In defense of hard-nosed editors...
Jan. 2nd, 2009 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theoldwolfThose of us who frequent the 9 Chickweed Lane world have been put on notice that next week will consist of reruns... because Brooke missed his deadline by 30 minutes.
As much fun as it would be to depict the evil blaggards being crushed under 16-ton weights, I have a suspicion their draconian policies are in place for a reason.
For a while, Husqvarna chainsaws in Sweden carried the warning label, "Do not attempt to stop chain with hands or genitals!" Why, one wonders, were they prompted to create such a bizarre admonition? There's only one answer... someone tried to do it.
So moving forward, I can only imagine that syndicate timelines are in place, not because of some Dilbertesque mercuriality, but because when one is dealing with hundreds, if not thousands of newspapers, a delay is tantamount to dumping sugar in your Lamborghini's gas tank. Things are going to get gummed up all the way down the line.
None of this is going to keep me from weeping bitterly into my O'Doul's throughout the coming week, as I wonder what little twists and turns the saga of Amos, Edda and the Concours Forrestier will take. To make his Brookeship miss a deadline, the points must be fine indeed.
The waiting will make the enjoyment all the sweeter.
As much fun as it would be to depict the evil blaggards being crushed under 16-ton weights, I have a suspicion their draconian policies are in place for a reason.
For a while, Husqvarna chainsaws in Sweden carried the warning label, "Do not attempt to stop chain with hands or genitals!" Why, one wonders, were they prompted to create such a bizarre admonition? There's only one answer... someone tried to do it.
So moving forward, I can only imagine that syndicate timelines are in place, not because of some Dilbertesque mercuriality, but because when one is dealing with hundreds, if not thousands of newspapers, a delay is tantamount to dumping sugar in your Lamborghini's gas tank. Things are going to get gummed up all the way down the line.
None of this is going to keep me from weeping bitterly into my O'Doul's throughout the coming week, as I wonder what little twists and turns the saga of Amos, Edda and the Concours Forrestier will take. To make his Brookeship miss a deadline, the points must be fine indeed.
The waiting will make the enjoyment all the sweeter.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-01-03 09:51 am (UTC)I wonder if the chainsaw chappies on YouTube?
In two parts, clearly.....
Missed a deadline? Given his attention to perfection and attitude towards the strip there must be a darned important reason... I hope he's OK.
whu? in sequence surely here.....
Date: 2009-01-03 10:01 am (UTC)Re: whu? in sequence surely here.....
Date: 2009-01-03 05:05 pm (UTC)Re: whu? in sequence surely here.....
Date: 2009-01-03 09:19 pm (UTC)That will teach us all who the real boss is here....
The second place goes to the first, and the first to the second
Amos and Edda should record "Cello for swinging lovers" if the estate of Sinatra will permit....
Viola not Viagra!