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Thank’s Door

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Sorry Thank. I didn’t “realize” it was your “door.”

Photo by Paull Young @ Flickr

Wordsploded by Mark

September 12th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

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Posted in Capital punishment,Not using it right, Joe,Possessionism

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9 Responses to 'Thank’s Door'

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  1. Surely they mean that the door is named “Close”. And they ask you to thank them for it.

    Sverre

    14 Sep 08 at 5:08 am

  2. Uhg. This is a huge pet peeve of mine. My co-workers used to do this all the time at me old job. I finally couldn’t take it any longer and brought it up. Their explanation was that they wanted to ‘emphasize” the word with quotes. My other co-worker, who shared the annoyance with me tried explaining to them that quotes do not add emphasis, but instead mean that you are quoting someone or possibly using irony of some sort. Their reply “you do it your way, we’ll do it ours.” It was crazy.

    vincent

    14 Sep 08 at 10:14 am

  3. Quotation marks aside, how about that comma?

    C

    14 Sep 08 at 10:45 am

  4. No, no, you’re misinterpreting it! “Door” is a misspelling of “dour”, and “Please” is a poor phonetic attempt at “policeman”.

    So really, the sign is there to express gratitude to the grumpy cop named “Officer Close”.

    Donnie B.

    14 Sep 08 at 11:43 am

  5. It’s Tom Hanks’ door.

    MF

    14 Sep 08 at 11:59 am

  6. They have also placed commas after Close, making it sound like a noun instead of a verb.

    Jackko

    14 Sep 08 at 1:58 pm

  7. I still really can’t understand how people can think that it is a good idea to use quotation marks for emphasis.

    My favorite example is by a bus company with the slogan “Travel ‘comfortably’ – travel by bus!”

    I made a post with that and some other examples at my blog if anyone is interested. http://zlovers.blogspot.com/2008/08/seriously-what-is-up-with-people-using.html

    Zabimaru

    15 Sep 08 at 12:06 am

  8. I’ve had to deal with the quotes-for-emphasis people before too, but explained it by comparing written quotes to air quotes (which obviously indicate irony).

    Joseph

    16 Sep 08 at 3:56 pm

  9. People who use quotation marks for emphasis are “morons”.

    Although it’s possible that Thank just wants us to figuratively close his door, and not literally close it.

    JD

    16 Sep 08 at 4:44 pm

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