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  Club Yesterday Is Dance Club

  791 readersThis dance club in a strip mall (classy!) either features an apostrophe catastrophe or its name gets the redundancy award for redundancy.It looks like it could be awesomely bad, though. I kind of want to pouf up my hair and go there. My iPod was playing Wham! this morning while I was getting ready for

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  Blame It on the Rain

  54 readersWendy spotted this apostrophe catastrophe at a comedy club in Seattle.Not funny, comedians!Thanks, Wendy!

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  World Series / AT&T Catastrophe

  2200 readersMany of us are suffering from a bit of winter malaise, so I thought it might be nice to post a baseball-related apostrophe catastrophe. Pitchers and catchers report to spring training just one month from today!In this context, its should not have an ap...

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  Satanic Apostrophe Catastrophe

  1319 readersGlenn Danzig, I don't know a lot about religion, but isn't there only supposed to be one Satan?Clearly, the devil removed the apostrophe from this album cover. The wikipedia entry, and even the URL for the wikipedia entry, include the proper apostrophe...

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  Someone Will Be Atoning for This

  2704 readersJust in time for Yom Kippur, here's an apostrophe catastrophe from the Holy Land.Whoever messed up that ad should be racked with guilt. Sure, last year I ate a cheeseburger club on Yom Kippur and a lobster roll on Passover. And I'm 30 and not yet married to a doctor. But at least I use

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  The First Cut’s the Deepest

  1199 readersThis sign from Reading, England, is a double apostrophe catastrophe:There should be one apostrophe in the sign, but it's in the wrong place. Shouldn't it be gents' hair cuts?Thanks to Kate for sending this one in!

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  A Princely Catastrophe

  1349 readersWell, the good thing about this apostrophe catastrophe, spotted at Babies R Us, is that one-year-olds tend to rip hats off their heads rather quickly. It could be put to better use as a spit rag.This type of apostrophe catastrophe is certainly a 1'st [sic]. Thanks to Melinda for sending it in!

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  Oh, Canada

  1304 readersThis apostrophe catastrophe, submitted by Joe in Saskatoon, didn't make sense to me at first because I didn't know what Reser's meant. Apparently, Reser's is a brand of burritos, so that first apostrophe is OK, but not the one in the word burritos.Thanks, Joe!

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  Veterans Day: An Apostrophe-Free Holiday

  8110 readersHappy Veterans Day, everyone! Yes, that's Veterans with no apostrophe. The day is for all veterans, unlike Mother's Day, which is apparently for only one mother.The Washington Post has an interesting blog posting today about Veterans Day and how it came to be celebrated on 11/11.Nancy sent me this screenshot of a blog posting that

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  Reusable Bag Catastrophe

  1867 readersThe QFC grocery store in Port Hadlock, Washington, is trying to encourage green living, but this sign is polluting the environment with an apostrophe catastrophe.Besides the errant apostrophe in its, this sign should also have a period at the end of the sentence. And reusable bag is not a proper noun, so what's with the