That's what editors must do when they REALLY hate their reporters. Make them come up with copy on lame shit like that. It's called "busy work." It works on the same principle as making Marines buff floors and scrub toilets all day: Keep them occupied, even when there's nothing to do, and they won't go out and cause trouble.
It's just sad - there's absolutely nothing exceptional, surprising, or particularly interesting. If there had been some element of coincidence, say the name on the check were a long lost friend or the address was that now belonging to his mother, or SOMETHING. Or the amount was large and the paper unredeemed?
I had to read it a couple of times because I thought I was missing the point. That's why I've submitted it to y'all for clarification.
I think I've said too much already. A girl can't lay down all her cards at once. Good thing my deck goes higher than 52. I wish I were a guy so I could pee anywhere I wanted while standing up. That's real power. I'd like to meet the following: My great-great grandparents, the N. Oklahoma ones, not the Swiss gentry. My woebegone friendship with Adam G. The man who's going to be with me till we're retired to the porch swing sucking on glycerine tablets, and who still reads to me at night, while I rub his feet. My ambitions with commitment and discipline. The characters from old David Lee Roth videos. Hot carb on carb action. That fucker who keeps trying to take the bbq, in a dark alley, satan's minions, lilliputians, nigglers, pifflers, piddlers, snake-oil peddlers, cripples, do-gooders, truth-seekers, sweethearts, wandering minstrels, interlopers, robber barons, saints, sinners, people who snort and guffaw, holler and whoop, tender tender people with good hearts, and all my fat little babies. I like BUTTER! And Vitamin Z!
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The only thing lamer would be the follow-up article:
"Yahoo finds way to waste bandwidth after man finds check from 1971 after Arkansas tornadoes"
That's what editors must do when they REALLY hate their reporters. Make them come up with copy on lame shit like that. It's called "busy work." It works on the same principle as making Marines buff floors and scrub toilets all day: Keep them occupied, even when there's nothing to do, and they won't go out and cause trouble.
It's just sad - there's absolutely nothing exceptional, surprising, or particularly interesting. If there had been some element of coincidence, say the name on the check were a long lost friend or the address was that now belonging to his mother, or SOMETHING. Or the amount was large and the paper unredeemed?
I had to read it a couple of times because I thought I was missing the point. That's why I've submitted it to y'all for clarification.
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