Today’s story: Pin trading reaches fever pitch. I’d promised myself I wouldn’t stoop to writing another damned story about damned Olympic pins, but I couldn’t help it. I think it turned out okay, although the desk did cut out my favorite line in the whole piece: “She’s been trading pins since the Los Angeles Games in 1984, which she considers the fever’s ‘absolute peak’ — kind of like 1873 was a bad year for typhoid.”
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THEY CUT THAT LINE OUT?? You’ve got to be kidding me!
Sadly, yes. There’s no accounting for taste, I suppose.
I’ve been trying to get typhoid references into the paper for the last 18 months, and they cut it every time. Go figure.
maybe the dmw has some kind of typhoid-phobia.
and good article. i read it at the car place whilst waiting today. kept me entertained.