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# is the oxford comma of doom
reffering to the debate as to whether there should be a comma after 'and'?
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:24, archived)
# Yup.
There shouldn't, at least not most of the time.
(I helped save b3ta! Comma, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:26, archived)
# What about an apostrophe
in the word "orange's" on any market stall, anywhere?
(Crunchy Frog?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:27, archived)
# NEVER!
That makes me angry. Apostrophes aren't hard to use, people who make signs like that are fools.
(I helped save b3ta! Comma, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:29, archived)
# Unless
it's to indicate that the orange does in fact posess something.
(I helped save b3ta! JimM, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:30, archived)
# Like what?
Peel?
(Crunchy Frog?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:31, archived)
# price.
(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:33, archived)
# Yes,
but I was jumping to the conclusion that everyone apart from me was stupid :)
(I helped save b3ta! Comma, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:32, archived)
# Here's another one
"handwritten" "signs" seem to make more and more incorrect use "of" inverted "commas". Anyone else notice this?
(Crunchy Frog?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:34, archived)
# Yeah.
That's awful. I mean, inverted commas are not hard to use properly.
(I helped save b3ta! Comma, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:37, archived)
# all punctuation is easy to use properly.
But until the majority of people start caring about it, it won't happen.

The NetworkQ near us has big stickers in the window saying :Vectra's and Corsa's

Makes me scream every time I drive by.
(I helped save b3ta! notshiny, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:42, archived)
# fine print...
VECTRA'S and CORSA'S
RAM MAY BE FLAKY
(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:46, archived)
# what
like the orange actually owns 30p a pound?
(The Wigmeister, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:32, archived)
# yeah
i've seen "menu's"
(1, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:32, archived)
# the owners
of said market stalls should all be shot
(norumbegan, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:32, archived)
# and their flesh sold by the
KILO!
(negative armadillo There never was much hope..just a fool's hope., Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:35, archived)
# mmm,
fresh flesh
(norumbegan, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:40, archived)
# rubbish.
Show me where it says that...

Also the Oxford comma is used before an and that's part of a list, not just any and.
(I helped save b3ta! slight yoinks!, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:35, archived)