The Official KG Banned List

[Riccardo]

current or past?

I've been on that list

[slag]

Like you would say it if you snorted two fat rails, you mean.

[rothdawg]

awesome list!!! How does one break through and join you filthy coughsufferers???

All you have to do is bump a post where he made a stupid comment. That shouldn't be too hard to find!

[RSE]

Not to be too blunt about it, but here illustrates the difference between a lawyer writing and a journalist writing. You and I have no editors. If we write ungrammatically, we have no one to save us from ourselves. Journalists have editors to clean their work up.

The dirty secret is that journalism is probably the least rigorous form of professional writing there is. Which is why Kelly Green can't or won't use commas. He just never had to learn.

[Susquehanna Birder]

It varies based on:

- Time of the month
- KG's blood sugar level
- Mentions of KG's relations

[3rd & Inches]

95% correct

It varies based on:

- Time of the month
- KG's blood sugar level
- Mentions of KG's relations

You left off E-Machine dial up speed.

[Kelly Green]

Thou Art Wrong

I was using WAAAY too many commas when I started as a stringer reporter in newspapers upstate -- I was WRITING the way I would speak. After 23 years in radio, I'd put a comma in a sentence at the point where I would have paused while reporting a sports story on air.

The end result was the sports editor/page editor was taking commas out -- and I would get a note saying that I was using way too many commas.

So there...ooops, I'm sorry......so, there.

[RSE]

You don't use commas correctly.

You need an editor to correct you.

Where am I wrong?

[Susquehanna Birder]

He sees no value in using proper punctuation. He wouldn't know an Oxford comma if it bit him in the arse.

[Kelly Green]

Okay, Let Me Be Blunt

The overuse was 16 YEARS ago Einstein. My stories are no longer subject to an editor's judgement.

The sentence you questioned was written INTENTIONALLY without commas to reflect how I would have said it were this an audio format.

Of course you'll still claim superiority, so why do I bother?

[RSE]

So the overuse was when you were what, 50? Your editor was bitching at you for misusing commas when you were 50? Holy shit I thought you were talking about when you were a cub reporter not a grizzled old man.

[Kelly Green]

I WAS A Cub NEWSPAPER Reporter, Genius!!

I had never -- NEV-ER -- written for a newspaper! Age is meaningless when you're starting a new career -- and, for the record, I was 43 at the time!!

[AthensEagle]

Thought you were fishing

[rothdawg]

He's a liar. Just like when he made a decision to leave the board, and came back 3 days later.