http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50738 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50738#post-146190 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:22:45 +0000 custard cream 146190@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This could run and run! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50738#post-146181 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:31:13 +0000 Yikes 146181@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Feel free to expand on / improve this attempt ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50738#post-146180 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:28:43 +0000 Yikes 146180@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Please use this updated style guide immediately. Please place the previous style guide in the shredder, if there is room.</p> <p><strong>New words </strong></p> <p><strong><em>Savilate</strong></em> – the licking of lips as a 70s presenter sees a teenage girl.</p> <p><strong><em>Annus Horribilis Savilis</strong></em> – the next year at the BBC.</p> <p><strong>Useful words</strong></p> <p><strong><em>Alleged</strong></em> – legal convention allows you preface an entertainer’s unsavoury act with the words ‘alleged’ up until they are found guilty – amazingly this still works when they are caught on video.</p> <p><strong><em>Sub judice </strong></em>– another useful legal concept that allows you to avoid commenting on an inconvenient matter until the earlier of the end of the trial, or the day Kate Middleton gives birth.</p> <p><strong>Words to avoid</strong></p> <p><strong><em>Glitter</strong></em> – use ‘sparkly stuff’ instead.</p> <p><strong><em>Liable</strong></em> – instead refer to ‘statute of limitations’</p> <p><strong>Recommended phrases</strong></p> <p><strong><em>No record found on file</strong></em> <strong>or</strong> <strong><em>the file cannot be found</strong></em> – our default position on any internal investigation.</p> <p><strong><em>Sorry</strong></em> – use this if the previous phrases were unsuccessful</p> <p><strong>BBC logo</strong></p> <p>Until further notice we are replacing the logo with a picture of a cute kitten.</p> <p>George Entwistle, Director-General, BBC<br /> 29 October 2012 </p>