After reading the print and online sports media for awhile, you get used to certain little cute aphorisms. For example, they use "Buds" instead of "Maple Leafs", "Great One" instead of "Wayne Gretzky", you get the picture. But there is one in particular that I have had it up to here with. "Pray tell, whatever is it" you ask?
I'm here to ask you all to join with me and put an end to the word "Swede" as a pun for "sweet". Enough is enough, media! Do you hear me TSN? Sportsnet, you got that?
The following examples are recent:
Swede option for Flames - (Calgary Sun) which refers to the Calgary Flames' Mikael Backlund being sent to the Kelowna Rockets.
Backlund ready to enjoy a Swede time in Calgary - (Calgary Herald) refers to same event.
Enough is enough guys! And by the way, this has nothing to do with my living in Sweden as a wee lad. I have no loyalties there. I cheered loud when Canada beat Sweden at the World Juniors this month.
You media types are driving me nuts with this. I'm begging you… STOP!!
4 comments:
Dave Barry said it best:
Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.
Yeah, but not all of these writers are at the same level as Dave Barry.
If you really have to use a pun, make sure you're original. Try to "spring it on people" as Dave says.
so who would go overboard first? the punster or the oh-so-tender vegetarian?
Too bad your vote doesn't count, Stalinist.
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