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Sean sent in the screenshot below from the Big John’s Pizza website, along with this comment:
3 pizzas please. Hold the apostrophes.
This apostrophe error appears on all the MasterPark shuttle vans at SeaTac airport:
Ouch!
Margaret sent in this screen grab from a show broadcast on The Learning Channel:
A reader sent in this fax with two counts of abuse…
Jen sent in this front page newspaper headline from a small paper in southern Maryland:
…I’m guessing the scores dipped on the English portion of the test.
Joya pulled over to snap this photo of a self-storage place right off the 101 in Los Angeles:
Linda sent in this example of abuse found at Craig O’s Pizza in Austin, TX:
11 minutes into the movie Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, Ben’s character looks at this newspaper headline. I should have shut it off at that point and watched something more entertaining, like C-SPAN2.
Amanda sent in this gem:
This sign directs you to the “Ladie’s Room” on the Carnival Celebration ship.