Friday, February 26, 2010

Imagine the conversation

Our old pal* Strayhorn imagines the conversation for us:

Old editor: Get me some artwork on strokes
Young copydesker: No problem!

No more need be said.

* By which I mean there was still a shah in Iran back when we started trading shifts on the wire desk.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Emil anonymously said, "Gotta admit it took me a beat to get it. Kinda like the time a few weeks ago when I told the high school kids that they needed to id the 'Joe Jonas' guy in a photo cutline. They looked at me like I was speaking Greek. Guess I was."

11:55 AM, February 27, 2010  
Anonymous raYb said...

What's a shah? And what kinda wire did you use to make that desk?

1:41 PM, February 27, 2010  
Blogger fev said...

Gesundheit!

2:28 PM, February 27, 2010  

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