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On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:54:11 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: I have some limited experience with Truman, Of course you do. Nothing gets mentioned here that you do not have personal experience with. Some day tell us about how you and Lincoln wrote that Gettysburg speech together. |
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On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:52:51 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 10:22 AM, wrote: On 19 Aug 2017 19:03:06 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote: wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:54:11 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I have some limited experience with Truman, Of course you do. Nothing gets mentioned here that you do not have personal experience with. Some day tell us about how you and Lincoln wrote that Gettysburg speech together. I went into a profession that gave me the opportunity to meet some famous people. You fixed computers. I guess I was able to derive my joy from what I was doing and not from living vicariously through the people I was able to meet. If that was ll I wanted, I would have been a waiter. Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. |
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On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 5:31:53 PM UTC-5, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:52:51 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 10:22 AM, wrote: On 19 Aug 2017 19:03:06 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote: wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:54:11 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I have some limited experience with Truman, Of course you do. Nothing gets mentioned here that you do not have personal experience with. Some day tell us about how you and Lincoln wrote that Gettysburg speech together. I went into a profession that gave me the opportunity to meet some famous people. You fixed computers. I guess I was able to derive my joy from what I was doing and not from living vicariously through the people I was able to meet. If that was ll I wanted, I would have been a waiter. Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. Its still far larger than yours. You have very little original thought. By the way, are quaint little statements like that your only lasting defence? |
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. |
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On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:49:04 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. I guess they had the journalistic standards of an interstate rest stop bathroom wall, based on the writing we see here. |
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On 8/21/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 11:47 PM, wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/20/17 2:59 PM, wrote: Yeah, I was a people person back then. You were a back room machine person. I am sure I met more people in my average day than you did, fetching coffee for the real news writers. I am sure if we could ask Truman who he had lunch with that day, your name would not come up. He might remember there was a "gofer" there but I doubt he would remember much more. Did you read him something someone else wrote, like you do here? Heheheh. What a little mind you have. You certainly seem to keep your intelligence under a box. That you think I was a "gofer" at The Star is hilarious. I was a full-fledged reporter from my first day at the paper, and after my short indoctrination to learn the paper's style book, I spent my time there as a street reporter, general assignment reporter, and feature story writer. My last year there, after my reportorial assignment work was done for the evening, I moved over to the copy desk, where I edited and marked up copy for typesetting, and in my last six months, before I was recruited by the Associated Press, I was acting World News Editor because the actual World News Editor had taken a year's leave and suggested to the managing editor of the paper that I fill in in his absence. I was an AP Newsman and then an AP Chief of Bureau. I met interesting people throughout my news career and, of course, afterwards. I don't bother to do much enterprise writing here. It's a waste of effort, what with the plethora of no-nothings and what-about-itis posters like you. They must have had low standards to hire an untrained person as a full reporter. Where did you get the idea I was "untrained" as a reporter? I needed to learn the paper's style book, which had a number of Star peculiarities, such as never referring to a car as anything but a "motor car," and at least 100 more of those kinds of descriptors. I'd been a "stringer" for the paper for almost a year, and was recommended for the summer job by a journalism professor who was pretty well connected at the paper, even though I had only taken a couple of courses in the j-school because my majors were in the college of liberal arts. As soon as I got to the paper, I started writing under the tutelage of the assistant night editor, who helped me get started on the right foot. By the end of that summer, I was offered a regular full-time job tailored to my remaining college class schedule. I worked five nights a week, from 4:30 pm to 12:30 am, with Wednesday and Saturday off, on the morning Star which, for convenience sake, was called the Kansas City Times. Funny thing was, the circulation of the Times back then was greater than that of the Star. Whatever the standards were, I'm sure they were higher than whatever standards you faced for your first professional job. Every summer, the paper got hundreds of applicants for the two summer jobs. I got one of them. The other guy was hired by the PM paper...we shared a desk, typewriter, and, of course, spittoon. Here's a picture of The Star building... http://tinyurl.com/y73a322k The presses used to be on the building on the right, but they've been moved to another facility. |
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