Weekly petty SI complaint

JimmyHoward33 · Feb 2, 2012

LongTimeListener said:

Pretty sure they do mean "tony." Look it up. It means trendy or stylish. Brookline isn't particularly tiny with a population of almost 60,000.
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Could be. Good thought. Didn't consider that all.

Mystery Meat II · Feb 3, 2012

If they meant tony, I would suggest they use the derivative spelling of toney. A tony suburb makes me think of Who's The Boss?

Double J · Feb 3, 2012

micropolitan guy said:

Just finished this week's issue (Brady cover) and again it's pretty good, except for this irritating mistake, the kind of error of fact that never used to happen but now happens once, twice or three times in every issue ( can overlook an occasional typo):

"Last month Chipman was at a rink in Milestone, Saskatchewan (pop. 562), a good eight-hour drive to the east of Winnipeg."

Uh, I know many in this country are totally ignorant of Canadian geography, but Saskatchewan is west of Manitoba and Winnipeg. It's a nice story on the Jets but these types of mistakes shouldn't happen.

And yes, I was perfect during my newspaper career.
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What a careless mistake. Mark Bechtel is better than that.

da man · Feb 3, 2012

Mystery Meat II said:

If they meant tony, I would suggest they use the derivative spelling of toney. A tony suburb makes me think of Who's The Boss?
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Tony in the sense of hoity-toity, aristocratic or high-toned is a fairly common word. That's the correct spelling and obviously what the writer meant.

nmmetsfan · Feb 3, 2012

da man said:

Mystery Meat II said:

If they meant tony, I would suggest they use the derivative spelling of toney. A tony suburb makes me think of Who's The Boss?
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Tony in the sense of hoity-toity, aristocratic or high-toned is a fairly common word. That's the correct spelling and obviously what the writer meant.
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Is that the same as uppity?

JC · Feb 3, 2012

nmmetsfan said:

da man said:

Mystery Meat II said:

If they meant tony, I would suggest they use the derivative spelling of toney. A tony suburb makes me think of Who's The Boss?
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Tony in the sense of hoity-toity, aristocratic or high-toned is a fairly common word. That's the correct spelling and obviously what the writer meant.
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Is that the same as uppity?
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You should ask your friends and family this one.

Big Circus · Feb 3, 2012

Mystery Meat II said:

If they meant tony, I would suggest they use the derivative spelling of toney. A tony suburb makes me think of Who's The Boss?
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mediaguy · Feb 3, 2012

I like picking out SI mistakes as much as anyone, but the tiny-tony-toney thread is embarrassing. Nothing wrong there.

Walter Burns · Feb 3, 2012

BTExpress said:

In the Kraft story it talks about Parcells leaving the team after the 1996 season.

"But something else good came out of that season, beyond the team's first Super Bowl appearance: Kraft got to know Belichick."

The team's first Super Bowl appearance? I know they'd like to forget 46-3 happened 11 years before, but . . .
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Wasn't the final of SB XX 46-10?

da man · Feb 3, 2012

mediaguy said:

I like picking out SI mistakes as much as anyone, but the tiny-tony-toney thread is embarrassing. Nothing wrong there.
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These guys don't think it's embarrassing.

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