Puns, quips and witticisms are part of the copy editor’s stock in trade. Witness the Nov. 30 issue of Sports Illustrated and its letters to the editor page.
One letter published concerned a story in Nov. 9 issue about the University of Iowa’s football team. The letter noted that the Hawkeyes weren’t “winning every game by 40. But the way they have won is more enjoyable for the fans. Each game has been like a James Bond film with a last-second flash of brilliance that saved the day.”
The headline for the letter, composed by an anonymous copy editor? From Iowa with Love. Given that Iowa was also the alma mater of veteran 007 screenwriter Richard Maibaum (who afterall introduced the notion of Bond making quips), that’s probably appropriate.
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If we destroyed Iowa, no one would hear about it for years… (yeah, I know it was Kansas, but all those midwest states are the same to me)
The second episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was originally titled as The Kansas Scuba Affair but was changed to The Iowa Scuba Affair. Maybe the U.N.C.L.E. crew felt the same way about Midwestern states.
interesting information