i posted the contents of an email i’d received (many times) that i figured tied in quite nicely with the thread-topic
some comments from that article have made it into peoples’ siglines, over my name
i don’t want to appear to be totally anal retentive,
i would however like to make it clear that i did not write that piece
(anyone who’s been on the internet for more than a year has probably received a copy of it in an email and will know this)
nor did i at any stage make the claim that i did
(which would make me look like a complete vemputtaa)
i’ve been digging around trying to find the origin of the piece
it was probably written by a collumnist on a small newspaper somewhere in the back of the beyond
the only name i could find in connection with the piece was that of Jerry Della Femina, who forwarded it to someone who posted it on a website somewhere
i don’t even know if this was the first time it got to the web or not
if someone with more Googling-skills than myself manages to track the origin of the piece, i’d like to know about it
I checked thre Factiva.com database, a very well respected news database - a joint venture of Dow Jones and Reuters - used extensively in corporate and legal libraries and well fund public libraries as well as the competitive intelligence departments of many companies. The earliest use of this romanticized pap they have is from the Bangkok Post of Dec 13, 2002. The Newsday reference also mentions the Femina guy.
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NITE OWL - Night workers feel the squeeze.
Bangkok Post, 13 December 2002, 2544 words, (English)
Lasses spurn bars in an effort to avoid heavy handed authorities Bernard Trink The supply of lasses opting to enter the nitery entertainment scene has been unending, the lure of sizeable incomes and the prospect of marrying visitors from …
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Can’t believe we made it …
The Toronto Star , 5 April 2003, 512 words, (English)
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the '40s through the '70s probably shouldn’t have survived. Our cribs were covered with lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or …
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Kids: They just don’t live the way they ded
The Pantagraph, 1 June 2003, 713 words, (English)
Friends frequently send e-mail messages they think are worthy of publication. I usually humor them and say “Thanks.” Some I save for my personal pleasure, some I trash.
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A Simpler Place and Time
Newsday, 16 February 2004, 877 words, (English)
'This product is not to be used in bathrooms" reads the warning label on a bathroom heater manufactured by Holmes Co. This is from a new book, “Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken,” put together by Laura Ward.
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CAVE people
Ayr Advocate, 16 July 2004, 1090 words, (English)
HAVE HAD many interesting conversations in recent weeks, but there was a real doozy this week about locals who seem to be negative to just about anything, particularly if it’s new or different.
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Searching for just the right word? Make one up!
St. Paul Pioneer Press, 7 August 2004, 2160 words, (English)
Clueless Joe of St. Paul: "I wrote a story sometime back in middle school. The teacher had underlined the word ‘gription’ and wrote in the margin: ‘not a word.’ I had used it as an adjective in my story to describe the amount of grip …
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it’s all good
if i wanted u to change your siglines, i would’ve PM’d to ask
i just wanted to get this ‘on the record’ so no one can accuse me of taking credit where it isn’t due
