Is Season Three about people who invent pointless jargon being found bludgeoned to death with a copy of the style guide?
Interspersed with a hip new member of the squad who's trying to persuade people that CamelCase is cool and Fashion-ForWard.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Connie Neil - Jun 09, 2017 9:07:25 am PDT #12488 of 30002
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Connie Neil - Jun 09, 2017 9:08:58 am PDT #12489 of 30002
brillig
And a recurring character from Britain who has sparky banter with the head of the team over extra Us in words.
Gudanov - Jun 09, 2017 9:16:43 am PDT #12490 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
He's a stoic AP-loving copy-editor with a checkered past and an ex-wife out for his blood. She's a lacrosse-playing lesbian author with a unshakable belief in the Chicago manual of style and a passion for the oxford comma. Together they... mostly argue a lot.
Fred Pete - Jun 09, 2017 9:20:53 am PDT #12491 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Gud, I see that as the set-up for a Tracy-Hepburn movie.
EpicTangent - Jun 09, 2017 9:53:59 am PDT #12492 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
The Season One story arc is a battle over Oxford commas. But things heat up in Season Two, when a killer is enforcing one space after a period by removing the writers as well as the extra space.
"But I LIKE the extra space! That's how I was taugh..." *snick* *sploosh* *thud*
meara - Jun 09, 2017 10:01:26 am PDT #12493 of 30002
He's a stoic AP-loving copy-editor with a checkered past and an ex-wife out for his blood. She's a lacrosse-playing lesbian author with a unshakable belief in the Chicago manual of style and a passion for the oxford comma. Together they... mostly argue a lot.
I would watch this.
Also apropos: today I matched with someone on tinder and she messaged me "what's your feeling on the Oxford comma? Also, DTF?" Sigh.
Amy - Jun 09, 2017 10:32:31 am PDT #12494 of 30002
Because books.
DTF?
Jessica - Jun 09, 2017 10:41:02 am PDT #12495 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
OMG this thread is everything.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 09, 2017 10:44:42 am PDT #12496 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
"Depends on your feeling on the Oxford comma."
Tom Scola - Jun 09, 2017 10:46:27 am PDT #12497 of 30002
hwæt
Wait until the pie chart lady learns about the new augmented-reality features on the iPhone.