There should be a reality TV show about editors making difficult calls on punctuation.
I'd be the one sighing heavily and giving people the disappointed-in-you face. The audience would hate me instantly.
Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Zenkitty - Aug 18, 2016 11:20:42 am PDT #26299 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Connie Neil - Aug 18, 2016 11:22:20 am PDT #26300 of 30003
brillig
(You can tell I don't watch cooking shows. I just know from commercials that there's at least one show with a really mean chef.)
Which is why I love Great British Bake-Off, people rarely cry, though some crack under self-induced stress--but then one of the comic-relief hosts goes over and comforts them! The judges just give people stern looks. No one yells.
In one season, one of the cooks tells one of the hosts "Can you come yell at me in half an hour?" And at the appointed time the cook called "I need yelled at!", and the host excused herself from the person she was talking to, ran over to the other cook and said "Get a bloody hold of yourself! Focus!" then ran back as the other cook said "Thank you!"
Dana - Aug 18, 2016 11:22:43 am PDT #26301 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'd be the one sighing heavily and giving people the disappointed-in-you face.
"C'mon, man! We just talked about dangling participles! Get your head in the game!"
Connie Neil - Aug 18, 2016 11:23:52 am PDT #26302 of 30003
brillig
"C'mon, man! We just talked about dangling participles! Get your head in the game!"
Oxford Comma Wars! Last Stand of the Double Space After a Period! Which Words Really Should Be Capitalized!
Dana - Aug 18, 2016 11:30:01 am PDT #26303 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
This must be what the Olympics are like in Dictionopolis from The Phantom Toolbooth.
Zenkitty - Aug 18, 2016 11:30:04 am PDT #26304 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Semicolon, Colon, or Comma: Sudden Death Round
Gudanov - Aug 18, 2016 11:33:37 am PDT #26305 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
You could get Sarah Palin to write the text being edited and William Shatner to read the results.
Toddson - Aug 18, 2016 11:37:58 am PDT #26306 of 30003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
in Esperanto, perhaps
EpicTangent - Aug 18, 2016 11:56:24 am PDT #26307 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Oxford Comma Wars! Last Stand of the Double Space After a Period! Which Words Really Should Be Capitalized!
I'm surprised how passionate I feel about all of these!
Sue - Aug 18, 2016 2:25:28 pm PDT #26308 of 30003
hip deep in pie
Which is why I love Great British Bake-Off, people rarely cry, though some crack under self-induced stress--but then one of the comic-relief hosts goes over and comforts them! The judges just give people stern looks. No one yells.
I heard (maybe it was here?) that apparently if someone has a real meltdown, Mel and Sue will stand around them swearing, so the producers can't use the footage.