Profanity in quotes

Still trolling? You really don't get it.

 

Putting "common sense" in caps again and again doesn't somehow imbue the phrase with meaning.

What do you mean when you type "common sense" in relation to publishing profanity in quotes? Listen to your publisher? Listen to your editor? Listen to George Carlin? Listen to your heart?

What?

 

Drip seems to have the charming notion that COMMON SENSE and newspaper policy are one and the same.

 

Also a bestseller for Paine.

 

I recall Boise, which is about 120 miles from my old paper, using "pistol-whipped" as a verb in a high school football gamer headline. We cut it out and taped it to the wall. I liked it.

It helped inspire our editor to make a list of verbs forbidden in sports copy. We could not write that Team A destroyed, killed, maimed, gutted, etc. Team B. Basically, no violent verbs allowed. And we certainly could not use scalp when referring to the two sets of Indians in our area. Yep, someone did it years before in a huge lapse of common sense.

 

It means use your damn brain for once and quit relying on others. Drip really shouldn't have to explain this. Truth is, he's right.

 

I'd love to go to a Drip-Doc seminar. The topic wouldn't matter.

"Use COMMON SENSE."

"Use your brain. Geez."

"See the cashier on your way out."

 

You might learn a thing or two Ace.

 

Actually, our version would be: "That (certainly stinks)."

Really. And that fucking sucks, too.

 

Most people who get into journalism are relatively intelligent, inquisitive and can form their own thoughts, ideas, opinions through sound logic and reasoning. It is with that understanding that we tell you to "Use your brain!"

If you're still not getting it, you might want to consider a career change soon.

 

Where you been, Doc? I've been considering a career change. Career change isn't considering me.

And I'm positive I'm pretty sure I've got it. I'm just not 100 percent what it is.

 

The "common sense" comment from the start was just not conducive to the overall conversation. If that's the way you respond to any particular question, then you're really not helping anyone do anything.

This topic, I think, was intended to create a conversation. Responding with "use common sense" is simplistic and contributes nothing to that conversation.

Do you guys get IT?