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2/7/12

Suspicious "Air Quotes" Worry Me

Adventures in Estrogen

As a shout out to Lady E's "Write whatever I feel like" idea, I'm going to write about something that bothers me.

"Laaaaaaazorz..."
Air Quotes.  You know... "These."

I have a business in my town that uses the suspicious quotation marks over "Gentle Dentists."  It could be worse... they could be "Gentle" Dentists, but it's still a pretty bad usage of quotation marks.

Another popular one is on donation areas saying your donations are going to "Kids" overseas...

A quick internet search shows the misuse of "quotes" in abundance.  They're probably more often misused than anything...

Here are a few of my favorites.  Enjoy.


It's really a puma, but we named it Fido... 

I named my compelling urge for booze "Haiti..."

In other words, run the sink for 6 seconds and wipe hands on pants.

Wait... no... this may be good...  Who has $100 they can loan me??

I needed this sign in my college dorm...

No socks, no "service?"

This... yeah, this is pretty accurate.
Do you have any favorites?  Describe them in the comments section.  Thank you for your "time!"
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