Oxblogger

YF Dan · Post by **YF Dan** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:44 pm

http://oxblogger.blogspot.com/

What an excellent read.

I hadn't seen it before today, but have just spent the past few hours reading all the way back to the Leyton match.

Is it written by any of you?

DLT · Post by **DLT** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:44 pm

Excellent read.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:05 pm

Applied to blogs and fanzines, &quotexcellent&quot is a clich├®.

YF Dan · Post by **YF Dan** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:42 pm

&quotApplied to blogs and fanzines, &quotexcellent&quot is a cliché.&quot

It's not a cliche you would choose to use about many Oxford fanzines over the years, mind.

PS. Would my learned friend care to choose a better word to describe this excellent blog?

Resurrection Ox · Post by **Resurrection Ox** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:18 pm

&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:Applied to blogs and fanzines, &quotexcellent&quot is a cliché.

You're just jealous. It is excellent. (No - it's not me.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:28 pm

Yes, it's a cliché. I first saw this pointed out about a decade ago in a long list of football clichés compiled by When Saturday Comes: one just read

fanzines are &quotexcellent&quot.

It used to be how any journalist would acknowledge the existence of a fanzine. They meant well, but it became so overused that after a while it meant nothing.

It's the same now with blogs - and the world of blogs isn't all that different to the world of fanzines. You see reference to &quot[such-and such's] excellent blog&quot everywhere.

Meanwhile, this is an excellent resource.

Ancient Colin · Post by **Ancient Colin** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:39 am

Given that the total number of blogs must be approaching infinity, on the &quotroom full of monkeys typing Shakespeare&quot principle, some of them must approach &quotexcellent&quot surely?

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:58 am

But possibly a significantly smaller proportion than are awarded that appellation?

YF Dan · Post by **YF Dan** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:10 am

&quotThis is an excellent resource&quot

I would say it was more skookum.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:51 am

Really?

Mally · Post by **Mally** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:17 am

Agree about the overuse of &quotexcellent&quot to describe fanzines and blogs. Its a catch-all adjective, I always want to know how something excels. Is it funny, informative, thought provoking, comprehensive, insightful, etc.?

BTW I'm talking generally here and not specifically about Dan's use of the word.

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:47 pm

&quotYF Dan&quot wrote:http://oxblogger.blogspot.com/

What an excellent read.

I hadn't seen it before today, but have just spent the past few hours reading all the way back to the Leyton match.

Is it written by any of you?

It's not difficult to work out who is the author.

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:05 pm

This sums it all up, IMHO.

&quotThis is why football is marketed to the neutral – because being a football fan is shit. It’s not edgy and exciting extra time, penalties and see-saw fortunes are not entertaining. It’s like a dirty addiction – you think you love it, but when you experience it, you realise there’s nothing to love.&quot

Baboo · Post by **Baboo** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:39 pm

&quotSnake&quot wrote:This sums it all up, IMHO.

&quotThis is why football is marketed to the neutral – because being a football fan is shit. It’s not edgy and exciting extra time, penalties and see-saw fortunes are not entertaining. It’s like a dirty addiction – you think you love it, but when you experience it, you realise there’s nothing to love.&quot

Bollocks - Way way of the mark saying it is not edgy and exciting. The shit bit is true though. Or is it? Bet Exeter fans don't think so.

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:46 pm

I'll bet they do now.

Oxblogger's review of the season has now concluded, btw.

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