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The Brooks File 
BasektBall? , sounds like some sort of collegiate drinking game
Or a movie by the “South Park” guys.
That’s what I thought of, too, Gerry.
Well, I geusss proofraeding ain’t waht it sued to be, huh?
Noep.
Certainly not what it used to be at The Courant. The suits at Tribune have sent too many of the skilled copy editors packing.
We all need a second set of eyeballs to check our work.
ROTFLMBO! (This is what we’ve been reduced to….text speak. Though, I had to look at it a couple of times to “get it.”)
ROTFLMBO = Rolling on the floor laughing my butt off. (I googled it.)
There were so many screw ups in the first edition of my recently published memoir, You Had To Be There. Unjustified margins. Katherine Hepburn’s name spelled wrong. Cy Young spelled Sy Young, and Broadway actor Cyril Ritchard spelled Cyril Richard.
I’d be the last one to make fun of the Courant. Two of its proofreaders are moonlighting, working for me.
Three words: proofread, proofread, proofread.
Kind of odd, too, that many college athletes traditionally major in basekt weaving.
Hence, oxymoron.
Has proofreading for the HC been outsourced to some 3rd world hellhole for $2.33 / day?
We make our share of typos, too. Fortunately for us, ours disappear after a few seconds. Still, it only takes a moment to double check our work.