A Little Ham

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“I started work as a reporter just in time to learn how to write, before editors (and readers, and most reporters) stopped caring. In the seventies, symptoms of morbidity were already undeniable, . . . but I sure had a lot of fun. I think of newspapers as my graduate school, just as Ishmael declared ‘a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.’ We were certainly kept as poor as grad students. One year we got canned hams as Christmas bonuses, and were grateful.” 

—Patrick Kurp, writer and blogger, “Asservation Is Today the Rage,” Anecdotal Evidence, Jan. 24, 2018. (Thanks to alert WORDster Tony Seton)

• Editorial Comment: Use “asservation” in a sentence. Dare ya.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

Split Rock. Looks like a cleavered canned ham, now that you point it out.











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