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Edited on Tue Jan-20-04 01:42 PM by DrBB
It's not the speech that's the problem; I can always watch "Mythbusters" or some appropriate substitue.
No, what I'm really dreading will be the three or four days of not being able to listen to any news media or any of my favorite NPR shows (a dwindling category already) without running into clips from it and starry-eyed worshipful discussions about it.
There's one word, in particular, that I am not looking forward to hearing repeated ad infinitum in approving tones. If someone gave me sweeping--one might say, Ashcroftian--editorial authority over all news media over the next 76 hours, and I could only institute one tyrannical style rule, it would be as follows:
The adjective "bold" is not to be used except in referring to typefaces.
Acceptable substitutes are to be found in this list:
"unfunded" "radical" "right-wing" "loopy" "dangerous" "ill thought-out" "blue-sky" "incoherent" "self-contradictory" "jingoistic" "bank-breaking" "deficit-ballooning" "anti-middle-class" "megalomaniacal" "belligerent" "bullying" "prohibitively expensive" "fanatical"
Suggested additions may be submitted to the Supreme Editor In Chief of the Universe for consideration; otherwise, under no circumstances deviate from the list, under pain of permanent banishment from the scribbling class. ------
I just sent this to a few friends as an email. If you feel the way I do, why not spread it around? Maybe we can get an anti-"bold" viral meme going.
Oh, and do feel free to submit additions here for consideration by the SEICU.
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