Superfluous quotation marks crack my shit up. This sign, although it is short, reads in my head thusly:
"Please at least pretend to appears as though you're watching for pedestrians so you have plausible deniability in court later and so that we can claim zero responsibility for your blatent negligence."
hahahahahahaha. Ahem. That's amusing. I'd make some crack about society being really crappy at grammar, but then there would be the inevitable spelling or grammatical error of my own in my response and it would just make me look like an idiot. BUT I'm thinkin' it.
Oh gawd. The annoying quote marks. One of my pet peeves, along with making words plural by adding an apostrophe. (ie: Watch for pedestrian's... grrrrr!!!!) Somewhere there's a blog devoted to this grammar mistake but for the life of me I can't "remember" what it's called...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 4:47AM
Reader Comments (23)
Gotta love those unnecessary quotation marks! I am always on the lookout for them. Have a great WW!
well someone has to do the people watching
That is awesome!
Like that's going to make the difference to that crazy driver !!! Love it !
Ah, yet another reminder of the stooopid people that need this guidance.
Might sue you? No they will sue you. Even if they are in the wrong.
Does that mean we are suppose to pretend to watch or actually watch? I am so confused!!!
What the hell is that all about?
Does that mean "watch" like gun it and mow them down?
"People" are so stupid.
Do they hide the pedestrians in the bricks?
But not really...
Superfluous quotation marks crack my shit up. This sign, although it is short, reads in my head thusly:
"Please at least pretend to appears as though you're watching for pedestrians so you have plausible deniability in court later and so that we can claim zero responsibility for your blatent negligence."
Um....all typos can be blamed on my raging head cold and teh fact that I'm 35 weeks pregnant. KThnksBye!
Well, that just seems a little sarcastic, no?
hahahahahahaha. Ahem. That's amusing. I'd make some crack about society being really crappy at grammar, but then there would be the inevitable spelling or grammatical error of my own in my response and it would just make me look like an idiot. BUT I'm thinkin' it.
LOL ... "Watch" ... doesn't say anything about don't hit them ... yield to them ... just "Watch" them.
The misplaced quotation marks just give and give and give. Check 'em out on Cakewrecks sometime:
Happy Birthday, "Dad"
Oh gawd. The annoying quote marks. One of my pet peeves, along with making words plural by adding an apostrophe. (ie: Watch for pedestrian's... grrrrr!!!!)
Somewhere there's a blog devoted to this grammar mistake but for the life of me I can't "remember" what it's called...
;)
what happens if you don't "watch"? can you casually observe instead? or gaze? or...
i'll stop. it's hard to shut off the lawyer looking for loop holes
I'm really bad with over-using the quotations but I still think that's funny!
I am always trying to find "signs" like this!! Funny "stuff!"
That's a riot. On a related annoying subject, I hate air quotes. They should be banned.