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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an extended SUV. [b]I believe it’s the biggest American-made SUV.[/b] When I first got it, I would park at the end of the lot/Gods country in a driven through parking spot. 
I began backing it in on the driveway after my weekly shopping.

When I began working in an office with a super tight garage -basically room for 1.5 cars but 2-way traffic, I began parking on the top floor. Away from others. These days the garage is almost at capacity. I now 100% of the time back in. I had a guy lean on his horn the other week after I backed in. What made him an ass though was his 40 mph speed through the garage. Really?! It’s 830 am and you can’t sit?! Get up a little earlier next time.

The worst is that the garage (made for 1.5 car span) has parking spots at the end of every row that don’t give enough room for 2 cars to go in opposite directions. I can see the cars heading towards me (I sit high), so I routinely wait. The folks in sedan/coupe cannot and near misses all too often. Worst is when someone is backing out. I cringe. [/quote]

Talk about burying the lede. Your monster truck is clearly too big for the garage. Get a normal sized car.
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It's "lead", not "lede".... as in "the lead story"

Get your idioms straight before you start telling people what they should be driving. [/quote]

NP. It's lede. You are wrong, leave the thread.

-- journalist who has spent 22 years working in mainstream media [/quote]

And I've got 4 years on you, in the same industry. Except unlike you, I'm not lying about it.

It's l-e-a-d. As in "we're [i]leading[/i] our newscast tonight with ________".

When you "bury the lead", you're putting the most important part of the story under/after some other minutiae.

Your post got a lot of WTF looks and squints in our newsroom tonight. [/quote]

HOly Shit. Your newsroom just got pwned.    You guys do know what pwned is right?  If you need help, let us know.[/quote]

Did you read the article? Of course not. Here, let me help you...

"Lead" IS the original spelling. It was changed to "lede" to assist printers doing page layouts for printing presses.

We don't have printing presses in TV news bureaus, ergo, we never changed the spelling from the original (and correct) version to an incorrect one.

Critical thought isn't your thing, is it? Hopefully you'll get better at it before you get to college. [/quote]

Np here, not a journalist. Even I saw "lede" and knew it was accepted although I never knew why or the history. I would have thought the "lead" person didn't know better. So it seems the older definition is more ingrained, but maybe the new media version will catch on. In any case, they are both correct. Like snuck is a word now. Sheesh. Like checque and check. Like gif and gif. [/quote]

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