Apparently there is a ten-digit number belonging to Delivery that has been wrongly imprisoned. That’s gotta be it, right, Lisa?
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Straight-up wrong
You don’t even get to debate about this one. To make it even more cut-and-dry, Colleen says this store got it right (or fixed it, I guess) on the door. They just didn’t think it was worth investing in the extra apostrophe for the big sign everyone sees, I guess.
Read the rest of this entry »Tempting, but wrong
Apparently my father was shopping for something delectable without me. At least he thought about me. I’m so glad to be the person everybody thinks of when they see egregious grammatical errors. Also, I’m not sure if my father caught this, but my compulsive Food Network viewing caused me to think “Wait, those are macaroons?” [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The insanity spreads
Reporter #1′s sister-in-law found this beauty. Thanks, Sister-in-Law-of-Reporter-#1!
Read the rest of this entry »Move along!
There’s nothing wrong here! Reporter #1 is just seeing mistakes everywhere. This obviously comes from the well-known dramatic work, Dialogue Between States, by W.P. Whoever! See? Vermont: I challenge you to a competition in nonsensical outbursts. You may go first. New York: Performance dealer! Bo shino! Vermont: Okay, I can’t top that. You win. So, [...]
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Are you supposed to say “Do not interfere”? Are they supposed to choke out “Do not interfere” in order to ask that you please, in fact, interfere? SAVE THE QUOTATION MARKS, people.
Read the rest of this entry »LMAO, thx SMS!
Sometimes Reporter #1 can’t wait to send me photos via her Compy 386, so she texts ‘em to me. And I have my SMS program set up so that it scrolls texts across my status bar, which means I read the text she sends before I can open the picture. I’m still not sure quite [...]
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Another random picture-message appeared on my phone from Q: Right off the top, I’d like to offer this sign-maker a cookie for going with over-enthusiastic DOUBLE UNDERLINING instead of quotation marks. You know some people would have gone with quotation marks, because — as Q’s venerable father said to me a few years ago — [...]
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John says it all: That poor, poor semi-colon. Apparently John found this in the Field Museum in Chicago. John doesn’t live in Chicago, so we can conclude that he took this picture for my little ol’ blog while he was on vacation. Anybody else going on vacation? Anybody else taking pictures of errors that they [...]
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Rick found this on Time.com’s website. At the time I wrote this post, it was still incorrect. Rick says: I thought a publication as venerable as Time would have better proofreading, but it seems that online, nobody can see you spell… or something. …They also misrepresented “Guido” as “Guide” but, that’s not really a spelling [...]
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