Look, we cut it daily, okay? So it’s fresh cut. But we don’t want you smart-alecks getting all fussy when you notice that the fruit is moldy. I mean, it’s two weeks old, right? So it’s not so much “fresh” by any real definition of the word. It’s just fresh-cut.
I saw this one and I thought “At last, an appropriate use of quotation marks on a handmade grocery store sign!”
Yes, that’s right — “Yum yum” could well be what kids say while eating watermelon, and therefore does in fact belong in quotes. Get this sign-maker a cookie!
But then, I saw this…
I suppose it’s possible that my friend the sign-writer was making a comment on the nature of watermelon as a treat. Because let’s be honest, if it isn’t made of chocolate, it isn’t a treat, amIright?
It’s not that I don’t enjoy a fully-grown modern man invoking a curse against another fully-grown modern man. I totally do. It’s just that this letter from Cavaliers Majority Owner Dan Gilbert seems to also contain a little punctuation abuse.
Here’s a screen-cap, for posterity (edited only for layout). Click to embiggen.
I was going to red-pen this, but it’s more fun like a puzzle. How many things annoy YOU, Dear Reader?
Leah writes that this sign made her so distraught that she “was waving [her] arms about noticeably” and nearby store clerks had to ask her if she was okay.
I’ve “left” it “uncropped” because I like to imagine that that dude inside is totally staring at Leah. “Awesome.”
We’ve been so swamped with apostrophe abuse recently that I’m thrilled to post Lisa’s beautiful quotation-mark violation. “Thanks,” Lisa!
Galen says:
This is posted above the fish tank at my school. It replaced a sign that said essentially the same thing, it just didn’t have the interesting punctuation. I will say that this new sign manages to attract my attention every time I go by (but not in a good way).
So we have the obvious quotation-mark abuse, random capitalization, and one that’s annoying me a lot recently. I see the “hyphen-preposition” construction a lot on the web, as in “log-on” or “sign-in.” I understand that one would want to hyphenate if one were modifying a noun, such as “sign-in sheet” or “log-in process.” But I’m far more likely to see “please log-in now,” which I hate. And now we see that phenomenon expanding to fish tanks. What’s next, people?? What’s next?
Reporter #1 wants us all to warm up our brains this fine Monday morning with a little puzzle.
What is the herd plural of “error”?
In other news, the lovely Lisa R. says:
Park Slope Brooklyn: I sigh in shame for you. This at the fish counter at Union Market, which is swanky enough to know better.
Or, you know, “Shabbat” “shalom.”
Big thanks to my father, who found this one lurking somewhere in Israel!
In honor of our last-ever January, 2010 Red Pen Brigade incident, Alison brings the snark:
Looks like the daycare is starting to suspect that not all the creatures they watch during the day are in fact children. I guess I should leave my pet llama at home for a while…
It might be a picture quality issue, Alison, but I’m pretty sure you’re also missing an apostrophe there. It’s a double!