I love you all. I appreciate every submission (and want more! MORE!). But sometimes I get submissions I choose not to use, because I don’t like them. It’s my blog. Sometimes I feel like the mistake was so obviously made by someone struggling with English that I don’t find it amusing… I’ve made hideous errors [...]
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We know not whom to snub!
I’ll let Reporter #1 tell this story: I found this postcard in the ladies’ room of the local outlet mall this weekend. I wish they’d managed to indicate what STORE it was for so that I could boycott them on account of their complete lack of a grasp of English grammar. (I’ve compressed the image [...]
Read the rest of this entry »RPBers SMASH.
SmashBURGER, that is. Because apparently you guys like to make sure that when I do an RPB post, I get hungry. Or is it something about food that makes sign-writers less careful? I mean, in this case, the name of the restaurant is written incorrectly. Anyway, my father is once again proud to have a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »I know people who would actually be excited by this.
Sometimes I don’t know exactly what to write about some of the pictures y’all send in. And then sometimes I just think the pictures just speak for themselves. Leah says she’s amused by the concept of a hot smoked meat cocktail. I have nothing further to add.
Read the rest of this entry »Definition of insanity
I have a new definition of insanity: trying to hold online ads to any kind of standard of… well, anything. Common decency, common sense, basic grammar, take your pick. This one only abuses a hyphen, but you know I’m right about the genre. Reporter #1 fears we should file this under “totally lost causes,” and [...]
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Okay, so Kacia’s only in medical school, but she’s still totally qualified to point out how excellent this advice is. I think it’s also probably a good idea to warn people before posting pictures of fences like this, because my personal eyeballs want to explode from the pattern. But hey, I will suffer through it [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Not even worth it.
Q found this, and my reaction is mostly “What?” I’m so busy trying to parse when I could use a Groupon that I barely even notice the totally random capitalization, spacing, punctuation, etc.
Read the rest of this entry »*dies* Grammar rant *dies again*
First! Here is a picture of a bunny chillaxing — or not! — on a CozyWinters small animal heating pad! That’s the first thing you’ll see on this page,which is apparently where Lisa S. buys nice things for her residents. And I say “residents” and not “pets” deliberately, because Lisa runs the Atlanta Metro Guinea [...]
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Sometimes, even rules don’t make things better. Chris H. says his wife found this and thought of us. Thank you, Chris’s wife! For thinking of us, at least. I can’t really thank the universe for pointing out that even correctly-followed rules and conventions can sometimes fail to provide clarity. Sigh.
Read the rest of this entry »Explain-y.
To draw attention to this jack so emergency responders know where it is, you’d want “Firefighters: telephone.” Or, you know, something less stilted, but approximately that. To explain what this hole is to the average bystander so they don’t stick a pencil in it, you’d want “firefighters’ telephone” or even “firefighters’ telephone jack,” just to [...]
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