Otherwise very literate signs...

...can show the disease as well. This one was at the local market. It's well-written, very comprehensible, and displays good penmanship.

AND YET IS HAS A THIRD GRADE FRICKIN' ERROR !!!!!

Not to WiNE, but....

Stephanie and I were buying some WiNE the other day when we stumbled across a cornucopia of unneeded tittles. We could have stayed for an hour just capturing the variety instances, but we decided just to get a few representative samples.

Some days I start to wonder why this is sooooo easy....

Great Food, Great MUSiC

(this one is a little blurry)

Steph and I went to see Les Miserables up at the North Shore Music Theatre recently and stopped at the Wild Horse Cafe for dinner first. Great place. Also features LiVE MUSiC apparently.

Again, we find an example with amazing purity, every letter uppercase except the "i"s. A true classic. Embarrassingly excellent.

Hall of Fame Quality

Matthew sends us this gem from Homer City, PA. It has lOWERCASEl issues. It has apostrophe abuse, and yes, our local favorite: A badly placed tittle!

Lovely. We're all doomed.

TRiBUTE TO A FAllEN HERO

William points out that one of his lowercasel posts fits here, too.

A stunningly illiterate tribute to one of America's finest.

On the topic of "large" pizzas and such...

Let me say first that when Steph sends me photos of her tittles, that's just a good day all around...

These two signs are on the window of a pizza place in Agawam, MA, near Six Flags. They are good examples of the "every letter but one" being uppercase. Note on the second picture that the author decided the words in all caps don't start with a tittle, but can have one in the middle. Shall we call this a middle tittle?

But these great tittles are just a distraction from the better story on this day:

Have you ever ordered a "large" pizza in Western MA? Where I come from (and at every national chain), "large" means a big, round pizza with 8 slices, right?

Not in Western MA, apparently. Steph had budgeted $30-40 for pizza for her son Matt's party at Six Flags (we were tailgating), but it cost about $100 -- because out there a "large" is a 3-foot-by-4-foot monstrosity.

We ordered 4.

For 15 people.

It was Matt's 14th birthday, but we're still trying to figure out whether we'll need a U-Haul to help him bring the leftovers to college...

BRiNG 'EM ON!!!

Steph and I were just as happy as these folks when watching the Sox punch their ticket to the WORLD SERiES last night. Or maybe they punched their TiCKET. I'd have to ask. Were it not for the lowercase "n" in BOUnD, the perfection of these examples would be breathtaking.

Go SOX!!!