"you" better be "careful"

thanks to reader Joy who sent this one to me today. I usually try to avoid more than one post in a day, but this was too good and I was too impatient.

Joy adds these two things:
1. The sign is not for "me" or my "dog." Although I do have one.
2. My favorite part of the sign actually has nothing to do with the quotes but the clarification (which, it seems, is neccesary) that reads in tiny writing "yes. you."

I didn't see that second thing without Joy's help, and now I love it more. Killer.

"Our Coffee"

Cafe Caribe
Supreme Selection
Coffee for the Latin Taste
"Our Coffee"

Our Coffee

I'm sure that it would become "My Coffee" if I purchased it. But for now it's "Their Coffee".
I found myself wishing that the words "Latin Taste" would have been in quotes.

they're talking about solitaire

I got this email from reader Martin (thanks!):

I spotted this sentence in an article about the $100 laptop (about 3/4 the way down the page):

It includes Windows XP Starter Edition and some of Microsoft's "productivity" software.

Right.

and by "you" we mean other people

Thanks to Jim who spotted this one this morning. Evidently, they may or may not come to you. Or somebody said that they do. Or something.

I don't mind "working"...

thanks to new reader Paul, who sent me this picture and pointed out, "Apparently, Staples would like to remove the easiest parts of my work day."

For serious. And, also, like a "reassuring message" is going to keep me from doing "work."

The "Unknown"

I failed to see it.

The "Unknown"

Sorry if this post is a little blue. It is for adults only.

double-header

I should know better than to make promises and then flake out on them. Sorry for not posting yesterday, here are the two pictures I still had stockpiled:

this one was on the outside of an independent airport parking lot in Atlanta. Evidently, it's not much of an office. I was glad I had plenty of time before my flight, so I could turn around, jump out of the car and quickly take a picture.


I noticed this on my menu last week while dining at gyro wrap in Athens, GA. Some of my dining companions pointed out that the place isn't DIRECTLY across from the UGA Arch.
I also sincerely hope that that isn't their tagline. Because "Across from the UGA Arch" is a LAME tagline.

and with that, I'm spent. Send me more!

it's really a chain

the top right corner of this sign says "original grill." Maybe it's not really the original. This is the second recent sign that has put platitudes in quotation marks. The food is "original" here, Ralph's prices are "good." It reminds me of the discussion in When Harry Met Sally about what it means when you say a woman has a "good personality."

(thanks to Jim, once again)

"lawyer"

Jim sent me this, skillfully caught off the back of a bus in LA. Translation "the best lawyer." And by "mejor" we mean "advertises on busses."

I have enough pictures to finish off the week having posted EVERY DAY. I am so excited about this. It's a little pathetic. Thanks for your help!

a good podcast

Grammar sticklers and especially wannabe grammar sticklers might enjoy the grammar girl podcast. I enjoy a light-hearted discussion of grammar, and occasionally learn things I didn't know before. Or feel vindicated for already knowing it. So I reccomend it.