Today, I saw a reporter who seemed to come from... I don't know. Maybe the early 1900's? I have a feeling that reporters never really dressed like this. In the early 1900's they weren't dapper, just drunk and uneducated. This guy was wearing a full suit -- we were in Pittsburgh not on the Hill.
The protester we were interviewing mistook him at first as a conference organizer, apologizing with a slight laugh for interrupting the conference, where she had helpedreleease hundreds of balloons to the ballroom cieling.
"Oh, no," he said. "I'm a reporter. That was when I noticed his mustache. It was a bushy, gray mustache with two long, thin, twisted pieces waxed up into long curlicues-- is that the right word? Oh. Maybe handlebars?
I don't think I've ever seen one quite like it. Later, the protester, gray haired, but loud, wearing a "COAL IS DIRTY" t-shirt, asked the reporter to clear up what she saw as the editorial board's faulty reporting. He tried three times to cut in before he managed to say. "I don't have anything to do with editorial. I'm just a business reporter.Do business reporters wear suits and crazy mustaches? I only know one, and I don't know if he wears suits (I doubt it), but I know he does not have a mustache.
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