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Grammar Cop: Look What The Mouse Dragged In
Defendant: The iTunes Music Store
Count 1: Negligent apostrophe usage, a misdemeanor.
Count 2: Failure to proofread a song title which has appeared in no fewer than five albums in the span of twenty years.
Count 3: Displaying error in a high-traffic commercial venue.
Description: Officer was perusing video offerings for a new iPod (and inexplicably in the Poison section) when the crime was discovered. Although the error was originally attributed to ditzy longhaired freaks, circa 1986, further investigation determined that the ditzy longhaired freaks had correctly used the possessive form and the error was in fact made by Apple in Cupertino, California.
Fine: $399, plus tax.
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Comments
I'm surprised you didn't also cite them for "verbing" a noun in an awkward manner ("gift this video"). Did the Grammar Legislature make that legal recently?
Posted by: Wacky Hermit | January 23, 2006 3:36 PM
And inexclibly in the Poison section indeed...
You know how many albums this song has been in!
Poison fan!
[ Guilty as charged. -B. ]
Posted by: melissa | January 23, 2006 7:48 PM
More strangerest than the grammar is that they chose a screen capture from "Silence of the Lambs." I believe seconds later he dons his "woman suit."
Posted by: Rex Strother | January 24, 2006 4:49 PM
The chick in that picture appears not to be wearing a bra. Also, her boobs look hairy.
Posted by: Webley Webster | January 24, 2006 7:04 PM
Is "strangerest" a word?
[ Not to my knowledgerism. -B. ]
Posted by: sasafrass97 | January 25, 2006 12:56 PM
Uh, Webley, that chick is a dude!
Posted by: amanda | January 26, 2006 12:06 PM
Perusing the Poison section? Oh, Banterist, you have still more leather pants in your closet, don't you?
Posted by: everysandwich | January 27, 2006 1:33 PM
Isn't there like a counter-fine for perusing Poison videos (or audio, for that matter)?
Posted by: Derryl Murphy | January 28, 2006 12:30 AM