Podcast celeb Sage forwarded this beauty: (Click image for DetroitFunk, the original source.) I’m not even entirely sure what category to put this one into… Thanks, Sage!
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Prime error, is what.
And a cheerful Friday send-off. These have been making me giggle for a while. Firstly, we have “Prime Rose Oil,” which I just love. But even better is this: Why do we need? OMEGA! I mean, it’s so cheerful you almost can’t fault it for being wrong. Happy Friday!
Read the rest of this entry »Longer than a three-hour tour?
I totally didn’t write the title of this post. That credit is due to Nosipho, who found the following and noted I guess you can check out any time you like, but you can’t return from Shell Island until the spring. Score! A punctuation error and two snazzy pop-culture references in one post! Thanks, Nosipho!
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Reporter #1 is back! She has this to say: I can’t decide if the sheer offensiveness of it outweighs the bad grammar, or if the two combined is just all the more horrid. Yeah, that really is a fascinating dilemma, Reporter #1. Random capitalization, missing punctuation, the charming use of “n” as a word, and [...]
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I mean, it’s not right or anything. It’s just that it gets old finding quotation marks used for emphasis, or apostrophes used to alert the reader to the approaching of a letter “s.” Sometimes it’s a blessing to find a totally new error. A creative error. This one actually made me laugh out loud.
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Normally I ignore those little ads on the right side of my Facebook page. If I tried to red pen all of them I’d have a full-time job right there! But this one was just too good to miss. Did you catch that, guys? Nurses are in Desperate Need. It does make one wonder why [...]
Read the rest of this entry »SUSAN WEEK #4: Questionable math
First of all, I’d like to point out that I could have cropped this picture. I chose not to because I find it so amusing that Susan pulled over and photographed this one from her car! Susan asks, “Hmmm… what is .99 of a tan? One of my pet peeves is what that is!” Apparently [...]
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Susan went to Long John Silver’s and got all Red Pen-y up on them. This is what she saw: Let’s start at the top and move clockwise. First we have this: Susan thinks that this is evidence of an author fighting with automatic spell-check, which capitalizes each new line. I’m worried that it might just [...]
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Following in the footsteps of last week’s thrifty sign-writer, these folks would like you to know that the normal rules of dollar-sign usage don’t apply to them. They’re optional! They go after the figure! It’s all good!
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Bill M. found this one in Berkeley, CA, and says: The sign appears to be missing a hyphen and lacks consistent capitalization. Evidently the thrift store was too thrifty to have their sign proofread. Looks like it’s missing a dollar sign, too, Bill. Wazzup!!
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