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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?

Here’s a fun little article for those of you who are all “It’s a LIVING LANGUAGE whine whine whine.”  Which, incidentally, includes me, but hey.

50 Funniest Pop Culture Sayings That Made it to the Dictionary

Look, we cut it daily, okay?  So it’s fresh cut.  But we don’t want you smart-alecks getting all fussy when you notice that the fruit is moldy.  I mean, it’s two weeks old, right?  So it’s not so much “fresh” by any real definition of the word.  It’s just fresh-cut.

Colleen spotted this atop a group photo distributed to new students on orientation day.  At an undisclosed location, to protect the innocent.

Nope, sorry, that’s the sum total of my reaction to this.

Lovely newlywed Veronica says “I get that this is supposed to be cute, but it just makes me sad.”

Yeah, let’s work on instilling those values of sloppy grammar really early, shall we?

As Galen pointed out to me, this author could have gone with “hoarse” and blamed spell-check.  But “hourse” is… well, a hourse of a different color.

I mean, this was totally going up on RPB just because of the sheer absurdity of insisting that a bench is not a seat (rather than insisting that it is a decorative, delicate, fragile, or forbidden seat).  The typo is just gravy.

I saw this one and I thought “At last, an appropriate use of quotation marks on a handmade grocery store sign!”

Yes, that’s right — “Yum yum” could well be what kids say while eating watermelon, and therefore does in fact belong in quotes.  Get this sign-maker a cookie!

But then, I saw this…

I suppose it’s possible that my friend the sign-writer was making a comment on the nature of watermelon as a treat.  Because let’s be honest, if it isn’t made of chocolate, it isn’t a treat, amIright?

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.

Galen doesn’t pull her punches when she asks, “Is it clod?”

I’m so tempted to travel to Ripton, VT to ask them that in person!