"That's nitpicking, is'nt it?"

Maybe you saw the "I'ts our turn" sign hanging from the upper deck at U.S. Cellular Field (née Comiskey Park) the other night during the White Sox-Red Sox tilt. Obviously someone at BostonDirtDogs.com saw it, and seized another opportunity to mock a poor Chicago-area speller. [Amusing as it is, that may be the only satisfaction Red Sox fans get this postseason.]

I also love the sign in front of a dollar store on Clement Street near Green Apple Books that reads:

"Smile, your saving"
alot of money

Now, I realize that the sign is in a neighborhood full of non-native English speakers. I hate to make fun of language barriers -- okay, sometimes I like to make fun of language barriers -- but there's just so much wrong with that one, I can't help but be amused. Sorry.

As I mentioned once before, I collected baseball cards as a kid. There was a memorabilia dealer in the local flea market who had a 1967 Whitey Ford for sale, with a sticker on the protective plastic sheet that said "Hi's last card". Huh? I mean, yeah, it's possessive. But "hi's"? I've always remembered that one through the years. I think the guy was Armenian or something.

This, too, is "funny," even if they haven't updated it in almost five years. And, unforgettably, there's the sign in front of Donna' s Diner in Battle Mountain, Nevada. ("If there exists in America a more eloquent testament to the Jughead shrug, a better paean to intellectual lassitude and inertia, I demand to see it," says Gene Weingarten.)


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