It’s Kacia week here at RPB! I love that when my friends go places, they think of me. I want a t-shirt that says “My friend went to [insert destination here] and all I got was this lousy grammatical error.”
Anyway, Kacia found this extremely unhappy chocolate showing its terrible claws at her neighborhood burger joint. For that we are grateful.
Julie calls this “an exuberant plural.”
Happy Wednesday, Julie!
Michael would like to know, “Why discriminate against openly gay biologists?”
Thanks, Michael!
Reporter #1 has done it again.
By day? We are mild-mannered white-collar workers. By night? We are VIRTUAL FARMERS! … Who don’t understand the rules of Capitalization, apparently.
I’d say they’re confused about punctuation, too!
Okay, it’s actually spelling. The fabulous Bobby Tables exclaims, “Metro is run by pirates!”
Thanks, BT!
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!
Meg would like to let us know about a cool post over on Serious Eats, More Evidence That Trader Joe Paid Attention in Grammar Class, from which the delightful picture below is taken. It seems to me less to indicate the awesomeness of Trader Joe Corporate — which, I assume, authorized and paid for the original sign — than that of Trader Joe employees. Nonetheless, it brings a tear to my eye.
Thanks, Meg!
Please excuse the drive-by nature of this photograph. I was not actually driving while I took it, but I was being watched suspiciously by the shopclerk. And I really, really needed her not to ask me what I was doing…
…because if she had, I was going to say, “Excuse me, I was wondering whether I would like to buy a Radko ornament.”
Reporter #1 shrugs, “Stationary iPhones need not apply.”
I could have seen where they were going with this, if the software were called “Weight Watchers for Mobile.” But it isn’t. And so this is wrong. Just like starting sentences with “And” or “But.” But this is my blog.
Dave thinks last Friday’s WaPo sports front page is a secret shout-out to the RPB!
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