SJ.com Style Guide!!! (running thread)

[Lugnuts]

I don't think bandwagon_boy took credit for the Great Crash of '03, but he was around when it happened.  We'd also been discovered by people from the ACC fan boards, who'd been around stirring up ****.  So the ACC Fan Boards were also suspected.

Briefly:  The board crashed, but it wasn't like a regular crash.  It came back seconds later... And all the threads were gone.  Also, a few people had their usernames wiped out.  Among them:  Armchair_QB and 21.  Nobody could ever draw a connection.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I'm pretty sure bandwagon_boy played up his alleged role. Probably just concidence that he and the ACC gang were around at about the same time.

--A board axiom regarding crashes: Don't let 21 run the site. Moddy jokingly "handed her the keys" once. A few hours later, the board was gone for two weeks.

 

[Lugnuts]

It was probably just coincidence that bandwagon_boy was around, too.  I don't think anybody actually blamed either entitiy -- it was just part of the comedy.

"I'm gonna go over to the ACC Fan Boards and kick some ASS !!!!!!"  etc. etc.  And what was funny is that they were having a big discussion over there about our crash and making fun of us. 

It became dueling online communities.

 

[Buck]

Another time Jonathan the soccer fan and I were hanging around New York when we ran into Ronnie Wood and Dave Bowie, who had a score of amyl nitrate.
Needless to say, it got crazy.
We hopped in a cab to go see if we could find Lizza at home.
Anyway, Bowie's going on and on about being hungry, so we pull over at Papaya King. But when Bowie gets out, the rest of us take off in the cab with all the drugs.
We still laugh about it whenever we get together.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Board pariahs People in all walks of life who are reviled by a majority of the active sj membership. Among them:
--Barry Bonds
--Ray Lewis
--Pete Rose
--Roger Clemens
--Alex Rodriguez
--Peyton Manning
--President Bush
--The head of JRC
--Chris Berman
--Stuart Scott
--Hawk Harrelson
--Mitch Albom
--Jay Mariotti

Defend these folks at your peril.

Apocryphal stories Tall tales that make us laugh, tho they are almost certainly not true. Buck is fond of them.

 

[Overrated]

500....5,000....??? 500 posts to become a junior member, 5,000 posts to become a full member. It is not known what it takes to become a senior member, or if Webby even has that as a possibility anymore. Going by the other milestones, the best guess is 50,000.

Awesome. I've been wondering about that. Only 230 or so most posts until I can put SportsJournalists.com Junior Member on my resume.

 

[Lugnuts]

Jonathan the foreign soccer fan - still one of the greatest threads ever. (My personal favorite is Anti-Shoutouts.)

Then there was the time the board crashed for weeks and, desperate, we took over another site that 21 found.

The name of the site was J.J.'s Place, and you'll sometimes see a passing reference to it. It was an offshoot of a poetry site. J.J. himself was really surprised when it had sat virtually un-hit for 2 years, then suddenly, the site had about 200 new users. With no moderators, the site was-- you guessed it-- shut down, and eventually J.J. came over here to post a greeting once our site was back up. He cordially invited us to visit the actual poetry section of his site anytime.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Pancake Bunny: Used when thread and/or post makes little sense. Often done for ****s and giggles when said poster has "an idea of what you're talking about." Random pets (example: Murphy the Dog) may take the place of Pancake Bunny if proficent at Adobe Photoshop.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Never look a gift yak in the bunghole.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Flipper the Dolphin Buck's girlfriend

 

[Buck]

Flipper the Dolphin Buck's girlfriend

I don't think Flipper's gender has ever been revealed to the board.
Let's stick with concubine.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Wow, you learn something new every day. I always thought those anon 3:17 were some sort of nouveau biblical reference, like early christians drawing the fish symbol in the dirt or something ...

pickle juice: board member who asked for the keys to the kingdom by inquiring about how one would jump from selling steak knives to cover the Miami Dolphins. Was roundly excoriated in a thread that was too long for its own good and taken way too seriously by no small number of posters.

Shawn Green's goodies: a reference to a column in a suburban LA paper by a non-sports writer who got credentials to a Dodgers game and went into the locker room. Then wrote about what she saw. Everything she saw.

good enough to work for the Plain Dealer: reference to a sports writer at a small paper in Ohio who kept applying to work at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and never got an interview. He concluded that he was being discriminated against and he filed a lawsuit.

vats of dong: do you really need a definition here?

EDITed so IJAG won't take me out back for a whuppin'

 

[HeadFirst]

Anyone remember the old chestnut, 'My JOB is my LIFE!' ?

 

[imjustagirl2]

vats of dung: do you really need a definition here?

Ahem....DONG. Not dung.

 

[da man]

Release the hounds! A signal to the board's less tactful crowd -- wait, isn't that everyone? -- that someone has posted somethnig controversial and/or stupid and it's time to take your best shot.

Thanks for checking in (insert name here): Standard retort when someone posts glowing praise for a colleague.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

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Thanks for checking in (insert name here): Standard retort when someone posts glowing praise for a colleague.

Often with name of said colleague inserted

 

[Overrated]

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Thanks for checking in (insert name here): Standard retort when someone posts glowing praise for a colleague.

Often with name of said colleague inserted

That's my favorite recurring theme.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Oh, novvie.

 

[Jim Tom Pinch]

Krystal Grow -- SJ's favorite intern candidate

 

[21]

Hi Sandy! -- The only psycho member ever permanently banned from the board, Sandy was one of the original characters on the old old board (see Board, Old Old) and the old board (see Board, Old).  

Positive that one of the other posters--not named here out of sheer sympathy and respect--was stalking his posts, flaming him under different screen names each time Sandy posted, he began tracking every moment this poor guy was on the board, comparing langauge patterns, post times, etc. Unfortunately, the innocent victim posted under his own name, making it easy for Sandy to make very personal attacks, on and off the board.

His paranoia was so nutty that other posters taunted him by posting 'Hi Sandy!' every time he went off on his alleged stalker(s).

Sandy reappeared on this board without much commotion, until he decided that Webby was actually responsible for more than 20 of the boards more vocal characters, including but not limited to 21, Double Down, Clubber Slang, and many others.  After threatening Our Webby in various forms, he was banned, thank God.  He later wrote the nasty and wildly inaccurate  SJ Wikipedia entry that appeared here.

Bye, Sandy.