Comments on: Yet More “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

By: the creature

the creature — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:37:13 +0000

found a great one recently on a bar door.

Big Daddy’s Bar
must be “21″

By: Charity

Charity — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:46:51 +0000

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.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:23:55 +0000

Leah -

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

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:34:51 +0000

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

By: Caine Cassidy

Caine Cassidy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:17:59 +0000

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.

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:25:02 +0000

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.

By: heather

heather — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:29:50 +0000

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”.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:00:46 +0000

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

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:11:47 +0000

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.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:34:58 +0000

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.