Limerick, ruined
Although it's correct in the on-line version, in today's Washington Post "Style Invitational" contest results, one of the honorable mentions was mangled in the print edition:
It took me a minute of wondering why that three-liner - which wasn't funny, didn't scan, and wasn't even a limerick! - got an HM, and why the writer got away with a (really dumb) pseudonym. To be honest, I gave up and moved to the next, which was as baffling. And then I figured it out...Too much work too early on a Saturday! Copy-eds, come back! We need you!
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At 1:26 AM, September 12, 2010
The Empress of The Style Invitational had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->You know, that actually was fixed on Friday afternoon. It was caused by a "macro," an automatic function in The Post's typesetting system that, for The Style Invitational, changes parentheticals at the end of a line to another typeface (figuring it's a credit for someone's name).
As late as Friday afternoon, that had been caught and overridden manually. I don't know how it ended up messed up again. I do know it wasn't a failure of copy editing.
But, yes, it's a shame. A great limerick.
--The Empress of The Style Invitational
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