Who's this guy called 'Ed' who edits all the magazines??

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I swear to you - when I was a spotty teenager and I read magazines I used to see edits such as “[this isn’t true - ed]” and think there was a member of the team called edward, and he’d be kind of a boss so he was allowed to make comments or corrections in the articles of his staff. I sort of knew that ‘ed’ meant ‘edit’ or ‘editor’ but until I actually thought about it with my brain switched on I would think there’s an ‘edward’ employed at most magazines who’s nickname was ‘ed’.

Have you ever had a silly misunderstanding about something like that?

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It’s Ed Zotti.

That guy is everywhere.

-ed.

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I used to wonder what peds were (they looked kind of like stick-figure people), and what xing was.

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It does explain a lot. He’s been referred to as " Little ed " for years. Now we know why.

:wink:

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He’s a bowling alley lawyer from Stuckeyville, OH.

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“Ped xing” is Chinese for “detached heads.”

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Reminds me of how when I first started taking piano lessons at age 10, I once commented to my mom that this “Anon” guy seemed to have been a really prolific composer, because half the songs in my book were by him. He even wrote “London Bridge Is Falling Down” AND “Frere Jacques”!

Duh me.

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There’s a town in northern Wisconsin that must be very important, because when I was a kid I noticed that every town we drove through on the way to Grandma’s house had signs pointing to it:

Business Dist ---->

But somehow we never got to Business Dist itself. If you ever find out where it is, please let me know.

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By that age I’d figured out there wasn’t actually a poet named “Anon”, but it took a while.

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I thought ibid was a Roman jurist during my first semester of pre-law classes.

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When I was a kid, and I’d hear about somebody getting busted for hash in another country, I’d wonder why hash browns were illegal there.

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In England there are a lot of signs saying “Bill Stickers Prohibited.” Who is Mr William Stickers and what did he do that makes him so prohibited?

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I thought “Deaf Child at Play” and “Slow Children Crossing” were much more similar signs than they in fact are.

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I gave some ice to a bridge but never did get my watch.

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My (Swedish) mother told me that for the longest time, she wondered who Written By was and how he managed to be in every single English-speaking movie. Prolific actor!

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As a sprog I wondered why the person who wrote sic after a misspelt word kept on missing off the letter “K”

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There’s a sign like that with graffiti underneath it along the lines of “Bills stickers is innocent”

On a similar note there’s a sign “Post no Bills” and banksy has drawn a picture of Bill Murray, Bill Clinton, and Bill Cosby near the sign.

correction: No bill Murray. Bill Gates.

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I did this as well, at about the same age. I remember asking my mother if we had any of Anon’s works in our plethra of 8 tracks (alas, that was chockful of Loretta Young and Johnny Cash) and her looking at me like I was crazy. I then got the talk about modern devil worshipping musicians. Later, when I tried whispering the question to my dad, she got all tuned up again. Dad finally figured out what I was asking about, and the both of them had a great laugh.

Fast forward to when I was 16/17 and one year for Christmas, I got a chidren’s song tape from my father with a note about people “singing Anon’s works.” It’s still one of his favorite stories.

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It’s not all him, though. Sometimes it’s his arch enemy, Ed Itor.

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I’ve always felt sorry for those poor slow children. I mean, who wants it advertised that they are slow? More importantly, I dread ever meeting any of those Watch Children. Watch dogs are bad enough but Watch Children…what kind of sicko raises those kinds of kids? :smiley: