[Oe List ...] Kong Hong (yeah, you read that right!)
W. J.
synergi at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 22 16:57:28 CDT 2010
I confess that after way too many bleary-eyed late nights grinding out
camera-ready copy for the print shop (on 5th Avenue), I totally failed to catch
my own typographical error in the title design for an article in an issue of the
E.I. newsletter we called "i.e." Remember it? I'm sure it's in the global
archives.
Well anyway, the article was probably about the Hong Kong Religious House, where
Bob and Cynthia Vance were holding forth, blah blah blah (and perhaps in our
imaginations trying to stem the tide of, or prepare for the inevitability of,
the communist takeover scheduled for 1997). Whatever.
Anyway, I wound up setting the title (in large type) like this: KONG
HONG
It was correctly hand set in LettraSet black adhesive letters, then cut into two
lines of type and pasted into place--WRONG!
"Kong Hong" is wrong, heh, heh! One of those times where your bleary eyes don't
catch the error @ 3 am, 'cause it looks ALMOST right, and if you think you're
reading "Hong Kong" you might not even notice!
So, without further sets of eyeballs on the 'finished' product, it was RUSHED
(as usual) to the camera (withstanding scrutiny of another set of bleary
eyeballs), and then the negative was 'stripped' into place (by another set of
bleary eyeballs) on a large sheet of canary colored paper with a grid pattern
printed on it for alignment. This was (theoretically) used to make a paper proof
copy (like a blueprint) by another set of bleary eyeballs,
and, (theoretically) after editorial approval, was used to 'burn' a chemically
sensitive aluminum plate (by another set of bleary eyeballs) which then went on
the press to produce a "press proof" (checked by yet another set of bleary
eyeballs) before somebody pushed the button that printed ten thousand copies or
whatever.
It was only at THAT point that somebody--God only knows who--looked at the ten
thousand copies with non-bleary eyeballs and yelled (over the press noise) like
the Voice of God, "KONG HONG??? WTF?"
So we stopped the press (literally) and actually had an emergency discussion of
whether to just let it go out like that. Or not. And even maybe whether we could
pretend it was intended to read like that! I mean, we weren't particularly
green-conscious at that point, and no doubt were using TONS of expensive paper
in the print shop. But we were acutely aware of the 'long green', though not
influenced by Herman Greene.
The outcome was that we corrected the error on film, re-burned the plate, and
reprinted the entire run of "i.e.". And I got to literally hang my head as the
hot-shot proofreading genius who was known to catch every error. In time. (Back
when I was actually PAID and got a lot more sleep, I was a good proofreader!)
Hopefully I eventually got to catch up on sleep, along with those who kept the
print shop running around the clock, like all night, until they stopped for the
Daily Office @ 5 am.
So here I am, about to turn 70, and I STILL haven't lived that one down, as
Carlos so kindly reminds me!
That's my version of the story and I'm stickin' to it!
Marshall
________________________________
From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 4:32:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Looking for Tune name of "Come March
Along"...
Oooh, a story. Tell the story. Is this the print shop in the basement of
Faculty East, or the one over past the program center??
What happened??
Jim
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the
realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward.
Jim Wiegel
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--- On Sat, 8/21/10, W. J. <synergi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>From: W. J. <synergi at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Looking for Tune name of "Come March
>Along"...
>To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 7:38 PM
>
>
>Yep. Among the living, only you and I, Carlos, and maybe Don Cramer, would
>probably remember 'Kong Hong.' One of my worst nightmares in the print shop.
>Marshall
>
>
>
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From: Carlos R. Zervigon <carlos at zervigon.com>
>To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Sent: Sat, August 21, 2010 9:06:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Looking for Tune name of "Come March
>Along"...
>
>
>That is what I thought I had typed. Kong Hong all over again.
>
>Carlos R. Zervigon, PMP
>Zervigon International, Ltd.
>817 Antonine St.
>New Orleans, LA 70115 USA
>504 894-9868 Mobile: 504 908-0762
>carlos at zervigon.com
>http://www.zervigon.com
>
>From:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of
>W. J.
>Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:33 PM
>To: Order Ecumenical Community
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Looking for Tune name of "Come March
>Along"...
>
>I think that was 'constantly conscious' ...
>from an ol' editorial eye!
>Marshall
>
>
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>From:Carlos R. Zervigon <carlos at zervigon.com>
>To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 3:11:18 PM
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Looking for Tune name of "Come March
>Along"...
>Constantly constant of dreadful awareness I plumb the abyss evermore etc.
>
>Carlos R. Zervigon, PMP
>Zervigon International, Ltd.
>817 Antonine St.
>New Orleans, LA 70115 USA
>504 894-9868 Mobile: 504 908-0762
>carlos at zervigon.com
>http://www.zervigon.com
>
>From:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of
>Bill Schlesinger
>Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:18 PM
>To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Looking for Tune name of "Come March
>Along"...
>
>What did we sing to ‘Stout Hearted Men?’
>
>Bill Schlesinger
>Project Vida
>3607 Rivera Avenue
>El Paso, TX 79905
>(915) 533-7057 x 207
>(915) 533-7158 FAX
>pvida at whc.net
>www.projectvidaelpaso.org
>
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>From:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of
>William Salmon
>Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 3:08 PM
>To: Order Ecumenical Community
>Subject: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Looking for Tune name of "Come March Along"...
>
>Come March Along and "Stout Hearted Men" are two different songs. Do you want
>both? I can provide the tune and maybe the chords.
> Pastor Bill
>
>----- Original Message -----
>>From:Bill Schlesinger
>>To:'Order Ecumenical Community'
>>Sent:Friday, August 20, 2010 12:01 PM
>>Subject:Re: [Oe List ...] Looking for Tune name of "Come March Along" ...
>>
>>Stout Hearted Men in my whistling memory.
>>
>>Bill Schlesinger
>>Project Vida
>>3607 Rivera Avenue
>>El Paso, TX 79905
>>(915) 533-7057 x 207
>>(915) 533-7158 FAX
>>pvida at whc.net
>>www.projectvidaelpaso.org
>>
________________________________
>>From:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of
>>Carlos R. Zervigon
>>Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 10:53 AM
>>To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
>>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Looking for Tune name of "Come March Along" ...
>>
>>I have a number of old song books. If I find it my head will probably
remember.
>>
>>Carlos R. Zervigon, PMP
>>Zervigon International, Ltd.
>>817 Antonine St.
>>New Orleans, LA 70115 USA
>>504 894-9868 Mobile: 504 908-0762
>>carlos at zervigon.com
>>http://www.zervigon.com
>>
>>From:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of
>>John Cock
>>Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:35 AM
>>To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
>>Subject: [Oe List ...] Looking for Tune name of "Come March Along" ...
>>
>>which ends:
>>…Come march along and we'll sing a new song
>> Come salute the Way of the dawning day
>> And death shall have no dominion here.
>>Thanks,
>>John
>>
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