Monday, June 09, 2008

ampersand quotation marks


That's right kids, that is a funny looking ampersand with quotation marks around it. Awesome. And there are elipses missing a period. And I have no idea what it means. I love this sign. Thanks for sending it to me, Sarah.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Symbol Formerly Known as Ampersand looks like it's practicing Tai Chi or Kama Sutra

Matt said...

I think that's actually just a drawing of a single piece of rotini pasta. So this must be a place where you can finance Italian food...

Anonymous said...

We shall create a new punctuation!
It shall be two dots, raised slightly above baseline!
And it shall be known as…
the semipause!

Minh Nguyễn said...

I guess it isn’t an AND. So maybe it’s an XOR?

“Buy here!••Or pay here!••But don’t do both!”

Anonymous said...

this might be the best sign for this site EVER! well captured, Sarah!

Anonymous said...

This one goes to the top of my list! Not only is the sign full of unnecessary and meaningless punctuation, but whole sign itself is unnecessary and meaningless. It's a "perfect storm" of pointless!

Crystal said...

I thought the elipses missing a period were additional quotation marks that made even less sense than those around the questionable ampersand.

Anonymous said...

Crystal is right; I think those might be the very rare compass point unnecessary quotation marks. The tapeworm-style ampersand was of such importance that it needed quotation marks not only left and right, but above and below.

Not quite the Bradys said...

I was right there with you Crystal! And anon.- "compass point quotation marks"! You slay me.

giganticrobot said...

That is hilarious.
I love your blog. That unnecessary quotation shit annoys me to no end. I fear where the English "language" is headed.

Anonymous said...

And there are elipses missing a period.

And "elipses" is missing an "l."

Tut...tut.