Typo personalities
Armed with Sharpies, erasers and righteous indignation, two apostles of the apostrophe make it their crusade to rid the world of bad signs
Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson have not wasted their lives.
They fight a losing battle, an unyielding tide of misplaced apostrophes and poor spelling. But still, they fight. Why, you ask. Because, they say. Because, they must.
For the last three months, they have circled the nation in search of awkward grammar construction. They have ferreted out bad subject-verb agreements, and they have faced stone-faced opposition everywhere. They have shone a light on typos in public places, and they have traveled by a GPS-guided '97 Nissan Sentra, sleeping on the couches of college friends and sticking around just long enough to do right by the English language. Then it's on the road again, off to a new town with new typos.
Picture a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation—holding back a flood of mixed metaphors and spelling mistakes and extraneous punctuation so commonplace we rarely notice it anymore. But they are 28 and idealistic. Graduates of Dartmouth College, they are old friends with a schoolmarm's irritation at conspicuous errors, and despite their mild and somewhat nerdy exteriors, they have serious nerve. Deck lives outside Boston; Herson lives outside Washington. And together, they are TEAL—the Typo Eradication Advancement League—and they are between jobs.
The rest of the article is somewhat funny - especially when the reporter describes the reaction of business owners to being told their sign has a typo....
This is their blog, which describes their adventures: [link]
found that children with cats in the home were more likely to have made allergy-related antibodies to cats. At three years of age, children who had made antibodies to cats early in life were more likely to have wheeze, a respiratory symptom associated with asthma. However, by age five, the same children who had grown up with a cat were then found to be less likely to have wheeze.
Huh. The allergen equivalent of arsenic eating.
It also makes me wonder if Vizzinni would have had more luck using cats against Westley instead of iocane powder.
considering the economy and my current industry.
I hear you. Still.... they were sorry. My main point.
It also makes me wonder if Vizzinni would have had more luck using cats against Westley instead of iocane powder.
"One of these goblets has a cat in it. One does not."
I think Lori may be my new favorite.
Along with Jesse and Aurelia, of course.
two apostles of the apostrophe make it their crusade to rid the world of bad signs
Damn them for doing what I've always dreamed of!
Seriously, if I won the lottery, I'd start with the damned KOA "Kampground" of America signs.
IT'S SPELLED WITH A "C" GODDAMMIT!!!!
Is it an academic vita? Those are supposed to be as long as possible, IME.
sure, but can he at least wait until he GETS the degree?
All the best curses in the US seem to involve baseball in one way or another.
I personally put curses on two different baseball teams and both of them took. I also put a curse on one basketball player. Beware my Fu!
sure, but can he at least wait until he GETS the degree?
They don't in my field! (Though, people don't submit their CV for technical/non-academic positions. Those get the resume. CV for post-doc, fellowships, and academic track positions.)
Kristin, at 9:23, when I was going to work an hour and 23 minutes late, I drove past you on sunset as you were shepherding your charges somewhere. I was going to honk, but then it was too late.
I'm 5'1" and I sling bags up in the overhead, but usually do it while standing on my seat (I almost alway get an aisle).
I hate American Airlines is all I'm gonna say. Stupid (yet understandable) policy.
Today I have a going away lunch that I'm not supposed to know about but I was accidentally on the email. I wish I didn't, because then I'd just leave.
Also the administrative nemesis I have at this school sent out a memo today that she is retiring. Really? DAMN.
