Ever since I’ve been involved in this endeavor to create a local alternative media it’s a struggle to keep up with the competitors. Here, for example, is a little bit in the News & Review that I missed last Thursday:
Arts Feature
Our baloney has a first name
Four snarky Academy Awards articles and one serious one
Come on! That’s our word. Some fun articles though, if a little last-minute seeming.
The Sac Rag 
ok, i just have to ask – are you saying ‘snarky’ is your word? That word’s been around forever…or at least for several years…
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are you saying the name “rachel” is your name? because dood…forever. It’s in the bible, I think. somewhere toward the back…
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Feel free to come by our office in City Hall to inspect the documentation.
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Is that your best comeback? I can’t believe you even felt the need to *have* a comeback. I mean seriously, it was a valid question, not a reason to act like you’re in the 7th grade…I’ve just noticed this site being very territorial about the word on more than one occasion and it seems more than a little silly. But, whatever…
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no *you’re* in the seventh grade.
but seriously, i hate having to do this, but in terms of Sacramento alternative media i think The Sac Rag has pretty well claimed the adjective “snarky” by overusing it so much. that’s alls i meant. If people see that word in Sacramento I want people to think Sac Rag.
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ummm…deja vu????????? didn’t this exact conversation go down last week? people are so funny. yeah, cooldmz is claiming he made up the word. in fact, i think he is claiming he made up the internet and blogging and words in general.
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Yes, “thing” was supposed to be “think” in that last comment — I had to correct it before AdamAnt started doing a happy dance because I goofed.
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Man, you know who could bring the snark? That Arrested Development show. Holy cow, snark – o – rama!
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snark’s been around for some time now, i’m afraid. way back in the 1980s when i was but a wee boy scout, i went snark hunting with troop 228 out in the area now known as the roseville auto mall. we always had a snarky time back then, even though we always came home empty handed. sort of where your string of jibber jabber has left me thus far.
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Runnergirl, it’s Adamant or adamant not AdamAnt… You put the emphAsis on the wrong syllAble.
Didn’t Doogie Howser M.D. invent blogging?
(I’m still doing a happy dance)
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Maybe if you just put “TM” after each time you write snark — that would be snarkTM — others will thing that you have trademarked it.
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Actually, the word “snark” was found on the Rosetta stone in Greek, Egytian and Sanskrit, dating it to the 4th century BC at least. It’s right next to the only other words on the back of the Rosetta Stone which read, in three languages, “This space intentionally left blank.”
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Snarktown, the correct term for the hunt you attended is a “snipe hunt”. A snark hunt is a chess strategy.
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Snark hunts are for the British. Is your name Lord Baden-Powell? No? Ok, then.
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Good call, adamant. i think you’re right about doogie howser …you know, until you posted that last comment, i had misread your name as Adam Ant.
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Yeah, I had asked about your snark obsession before too. Maybe it’s a running joke that you have to have been around sacrag longer in order to get. Mad magazine was big on those and I liked it there. Not sure why it’s annoying here, maybe because with Mad I was one of those geeks who never missed and issue and got every reference and with Sacrag I just don’t quite keep up. Oh well.
Maybe I’ll claim a word too. It. It shall be my word henceforth. I’ll have a good time scanning local press to catch them using It. Woo hoo.
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klj: annoying? moi?
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No,not you so much, just the snarky thing.
But me calling someone annoying is like Bob Hope callng someone dead.
I’m not sure what that means, but I hope it fits the flavor of this comment thread.
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Is there a chance that the beef people have here has more to do with the comments about a post and not the post itself? Cooldmz is giving some faint props to a News and Review article as well as having some fun with a word that he admittedly would just LIKE to be associated with this web log.
Seems like guilt by association to me.
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I don’t think this qualifies as a beef. I’m a vegan. This is maybe a soy, but definately not a beef.
And beyond that poor attempt at being clever, what you have here is really just a mild critique and a request for clarifications regarding Sacrag’s snark obsession.
I’m not ready to picket, boycott or prank call over it or anything. If I do prank call any of you please know that I prank call randomly and that it just happened, by coincidence.
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We hear you, KLJ.
We try to be funny here at the Sac Rag. And as you of all people know, there are many routes to Funnyville. Apparently making a left at Snarktown is not one such route.
Noted.
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