tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post1561395771225668924..comments2024-03-28T05:13:45.917-04:00Comments on The Blueland Chronicle : Do You Know the Importance of a Skypager?Mortimer Peacockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624643069613171619noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-28827755856382467922009-04-15T06:28:00.000-04:002009-04-15T06:28:00.000-04:00The Thrashers will get a new AJC beat writer.
T...The Thrashers will get a new AJC beat writer. <br /><br />The question is whether they'll travel much, if at all, with the team.<br /><br />The trend sucks. The Islanders only have Newsday covering them on the road. The LA Clippers' writers have not traveled to Atlanta the past few years. Tis a sad state in this industry right now.Phil Foley -- Atlanta Thrashers Examiner (Examiner.com)http://www.examiner.com/x-5437-Atlanta-Thrashers-Examinernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-66529913687716043202009-04-14T15:42:00.000-04:002009-04-14T15:42:00.000-04:00Yeh I did say laid off, but then I did the update ...Yeh I did say laid off, but then I did the update as you can see. I posted Knobler's own words to clarify the situation. Hence, the update. Morty and I are two different writers by the way. Yeh, I didn't correct it because I wanted to keep a linear formation of my writing, and I was too lazy. The corrections come later in the piece. Again, hence the update referring to the truth of the matter in regards to the buyout. It's the little things that are fun.FrenchCatalogueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17652256431671599155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-12673019795290685802009-04-14T15:04:00.000-04:002009-04-14T15:04:00.000-04:00I think the "laid off" comment came in before we r...I think the "laid off" comment came in before we realized he was bought out, and then it was never changed (hey, we don't get paid for this :).<br /><br />I prefer the term sacked in all cases. Firings, quit, bought out, laid off... sacked should be a universal term! Unless of course it is decided we should use the term shit-canned.Big Shooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13151606706839891986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-16003216024429980062009-04-14T15:03:00.000-04:002009-04-14T15:03:00.000-04:00"Tend to believe?" What?
You actually think I si..."Tend to believe?" What? <br /><br />You actually think I simply don't know what the word "sacked" means and I'm cowering behind some argument about exaggeration? <br /><br />Believe what you want, Truther. I can't convince you otherwise. <br /><br />And I'm not sure what previous post you're referring to. Perhaps Monsieur Catalogues said something about Knobler getting laid off, but he's new to English. You need to be patient about these things.Mortimer Peacockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04624643069613171619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-49251096554797633622009-04-14T14:58:00.000-04:002009-04-14T14:58:00.000-04:00I would tend to believe the exaggeration argument,...I would tend to believe the exaggeration argument, but you said that he had been "laid off" in your previous post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-22798389414836029852009-04-14T14:28:00.000-04:002009-04-14T14:28:00.000-04:00"Do you always insult your commentators?"
Not alw..."Do you always insult your commentators?"<br /><br />Not always. Sometimes.<br /><br />"That is a big difference. He wasn't fired, he wasn't sacked, he wasn't kicked out, he wasn't terminated. Which is what you said.<br /><br />Which is wrong."<br /><br />I reiterate my question about being literal-minded, but if you need it spelled out for you: Yes, I know that being fired is different from taking a buy-out. I was using, unsuccessfully I can see, a literary device called exaggeration. I said he was sacked for the offense of writing for a newspaper with no money as a way of (I hoped) humorously casting light on a widespread recognizable situation in God's America: the death of newspapers. <br /><br />Of course, writing "He was sacked for writing for a newspaper that makes no money" isn't only untrue on a literal level, it's completely nonsensical and absurd. But I generally think highly enough of my readers that they'll understand even rudimentary exaggeration and metaphor and irony. <br /><br />If this is still unclear, let's open our English Literature textbooks:<br /><br />When John Keats calls the Grecian Urn "unravished bride of quietness," he doesn't LITERALLY MEAN that an urn, an old and stationary object that can't even consent to marriage, is a virgin bride, much less a bride of "quietness." I mean, how could anything, even an urn, be married to quietness? You can't marry quietness! Which is what Keats said. <br /><br />Which is wrong.Mortimer Peacockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04624643069613171619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-89392249768588657002009-04-14T14:20:00.000-04:002009-04-14T14:20:00.000-04:00Do you always insult your commentators?
That is a...Do you always insult your commentators?<br /><br />That is a big difference. He wasn't fired, he wasn't sacked, he wasn't kicked out, he wasn't terminated. Which is what you said. <br /><br />Which is wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-39019834486496945462009-04-14T14:18:00.000-04:002009-04-14T14:18:00.000-04:00Do you know the difference between reading things ...Do you know the difference between reading things 100% literally and understanding the use of metaphors? <br /><br />You really are a dull sponge, aren't you?Mortimer Peacockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04624643069613171619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3345962750124330515.post-50754744682105519082009-04-14T13:20:00.000-04:002009-04-14T13:20:00.000-04:00Do you know the difference between voluntary buyou...Do you know the difference between voluntary buyouts, and being "sacked"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com