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Also, I imagine PETA would take offense to serving up vegetarians on pita bread.

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Don’t confuse the two. Unlike the film starring Jason Segel and Paul Rudd, this particular film is actually about the bromance between Alberto Gonzales and former White House Legal Counsel John Yoo.

This one is minor and discreet.

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 This one is, however, is egregious.

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Also, if you specialize in something, you should probably learn how to spell it.

There’s another error on this sign, too, but I feel no need to beat a dead horse.

Okay, that’s not true. If it was, I would have shut down this blog years ago.

I think this copywriter’s keyboard was missing the “?” key.

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Seriously, how do you screw that up.

What kind of idiot doesn’t know that a sentence starting with “how” almost always ends in a question.

Doesn’t this make you wonder what kind of people get marketing jobs within our state government.

Also, “using fans.” Not a sentence.

And what does that random slightly-ethnic-looking woman have anything to do with saving energy.

Are you annoyed with this yet.

It’s even more annoying when you consider that thousands of dollars of your tax money went into paying for developing and executing this completely ineffective ad campaign.

COMMATOSE - I find it, particularly hilarious, that this Onion article, was posted, just days after, a heated debate about commas, on my blog. (Hat, tip: Ben K.)

If there’s one place where you don’t want to make stupid punctuation errors, it’s in a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times.

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Lozo sent this to me, presumably because he can’t use it on his own blog, since it has nothing to do with sports or the size of his dick. But here, it works just fine.

Now, bask in the glory of knowing that the MTA isn’t the only transit system whose incompetence shines through in everything they do.

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