the other day seated in his office I asked my stubborn, mean-looking bushy-eyebrows editor if he’d consider two books: “Short Stories for Real Short People” and “Truly Tall Tales for Tall People”
and he sat back with that air (actually, made you think he wanted to release air) and he said: “You’ll get shot for titles like that… 'Short Stories for Real Short People' will directly offend people who are vertically challenged And the same people would shoot you for excluding them by implication in the epithet 'Tall' – They’ll sure shoot you for that… They’re both just politically incorrect”
And I leaned forward (releasing air myself – anything he can do, I can do better!) and I said: “Sure, it’s not politically correct – but it sure ain’t psychologically correct, given our times, to speak of shooting while we are in an office”
I hear the Editor no longer works there and is now in some publishing house who are specialists in books on Accounting and Engineering where he knows, for sure, I’m never likely to go