For all you Dr. Maddow fans, there is a segment on her show called "burying the ...." I saw some posts using the word "lede" and that caught my attention because I thought the term was "lead." I still remember from my journalism classes that "if it bleeds it leads," not "ledes."

So I was not too lazy to google this one myself, and if you are as much of a geek on this one as I am, take a look at:

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001128

They explain the origins of lede. VERY interesting. But then again, one of my hobbies is to amass information on a bunch of useless stuff...... so things like this are indeed fascinating to me.