Complaining parents - When did this trend start?

[SixToe]

Sounds like you should call it the "All the shirt We Don't Care About" page.

 

[Tom Petty]

Sounds like you should call it the "All the shirt We Don't Care About" page.

we call it "here you go, assholes."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I got tired of wasting that page each week and moved it all to the Web. Newsprint is limited, cyberspace isn't.

Like somebody else said, it's amazing how many parents want it in the actual paper so they can cut it out for a scrapbook or the fridge door.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

jesusforkingchrist, only parents worse than soccer ... swimming.

... followed by gymnastics.

...then figure skating.

 

[Tom Petty]

I got tired of wasting that page each week and moved it all to the Web. Newsprint is limited, cyberspace isn't.

Like somebody else said, it's amazing how many parents want it in the actual paper so they can cut it out for a scrapbook or the fridge door.

i think it's a great use of a page and a little stfu.

 

[wickedwritah]

jesusforkingchrist, only parents worse than soccer ... swimming.

... followed by gymnastics.

...then figure skating.

In my earlier, much more high strung days, I hated meeting with people coming into the office. (I was like hockeybeat witnessing Rockfeller Center tourists at Christmas.) I would do anything -- ANYTHING! -- not to deal with many members of the public. Well, there was this one guy from the local figure skating club who owned a bagel shop in town. He guilt-tripped me into meeting with him at his shop -- I did it because I thought I had to, since I was the good local weekly newspaper sports editor -- and he's showing me pictures of 9-year-olds. I'm kinda repulsed, since these outfits are a tad revealing. Once I had been there for a while, he would just walk into the office, pass by the receptionist and head to my desk in the back whenever he felt like it -- I'd have no warning.

Looking back on it, it's funny, but back then, the whole deal kinda frightened me.

 

[Cadet]

Before I got to my shop, the battle had already been fought over the remote controlled car club. Sports lost.

I had only been giving it cursory mention, so I got an in-office visit from the president one day. He brought with him a DVD so he could show me that "they were a real, competitive sport". Sorry, you're a bunch of guys playing with remote controlled cars. That's Radio Shack, not NASCAR.

He wanted me to pop it right in so we could watch it together, right then and there. Good thing my shop was so cheap we didn't have a DVD player...

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I got tired of wasting that page each week and moved it all to the Web. Newsprint is limited, cyberspace isn't.

Like somebody else said, it's amazing how many parents want it in the actual paper so they can cut it out for a scrapbook or the fridge door.

i think it's a great use of a page and a little stfu.

If you've got the room, great for you. But here it came down to scrapping one of our college football pages or doing rec sports photos. Given our location, we'd have lost a lot more readers by dropping the FBC page.

 

[writing irish]

Sounds like you should call it the "All the shirt We Don't Care About" page.

we call it "here you go, assholes."

It'd be fun to design the masthead for that.

 

[Tom Petty]

I got tired of wasting that page each week and moved it all to the Web. Newsprint is limited, cyberspace isn't.

Like somebody else said, it's amazing how many parents want it in the actual paper so they can cut it out for a scrapbook or the fridge door.

i think it's a great use of a page and a little stfu.

If you've got the room, great for you. But here it came down to scrapping one of our college football pages or doing rec sports photos. Given our location, we'd have lost a lot more readers by dropping the FBC page.

agreed, but for me, a plate of stfu it too valuable.

 

[Tom Petty]

Sounds like you should call it the "All the shirt We Don't Care About" page.

we call it "here you go, assholes."

It'd be fun to design the masthead for that.

i actually have, and yes, yes, i know, that's how shirt like that gets into the paper.

 

[writing irish]

Hope there's never an error in your section, TP, but should the unthinkable happen, be sure to post a sample on the design thread. I'm thinking "Here you go," in a very sober, patrician, serifed font...followed by "ASSHOLES" in a large, festive, cartoonish font.