Into the AP breech ....

Guest · **Posted:** Sun Jan 05, 2003 8:42 pm

SEATAC (AP) â€” Thousands of post-holiday travelers were delayed Sunday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after a screener for the Transportation Security Administration was discovered asleep at his post.
â€œThereâ€™s no indication anything happened. Itâ€™s just that somebody fell asleep,â€ airport spokesman Bob Parker said.
The federal TSA decided to evacuate all but one of the airportâ€™s five concourses in case there had been a breech while the screener slept ....*** I wonder if the AP editor was also asleep during a strategic period that day ....

Powderhorn · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 5:59 am

It still rubs me the wrong way that SeaTac can be a dateline ...

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 6:25 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Pete Hahnloser:
It still rubs me the wrong way that SeaTac can be a dateline ...<hr></blockquote>Seatac is an incorporated municipality. http://www.seatac.wa.gov/

Rio · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:03 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
Seatac is an incorporated municipality.<hr></blockquote>I'll be darned.Actually, Phil, it's SeaTac, at least according to that link you provided. :D So do you pronounce it see-tack or see-at-ack or sea-attack?

Emily Salmon · **Joined:** Sat Nov 16, 2002 1:01 am **Posts:** 86

<blockquote>quote:<hr>The federal TSA decided to evacuate all but one of the airportâ€™s five concourses in case there had been a breech while the screener slept ....
<hr></blockquote>*** I wonder if the AP editor was also asleep during a strategic period that day .... That's a cheeky remark, but maybe the screener had been moonlighting.[ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: Emily Salmon ][ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: Emily Salmon ]

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:44 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Gary Kirchherr:

Actually, Phil, it's SeaTac, at least according to that link you provided. :D So do you pronounce it see-tack or see-at-ack or sea-attack?<hr></blockquote>See-Tack, if I remember right. And don't correct me.

Craig Lancaster · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 3:51 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
See-Tack, if I remember right. And don't correct me.<hr></blockquote>As someone whose home away from home is in western Washington, I can verify that it is, indeed, See-Tack.Phil, you are correct.(I forget, are we allowed to agree with you?)

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 4:43 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Craig Lancaster:

(I forget, are we allowed to agree with you?)<hr></blockquote>It's encouraged.

SusanV · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:21 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Emily Salmon:
*** I wonder if the AP editor was also asleep during a strategic period that day .... That's a cheeky remark, but maybe the screener had been moonlighting.<hr></blockquote>Eh? What's that got to do with the AP ed, who was obviously asleep at the switch?[ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: SusanV ]

Guest · **Posted:** Mon Jan 06, 2003 11:46 pm

A sidebar to the SeaTac slaparound: This is a style issue that drives us in the great Pacific Northwest nuts, because there's SeaTac (the city) and Sea-Tac (the airport) ... woe betide the scribe or editor who forgets which is supposed to be hyphenated ....

Emily Salmon · **Joined:** Sat Nov 16, 2002 1:01 am **Posts:** 86

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by SusanV:
Eh? What's that got to do with the AP ed, who was obviously asleep at the switch?[ January 06, 2003: Message edited by: SusanV ]<hr></blockquote>The federal TSA decided to evacuate all but one of the airportâ€™s five concourses in case there had been a breech while the screener slept ....*** I wonder if the AP editor was also asleep during a strategic period that day ....That's a cheeky remark, but maybe the screener had been moonlighting.It was a play on words.[ January 07, 2003: Message edited by: Emily Salmon ]

Rio · **Posted:** Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:59 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Emily Salmon:
It was a play on words.<hr></blockquote>I don't get it.

Emily Salmon · **Joined:** Sat Nov 16, 2002 1:01 am **Posts:** 86

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Gary Kirchherr:
I don't get it.<hr></blockquote>Okay, breech means butt, OK? Like a breech birth? I didn't say it was a *good* play on words, but neither do I think it was totally contrived, since there was some link between the meaning of moonlighting and the screener's falling asleep. Now, do I have to explain "moon"?
You people are putting me on, right?[ January 07, 2003: Message edited by: blanp ]

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Tue Jan 07, 2003 9:32 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Emily Salmon:
You people are putting me on, right?<hr></blockquote>It wouldn't be any clearer if you whacked Kirchherr on the head with a club.

Rio · **Posted:** Wed Jan 08, 2003 2:05 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Emily Salmon:
[QB]Okay, breech means butt, OK? Like a breech birth? I didn't say it was a *good* play on words, but neither do I think it was totally contrived. ...<hr></blockquote>Well, actually, I do, but I promise not to hold it against you.

Powderhorn · **Posted:** Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:47 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Jim Thomsen:
A sidebar to the SeaTac slaparound: This is a style issue that drives us in the great Pacific Northwest nuts, because there's SeaTac (the city) and Sea-Tac (the airport) ... woe betide the scribe or editor who forgets which is supposed to be hyphenated ....<hr></blockquote>I still shudder at the idea of people near Federal Way thinking they needed an even more pathetic name for a municipality (at least they aren't in Renton -- though that might be a step up) ... then again, I live near the town of Broadway (amazingly, you can get used to *anything*).That said, I have a question on a Virginia dateline. It's about McLean. The first time I saw it move on the AP, it moved McLEAN, which seems to go against the all-caps rule on datelines. Indeed, the stylebook makes no exception for "Mc" names, so I argued to put it all up. In the end, we did -- but a few days later the "c" was down when another editor did a page.It could seem to read as "emm clean," which I suspect is the issue at hand, but one would think the AP had come to a decision on such datelines.[ January 08, 2003: Message edited by: Pete Hahnloser ]

SusanV · **Posted:** Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:28 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Emily Salmon:
Okay, breech means butt, OK? Like a breech birth? I didn't say it was a *good* play on words, but neither do I think it was totally contrived, since there was some link between the meaning of moonlighting and the screener's falling asleep. Now, do I have to explain "moon"?
You people are putting me on, right?[ January 07, 2003: Message edited by: blanp ]<hr></blockquote>Putting you on, no. Contrived, yes. Being as the point was the editorial screwup, punning on the piece itself just didn't work for some of us. Sorry!

SusanV · **Posted:** Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:37 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by Pete Hahnloser:
That said, I have a question on a Virginia dateline. It's about McLean. The first time I saw it move on the AP, it moved McLEAN, which seems to go against the all-caps rule on datelines. Indeed, the stylebook makes no exception for "Mc" names, so I argued to put it all up. In the end, we did -- but a few days later the "c" was down when another editor did a page.It could seem to read as "emm clean," which I suspect is the issue at hand, but one would think the AP had come to a decision on such datelines.[ January 08, 2003: Message edited by: Pete Hahnloser ]<hr></blockquote>We would do it MCLEAN if it ever came up. That's consistent with the way we style photo and art credits.

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