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| George K | Jun 8 2006, 03:42 PM Post #1 |
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In homage to Dewey's thread about the Presbyterian request for people to go naked, I enclose some other interesting signs, memos, etc. Elliot Kretzmer reports that The Debkafile website carried a story on 15 May 2006 of "four men who turned themselves into Egyptian police". Quite an arresting development, he thinks. "Here is an extract," e-mailed Malcolm Hutton, "from the May-June issue of Booklover, from Dymocks, the Australian booksellers. The interview was with a new writer, one book published, another in the offing: 'I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I've got a whole lot of stuff I've written over the past 20 years in my wardrobe.'" Writers have it so easy these days; earlier generations had only a freezing garret to write in. George Thomas found another noteworthy comment in the same piece: "I wrote the first sentence exactly five years ago. I knew people in the book industry and I asked them to read it and got their feedback. From there, I re-wrote it and got a manuscript assessor to read it, too. I went down the road of trying to get an agent, but that was difficult. I then sent it to a publisher who accepted manuscripts. By the time Hodder got it, it was very polished and I think they could tell it was not a first draft." That fastidiously crafted sentence is going to make a disconcertingly slim book. Remaining for the nonce in Australia, Michael Shannon found this headline on the news Web site for the National Nine Television Network: "Man shot dead in park wanted for murder". "America," he comments, "may have its mean streets but we've got killer parks." And Gary Smith reports that he found an irresistible treat on a menu at a Greek restaurant in Adelaide: "fried codpieces". "The issue of Reader's Digest for November 2005," e-mailed Irene Heath, "contained the following statement: 'In 2003, 203 people died when their vehicle collided with a tree.' I don't know what kind of vehicle can carry 203 people, but the collision can't have done the tree much good." Following up comments on the unintentionally humorous effect of missing letters, Robert Bass recalls: "Just before graduate school (during the Nixon administration), I was employed as a proofreader for a typesetting firm. I had worked there for many weeks before I noticed that the gold-lettered sign on its front door (and proudly displayed there for a decade) read 'Typsetting'. It was with some reluctance that I mentioned the problem to the proprietor." Pete Jones once caused a classic Sic: "Back in the Sixties I worked for the Press Association as a teleprinter operator. I sent out a piece which had the Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home, referring to "the high cost of loving". The error was picked up by the columnist Cassandra [William Connor] in the Daily Mirror and then repeated in several other dailies." |
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