New rule

Sep. 23rd, 2006 12:51 pm
mmcirvin: (Default)
[personal profile] mmcirvin
For stories about the desirability of a given action, headlines and titles of the form "To [foo] or not to [foo]? That is the question" are hereby banned.

Date: 2006-09-23 05:55 pm (UTC)
spatch: (Typewriter Guy)
From: [personal profile] spatch
I heartily endorse this product, service, and/or concept.

Date: 2006-09-23 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prog.livejournal.com
What's far worse to me is "The $foo's the thing." Dude, that's not even the whole original sentence, even when $foo eq "play".

Date: 2006-09-23 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sunburn.livejournal.com
How about, "Let's kill all the [fooers]!"

Date: 2006-09-23 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antikythera.livejournal.com
After four hundred years of it? Not gonna happen. ;)

Date: 2006-09-24 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
We stand bravely athwart the rails of 400-year-old cliche yelling "Stop!"

Or is that a cliche too?

Date: 2006-09-24 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antikythera.livejournal.com
Not as much of a cliche, because there were no rails 400 years ago. :D

What,

Date: 2006-09-23 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vardissakheli.livejournal.com
with my [foo] in your [bar]?

Date: 2006-09-23 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ultraman.livejournal.com
Can exceptions be made when the 'foo' in question rhymes with "be" such as "To key or not to key?" or some sort of sailing article titled "To lee or not to lee?"

Date: 2006-09-24 05:19 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-09-24 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
..."TV or not TV" is SUPER TRIPLE BANNED.

Date: 2006-09-24 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ultraman.livejournal.com
What if, instead of being about doing foo or not doing foo, its about how to determine the appropriate object of a toast, so like, you're writing for architectural criticism monthly, and discussing the sorts of toasts appropriate at conferences so you title the article "To Mies or not To Mies?"

Date: 2006-09-23 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] urbeatle.livejournal.com
So you are also banning "Tofu or not Tofu" as a slogan for an artificial meat product?

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