The USPS styles itself as the United States Post Office (its official name)

The postal service calls themselves the USPS with some kind of registered/trade mark I can't read at this magnification all over their website, so they might not be the best example for style guides overriding the organisation's wishes.

It just seems weird to not call a show the show's name, especially in these advanced technological days of search and replace.

The punctuation doesn't change the name, though. Not in my opinion, anyway. And honestly, like Consuela, if I'm writing about it, I'm not typing out all those periods.

But you can!

I save my ire for the people who spell it Shield.

The punctuation doesn't change the name, though.

Why is ABC bothering to be consistent with branding, then?

I'm not saying everyone has to do it that way, precisely like I said at the start. But ABC seems to have taken a stance on the show's title, and it's odd to say there isn't a right answer just because you don't want to use it. And if I were writing an article it would be spell-checked just like any other brand. I don't get to call it Fedex in formal circles just because. The *right* answer is FedEx, and I take that into consideration when I make my choices.

In other news, the portmanteau name I've been seeing tossed around for Sleepy Hollow is "Ichabbie," which sounds, to me, like an old time skin ailment. "Aye, the poor lad has dropsy and a terrible case of ichabbie."

You know, I think this is new to me:

that insufferable, pushy horrible person that reigned terror over the office

Congratulations, author! That hadn't even occurred to me!

An expression was just used to allude to suicide in a fic I'm reading, but I can't begin to figure it out: "Does he look like the type of guy to ride the two-legged mare?". The closest I've gotten is a Queen song that mentions a mule.

Maybe if he had a noose on, and was on a mare, and the mare only had two legs, he would be hanged?

Maybe after they yank the horse out from underneath you and your legs kick it looks like...I don't know. It's a lot of work to do.

I've never heard it as an allusion to suicide before.

A gallows made from two uprights and a cross-beam is a "two-legged mare." A triple gallows like the Tyburn Tree is a "three-legged mare."

I don't recall a nickname for a gallows with a single upright and a braced arm, though.