Everything that Cindy hasn’t seen is just a first draft

I once wrote in a graphic designer's birthday card, "It doesn't matter what I write here because you never read the copy anyway." (Which was fine, because she never read it.)

But I decided not to write the following sentence on a holiday card to Vital Speeches' copy editor: "Cindy, thanks for another year of fishing turds out of our punch bowl."

Not that the cheerfully sardonic copy editor Cindy Hutchinson wouldn't have appreciated it, she would have. But it just didn't say, "Christmas."

By the way, if you're looking for a copy editor?

You're looking for Cindy the Copyeditor: cindythecopyeditor@gmail.com.