You are not 'an alumni."
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on April 15, 2012 - 5:31 p.m.
Nor could you ever be "an alumni."
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Help me save 'Mount Zion'
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on March 14, 2012 - 3:55 p.m.
Point at your head and say the abbreviation for mountain. That was a joke when I was a kid. Perhaps it’s still making the rounds. It relies on the fact ...
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How to avoid looking silly in print
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on March 9, 2012 - 8:48 p.m.
My editor in chief and the guy who fixes my home computer (Thanks again, Ryan.) both sent me links this week to helpful information for writers. Even someone who writes ...
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Wordie alert
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on March 2, 2012 - 4:36 p.m.
If a foodie is someone who advocates fabulous foods made from wholesome, high quality or back-to-the-land ingredients (as in the Wisconsin Public TV show “Wisconsin Foodie”), would a wordie be ...
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Farewell, Roger Axtell
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on February 27, 2012 - 10:25 p.m.
You meet a lot of people if you cover news in a small town for more than 20 years. One of the nicest people I have met in my time ...
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Politics on the spot
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on February 21, 2012 - 7:17 p.m.
My real job is being a newspaper reporter, so I have to keep my political opinions out of the public sphere. Therefore, don’t construe any of the following as being ...
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Education in a blender
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on January 25, 2012 - 12:15 p.m.
You might have read my grousings about the education community’s penchant for creating new terminology. In defense of our educators, theirs has been a rapidly changing field over the past ...
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Fun with typos
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on January 10, 2012 - 9:39 p.m.
Sometimes, spell-check won’t save you. Here are some mistakes I came across recently in my job as a local news reporter: -- A police report about a drunken driver: “He ...
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We are the world
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on January 6, 2012 - 5:21 p.m.
Remember foreign languages? That’s how we used to refer to German, French or Spanish, when we took them in high school. More recently, schools have taken to teaching Japanese, Chinese, ...
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Dough, not a deer
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on December 25, 2011 - 3:25 p.m.
Hanukkah, as some of my readers will know, calls for doughnuts, often the jelly-filled kind. And you know what that means: More misspellings of “doughnut.” “Donut” is everywhere these days. ...
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Red noses and freedom of speech
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on December 14, 2011 - 4:09 p.m.
I was in a holiday spirit this (Wednesday) morning when the boss called me into his office. For some reason, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was looping through my mind. The ...
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Ladyship
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on December 7, 2011 - 4:22 p.m.
I recently saw a news release that mentioned Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden. The release referred to her as the "second lady.” Maybe I don’t read enough, ...
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Nice and sleazy does it
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on December 2, 2011 - 5:19 p.m.
Spellcheck, people! It’s not always right, but it saves embarrassment. Case in point, a news release from the Tea Party Express of Sacramento, Calif., that we received Friday at the ...
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'Ay caramba!' and other silliness
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on November 19, 2011 - 7:53 p.m.
Woodman’s Markets has been airing commercials featuring Phil Woodman for months now. They feature Mr. Woodman getting excited about the price of some food item and then saying “ay caramba!” ...
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Thanks
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on November 11, 2011 - 10:28 a.m.
Words will never be enough, but they're a start.
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Poet laureate update
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on November 9, 2011 - 12:26 p.m.
A quick note on Wisconsin Poet Laureate Bruce Dethlefsen: Bruce has a new collection of poems out, titled “Unexpected Shiny Things.” I may blog more about this after I’ve had ...
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You say toe-MAH-toe, I say take a hike
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on November 2, 2011 - 10:51 a.m.
Roxy, a publicity agent for one of those online coupon services, called me today. She was pitching a “cute little story” about the fact that some people say COO-pon, while ...
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Advice for naming things
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on October 31, 2011 - 8:31 p.m.
I get excited about the names that people give to things. I often get upset at the wrongheaded names they come up with. Names are important. They are like poetry, ...
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A jewel called trout
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on October 10, 2011 - 7:20 p.m.
Years ago, somebody made money extracting sand and gravel from the deep glacial deposits where now sit Janesville’s Rotary Gardens, Lions Beach and Kiwanis Pond. It seems the miners dug ...
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A Gazette by any other name ...
Posted by FRANK SCHULTZ on October 3, 2011 - 1:49 p.m.
My employer, the Janesville Gazette, recently changed its name. Or, if you prefer, the newspaper “re-branded” itself. I’ll reserve judgment on the change, but here it is: The former Janesville ...
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