"Do you ever just get down on your knees and thank God that you know me, and have access to my dementia?!" --George Costanza

Jul 17, 2004

Cookie 'o' Puss

I just grabbed a slice of pizza for dinner, and decided to hit the nearby (and first!) Carvel store for an ice cream sundae.

While there, I witnessed one of my favorite phenomena: ill-placed and extraneous quotation marks.

The store has numerous signs up, saying:

The "Original" Carvel Store.


As you can see here, it really is the original. So why the quotes? It's not to qualify the statement, as in, "Try our new 'all natural' ribs." (On that note, I particularly like when something is "'kosher.'")

Anyway, I'm always amused when I see confusing uses of quotes. Here was one of my favorites:

"Try our" hot falafel.


Huh?

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