Years ago, my boss and I were disagreeing over jumping a column to an inside page.
The newspaper's style was to run a column short enough so we could run an information box under it. My column was long enough that a box wouldn't fit so my boss was intent on cutting it.
I knew he couldn't cut it -- I'd written it that way -- but I didn't say anything.
He was confident, saying he could cut Shakespeare (I know I couldn't). So he read through it, looked at me hard, then read through it again. After much sighing and waving of hands, he turned and said, "Jump it." There may have been a bad word in there somewhere.
It was a triumph of sorts, but it's not a good idea to show up the boss. I never did it again.
P.S.: Once, I was looking for an information box, and I found a short story on Charles Barkley. In the box, I wrote that Barkley had a quadruple double in a game -- 28 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 turnovers. The last item would have been on the negative side of the ledger.
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