Archive for September, 2010

God Love’s Little Children’s Day Care Center

Now vacant day care center in Hillside, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Posted on the door is the landlord’s eviction notice.

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(Perhaps the owner is “R. Hilson God Love”?)

(Thanks, James Longstreet!)

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Monne’y

Arrgh is all I can say.

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(Thanks, ellebelle999!)

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Go Whippet’s

Mr. Turner snapped this photo at Legends Sports Grill in Shelby, Ohio.

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Who is Tapa?

Seen in Auckland, New Zealand. I should go in and ask if Tapa owns the place.

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(Thanks, Grant!)

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Soft’ees donuts

Yes, this makes me crazy. It doesn’t make sense why you’d put an apostrophe there. It’s complete abuse.

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(Thanks, Tricia!)

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It’s National Punctuation Day!

Read-up on the correct (usage)…… of all you’re favorite punctuation mark’s; at The National Punctuation: Day website!?

The apostrophe page reprints one of our favorite Bob the Angry Flower comics, so check it out.

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AP says It’s over at CNN!

Copy-editing is a thing of the past at the Associated Press, I guess, or maybe they’re just excited because CNN is a competitor.

Found online here.

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(Thanks, David Singer!)

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Irony at its finest.

An advertisement on the back of a bus. Apparently the inventors of the Education Pays Program missed that part of English class.

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(Thanks, nicole!)

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Cupcake’s

I knew that the cupcake trend had pretty much jumped the shark when this local eatery started carrying them . . . but I was still pretty upset by this egregious abuse of apostrophe’s ;-)

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(Thanks, Rain!)

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More Oreo’s

We were at 6 Flags New England last weekend buying the required junk food when I spotted this abuse.

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(What’s the deal with Fried Oreo’s?)

(Thanks, Natalie!)

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