Phoning It In Today
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(There was no school today because of mid-terms and so no need for me to get out of bed at 6:10 to urge a reluctant teenager to make the school bus, so I had no time to blog for real -- and Chris's headlines make it easy for me to phone it in. Which reminds me: where does the expression 'phoning it in' come from and why is it used to describe someone who is taking it easy on the job? When I was a sports reporter at the Staten Island Advance, well before the days of laptops, I'd often be sent to cover a basketball game on Long Island, say, and with the game ending shortly before deadline, I'd have to write a story in longhand and then phone it in to the desk -- dictate it to some unlucky editor. That was phoning it in, and it wasn't all that easy.)
(There was no school today because of mid-terms and so no need for me to get out of bed at 6:10 to urge a reluctant teenager to make the school bus, so I had no time to blog for real -- and Chris's headlines make it easy for me to phone it in. Which reminds me: where does the expression 'phoning it in' come from and why is it used to describe someone who is taking it easy on the job? When I was a sports reporter at the Staten Island Advance, well before the days of laptops, I'd often be sent to cover a basketball game on Long Island, say, and with the game ending shortly before deadline, I'd have to write a story in longhand and then phone it in to the desk -- dictate it to some unlucky editor. That was phoning it in, and it wasn't all that easy.)
posted by Tom Andersen at 8:41 AM
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You have a very nice blog, good post...keep up the good job
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