Gosh! Look what I saw tonight; Wal Mart has given some lucky boy HIS VERY OWN SECTION OF THE STORE. I wonder who the lucky little fella is?
About a Boy (At Wal Mart)
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motherhood, and all the rest of it.
Gosh! Look what I saw tonight; Wal Mart has given some lucky boy HIS VERY OWN SECTION OF THE STORE. I wonder who the lucky little fella is?
Must be someone whose parents use a.a. milne's capitalization rules.
(though I can't think that shouting "boy, come in for dinner!" would go over well with some folks)
Gotta love the over(mis)use of apostrophes and quotation marks!
Heck, I call my 10-year-old son "boy" all the time. It beats my mother calling any of my 4 younger brothers "PeteDavidSamArthurWhoeveryouare".
Ha ha ha ha! That is too funny but sad that people don't know how to use proper punctuation!
Oops.
Saw a giant billboard in Cincinnati once for a Reelty Agency. A.giant.billboard.on.the.highway.
I live in upstate NY and my local Walmart has the same sign. Makes me cringe every time I see it. I'm an editor. : )
I saw a sign for Lady's karaoke night today. Made me laugh.
Is that Lady from Lady and the Tramp? Or the Lady Chablis from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?
HA! On Clinton highway there is a sign for (may not be the correct name, but the last word is dead on) Jed's Used Car Vendue. TRUE STORY!
Ugh…so annoying and so unsurprising. I'm a professor and my husband calls me "Conan the Grammarian." (He's a professor too, FWIW). This stuff drives me crazy. Two of my biggest pet peeves when grading papers:
1. its' (ummm…do you mean "their"?)
2. He could of gone… (or, worse yet, "he could of went")
AAAARGH!
My husband is the same! This there/their, could of …, and my very favourite: ON front of something. We checked, there is no on front of…, only IN front of. He still can't accept it. And of course the the apostrophes, too… (And too/to/two, OMG…). He keeps asking me about spelling, and he is the native speaker, not me! Looks like he ist definitely not a native writer.
To be clear, my husband doesn't make these mistakes — our students do. He just teases me about how much time I spend marking the corrections on their papers. But I figure if no one ever corrects them…that's why Conan!
One of my least favorite: "based off of." Makes no sense. Must come from the same universe as "centered around."
Definitely that one too!
there is no walmart near me, and I have never been in a walmart…
Why are you shopping at Walmart?
I'll give them some sympathy, there is a tiny bit of possessiveness there. By some stretch it could be the "boys' department". But not really.
As for me, I enjoy going to the "Chinesse" restaurant near my house.
It's Chinese food with finesse.
Another blogger once posted a photo she took at her Target of two express checkout lines, right next to each other, one with a sign for Twelve Items or Fewer and the other for Twelve Items or Less. Grammarians over here, everyone else over there.
hehehehe
Walmart aside, Welcome to the South.
Those WalMart people must have gone to the same grammar school as the Ass't Prosecutor in Knoxville County.