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1. Sheila Ryan on June 8th, 2011 at 12:20 pm

   First dibs on the wood.

2. Joel Bernstein on June 8th, 2011 at 12:41 pm

   I don’t feel like “dibs” is the sort of word an AP journalist should be using in a news article.

3. Carole Corlew on June 8th, 2011 at 12:50 pm

   AP-trons are very immature. Snicker.

4. Carole Corlew on June 8th, 2011 at 12:52 pm

   Also, Joel, AP journalist is an oxymoron.

5. Joel Bernstein on June 8th, 2011 at 12:55 pm

   I guess I have romantic notions of newspapermen wearing suits and fedoras with a little cards that say “Press”, who would rather die for their principles than write the word “dibs” or split an infinitive.

6. Sheila Ryan on June 8th, 2011 at 1:05 pm

   That was before Cece’s time. It all changed just when she came on the scene. It was all like “The Front Page” until she arrived.

7. Carole Corlew on June 8th, 2011 at 1:05 pm

   I’m sorry, Joel. I was a Unipresser. We had a quota of insults we had to say about AP, or ROX in UPI speak, before they would give us a check every week. I forget I’m still not insulting them for my supper.

   They are still smoking cigars and swigging from whiskey bottles, quoting from Joyce while cursing the Man. And “dibs” must have been a joke that got past the editor.

8. Sheila Ryan on June 8th, 2011 at 1:20 pm

   “Smoking cigars and swigging from whiskey bottles, quoting from Joyce while cursing the Man.” That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day.

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