"sloppy seconds"

Your newspaper is targeted to sailors and perverts?

 

We batted it around. Nobody in the newsroom was offended, so we ran it. Best as I can tell, nobody called to complain, so we're probably in the clear.

 

Permissible?

AP copy is raw copy. You can change anything you want.

Why? If you thought the phrase was important to the story (and it's the reason it's a story), you would want to put it in.

 

If it is, it's probably the only one with circulation on the rise.

 

My mom heard about this on the radio and then called me today to ask what Sloppy Seconds meant.

I told her to call my brother. Who later called me and thanked me for throwing him under the bus.

 

All four Toronto newspapers used the phrase.

My feeling is that if you're going to delete it, then don't run the story because Avery's phrase "sloppy seconds" is the story. .

What exactly is a "family" newspaper?

 

You should have told Mom to check at the intersection of hot dog and hallway.

 

the avery "sloppy seconds" sound byte aired on tv non-cable newscasts, didn't it? i've always railed against the "family newspaper" argument. who the heck are we protecting?

i don't understand why a non-curse word or phrase used on over-the-air tv needs to be "cleaned up" by us.

during the '83, i was covering the nba playoffs. moses malone offered up his famous prediction before they began. asked how the sixers would fare after rolling thru the regular season, mo replied"

"fo', fo' and fo'."

i was working for a ny tab but the uptight sports ed changed it to: "four, four and four." argued to quote mo precisely the way he said it was racist.

aarrgghh! every paper, including the effin' n.y. times, went with "fo', fo' and fo'." it was one of the great quotes of that era. perfect in its simplicity and delivery.

tv and radio stations used the audio sound byte. but we had to make mo sound like he was freakin' british.

aarrgghh again, i say!!!

 

The phrase has the direct connotation of penetrating a honeypot already wet with joy juice and belongs only in poorly-written porn.

 

Priceless.

 

Except it never meant that.

A bastard was a child whose parents were unmarried at his/her birth.

 

So it doesn't mean now what it didn't mean then?