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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Today's bad joke Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:15 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Established NYC music magazine is looking for an offsite freelance copy editor/proofreader to review its Jan/Feb issue. Ideal candidate will have extensive copy editing and proofreading experience and the ability to edit PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Pro. A knowledge of music and pop culture is helpful but not essential. Most of the 50 or so edit pages are in good shape (some of the layouts have full page images), so this is a low stress gig that will mostly require grammatical tweaks. Important: You must be available to work beginning 11/13 to 11/18. Only reliable, professional editors should apply with a letter of interest and resume. No form letters or flakes, please. Compensation: $150
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: Today's bad joke Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:59 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	How many times have I heard someone who is not a copy editor refer to something as being in "good shape?"
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Editer	Post subject: Re: Today's bad joke Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:24 pm
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:33 pm Posts: 1225 Location: Texas	If they want the editing done on PDFs -- meaning, basically, at the proof stage -- then they better be expecting only small improvements. That's as big a red flag as the price.
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gdcfa	Post subject: Re: Today's bad joke Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:51 am
Joined: Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:16 am Posts: 190 Location: Canada, eh?	Quote: How many times have I heard someone who is not a copy editor refer to something as being in "good shape?" Haha, yeah, I remember back when when those of us in paste-up were told an ad was coming "camera-ready." Good times.
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"This is like group therapy with prisoners in the Poynter Institute's dungeon." ... "You take a vocation that the simple-minded consider to be mere drudgery, and you exploit every bit of fascinating and humorous nuance imaginable." ... "Delicious" ... "Ask your professors? The only professors whose opinions matter are named Walsh, Blanchard and McIntyre." ... "What I come here for, I can find ONLY here. Phillip, you've built a great place." ... "Nothing gets us hotter than reading bitchy discussion threads from over-exhausted copy editors endlessly debating the merits of "theater" versus "theatre." ... "I love this site. It's better than the Kool-Aid acid tests." ..."I'm awed at the efficiency with which matters of opinion get hashed out in this forum." ... "Phil is the bomb!" ... "I'd wager that it's exactly your sort of hidebound thinking that contributes to the problems newspapers are having attracting readers." ... "I'm totally obsessed with this site. It's like porn--if you get off on Scrabble." ... "It reveals the backstage carping and vindictive emotions that roil the souls of those trapped at the copy desks." "When they say "testy," they certainly mean it. Whether it's reporters, editors, or the general public, no one is above their savage snark." ... "An apparent crack in the thin grey line." ..."Testy Copy Editors is a bitchboard for journalism's underclass." ... "My desire to read 'Testy Copy Editors' is only rivalled by my desire to pop "Constipated Call Girls" in the DVD player." ... "Phillip Blanchard is not just a testy copy editor, but a prophet scorned in his own time, and those of us who defend wordplay will be punished for it come the Judgment Day." ... "Phil Blanchard is as dashing in person as he is at the TCE board." ... "As far as writing and editing go: Read this board, read Bill Walsh, memorize the style book, read William Zinsser, and read the New York Times. That's a good start." ... "You should let go of your bitterness. You were not the oppressed talent you thought yourself to be. You were a miserable, brooding, silent, joyless grind, lucky to have a job at the Sun-Times, and we're lucky now that you've moved on to afflict others."

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