Reappropriating a Label

( too long not to cut )

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From The Northerner:

A reader of the Hexham Courant with an admirable concern for the correct (and incorrect) use of the apostrophe writes a sad letter to the editor:
"A sign outside the Falcon Inn, Prudhoe, in very large letters, proclaims 'Wedding's Partie's Birthday's Engagment's We Do Them All'.
"The notice is 50 yards from a sign saying 'Welcome To Northumberland'. What will visitors think of us?"

That's just delicious, isn't it?

Catching Up on a Backlog of Reading...

... we've finally bumped into Mark Steel. As ever, apposite. We could quote, but the cumulative nature of the effect would be lost. Suck it and see: 'And here's Tommy Franks, the children's entertainer...'.

The punch line's the killer (if you pardon the violence of the words in the context of too much killing).