This makes me so mad. I was at Target last week and all of the Halloween stuff is hanging from the ceiling... and right along with it is Christmas stuff! I know places like Hallmark have out Christmas ornaments and stuff in July, but putting up ceiling decorations mid-October? Really? Give Thanksgiving a chance!

Posted in: rant, ridiculousness on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at at 12:08 AM 0 comments    

I've talked about this before. But I'm doing it again because I just saw this article. Apparently England wants to eliminate the apostrophe because "they confuse people". My favorite quote from the article says "If I want to go to a restaurant, I don't want to have an A-level (high school diploma) in English to find it."

Honestly people. They're extremely simple.
Use an apostrophe:
To show possession on a singular word: (That is the dog's bone... The bone belongs to the dog.)
To show possession on a plural word or a word/name that ends in S: (All of the kids' lunches need to be made. OR I am going to the Sumners' house.)
To abbreviate "noun is" (Fred's going to the store... Fred IS going to the store.)

Do NOT use an apostrophe:
In a plural form of a noun (We are having taco's and burrito's for dinner. WRONG)
In a plural form an abbreviation (I have a lot of CD's. WRONG)
In possessive pronouns (Hers, ours, yours, and theirs do NOT need apostrophes. They already show possession.)
In a plural form of a number (I was born in the 1980's. WRONG)

Common Mistakes:
It's vs. its -
It's means "it is" such as "It's cold outside."
Its shows possession as in "The dog lost its bone." The word "its" already shows possession so you don't need to put an apostrophe.
Who's vs. whose -
Who's means "who is" such as "Who's coming over?"
Whose means "the one to whom it belongs" such as "Whose ball is this?" or "We need to know whose house we're going to."

THE END.

Posted in: rant, ridiculousness on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at at 9:25 AM 1 comments    

Don't get me wrong. I love the Dr. Pepper. It's my favorite. However, they're pretty lousy when it comes to prizes. I've received one good prize from them in the past. I saved up 23 labels and they sent me a hat, shirt, and metal lunch box. The lunch box was awesome, the shirt was an extra large (even though I asked for a small), and the old man hat (along with the shirt) went to my dad. Another time I saved up those point things and got a shirt. I wish I had a picture of it, so you could experience with me the ugliest shirt I have ever seen in my life. It was supposed to look like a faded jersey thing. It looked more like a old pink shirt that someone found in a trashcan. It was horrible. I have probably won a couple of free 20oz. bottles, though, and that's pretty good.
Now they're having the Look Under The Cap To Get The Code To Go Online To See If You Won game. It's like they're trying to make you not win. If you see the letters "UWIN" under your cap, go to the website and type it in. One in six WINS! Yeah right. After about 25 bottles, I finally "won." I was excited and got on the website. After about 10 attempts to get it to accept my code, I got it to go through. I had hopes of winning cash! trips! another ugly shirt! even a 20oz! Nope. Here's what I got:

Thanks for shelling out the bucks on me, Dr. Pepper Bottling Company. And way to have good grammar. AN Wallpaper prize. Hmph.

Posted in: rant on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at at 10:33 PM 0 comments    

I've always been a stickler about spelling, grammar, and punctuation. (Surely as I write this post, I'll make an error in one of those, but I always reread what I write several times before posting to ensure that doesn't happen.) I hate it when I see signs up that have misspellings. I hate it when people write or speak improperly. But the topic that this post is about is the fact that I hate the misuse of apostrophes! It's rampant! If you look around, you will see it everywhere!
Last week when we went to the zoo, I was looking at the menus and saw what is making me write this particular post.

There is an option on the menu to make your own pizza and it lists the toppings. Apparently, something either belongs to the topping, meat choice, onion, mushroom, green pepper, tomato, and "jalepeno" (jalApeno), or the food items are about to do something. (The onion's going to go swimming!) Apostrophes are only used to represent ownership or abbreviation, not to make something plural! (I guess the black olives luckily got off the hook for owning something or doing something.)

The rest of the menu is pretty ridiculous too. It looks like that, at some point, somebody told them that salads, "sandwichs," hot dogs, and sides don't have an apostrophe in them, and they took them off. However, they forgot to slide that S up next to the rest of the word. And on sandwich, they forgot to add the E. In addition to that misspelling, I found six other mistakes on there. That's if you don't also count the five places that they made two words into one word. Can you find all of the errors?

Like I said, the apostrophe error is all around you. Here are the ones that I have seen and taken pictures of. A few of these have been posted before, but they're worth looking at again for the sake of this discussion.

This one's funny because they actually left off the apostrophe in health's. The sake belongs to the health. :)

Storm door's what now? Glass maybe?

Mmmm... coffee's something.

I don't want to spend 99 cents on something that belongs to a tornado. Especially if I don't know what it is.

Same caption as last time... Violator's what? Legs possibly?

This one and the next one sort of fall under the same category. Misspellings of abbreviations. Luckily the one above was also apparently pointed out to the museum curators, because an apostrophe was added to the word.
it's = it is
its shows possession (i.e. The dog hurt its leg.)

Your what is on camera?
You're = you are
Your shows possession (Your really ugly car is for sale at the car dealership.)

Posted in: funny things, rant on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at at 7:54 PM 1 comments