Years ago when I was a young journalist, at a very small paper, we ran a photo of a lady holding up her two prize-winning cantaloupes — in front of her breasts — with the stem ends out.
No one realized what we’d done until it got to print. There is no newspaperman alive who hasn’t done something like that at one point or other. Ask me sometime about the photo cutline (caption) which used the word large four times in three sentences, or the column where instead of having a wart frozen off, my butt was frozen off, or …
You know, over the last couple of days, I’ve seen this graphic at several different sites, but never understood its, uh, peculiarity. I just couldn’t see “it” until now. Is there something wrong with me? I’m not usually so slow on the uptake.
Years ago when I was a young journalist, at a very small paper, we ran a photo of a lady holding up her two prize-winning cantaloupes — in front of her breasts — with the stem ends out.
No one realized what we’d done until it got to print. There is no newspaperman alive who hasn’t done something like that at one point or other. Ask me sometime about the photo cutline (caption) which used the word large four times in three sentences, or the column where instead of having a wart frozen off, my butt was frozen off, or …
You know, over the last couple of days, I’ve seen this graphic at several different sites, but never understood its, uh, peculiarity. I just couldn’t see “it” until now. Is there something wrong with me? I’m not usually so slow on the uptake.