My Billings Gazette

Posted by: Steve Cusumano on May 11, 2009 10:03PM MT Nicely done...and actually, I'm pleased to report I got over half of them. And as a side note to "drop a dime" has actually come into today's sports vernacular as well. As Weingarten explains, "dropping a dime" was a phrase used when someone puts in a call from a payphone (in which you would drop a dime) to the police to rat someone out...in other words, you were assisting the police. Which is why today, assists in basketball are sometimes referred to as "dimes". The more you know...

Posted by: Steve Cusumano on May 11, 2009 11:11PM MT Nicely done...and actually, I'm pleased to report I got over half of them. And as a side note to "drop a dime" has actually come into today's sports vernacular as well. As Weingarten explains, "dropping a dime" was a phrase used when someone puts in a call from a payphone (in which you would drop a dime) to the police to rat someone out...in other words, you were assisting the police. Which is why today, assists in basketball are sometimes referred to as "dimes". The more you know...

Posted by: Sam D. on May 18, 2009 10:22AM MT Honestly, I think that dated vernacular and pop-culture references from earlier generations are hardly the main culprits in the waning attraction of printed news media with younger audiences. I'm going to show my cynicism and blame a general decline in attention span coupled with a skewed sense of what "news" matters to them.