Monday, August 08, 2005

Favourite junk-mail ever!

(Well, apart from the obligatory rude ones.)

'You too can have a years supply of pizza'

How did I manage to resist?

Well probably, because I was fuming at the lack of apostrophe between ‘year’ and ‘s’. Because, if there’s ONE thing that makes me fume… Well, naturally, there are many things that send me into a frenzy of furiousness (list to follow), but misuse of the apostrophe is, most anally, one of them. In fact, I actually once had to deface a police sign because there were two of the little blighters missing. I couldn’t believe it! There, attached to a railing, was a professionally printed police placard (hello, unintentional alliteration), kindly warning me not to leave my precious Girls Aloud tapes and used chocolate wrappers in my car, lest a naughty thief should smash my window in, having mistaken a melted Dairy Milk Biscuit bar (no strike that - there is no way I would have left any part of a Dairy Milk Biscuit bar uneaten), um, a melted Kit-Kat for a state-of-the-art DVD player, and all I could see were two blatant errors of punctuation. So out came my trusty biro, and I graffititied my way to apostrophe correctness. I’m with the Eats, Shoots and Leaves brigade on this one. And yes, I am the kind of person who writes the whole word out when texting, and am damn well proud of it. Alright? Good.

1 Comments:

Blogger Catherine said...

Am just glad someone spotted the deliberate mistake. Layers of irony and all that. Actually am mostly amazed that someone else read this.

9:02 AM  

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