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DominEditrix	Post subject: At the end of the day... Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:31 pm
Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 458 Location: Heart of Global Warming	Plain English Campaign's most irritating phrase.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: At the end of the day... Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:42 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by DominEditrix: Plain English Campaign's most irritating phrase.<hr></blockquote><p>Second place in the vote was shared by "At this moment in time" and the constant use of "like" as if it were a form of punctuation. "With all due respect" came fourth.<p>***Out of date. Bill Walsh has already proclaimed "actually" to be the new "like."***
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majorbabs	Post subject: Re: At the end of the day... Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:14 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 744 Location: HuskerLand	And I thought the most irritating phrase in the English language was, "No raises this year either."
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BobbyZ	Post subject: Re: At the end of the day... Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:39 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 40 Location: Northeast Ohio	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by majorbabs: And I thought the most irritating phrase in the English language was, "No raises this year either."<hr></blockquote><p>For me, it's, "Sir, we're out of tater tots."
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Re: At the end of the day... Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:39 pm
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by majorbabs: And I thought the most irritating phrase in the English language was, "No raises this year either."<hr></blockquote> Which raises the thought, ''Spring has sprung, The grass has ris. I wonder where the pay rise is.''
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"This is like group therapy with prisoners in the Poynter Institute's dungeon." ... "You take a vocation that the simple-minded consider to be mere drudgery, and you exploit every bit of fascinating and humorous nuance imaginable." ... "Delicious" ... "Ask your professors? The only professors whose opinions matter are named Walsh, Blanchard and McIntyre." ... "What I come here for, I can find ONLY here. Phillip, you've built a great place." ... "Nothing gets us hotter than reading bitchy discussion threads from over-exhausted copy editors endlessly debating the merits of "theater" versus "theatre." ... "I love this site. It's better than the Kool-Aid acid tests." ..."I'm awed at the efficiency with which matters of opinion get hashed out in this forum." ... "Phil is the bomb!" ... "I'd wager that it's exactly your sort of hidebound thinking that contributes to the problems newspapers are having attracting readers." ... "I'm totally obsessed with this site. It's like porn--if you get off on Scrabble." ... "It reveals the backstage carping and vindictive emotions that roil the souls of those trapped at the copy desks." "When they say "testy," they certainly mean it. Whether it's reporters, editors, or the general public, no one is above their savage snark." ... "An apparent crack in the thin grey line." ..."Testy Copy Editors is a bitchboard for journalism's underclass." ... "My desire to read 'Testy Copy Editors' is only rivalled by my desire to pop "Constipated Call Girls" in the DVD player." ... "Phillip Blanchard is not just a testy copy editor, but a prophet scorned in his own time, and those of us who defend wordplay will be punished for it come the Judgment Day." ... "Phil Blanchard is as dashing in person as he is at the TCE board." ... "As far as writing and editing go: Read this board, read Bill Walsh, memorize the style book, read William Zinsser, and read the New York Times. That's a good start." ... "You should let go of your bitterness. You were not the oppressed talent you thought yourself to be. You were a miserable, brooding, silent, joyless grind, lucky to have a job at the Sun-Times, and we're lucky now that you've moved on to afflict others."

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