Philadelphia Will Do  
 

Feb

11

FILL IN HEADLINE

The opening sentence of Frank Diamond’s column in today’s Bulletin:

“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes FILL IN EIGHT NAMES in baby carriages.”

This is why you never put placeholder words when laying out a page. Sometimes, it will make its way into the paper.

Update, 3:30 p.m.: Frank Diamond himself (!) emails in and says the opening was an intentional joke. I’ll take him at his word. Apologies if anyone shorted their Bulletin stock after reading this post.

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dmac | 8:17 AM | 3 Comments
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  1. tjr Says: Feb 11 12:44 PM

    I remember once at the DP we had some headline that said “W. Soccer Fucking Terrible” or something and it was only caught about 10 minutes before the paper was done.

  2. dmac Says: Feb 11 1:10 PM

    This might be the same incident, but there was one time where the info box about sports on the front page was something like “W. Soccer shamelessly runs up score.” They won 2-0 or something.

  3. Tracer Bullet Says: Feb 13 1:09 PM

    There was a clipping of a junior high basketball team hanging in the office of my college newspaper with the caption “Joe Smith, Ben Johnson, Some Fucker . . . “

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