# I'm going to 'start carrying marker's around with me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958 "2009-09-13T21:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/1 "2009-09-13T21:43:35Z")
…for the 'sole purpo’se of cro’s’sing off errant apostrophe’s in 'shop 'sign’s. Today’s offender, at a restaurant entrance: “Todays Desert’s”. Anyone know where I can get a hold of those back-lit markers they use? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/2 "2009-09-13T22:19:48Z")
For you’re “enjoyment:” [Apostrophe Abuse](http://www.apostropheabuse.com/) and [The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks.](http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/3 "2009-09-13T22:25:45Z")
The worst one that I ever saw was at my workplace several years ago. The boss of a man names Charles sent an email out because Charles called in sick. It said: Charle’s won’t be at work today. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/4 "2009-09-13T22:39:17Z")
Wish’s you we’ll. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/5 "2009-09-13T22:43:33Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > For you’re “enjoyment:” > [Apostrophe Abuse](http://www.apostropheabuse.com/) and [The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks.](http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/) You’re trying to give me hives, aren’t you. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/6 "2009-09-13T22:44:42Z")
> [@chique](#): > > …for the 'sole purpo’se of cro’s’sing off errant apostrophe’s in 'shop 'sign’s. > > Today’s offender, at a restaurant entrance: “Todays Desert’s”. > > Anyone know where I can get a hold of those back-lit markers they use? Perhaps they were a desert that day? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/7 "2009-09-14T00:29:13Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > For you’re “enjoyment:” > [Apostrophe Abuse](http://www.apostropheabuse.com/) and [The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks.](http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/) Now I’m going to have to go on an ax rampage at the local DMV and it’s all your fault. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/8 "2009-09-14T00:35:08Z")
> [@chique](#): > > You’re trying to give me hives, aren’t you. > [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Now I’m going to have to go on an ax rampage at the local DMV and it’s all your fault. 😃 You can either let it make you crazy or just laugh at the stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/9 "2009-09-14T05:20:47Z")
I once had a friend make a post on her facebook page about her camera len’s. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/10 "2009-09-14T09:05:28Z")
Remember, don’t use the markers on your computer screen. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/11 "2009-09-14T13:34:12Z")
> [@chique](#): > > Todays Desert’s Easier to add stuff than remove stuff. “Today’s Desert’s the Sahara.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/12 "2009-09-14T14:25:00Z")
If you’re at all serious about correcting other people’s signs, don’t be like that idiot who marked a historic sign in a national park and was charged with vandalism. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/13 "2009-09-14T14:25:15Z")
I wonder if any chocolate “moose” live in the desert, just in case my stomachs growling. This thread is “great.” ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/14 "2009-09-14T16:44:28Z")
The worst one for a while was Macy’s Mens department. Many other stores forget the apostrophe as well. But upon reflection, I think the apostrophe is obsolete and ought to be discarded entirely, solving both forms of the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/15 "2009-09-15T00:57:39Z")
> [@chique](#): > > You’re trying to give me hives, aren’t you. Nope, but maybe the hives’s. I saw this in a professional publication today: capability’s I couldn’t finish the article. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/16 "2009-09-15T02:02:51Z")
Seen today in the window of the Salad Works at 1500 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia: “CCP Students Get’s 10% Discount” Honest to God. CCP is the Community College of Philadelphia, just up the street. I wonder if there’s an extra discount for students literate enough to point out both things wrong with the sign. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/17 "2009-09-15T02:56:42Z")
> [@chique](#): > > You’re trying to give me hives, aren’t you. [This is the worst example of apostrophe abuse that I have ever seen](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=119131&l=695b06547a&id=551442651), if only for the context. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/18 "2009-09-15T03:07:45Z")
For some reason I read the title of the o.p. as “I’m going to start carrying Maker’s Mark around with me,” and I thought to myself, “Well, it’s okay as bourbon goes, but you should really try Knob Creek or Woodsford Reserve if you’re going to be hardcore about it.” Then I realized it was a grammatical rant and felt like I’d fallen through some kind of Phillip K. Dick novel where everybody interprets words slightly differently due to the use of mind-altering drugs, altered perception of reality, and a multi-solipsistic view of the universe. I had a point when I began this post, but it has since escaped me like Steve McQueen in a prison movie. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/19 "2009-09-15T03:10:54Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I had a point … but it has since escaped me like Steve McQueen in a prison movie. This is excellent. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-start-carrying-markers-around-with-me/509958/20 "2009-09-15T05:04:32Z")
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