Fruit salad offers a jumble of favors rather than any coordinated whole.
Typographers know too many italic or bold words in one place makes a paragraph hard to read. Colored words are even worse.
"Avoiding the fruit salad appearance resulting from the undisciplined use of color", from Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000 edited by Ronald M. Baecker. books 
Let's **try** using **lots** of *italic* and **bold** in one paragraph. We **suggest** in Bibliographic Paragraphs that some links like Recent Changes should **not** be linked. There are *roots* to the *opinions* in our Opinionated Wiki and its **practices**.
Beware the clown pants!
This reminds me of the advice to avoid "clown's pants" design; from one of the first design guides I recall seeing-- Patrick Lynch's one for the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media PDF or html
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However, the HTML markup language can be used to create complex and highly functional information systems if it is used carefully. When used inappropriately or inconsistently the typographic controls and inlined graphics of World Wide Web (Web) pages may result in a patchy, confusing jumble, without any apparent visual hierarchy of importance. This unfortunate "clown's pants" effect of haphazardly mixed graphics and Yale Style Manual-Balanced page designs usability and legibility, just as it does in paper pages. A carefully organized design grid that is consistently implemented across a range of pages will aid your users in quickly finding the information they want, and will increase the reader's confidence that they are using a thoughtfully organized collection of information.
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Interestingly the model on the right (the Not-Clown-Pants) is very similar to Bibliographic Paragraphs.
Also, the "scissors" Alan has added are hilarious.
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Hee hee, you noticed. That's a throwback I recall from listserv/forum days when people would use text any way possible to suggest things. Who remembers ASCII art?