During our business meeting in Pasadena in June, I got a reputation amongst my peer managers and my boss for being a bit fastidious in my copy editing. It was decided that my secret super-hero identity was Too Many Commas Man<\/i>, after my propensity for inserting commas into the stuff we were reviewing (mission statements, etc.).<\/p>\n
This has become something of a running gag in e-mail threads in our group. Today, I mentioned it to my boss.<\/p>\n
Me: I suppose there are worse reputations I could have.
\nBoss: Yup.
\nMe. I could be Too-Many-Colons Man.<\/p>\n
Based on the coffee that came spewing across the wire and through my monitor<\/i>, I think I amused him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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