I am also proud to call you family.

-Dave

The site has just one joke, but that joke has legs. What they do is, they subtly caption each submitted photo with a phrase or response that assumes the quotes have been used correctly. It never fails to make me laugh.

I suggest you try, as I do, to apply the same logic to unnecessary apostrophes used for pluralization. One solution is to assume the punctuation is meant as an unusual contraction. Thus, the phrase, “Restroom’s out back,” can be interpreted as “The Restroom is out back.”

Another, more complicated, example was introduced to me recently when I saw a sign in a restaurant bathroom that I believed to have been punctuated in error. When I brought it to the proprietor’s attention, however, I was told that I had misunderstood the meaning of the sign; in actuality, the sign was addressed to a specific ‘Must’ — a type of sentient, corporeal fog somewhere between dust and a mist — that was owned collectively by the employees. Since the shop dog — affectionately known as ‘Hand’ — is currently washing, the Must was being reminded that it, too, was required to wash (though, since it was not able to actually get itself wet or work the faucet, it would be “washing” by simply going through the motions).

Hence the sign, “Employee’s Must “Wash;” Hand’s.” was actually pretty accurate.

Just something to think about.

-Dave

Thanks
Dirnov

I’ll be talking with my wife and she’ll mention that she had a really hard day at work, and I’ll say, “I’m sorry.” She’ll say, “It’s not your fault.” To which I’ll reply, “I’m not apologizing, I’m empathizing.”

It works, but that’s English for ya.

IM RLY SRY

Thanks also for the many humorous images to which you linked — particularly reposte and red.

-Dave

Thank you
Elcorin