How did this get by unnoticed?

Too bad there's not a place, say like a series of tubes with information moving through them, to find out what the term meant before publishing it.

 

Wow. I'm 42, a student of WW II and I've never heard that term used in the context used by this columnist. Don't people get fired for less than this?

The term is appalling to use in any context, save that of Chevy Chase and the late Richard Pryor on the aforementioned (and hilarious) SNL skit.

But I have another story to bore tell my J-100 class in the fall.

 

It's the Sun. It should know better.

 

Unless the desk edited it in, it's the writer's fault. Ideally, the desk would have saved the writer from himself, though.

I noticed the writer apologizing in the paper. I didn't see where any copy editors joined in the apologizing.

 

The whole department should apologize. This guy was stupid to use the line. The desk was stupid enough to let it get by. In the end, they are the sports department. If one falls, they all fall.

 

Ran into another one of these a few years back when a column came across my desk. Guy used "tar baby" in its original usage -- as something that you're trying to free yourself from, but getting increasingly stuck to.

His usage was not even close to the definition that it's become, but we excised that sumbitch tout suite.

"Yes, writer, you're correct. But, let us save ourselves some headaches, alright?"

 

Well, the whole department didn't apologize.

 

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So if the baseball manager was upset and went out to get some air and smoke a cigarette and your writer said he went to have a faggot and a blow he'd argue that his usage was absolutely correct.

 

Billy Packer would agree.

 

Well, no, since we're not a Brit newspaper.

 

Nice.

 

I was hoping someone would notice that who that was.

And wasn't there a senator or congressmen who used the word "niggardly" on the floor during a speech once? I mean, even if the word you use has a differnt meaning than what the connotation is, shouldn't you have sense enough to know not to use it? Christ almighty.