Pork chop?

[RedCanuck]

I was talking to someone today who referred to a mug shot or head shot as a "pork chop." Am I the only one who wasn't in on that crazy bit of lingo?

 

[proudpittsburgher]

never heard of it, but as you very well know, every newsroom has it's own name for certain things. We call our breakout boxes "marginalia". before I got here, I had never heard of that.

 

[bydesign77]

We call a skinny kid at work pork chop. don't know why. or what it means. but he's black, and the other co-workers are black, so I'm guessing it's probably racially motivated.

 

[reformedhack]

It's an old-time phrase ... I haven't heard it in about 20 years, though, when it was used by a gruff compositor in the backshop of my newspaper. (Yes, kids, back before Quark and InDesign.)

I seem to recall seeing it in one of my college textbooks on page design, too.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

We call a janitor at work Pork Chop. The old story goes that he once stole a box of frozen pork chops from the shared freezer.

I also once saw him eat pizza from a discarded box. Shoved it right in.