"Lick" as an offensive term, you're (kidding) me

My personal best: "Simon won't face charges for beating sausage in Milwaukee."

Ah, the things you can get away with at a college paper in the summer semester.

 

I once got a call from an old lady who was offended by a stretch headline, "Murderer's Row," I had on a baseball story about the middle of a team's lineup.

She was about 137 years old, and I had to explain to her about the 1927 Yankees.

The response I got was, "Well, I was alive back then. I guess I should have known that."

 

My editor likes to tell the story of an old Minnesota Star Tribune headline (I think he said it was the Star Tribune...) when the vikings were missing their kicker:
"Vikings win with Cox out"

 

How the hell did you know about that!!!???

 

I once saw a paper use the headline "Orioles gun down Indians". That newspaper, and the former sports editor, are on Indian hate lists.

 

Yeah I'm in NorCal. And to think I originally laid out the page with "Giants lick A's," realized what I had done -- actually made an audible "holy shit" -- when I picked it off the proofer and ran back to my computer to fix it.

 

There's an urban legend around our office that a previous sports editor wrote (and ran) the following headline:

Navratilova licks Evert down under

Of course, it was in reference to Martina winning the Australian Open and the few employees who remain from when the SE was there swear the headline appeared in the paper. Now, that was, what 1981? Today, that headline would likely get someone fired.

 

you are a piece of shit bigot aren't you?

 

No just your average garden variety bigot, thank you ;D

 

Sing this:

My ding-a-ling
My ding-a-ling
Everybody loves my ding-a-ling!

 

A coach/correspondent wrote up a little piece on his summer league softball team. He called one of his pitchers a hurler in the story. I edited it out because it's just bad writing IMO. Good thing, as I later found out that she was bulimic.

 

Imus' favorite headline following a New York beat-down over Baltimore:

Yanks smack O's.