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Colleen exclaims, “We were the best! Now we’re not.”

It’s always so refreshing to see this stuff coming from schools!  It makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

I could make several individual posts out of the pictures I took at a single store this weekend.  But I won’t, because that feels like cheating.  So here we go.

The best part about this one was that it was a copy.  They’d copied it and posted it all over one end of the store, an exuberant festival of abused apostrophes and quotation marks.

I’m willing to give points for consistency.  If you want to argue that you’re going to just preface every single “s” with an apostrophe — I mean, you’d be wrong, but at least you’d be consistent.  Similarly if you argued that pluralization should occur with apostrophes: still wrong, but some points.  I’d even accept an (incorrect) argument that nouns that end in the singular with a vowel, like “sample,” require an apostrophe for pluralization, whereas those ending with consonants don’t.  But why on earth would you pluralize “sample” and “cap” with an apostrophe and NOT “box”?

Galen found all three of these at the same place, just north of Ellsworth, ME.  She even provided the commentary.

Live onions?  Or will there be something else alive on my plate?  I didn’t order it. Also a missing apostrophe where there should be one!

When in doubt, use a comma.

I think this belongs in a new category. Maybe “Not quite the lyrics” would be a good title?  Anyway, I have no idea why there were lyrics on the menu, but I’m pretty sure they left out some words.

…Y’all don’t really need me at all, do you?

When you’re not sure whether or not to use an apostrophe, just… kind of put an apostrophe.  Then you can claim it was an ink smudge if it turns out you were wrong.

I’m not sure exactly what a “wingett” is — or if, as Reporter #1 wonders, it should more properly be spelled “wingette.”  But whatever it is and however it’s spelled, I’m STILL POSITIVE it shouldn’t be pluralized with an apostrophe.

Found this charmer on the back of a Spinz pen package.

Lisa found this at King’s Pharmacy in Tribeca.  At first I was looking forward to pointing out that presumably more than one student may benefit from the Wednesday special.  Then I realized that that wasn’t really the punchline here.

No, no, you can’t stop now.  The room closed for repair is… is what?

Thanks, Susan!

The lovely N. found this in a library that isn’t yet open to the public.  But when it does open to the public, that one kid who gets to hang out here is going to be super excited.

Eve found this in a Waffle House bathroom and thought of me.  File THAT under “things I never thought I’d say.”  She also noted “…it could mean so many things.”