[Tax-chick]

Eats, shoots, and leaves!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This falls into an obsolescent, but once flourishing genre of news story, the “Ain’t those British eccentric” variety. Like the guy who drilled seven holes in his head and lived!! (He killed himself by drilling eight holes in his head.) Google “British Eccentric” to get a taste.

[goseminoles]

People are funny.

[Brugmansian]

Gatward’s name was first spelled Gateward, then Gatweard.

[Dysart]

Perhaps of interest to your apostrophism list

[WKL815]

I admit, seeing it incorrect everyday would annoy me too and having it fixed would feel like having a burr removed from my noggin.

[Arthur McGowan]

So they have banned apostrophes for “simplicity.”

How about just grunting and pointing. It’s a lot simpler than talking.

[deks]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-typo-guys-0521may21,0,701362.story

Typo personalities

Armed with Sharpies, erasers and righteous indignation, two apostles of the apostrophe make it their crusade to rid the world of bad signs

[dfwgator]

[Dark Fired Tobacco]

Street name signs are made of material that is retro-reflective; that is, the light from your headlamps is reflected in such a way that you do not see glare at night. Painting over this material would ruin that safety feature. The smallest letter that can be used on a street name sign is three inches in height, and that is used only for abbreviations such as AVE or RD. Any punctuation cannot be seen by the average driver at any reasonable distance and certainly not by an older driver.

This guy should have asked the city's traffic engineering department before assuming he knew what he was doing.