Ooh ... you almost got me on the their/they're swap. I had it all typed up and everything.

I just want everyone to agree that A LOT is two words.

That still hasn't been fixed? Someone with a ladder and a sharpee needs to correct that some evening!

Black Cat, you're absolutely right.  

Tonight, if you see someone on the scaffolding with a can of black paint...just, you know, look away.  It's nothing.  Nothing to worry about.  Certainly not.

If you really like to get your knickers in a twist over other people's bad spelling and grammar, spend about 10 minutes scrolling through Craigslist ads. 

A few of my favorites include "bran new," "rod iron," and "lawn more."

I agree with the "ALL CAPS" issue too, and would like to add the "no capitalization or punctuation" issue. That's fine if you are texting your BFF, but not if you are trying to communicate effectively with the rest of the world.

Umm--elden, isn't that 'c' as in 'crumpet', not 'k' as in 'i kan't spell'?

See how everything just seems to flow into little e's and c's and martini's?  just ask e.e.c.  
On the other hand, if paul says not, then not.  he's been trolled!  :-)

"Paul Lundgren" has this "website" where people post "intelligent" commentary on Duluth.

I loathe that apostrophe error at Black Water. In fact, I have not gone there due to that apostrophe. Perhaps, though, if I enter the door, I will find that something belongs to that martini. People who work for sign and screen printing businesses need to hire editors.

In Duluth, we may go to the lake to go rock hunting. At night, we may go out to see a rawk show.

Just don't use no double negatives or prepositions to end a sentence with.

When do we start hammering "Prince" for his phonetic spelling, none capital letter at begining of the sentence stuff? u no what i mean?

I'm waiting for this thread to get racial.

My all-time favorite spelling error was a sign my sister saw at Dayton's:

The stationary department has moved.

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My pet peeve are those framed ads that some convenience stores, like Holiday, post directly over their urinals. As if reading about RV dealers while holding your wiener isn't bad enough, the authors of those ads often leave them full of spelling and punctuation errors as well.

Nice to know so many people are annoyed by the Blackwater Martini's sign--so when it is finally fixed-- there will be many suspects!

Ahem. Verbs?

Aaack thbbft! Oh, wait. That's Bill the Cat.

This one kills me. But until recently, the NY Times would approve of this use. It is exactly what they called for in the style guide from 2000. After they started an online forum with copy desk people, I think a clamor rose and they changed the style to no apostrophes. Salts on the desks there could give no reasonable explanation on why an apostrophe was needed, except that it eased confusion in ALL-CAPS headlines that were no longer being used in the paper except on 9/11 and other Page 1A biggy stories.
Everything changed in 2006.

From one of the Blog entries from the NYT desk in the spring of 2007:
 As to the question above (and frequently submitted) of why we put apostrophes in decades (the 1960's) and in the plural of some all-capitalized initialisms (DVD's), the answer is we don't anymore. Phil Corbett, the deputy news editor who is in charge of the stylebook, eliminated those anachronisms last October, with this comment:
 Our main reason for using the apostrophe had been to avoid confusion in all-cap heds, but with those heds long since eliminated everywhere but Page One, that rationale is no longer compelling. And the apostrophe annoyed many readers, who thought we were mistakenly using a possessive form instead of a plural.

Given today's economy, and lifestyles, maybe there was an enterprising (and self-effacing) young tubby looking for some McD's money by selling his Pokemon cards and too-small Big Wheel? Heh.

@ Paul--ahem! -- I never noticed Black Water is two words, as I was always too preoccupied with (by?) the darn apostrophe...

The new awning at Sir Benedict's is horrible. Nearly every plural noun contains an apostrophe. It killed me to enter that bar on Saturday night.

Sir Ben's is hilarious now.

Oh man, I saw the Sir Ben's debacle last night.  Tradition's. Dessert's. Etc.  How did the awning maker allow this to happen?!  And why didn't they put "Shitty Service's?" on the awning?

I just saw the Sir Ben's awning this afternoon.  It literally got me to laugh out loud as I drove past.  I hope someone gets around to fixing it, but considering how long the Black Water mistake has been up, I've got a feeling it's going to be around for a while.

"It's time to eat, Grandma!"
"It's time to eat Grandma!"

Finally saw these after a trip to the Brewhouse on Thursday.  We laughed ourselves silly.  The next day, I saw the awnings without the benefit of too many stouts.  It was then that I realized: a)this is just plain depressing, and b) suddenly, Black Water looks all classy and stuff.

Amen! I just wonder how much they paid for those awnings.  I would be asking for my money back.