[starman]

So, lately people have been trying to be clever using the strikeout tag in their blogs. They compensate for their lack of skills poor education by using strikeouts to be silly. Ok, I admit that I laughed the first time I saw it. It was cute. The problem is that it's EVERYWHERE now and the joke's soooo over.

[- - e r i k - -]

Lately?

[Kerrigan]

Engadget has been doing this for some time. Back when I read their blog, I used to find it pretty irritating too.

This type of wordplay is, to an extent, inspired by postmodern writing. For example, a postmodernist, or someone inspired by that trend in thought, may render the previous sentence thus:

This type of "wordplay" is (to an extent) inspired by txtspk postmodern[ist] writing.

This type of thing gets on my nerves. Scarequotes, parentheses, strikeout, etc., obscurity clarity in language.

[starman]

I admit to using things like parenthesis where I shouldn't, but this strikeout crap is not funny anymore.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Yes, I am a parenthesis whore. The white and grey text I use is basically an extension of that.

[Railroader]

I have often seen strikeout text used as a method of fixing a mistake and leaving the edit in there by way of a strikeout. It shows accountability.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

Yes, I am a parenthesis whore. The white and grey text I use is basically an extension of that.

Where's the white text

[Dakar the Fourth]

I think from now on whenever I "fix" someone's quote, I'm using strikethrough.

Edit: What the hell is the code for that, [strike]?

[Doofy]

It's a useful tool in certain blogs. For example, when talking about the most recent EU constitution treaty happenings. The treaty is simply the rejected constitution by another name (and method), so using a strikethrough in this manner serves to hammer this message home to the readers.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

I think from now on whenever I "fix" someone's quote, I'm using strikethrough.

Edit: What the hell is the code for that, [strike]?

It's "S", Dak.

[Dakar the Fourth]

So simple a caveman could do it.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

So simple a caveman could do it.

...If he had a keyboard hooked up to his cave wall.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

So simple a caveman Dakar could do it.

I like it.

[Dakar the Fourth]

That's what I was implying. Way to beat the hell out of the joke.
I'm surprised you didn't write Trent Reznor, anyway.

[Big Mac]

I don't mind the practice if it is used sparingly.

[Jawbone54]

All things in moderation.

That's the problem with every good joke; it gets Heath Ledgered.

i.e. killed prematurely because of excess.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

All things in moderation.

That's the problem with every good joke; it gets Heath Ledgered. Anna Nicole Smithed Chris Penned Chris Farley'd River Phoenixed Damn, a lot of celebrities OD

Hmmm...

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

All things in moderation.

That's the problem with every good joke; it gets Heath Ledgered.

i.e. killed prematurely because of excess.

That's the wonder of Dick Clark, his jokes never get old.

[Oisín]

This type of thing gets on my nerves. Scarequotes, parentheses, strikeout, etc., obscurity clarity in language.

Well, which is it, then? Obscurity or clarity?

(I too am a parenthesis whore—far too much so, even for my own liking. I’m a scare quotes whore and, especially, an em dash whore, too.)

[turtle777]

I never rarely use strikeouts.

-t

[Eug]

˙ʇxǝʇ uʍop-ǝpısdn ɹǝɟǝɹd ı 'ʎllɐuosɹǝd

[CharlesS]

Naq V cersre EBG13.[/color][/quote]Naq uvqqra zrffntrf nf jryy. [quote][color=white]

[SpaceMonkey]

"It's a moon space station!"

[Eug]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

Naq V cersre EBG13.

PS. U suk at teh wite txt.

[d4nth3m4n]

at least it's less nerdy than "^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"

[0157988944]

Originally Posted by Eug 

˙ʇxǝʇ uʍop-ǝpısdn ɹǝɟǝɹd ı 'ʎllɐuosɹǝd

I demand to know how you did that.

[CharlesS]

˙ǝpoɔᴉun uᴉ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uʍop-ǝpᴉsdn ɟo ɥɔunq ɐ ʇsnɾ s˛ǝɹǝɥʇ ˙lɐᴉɔǝds os ʇou s,ʇᴉ 'ɥǝɯ

[Kerrigan]

sǝʇɐʞsɹǝllol

[Mithras]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n 

at least it's less nerdy than "^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"

I was going to say the same thing -- it's just an evolved form of the megadork ^H^H thing.

[Oisín]

Real geeks write ĤĤĤĤĤ.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

It was funny when As the Apple Turns did it.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton 

It was funny when As the Apple Turns did it.

Yes! They had it down to an art.

I sure miss them.