Here are some food-related submissions that I’ve been sitting on for a while:

Spotted in Salinas, CA:

(Thanks, Becky!)

Spotted at the Kansas State Fair:

(Thanks, Chandra!)

Seen via Google Adsense:

(Thanks, Tim!)

Finally, this bonus photo, which has absolutely nothing to do with apostrophe abuse:

(Thanks, Greg!)

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.

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.

Katie writes in about her adventure in capturing a rogue apostrophe:

The waitress … erased the apostrophe as I ran back to my table for my camera. The hostess made her put it back so I could take the picture.

Dixie writes:

On a visit home, I noticed this on the sign at the local zoo, and it made me smile. 🙂

Sara sends in this abuse from Match.com’s “Customize Your Search” page:

Joey writes:

This shirt was a gift to all the RAs at the end of my last year as an
Resident Advisor. I love the idea behind the shirt, but I pretty much only wear it to bed because the apostrophe in RAs bugs me, especially since this shirt was designed by a woman with a masters degree.