SJ.com Style Guide!!! (running thread)

I would just like to register a strong objection to this item--if you need a font or color designation to indicate sarcasm, something is wrong with the sarcasm.

Further, you don't intentionally announce sarcasm, the beauty of good sarcasm is when it sails over the head of the recipient, who realizes two days later there are bullet holes in his new sweater.

I urge you to reconsider this.

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/36576/

 

I know, I know! It's everywhere! You're just recording the decree, I understand, like the little guy in the ManLaw commercials, someone has to write this stuff down! You are not to blame!

I still object, however.

 

21's objection is dooley noted, and will have to be presented to the Board Elders.

 

You messin' with me, 21.

 

I object to being compared to the little man in the Man Law commercials.

 

1. Cockdiwaffle

The word used when one can't decide if a person is a Cockdian or Twatwaffle.

 

Sorry, but Twatian would have been much better, in this case.

 

SportsJournalists.com thesaurus, anyone?

 

Media Guide v.

To exaggerate a numerical report or some other description that can be quantified, much in the way athletic media guides will inflate height/weight statistics to make a player appear more imposing.

He media guided his height on Match.com - he was only 5'5 in real life!

 

I was reading back over the first page of this thread and was wondering what word pussycat replaced as the only banned word?

 

That's some good work.