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.
Brian Sack
I started Banterist in 2003 after this conversation with my cat. It led to all sorts of good things.
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?
And inexclibly in the Poison section indeed…
You know how many albums this song has been in!
Poison fan!
[ Guilty as charged. -B. ]
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.”
The chick in that picture appears not to be wearing a bra. Also, her boobs look hairy.
Is “strangerest” a word?
[ Not to my knowledgerism. -B. ]
Uh, Webley, that chick is a dude!
Perusing the Poison section? Oh, Banterist, you have still more leather pants in your closet, don’t you?
Isn’t there like a counter-fine for perusing Poison videos (or audio, for that matter)?