My father was an editor...

Subject: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:45 am

# a305won 25 Feb 2010
at 4:09 pm

My father was a editor. My aunt is a copy editor. That’s two
people in my family employed because of people like John Scalzi.
It doesn’t suck at all. It rocks!

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/25/this-manuscript-hires-people/

zizban wrote:: The grammar was actually pretty easy, I don't know why. Maybe because my father was an editor and mother a middle school teacher.

http://www.publishedauthors.org/chatter-box-f3/could-we-pass-this-test-today-t2961.htm#45020

"My aunt used to do freelance copy editing for places like Hyperion/Disney and Avon..."

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18846#23

Nah, it's just a coincidence.

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:49 am

So we're back to what we (or at least, I) thought when this whole thing started.

No surprise there.

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:07 am

This and the apology seems to leave no room for doubt (fact really is stranger than fiction and the motives of real people leave me perplexed).

I admire your tenacity. Congratulations Shelagh

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:15 am

Are you trying to insinuate that whizbang is a liar...and a really, really stupid one at that?

I've never been so shocked.

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:28 am

What apology?

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:19 am

He issued a very sincere apology to everybody on the site for using other people's identities, lying about his background, and posting material from here elsewhere to flip people out. You could tell he was really contrite and would mend his ways and make amends to people for lying to them and trying to harm them.

Not

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:26 am

zizban was banned on AbsoluteWrite?
I didn't think he had the moral fiber to get kicked out of that place.

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:38 am

The apology I was referring to was the one a305w accepted from Maria P.

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:02 am

Which I will assume was also as sincere and heartfelt as he deserves.

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:36 am

Oh, yeah, I remember that "apology."And I recall thinking at the time it was proof that turkel was the blogger. Then we got distracted with stupid stuff. It should have been obvious that the blogger was someone about as socially and professionally relevant as flypaper, and that's what he attracted as commenters -flies.

What's that saying about the most obvious answer being the right one?

Subject: Re: My father was an editor... Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:19 am

Another obvious fact: the blog was set up as much to attract attention as for any other reason. If we ignore the blogger completely, he can post away to bump up the post count -- lost in deleted posts -- and gain no attention whatever (pun intended!).