Clinton Township Newsletter

3 A u g u s t 2 0 1 4 S av e t h e D at e ! a n n a n D a l e t o w n Y a r D S a l e S : 9 / 6 Annandale Town Yard Sales will be Saturday, September 6 (rain or shine). Spaces are available in the parking lot of the Annandale Reformed Church for $10 (10' x 10'). Price per house to participate is $10. Please email: annandaletownyardsales@gmail.com for more information. C l i n t o n ' S a n n u a l S i D e w a l k S a l e Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 1, 2 and 3 Visit Downtown Clinton for the annual sidewalk sale and find bargains galore! Lots of shops have specials during sale days. We're open late Friday night for our "Come Together" Music from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm with 3 bands playing in town! We hope to see you there! –Julie Fl�nn ... Editor's Column, continued from page 1 I think my response was something like: "Sweetheart, you're asking the wrong person." (In my memory, I sounded something like Mae West (or... Tallulah Bankhead?). <– and is this too much punctuation? In reality, I probably said "Sorry Tim – I can't help you with that.") I wonder if today's fact checkers are relaxed and happy... now that they have the internet. After the fact checkers, I then had my own puzzle of making sure every- thing: the copy, photos and all artwork fit into the layout. I had to insist that writers cut copy, make sure all fonts and text and rules matched the Forbes format, and I had to wake up art directors in the middle of the night for important layout decisions. Then, back to the typeset- ters, and it started all over again, through the night, night after night. Finally came the most exciting part: it was my job to call the printer in Loretto, PA and, after a bit of small talk, I got to say the famous phrase "Go to Print!" It would have been much more exciting had anyone been in the office with me, but no –- at that point it was just me and the little white mice. As I left my desk for the elevator, I would notice (every time) that the others had mysteriously and silently left the building, leaving me to sol- emnly take the elevator down to the lobby to wake up the security guards. Occasionally I would the descend down* the grand brass-railed, marble staircase to make my exit through the Forbes Galleries entrance, just for the fun of it. That is, until the one time I got to the first floor only to find myself making an unintentional(ly?) grand entrance, dressed in denim, into one of Malcom Forbes' very glamorous and luxe-80's black-tie par- ties. I quietly tip-toed (remembering that I'm not actually Elizabeth Taylor) up the stairs backwards then down and out the usual employee's exit. Departing somewhat trepidaciously (is that even a word?) onto the streets of NYC, I then made my way back to Hoboken before the break of dawn. I'm telling you-all this short-story-long because something magical happens here at the Newsletter when the printed piece is delivered to our mailboxes. Ruth and I find mistakes that we didn't previously see, despite scrutinizing each issue ad-nauseam (or is it spelled "ad- nauseum"?) As you can imagine, this drives us pretty much crazy. I like to think of it as karma for my long ago schadenfreude** regarding those proofreaders and fact checkers. That, plus the fact that we're al- ways trying to get everything done quickly here so that we can enjoy our families and friends. Perhaps you're picking up on the same mistakes as we are? Or is it "...picking up on the same mistakes as we."? "Us"?!!! Correct grammar usage can sometimes drive us crazy too. Life being what it is, I now have a much deeper understanding of the stress that those people were going through so long ago. I also feel the need to mention that Forbes was a fabulous place to work back then, despite the normal magazine tension. Most importantly, we at the Newsletter ask your forgiveness for our mistakes and misspellings and, as always, are so grateful for your readership! Enjoy the rest of your summer! p.s. To illustrate my point of how frustrating writing correctly can be: the word "proofreader" is one word, while the words "fact checker" are two. * The phrase "descend down" is a pleonasm – redundant. Aarrrgh. **And, is this even the correct way to use the word "schadenfreude" in a sentence?) Double Aarrrgh.

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