Counterintuitive Dept.

I do believe I have never seen the likes of this before:

Thanks to Dan P. in our Fort Worth offices.

Save money. Don't edit. Wal-Mart.

Not good, Sammy W. Not good.

Wal-Mart in Mason City, Iowa.

Laryngitis in the workplace ...

This is what I had to do today to remind myself not to answer, after I picked up (to what was luckily a junk-call recording) and said what came out sounding like, "Gwarddd murk, Dneeaarr."


I have stuff to do that does not involve the phone, so I came in to the office, but I have no voice. But I do have a computer! and texting! and IM! and two blogs!

There's no shutting me up, really.

Wait, what?

How can you log on to an e-mail address?

Murray Hill Post Office, 34th Street

Except after C

That's two strikes, hair ladies!

Third Avenue, Manhattan, Sunday.

"Rules" are made to be broken

Also in quotes: "Do Not Use Quantity Key"

D'Agostino, Third Avenue

"1000s of DVDs for sale" vs. "1000's of DVD's for sale"

I've been thinking about this predicament lately — namely, what do you do when it looks awkward to put an apostrophe and awkward not to? Which awkward is least awkward?

For example:
I've come to not really mind people writing, "CD's and DVD's for sale," and the like (that's how the NYT does it). However, AP Style is to say someone is in their 20s, and temperatures are also sans apostrophe. Maybe just words, not numbers, need the apostrophe for clarity.

Anyone else have different thoughts?

Thanks to Kimberly from Oregon for the photo!