I think Calgary is sinking...

Jun 16, 2005 00:02

We all say "oh, I've been so busy lately" - or something to that effect - and, sometimes, we even mean it ( Read more... )

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shade_42 June 17 2005, 13:43:02 UTC
good to see you surface again, what does -40- mean?

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thepolemicist June 17 2005, 15:48:24 UTC
Yeah, with the water levels rising I found myself coming up for air. Nice to breath again.

The -40- is a typesetting mark used to indicate the end of a press release. It was quite useful when releases came off "the wire" i.e., by teletype, but it's been almost 10 years since I last worked at a newspaper so I can't say for certain if its use is still common.

Now that I think about it though, I'm not sure that it's not a "-30-"; one or the other though certainly. ;)

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