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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Sounds better either way over saying "I had grit for breakfast"...in case you only ate one.
I knew someone from WI who, on a trip to FL, had breakfast in a Southern diner. When asked did she want grits, she answered "I'll try one".
If you don't wash the asparagus tips well you can get grit. You might not notice it with grits.
Shrimp'n'grits'n'asparagus
Shrimp'n'grits'n'asparagus
I remember getting some kind of post cards or something offering me a career as a delivery boy for GRIT
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Complete the Join the Dots for Grit (newspaper) and you'll find ... Little League Baseball.
Oh, boy! If I sign up 75 new customers this month, I'll have enough points to get that one dollar model airplane kit! Gee, that's swell! Wait, didn't we talk about this about 20,000 posts ago?
I was too young or too old to remember back then.Oh, boy! If I sign up 75 new customers this month, I'll have enough points to get that one dollar model airplane kit! Gee, that's swell! Wait, didn't we talk about this about 20,000 posts ago?
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Oh, boy! If I sign up 75 new customers this month, I'll have enough points to get that one dollar model airplane kit! Gee, that's swell! Wait, didn't we talk about this about 20,000 posts ago?
A printing press was once a license to print money. Technology changed the delivery format, but the model is still valid. Stronger, even. Selling content.
Gets pretty tricky pretty fast at this point.
Grit at its height had a verified circulation of more than a million. That's a lot of news carriers. They used to say "newsboys". I'd say the Grit circulation department would have be just fine with girl news carriers. The point isn't who, the point is getting the paper on the right doorstep at the right time. Subscribers do call if the paper's left in the rain, or thrown on the lawn, or roof ...
Mayhap one such as I would hear the stories first hand from circulation managers. Now there is a thankless profession.
All that verified circulation determines how ad rates are set. That's paired with what's called penetration, e.g. the percentage of homes that buy your content. If your verified circulation is 100,000 (yay), but the area you serve is 10 million people, you ain't doing so well. Especially for a daily paper. People do tend to despise their local paper.
Content was never my concern. I couldn't afford to worry about a client's content. Their business. What I saw to is it is correct on every micro-level. :: devil horns :: sometimes when I needed to teach editors something I used historical news stories for dummy content. Got editors reading, and writing headlines for the first battle of Ypres, or the burning of the Reichstag, or the very famous story of an emergency appendectomy on board a submarine.
Ya know, I forgot I did that ...
In the past, girls were generally discouraged from lifting weight for fear of developing muscles. Home economics were important to learn.
When I was a paperboy, girls didn't get roots till much later in life.
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I remember seeing ads to that effect in just about every comic book (or some such) I ever picked up. And yet, never in my life have I seen so much as one actual copy of that (alleged) paper. Neither on newsstand, in mailbox, nor on front stoop. Never.
To me, it's the "real live sea monkeys" of newspapers. Much discussed, never encountered in the wild.
A more industrious p'chopper might have filled that bowl & spoon with rattlesnakes.
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Home ec hasn't changed. I baked, and frosted, a cake as part of my rehab for bilateral knee replacements. It's all that standing in the kitchen stuff with highly two unfamiliar joints and very weak legs. I have no idea what they do to the mens. The men in my rehab immediately after surgery were, um, pretty far gone.
I remember seeing ads to that effect in just about every comic book (or some such) I ever picked up. And yet, never in my life have I seen so much as one actual copy of that (alleged) paper. Neither on newsstand, in mailbox, nor on front stoop. Never.
To me, it's the "real live sea monkeys" of newspapers. Much discussed, never encountered in the wild.
A more industrious p'chopper might have filled that bowl & spoon with rattlesnakes.
Oh Grit was real. "Honour boxes" (those things you put a coin in, and lift the lid to take one copy on your honuor) cost money. Delivery boys are essentially free (on the paper's books). Not likely you would ever encounter a real live Grit unless you lived in very rural America. Grit's distinction in the newpaper world was its place as a truly national paper, long before USAToday. Grit diversified into television stations and radio stations, and made a lot of money. A great deal of money.
My observation is, when a newspaper publisher wants me to join him (yes, almost exclusively he/him pronouns, country club types) ... when a newspaper publisher wants me to join him for dinner I am the main course. [strong word invoking a deity] they paid me for this
... ... Grit at its height had a verified circulation of more than a million. That's a lot of news carriers. They used to say "newsboys". I'd say the Grit circulation department would have be just fine with girl news carriers. The point isn't who, the point is getting the paper on the right doorstep at the right time. Subscribers do call if the paper's left in the rain, or thrown on the lawn, or roof ...
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The "Leave It To Beaver" episode about the girl news carrier was on MeTV this morning. Not only did Beave get rough with her when he didn't realize she was a girl, but Ward also was, uh, ... pretty stern
with her about deliver conditions when she came collecting with her ponytail out. He made her cry! 'Cause, you know, girls were such delicate creatures back then. 
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It could well be the place where I grew up was too rural. Not even Grit could make it up into those mountains.
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It could well be the place where I grew up was too rural. Not even Grit could make it up into those mountains.
You'd have to live within bicycle distance of a kid who is ready to win a prize for selling Grit. Nice business model.
Never sold Grit, but I did have a paper route. South side of Ft. Worth, for two years. You are correct, labor was free, I got paid, out of my collections, after I paid my bill. Total cost of daily delivery including Sunday, was $2.85 a month. Most of my customers were pretty decent about paying, but there were those who never seemed to have any money, come collection time. I was required to carry them on my books for three months, before I could cancel their subscription. Of course they could then simply re-subscribe, and the cycle would start over.
I actually covered two routes, next to each other. It took me two trips on Sunday morning, to deliver all of my papers, using two shoulder bags, and double baskets on my bicycle. I was 12-14 at the time. I doubt many kids that age now, would last three days. While I never made much more than about $100.00 per month, I did learn how to deal with people, organize my finances, and the value of responsibility.
I actually covered two routes, next to each other. It took me two trips on Sunday morning, to deliver all of my papers, using two shoulder bags, and double baskets on my bicycle. I was 12-14 at the time. I doubt many kids that age now, would last three days. While I never made much more than about $100.00 per month, I did learn how to deal with people, organize my finances, and the value of responsibility.
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