. And rubber stamp designers. And restaurants, breakfast joints, Chinese restaurants and cake decorators. And South Africa’s New Age newspaper. And Dublin’s Sunday Business Post. And the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New York Post, the Chicago Sun-Times (Hey! A repeat offender!), the Virginian-Pilot, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinoisian, CNN and Time magazine. And newspapers in the U.K. And drive-in movie theater managers. And Home Depot and manufacturers of “hoodies.” And T-shirt designers. And road paving contractors.
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As you can see, your gray letters are of NO help tp me. EVEN when I THINK I have my fingers on the right letters (NOW) as oppposed to off by a letter or two sideways (Up there^^^^^) Nothing gripes me more than to be reading in an article and find major grammar gaffes such as verb aggrement, THEY meant for he or she, (I still use he for both, sorry to the libbers, it’s the way I learned it.) I also know such cute rules as bring is COMING BACK but TAKE ig GO AWAY like math – and if you say had, you can NOT switch to have had or have or will have had in the same sentence, and MYSELF refers back to the SPEAKER who is also the SUBJECT of the sentence,(ipse in Latin) and GROW does not take the place of a Dative in Latin. Got all that? GOod. Am I hired? OH, and I couldn’t get my screen to turn color, hahaha good joke. Old fart retired teachers DO have their little jokes….especially after nearly 20 years in the trenches! Like the kid said to me – My brother said, You have a big nose and frizzy hair, and you are wierd. I can tell about the nose and the hair – but are you wierd? I waited for the badda-boom and asked, OH! should I believe everything he said about YOU< TOO!! That put a whole new light on the conversation. AND the teacher standing next to me doing garbage duty plucking off hats laughed so hard he had to crawl into his room…