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Fun fact: Editors are usually also people. Except for that one dog I met during a cold winter's day in 1987 in a run-down London pub.
by shafyy 7mo ago
Fun fact: Editors are usually also people. Except for that one dog I met during a cold winter's day in 1987 in a run-down London pub.
- incognito124 7mo agoOn the internet, no one knows you're an editor
- taneliv 7mo agoNo way, bro! I'm no longer an editor, though.
- scorpionfeet 7mo agoCan you explain the reference? It whooshed me.
- shafyy 7mo agoHaha, no reference. I just made something up and tried to be funny.
- Mentlo 7mo agoI tried figuring out the reference with Gemini, and it said this: The immediate reply to that comment is: "On the internet, no one knows you're an editor." This is a direct play on the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." By setting the anecdote in 1987 (a few years before the World Wide Web was publicly available), the commenter is implying that back in the analog days, if a dog wanted to be a writer or an editor, they couldn't hide behind a screen—they had to sit in a smoky London pub and do business face-to-face. Which makes a lot of sense actually. I would imagine that's what the replier to you thought you meant.
- shafyy 7mo agoHahaha great story. But that's not what I had I thought about at all.