{"id":1519,"date":"2007-09-13T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:46:52","slug":"this-is-probably-the-only-post-where-i-will-use-strikethrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/this-is-probably-the-only-post-where-i-will-use-strikethrough\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Probably The Only Post Where I Will Use Strikethrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have witnessed a phenomenon on websites, predominantly blogs, where the writer will employ the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strikethrough\">strikethrough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am <s>wheezily infuriated<\/s>puzzled by its use.  <\/p>\n<p>When I was going through school, we were nearing the end of the dominance of <s>Satan&#8217;s piano<\/s>typewriters. It was never acceptable to do a strikethrough on a paper you intended to hand in.  You  needed the magic of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wite-Out\">Wite-Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I later had a temp job where I had to use a <s>pain-in-the-ass piece-o&#8217;-shit<\/s>typewriter to fill out some forms that had triplicate copies in lovely colors, separated by carbon paper.  There too, it was not acceptable to use strikethrough.  I actually would use correction fluid &#8212; I had a color for each copy of the form.<\/p>\n<p>So, why are people using strikethrough?  Do they feel you, as their loyal and faithful reader, should wade through their sloppy prose?  Where do they get their <s>balls<\/s>nads (sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/promise-to-coaster-punchman.html\">CP<\/a>!), anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Are they trying to be <s>annoying<\/s>funny?<\/p>\n<p>SAY NO TO STRIKETHROUGH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have witnessed a phenomenon on websites, predominantly blogs, where the writer will employ the use of strikethrough. 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