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Beach Beverage Catastrophes Brian found this catastrophe-filled sign while rollerblading on Manhattan Beach:Kevaccino's appears to believe that it is necessary to include a catastrophe when pluralizing a word that ends with a vowel. They also don't know how to spell "bagel" or "cappuccino."Thanks,… |
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LeBron James: Witness to Bad Punctuation (Again) My friend/former co-worker Amy, who is originally from Cleveland, sent me this photo from Cleveland.com.I understand that fans are devastated by The King's betrayal, but that does not excuse their poor punctuation.Thanks, Amy! And sorry about LeBron...… |
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Nice “Decision,” LeBron Bitterness apparently leads to unnecessary quotation marks, as evidenced by this bizarre letter written by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert. That semicolon at the beginning should be a colon, and let's not even talk about the comic sans. Or the… |
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What is Really In This Box? This product, which may or may not be couscous, was sitting on the counter at my parents' house when I went there on Monday.Whatever it is, my mom used it to make an awesome "couscous" salad dish.If you like this… |
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False Advertising The rabbit on this t-shirt catastrophe, spotted by Romy in South Dakota, isn't even cute!Nor is the backwards apostrophe or the entirely absent apostrophe in let's.Thanks, Romy!… |
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This Sh— Is Bananas Today's apostrophe catastrophe/spelling disaster comes from the the Harrisburg, Penn., Artfest. The person who made this sign clearly doesn't listen to Gwen Stefani because he or she doesn't know how to spell bananas.Nanci, who submitted this apostrophe catastrophe, is… |
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A Princely Catastrophe Well, 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… |
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Illiterate Library Sticking with Scotland for another day, this catastrophe comes to us from (believe it or not) a library in the Barmulloch area of Glasgow. Children's is misspelled and missing an apostrophe.Thanks again to Marie for submitting this catastrophe.… |
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No Apostrophes in My Beer! Today's apostrophe catastrophe comes to us from Glasgow.One could argue that combo's and promo's are not true catastrophes because they could be shortened versions of combinations and promotions, but pizza's gives it away. I don't think this sign maker had… |
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You We Are My friend Kurt sent me this sign that he found in a restaurant in Knoxville.We've got missing commas, periods instead of commas, and an apostrophe catastrophe in were. This sign is a mess. And the tone is so angry… |
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Starbuck Is and Walgreen Is David sent in a screenshot from the Chicago Tribune that contains two apostrophe catastrophes. Neither Starbucks nor Walgreens should have apostrophes in their name.Not only are both chains ubiquitous, there's an image of a Walgreens sign (without an apostrophe) right… |
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Six out of Seven Catastrophes Agree Bradley spotted this horrendously punctuated furniture store in Salt Lake City:He thinks the one correct sign was added later than the others.Thanks, Bradley!… |
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Catastrophic Calzones Josh spotted this catastrophic sign in Columbia, MO:He writes, "There's a signmaker out there who needs to be slapped."Thanks, Josh!… |
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Hit the Road, Jack! The missing comma in this t-shirt is really not that big of a deal. I mean, who is going to think that this shirt is saying that you should hit a road jack?But I'm all about the Celtics right now,… |
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Punctuation Dreamin’ on Such a Winter’s Day I was watching a show about the Ed Sullivan Show last night on PBS, and this Mamas and Papas album flashed on the screen:"Were those apostrophes?!?" I exclaimed, but the person whose house I was at doesn't have DVR, so… |
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Sometimes Cigars are Just Cigar’s Erin spotted this apostrophe catastrophe at a smoke shop in Las Vegas:For the record, Erin was shopping at the comics store two doors down, not the cigar store. Thanks, Erin!… |
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Punctuation in the Toilet Don't ask me how I know this, but today is the one-year anniversary of the day I humiliated myself by accidentally using the men's room at work. So, it's only fitting that today's apostrophe catastrophe is bathroom-related. Marie found this… |
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Fiesta’s. Forever. Tim sent in this photo of "a massive billboard in the centre of Northampton," which he predicts must have cost a fortune:Fiesta also just seems like a bad name for a car, and it makes me think of Lionel… |
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One Magazine Cover, Two Catastrophes Hanuman, who enriched our lives with the photo of Club Yesterday's, recently found two apostrophe catastrophes on the cover of a supermarket-checkout magazine.Idea's and style's?! Oh boy!Thanks, Hanuman!… |
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Carving Into Irony Sometimes there's just so much stupidity in the world that I can barely handle it. Case in point: this carving that someone is selling on etsy:Yes, that's a semicolon. And of course we have a your/you're error and an it's/its… |
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At Least the Food Was Good This sign that I found in the bathroom at Gargoyles restaurant in Davis Square features just about every type of punctuation problem known to man.We've got comma splices, unnecessary quotation marks, missing periods, random capitalization, and, of course, apostrophe catastrophes.… |
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Club Yesterday Is Dance Club This 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… |
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The First Cut’s the Deepest This 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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Perfect for a Friday Afternoon George writes, "I can't blame them too much, since it's a Mexican restaurant, but... wow."We've got apostrophe catastrophes inside unnecessary quotation marks! Margarita madness!OK, I'm thirsty....Thanks, George!… |
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Being Irresponsible with Punctuation When I first received this submission from David, I thought the ad was being sarcastic.But Google research shows that it's the slogan of an actual political organization in England. Being conservative is one thing, but one should never conserve apostrophes… |
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Some Mistakes Were Built to Last Emily sent me this photo of her friend Kat's permanent apostrophe catastrophe:Oh, tattoo catastrophes are my favorite! My mom and I are both 5'2", so I can relate to the sentiment, but I think Kat ought to get an apostrophe… |
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Yankee Is Suck It's small, but it appears that some NYC baker put an errant apostrophe on this Yankees cookie.I wonder if the Mets cookie, which I presume is underneath, has the same problem. Thanks to my friend Spencer for sending me this… |
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Blackhawk Down Craig was very disappointed to discover that one of his favorite bars in Chicago, Halsted's, committed an apostrophe catastrophe on this poster:I feel your pain, Craig. You might have to find another bar to watch Saturday's game.… |
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Caffeinated Catastrophe Robert photographed this catastrophic sign in Everett, WA.No coffee?!? I wouldn't last 10 minutes at that football field. And why does coffee get called out separately anyway? They could have just written "No food or drinks" to avoid redundancy.Thanks, Robert… |
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Birthday Card Catastrophe This catastrophic birthday card, which Brian found at a car wash of all places, shows that you're always better off with a homemade card.Thanks, Brian!And speaking of birthday's [sic], my mom turns 60 today! Happy Birthday, Mom!… |
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Hehe, You Said “Bunghole” My parents found this apostrophe catastrophe at Borderlands State Park in Easton, MA. This one is a bit subtle -- it's should be its. My dad writes, "Maybe if I do a lot of weightlifting, I too will be… |
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