Copy Editing Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

[estragon]

From The Onion newspaper:

4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence
www.theonion.com

NEW YORK—Law enforcement officials confirmed Friday that four more copy editors were killed this week amid ongoing violence between two rival gangs divided by their loyalties to the The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual Of Style.

 

[Dual_Triode]

From The Onion newspaper:

4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence
www.theonion.com

NEW YORK—Law enforcement officials confirmed Friday that four more copy editors were killed this week amid ongoing violence between two rival gangs divided by their loyalties to the The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual Of Style.

Love it. Especially the last line:

"Officials also stated that an innocent 35-year-old passerby who found himself caught up in a long-winded dispute over use of the serial, or Oxford, comma had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

 

[NekoParks]

From The Onion newspaper:

4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence
www.theonion.com

NEW YORK—Law enforcement officials confirmed Friday that four more copy editors were killed this week amid ongoing violence between two rival gangs divided by their loyalties to the The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual Of Style.

I love The Onion. Thanks for posting it.

 

[D_Lynn]

Oh, too funny!

Good to hear from you, Estragon.

 

[NaokoSmith]

ROFLOL!
The serial, or Oxford, comma!

, , and .

 

[sr71plt]

Yes, cute. They left out the tea bagger faction, though--the Strunk and White folks--the supernatural folks (The Transitive Vampire), the Greens faction (Eats Shoots and Leaves), and the "just do it" journalists (The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage). Enough for a global conflagration.

The Oxford people, of course, will be standing above it all, knowing that they have the only proper answers--for the entire empire--should they be able to find it again.

 

[estragon]

Oh, too funny!

Good to hear from you, Estragon.

Happy New Year, guys. Dammit, I miss you all. You included, Blackbird.

 

[KlaytonFrost]

Haha, I know people for whom something like this wouldn't be terribly out of character.