Consignment Shop
What?! No apostrophe abuse? Boo. I want my money back!
Photo by Shelby Salzberg, via e-mail
Wordsploded by Mark
January 30th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
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What?! No apostrophe abuse? Boo. I want my money back!
Photo by Shelby Salzberg, via e-mail
Wordsploded by Mark
January 30th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
(5 votes, average: 4.80 out of 5)
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“.20 CENTS” should be “20 CENTS”
You’re making an assumption. ^^
Naked Bunny with a Whip
30 Jan 09 at 5:08 pm
At least they didn’t spell it “cloths”.
GuanoLad
30 Jan 09 at 6:34 pm
Jeez, even 50 Cent gets it right! Oh, wait…
Noob Saibot
30 Jan 09 at 10:10 pm
Unless I’m doing my math wrong, at that rate, one would get a mere $4 per ton of clothes.
Ooops, I mean “…a ton of cloths !!”
This sign really makes my eyes hurt.
Allanimal
31 Jan 09 at 12:41 am
Apostrophes can be abused by omission:
“Well even pick it up”
Somewhere, there’s an apostrophe sobbing quietly to itself because of that sentence…
Les
31 Jan 09 at 2:58 am
Ye maths are right. Ye olde sign maker is clever.
Sign maker’s cunning calculation:
(0.20¢/cloth_pound) * (1$/100¢) = 0.002$/cloth_pound
Thus,
(0.002$/cloth_pound) * (2000 cloth_pound / cloth_ton) = 4$/cloth_ton
A more ethical approach:
(20¢/cloth_pound) * (1$/100¢) = 0.2$/cloth_pound
Thus,
(0.2$/cloth_pound) * (2000 cloth_pound / cloth_ton) = 400$/cloth_ton
[BTW, units follow quantity for math problems; so, don't nail me on that.]
Noob Saibot
31 Jan 09 at 3:47 am
That fractional cents error is too frequent.
Ben
3 Feb 09 at 3:01 pm
This sign is a Wordsplosion buffet. There are so many errors I hardly knew where to look first. Thank you, Mark and Sara, for this site.
lillian
26 Feb 09 at 2:34 pm
Closets to full, turbines to speed, batteries to power…
Oh, wait –
Closets TOO full!
Mike (Wally) Cocke
27 Mar 09 at 9:07 pm
The voices in my head are getting louder….
Where clothes? There clothes! Their clothes are there! They are, even!
Mike (Wally) Cocke
27 Mar 09 at 9:16 pm