"sloppy seconds"

Uhhh ... no. Come on. It still means sloshing around where some guy just ...

No.

 

Does anyone remember the first XFL game that was broadcast on NBC? Anyone? Anyway, on one of the first touchdowns, there was a deflection in the end zone that was caught for the score. Inexplicably - or not, considering the league - play-by-play man Matt Vasgersian screamed "SLOPPY SECONDS!!"

We were watching it in the newsroom and we all exploded in horrified laughter. And in that moment, we knew the XFL had no chance.

 

You're just desensitized from all that time spent in a NASCAR garage.

 

I meant I don't know why you'd put the brackets in.

Apparently there are a lot more touchy people on here than me.



Wonderlic: SS would be the NICEST term used to describe the "women" in the garage.

 

I think a CBS Newsie used "sloppy seconds" in a question to Bush (or the press secretary of the moment) a few years ago. Not sure if CBS or anyone else explained it.

 

It took you that long? Did you not see the "coin toss?"

BTW, I'm offended by the imagery of sloppy seconds. However, in the context that the phrase resulted in a suspension, you have to print it. It's intrinsic to the story.

 

No, you don't have to print it.

If Avery had been suspended for calling Bettman a motherfucker, would you print that?

 

You'd go with motherf-----, maybe, but everyone still knows the word. By inserting (girlfriend) to replace sloppy seconds, that completely changes it and doesn't provide proper context for the suspension.

 

I'll even go so far as to say the term has changed meaning in a way. Like bastard. Calling someone a bastard no longer means he doesn't know who his father is.

They were broken up 8 months before she started dating Phaneuf. Obviously it's not REALLY sloppy seconds. It's a throwaway term for ex-girlfriend. I honestly don't take it to mean he really thinks there's any of ... his essence left around.

 

I think IJAG just cut to the heart of the problem, and why it's generated so much heat on the NHL thread. Some people read sloppy seconds and get the imagery of having just watched a porno. In the context of a throwaway term without the accompanying imagery, it's not so bad.

Men, by the way, think with imagery more than women.

 

We used it, but we're also not a family newspaper. If I were at one, I would think a lot harder about doing it.