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rumymommy	Post subject: Where did I put my gun ... Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 4:12 pm
Joined: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 138	This made it to the desk:<p>Martin Lutheran had a dream. [This is] the senior citizen dream ...
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Where did I put my gun ... Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 4:53 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by 4Jfan: This made it to the desk:<p>Martin Lutheran had a dream. [This is] the senior citizen dream ...<hr></blockquote><p>Wow.
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Guest	Post subject: Re: Where did I put my gun ... Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 5:37 pm
	Was this from a staff reporter? An intern? A freelancer? A third-grader?<p>How was it handled?
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rumymommy	Post subject: Re: Where did I put my gun ... Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:35 pm
Joined: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 138	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Jim Thomsen: Was this from a staff reporter? An intern? A freelancer? A third-grader?<p>How was it handled?<hr></blockquote><p> No, no. Nothing so heinous. It was a letter to the editor. Personally, I wouldn't have read any further after a whiz-bang opening like that. It would have gone right to the garbage.
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Guest	Post subject: Re: Where did I put my gun ... Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 6:47 pm
	Actually, with a letter to the editor, I'd be somewhat charitable. There are a great number of inarticulate people out there, or people who can't express themselves well in print ... their opinions aren't necessarily any less valid or any less worthy of airing because of that. Many papers, including ours, have someone on staff whose job includes working with letter writers in an effort to be certain of just what they intended to say, and saying it with the utmost clarity and economy (not to mention the need to meet certain legally defensible threshholds).<p>And, of course, Martin Luther WAS the founder of the Lutheran church ... so "Martin Lutheran" may simply be a euphemism of sorts (though one not heard before by me).
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SusanV	Post subject: Re: Where did I put my gun ... Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 7:10 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1399 Location: In the newsroom	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Jim Thomsen: And, of course, Martin Luther WAS the founder of the Lutheran church ... so "Martin Lutheran" may simply be a euphemism of sorts (though one not heard before by me).<hr></blockquote>Actually, I think the letter writer probably just had a brain hiccup. What he obviously wanted was Martin Luther King, and he simply got a little confused.<p>We get letters that are astounding in their idiocy. It makes us wonder sometimes just who our readers are!
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