Christ is risen and Dave is sleepy
Remember that post about my newspaper's annual Easter greetings section, and my mystification that people actually pay to have them included?
Of course you do; it was two posts ago.
Well, it ends up that not enough people love the concept of Easter greetings. That's the only reason I could think of for the ads manager selling 8 and 15/16ths pages of Easter greetings. The 8 page part, that's not so bad. The 15/16ths of a page part? That's bad. I could have filled that space with the standard "Check out our website!" space-killer, but we've got a finite number of those and we don't like to repeat them and I prefer to save them for pages readers will actually read.
Those who read the Sheaf when I did its layout will remember how much I enoyed writing ridiculous space-killers. Those who have met my current boss will know that I'll get fired if I try to write my own space-killers. BUT ... would she fire me if I slipped in my own space-killer if it was disguised as a Easter greeting? Our ads manager and office manager seemed ok with the idea, but our ads manager is ok with wearing way-hay-hay too much perfume and our office manager calls his wife "mommy," so I'm not sure I'm on solid ground when they approve of my ideas.
Fig 1: If this gets me fired, I am so stealing some pens.
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It's even funnier when you don't speak Lithuanian and secretly think that half those letters aren't Cyrillic, but pictures of viruses and Space Invaders.
Also the "word verification" I had to type in was "hashq" which makes me think of the CIA as run by hippies.
Space Invaders
Ukrainian Easter greetings
Stop the aliens' descent towards Earth, or Easter will be ruined!
EcclesiastiBlaster, only on the Atari 2600!
if it gets you fired you better tell all us Non-Cyrillic capable types what it says. I'm too lazy to look it up.
One step behind you, Trish. I tried to think of something clever for the fake translation when I was originally writing this post (the text in my greeting was copied and pasted from another person's greeting, except for my name), but nothing was coming to me and I was feeling the boss's eyes on me so I gave up.
She eventually saw it in the final proof pages and thought it was funny, so it looks like I'm still employed here, despite the Yukon News' best efforts to lure me away.
Oh damn, I meant to say Ukrainian.
How could I forget, considering that the finest comic I've ever done was that porno comic with Ukrainian text written by you.
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