The Gray Lady and Other Newspaper Nicknames
Pictured: The New York Times
As many people know, the venerable New York Times is often referred to as the Gray or Grey Lady. Wikipedia (“The Town Bicycle”) says this is because of the NYT’s habit of presenting many words and few pictures, and that’s good enough for us.
What the layperson may not know is that many other newspapers and similar publications have their own nicknames. As a public service, the Bureau Chiefs of Fake AP Stylebook (“The Fake Lady”) present some of the more colorful nicknames you’ll find in the United States and beyond.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution: The Chick-fil-ady
The Bangkok Post: The Gray Ladyboy
The Beastie Boys Official Fan Newsletter: The Hey Lady
The Boston Globe: The Gray Lady’s Younger Sister with an Inferiority Complex
The Chicago Tribune: The Blue Management Change
The Galveston Gazette: The GaGa Lady
The Glasgow East News: The Laddie Lady
The Guardian: The Earl Grey Lady
The Houston Chronicle: The Black Goldy
Huffington Post: The Pink Slip
The Las Vegas Sun: The Neon-Tinted Lady Just Paying Her Way Through College, Honest
The Los Angeles Times: The Fake-Tanned Lady with Breast Implants
The Memphis Commercial Appeal: The Blue Suede News
The Miami Herald: The Aqua Pomeranian
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The Brown Bratwurst
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: The Pasty Scandinavian
The New Orleans Times-Picayune: The HEY LADY SHOW US YOUR TITS
The New York Inquirer: The Old Rosebud
The Official Styx Fanclub Newsletter: The “Lady” Lady
The Seattle Times: The Gray Rainy
USA Today: The Rainbow Everything’s Fine Nothing to See Here
The Village Voice: The Spalding Gray Lady
The Washington Post: The Dark Meeting in a Parking Lot in 1973, Hey, Remember That?
The Willamette Week: The Taupe Barista
The San Francisco Chronicle – The Comical
The San Francisco Chronicle: The not sure if she’s really a lady …
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has so many purfume insert ads that I would recommend “The Honey Pot.”
The Tucson Citizen – The Gannett Made It Go Awaydy
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – D&C
The Raleigh News & Observer — The Southern Lady on the Skids
It’s “Willamette Week,” not “The Willamette Weekly.”
Alternate for Las Vegas Sun-Times: She’s got style. She’s got grace. She’s a winner. She’s a Lady. Whoa whoa whoa. She’s a Lady.
Deseret News – The Church Lady
The Dallas Morning News: The Hey! You’ve Gotta Pay Lady.
John B is close but officially- The San Francisco Chronicle: Dude (looks like a lady)
Spot on. Except it’s called “Willamette Week.”
The Biloxi/Gulfport Daily Herald: The Daily Mistake
Also, “the Hey Lady” is the Jerry Lewis Fanzine. Oh wait – I guess to be absolutely precise, it’s “the Hey LAAAAAADDDDDDIIIIEEEEE”
I think the San Francisco Chronicle would need to be “The Dude Looks Like a Lady.”
Washington Times / New York Post: The Brazen Hussy?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch — The Lady Living in a Van Down by the River
The Atlanta Constitution — The Fish-Wrapper (check out Gov. Lester Maddox),
Omaha World Herald — Wierd Harold
The Jerry Lewis Express – The Hey Laaaaadyyyy”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – We Ladyed Off All Our Proofreders
The China Daily – The Grey Rady
The Sacramento Bee : The Ladybug.
The Financial Times – The Lady was out in the sun a bit too long
Utah’s Deseret News – The Mormon Lady
The Baltimore Sun–No Longer a Local Lady
Fort Worth Star Telegram: the startle-gram
Ms Magazine – I’m not a Lady, I’m a Woman.
The Champaign-Urbana News Gazette — the Snooze Gazette
It’s just the Las Vegas Sun. Sun-Times– ain’t that Chicago?
Lincoln Journal-Star: The Ad/AP-Feed Lady (with a little space reserved for Ted Koosier poetry because he is married to the Editor in Chief Emeritas)
The Detroit Free Press: The Morning Friendly Lady (but don’t catch me between noon and midnight, I’m a she-bear, then)
The Austin American-Statesman – The Dude Looks Like a Lady (with a shout out to local folk hero Leslie)
The News-Gazette: Loren Tate’s No Lady
Dayton Daily News = Dayton Daily Worker
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Lady n’at
The Nation in Bangkok: NotTheNation
Finger Lakes Times (Geneva, N.Y.): Ladyfingers
San Diego Union-Tribune: Lady Di
Orlando Sentinel: The Cartoon Lady
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, commonly called the “AJ” (Almost Journalism)
The Detroit Free Press: The Scary Lady
The Dallas Morning News: The Ditzy Blonde Lady
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