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Swiss FAILmily Treehouse

with 3 comments

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Saw this one at Disney World in the “Swiss Family Treehouse.”

Photo by Mark Jaquith

Wordsploded by Mark

November 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am

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Posted in Possessionism

Free

with one comment

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Color-by-number tiger girl is really freaking me out.

Photo by Kenn Nesbitt, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

September 12th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

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Pasta

with 4 comments

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Unnecessary apostrophes such as these are so crude. They might as well say “FRESH SALAD>1″

Photo by Eric Ode, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

July 8th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

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Posted in Possessionism, Whatsthisbigkeyfor?

Matresseses

with 9 comments

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Are they selling a hotel?

Photo by Ellena Kirk, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

April 24th, 2009 at 7:34 am

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Posted in Possessionism, Spelltastic

Pier

with 7 comments

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This sign could use some pier review.

Photo by Alan Jones, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

April 10th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

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Posted in Possessionism, Unintended meanings, Vocabularious

Fries

with 5 comments

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My honor student fries can punctuate the pants off of your fries.

Photo by Noob Saibot, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

March 26th, 2009 at 8:47 am

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Breaking news: coffee shop spells “espresso” correctly!

with 4 comments

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New rule: only fancy words get inappropriate apostrophes.

Photo by Marissa, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

January 28th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

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Posted in Possessionism

BEE’S!

with 4 comments

Silly sign. Beehives are communes! No individual bee possesses anything.

Photo by Wendy Bumgardner, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

January 14th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

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Laundry

with 8 comments

“Hm, if only I had some way to easily look up the proper spelling of ‘laundry.’ Oh well.”

Photo by shelley courvetter, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

January 12th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

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Posted in Possessionism, Spelltastic

Tap Shoe

with 10 comments

Of course he’s white… but you don’t say it!

Photo by Shayne Kaye, via Flickr

Wordsploded by Mark

January 10th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

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Posted in Corrective action, Possessionism, Unintended meanings