Bad words intentionally left in the text

[Geoff Hart <geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

     Coleen MacKay wrote <<One of the typesetters had the habit of
     inserting a very bad word into a document when he took a break, so he
     could find his place when he returned.Yes, you guessed it, one day he
     forgot to delete one of the very bad words.  Luckily the editor
     proofing his work found it, but unluckily she took it as a personal
     attack.>>

     This reminds me of what happened to an editorial colleague. Management
     kindly decided that it would be an unfair burden to ask her to edit a
     symposium proceedings that had to be published "at the last minute",
     and as a result, requested camera-ready copy from the contributing
     authors. One of the authors, an old hand at this game, decided that
     since he was now retired, the time was ripe to express some
     politically incorrect opinions that he could never have expressed
     while employed; in short, he criticized his employer, his colleagues,
     and various other people it was not wise to criticize. When the
     printed proceedings reached Management, they justifiably hit the roof.
     One of them, presumably not informed that the editor hadn't been
     involved in the proceedings, stormed into her office and proceeded to
     chew her out for a considerable time period. When he finally ran out
     of breath, she pointed out sweetly that it had been Management's
     decision to release the proceedings unedited. Makes one want to take a
     closer look at the STC proceedings, doesn't it? <grin>

     --Geoff Hart  #8^{)}   <---see no evil