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Chris Higgins
Yet More “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
by Chris Higgins - October 12, 2007 - 7:12 PM

June brought us the classic Gallery of “Misused” Quotation Marks, September was full of More “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks, and now “unnecessary” quotation marks are going “Web 2.0″ with Flickr, in the “Quotation Mark” Abuse pool. Finally, you can get in on the action!

Here are a few favorites from the Flickr pool:

See 488 more photos in the pool. There’s even a “slideshow.”

Okay, I’m officially putting this topic to bed. Until November.

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  1. “As” far as I’m concerned, these never get old! Keep ‘em coming!

    posted by David on 10-12-2007 at 9:41 pm

  2. By the way, if anybody can explain “Sexy” Artificial Trees, that would really clear some things up for me. :)

    posted by Higgins on 10-13-2007 at 7:57 am

  3. You can have you “party” at the local bowling alley.

    And I’m not even sure what plain old sexy artificial trees are, quotes or no.

    posted by Pointy-Hatted Geek on 10-13-2007 at 11:53 am

  4. I love these – using quotation marks for emphasis and the misuse and abuse of apostrophes made me laugh out loud. I especially enjoyed “the name you can trust” for an item made in china . . . considering all the recent recalls.

    posted by Christine on 10-13-2007 at 3:34 pm

  5. My grandmother always put my name in quotes when addressing birthday or christmas cards. She never did this for my brothers though. I can only imagine that she thought I was an impostor posing to be her grandson.

    posted by Christian on 10-15-2007 at 8:11 am

  6. Christian-
    Perhaps she considered you more of a heathen and found your name ironic? Were you a rebellious youth? Just kidding! :-)

    posted by Sid Morrison on 10-15-2007 at 12:00 pm

  7. I don’t even know where to begin with the “sexy” artificial trees (artificial sexiness?), but these are great.

    I remember seeing a sign outside a Dariy Queen in Washington that advertized “new” “specials”.

    posted by heather on 10-15-2007 at 5:29 pm

  8. It suddenly occurred to me I don’t know who’s dumber – the idiots who make these “signs” or the people like me who laugh so hard at them.

    posted by Connie on 10-17-2007 at 7:25 am

  9. This wasn’t featured, or may have been before, but I regularly got receipts at a particular restaurant that always had “Thank You” on them. I was never sure if it was supposed to be the owner, cashier or perhaps the building itself thanking me, or just an attempt to be up front about insincerity.

    posted by Caine Cassidy on 10-17-2007 at 4:17 pm

  10. Are there any collections of inappropriate apostrophe sightings? As in “There are some extra chair’s”?

    posted by Leah on 10-17-2007 at 4:34 pm

  11. Leah -

    See book “Eats, shoots and leaves”.
    You’ll love it.

    posted by Bill on 10-17-2007 at 7:23 pm

  12. I bet you guys have already talked about this, but as a former teacher it really makes me crazy when people put prices like this: .50(cents sign) What they really mean is $.50 but they combine the use of a decimal point with the cents sign.

    posted by Charity on 10-19-2007 at 9:46 pm

  13. found a great one recently on a bar door.

    Big Daddy’s Bar
    must be “21″

    posted by the creature on 3-17-2008 at 3:37 pm

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