Mind your periods and question marks.

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

I made -that one- a link, Anna. (thanks!)

alas, the ellipsis symbol returns the dreaded '404'...
-ron (punctuation misuse is, fun) obvious

National Punctuation Day even got a mention on CBS News every-hour-on-the-hour. Now THAT's a product placement!!

(I got a 404 for ellipisis, too. Guess there's no such thing.)

From the site's *heading:

...and the ever-mysterious ellipsis

I'd like to maintain the minute bit of mystery surrounding *my ellipses...

No 404 here …

My personal hero on the thorny subject of punctuation is Lord Timothy Dexter [1748-1806]. In his autobiography, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones: or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, he added an appendix consisting of a whole bunch of punctuation. As he wrote: "fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as they plese".

http://fifth-estate.home.comcast.net/lord_dexter/the_holl_pickle.htm

There's a car wash in town with a despicable sign which reads:

Ladies Day
Tuesday's

Makes me want to leap out of the car and chop it down!

Dear Bean ~

I have a similar reaction to all businesses which use the word "nite" on their signs, e.g. "Day-n-Nite Grocery." Grrrr.

I liked the "Antiques and Junque" store but the Kozy Korner Kafe annoys me no end.

Are there really any places called "The Dew Drop Inn" or is that a fictitious construct?

Some people just have no control of their sense of humor. Google dew-drop-inn and go to images.

For extra credit try the same with "curl up and dye" for the cutesy named beauty salons.

>Some people just have no control of their sense of humo(u)r.

The Dew Drop Inn thang don't work so good up here, where we pronounce the word "Dyew", as in "Nyew". (RIP Fred Ebb)

The Dew Drop Inn thang don't work so good up (sic) here

One of my googled Dew Drop Inns is in Ireland, btw. Din't see none in Zildia, but then I din't look all that hard, neither.

Faux celtic is the preferred flavour of naff here - D(h)unroamin, D(h)unwand(h)rin, that sort of thing.

If you're constantly exposed to these types of play-on-words names, I can see why you might get tired, but here in Québec, it's extremely rare. It's just not a French habit.

So for me, it's always fun seeing the store names when I go into the English provinces.

When I was a kid growing up in Burke, Va, there was a Dew Drop Inn on Ox Road, between Clifton and Fairfax Station. More specifically, there was a sign which said that on an abandoned building. I don't remember its ever being opened, and that was just about half a century ago. Now that I think about it, it was an old Coca Cola sign, and it would probably be worth a mint today.

A drive up Vancouver Island includes: the aformentioned Antiques and Junque; My-Chosen Cafe (in the hamlet of Metchosen); the unfortunately named pseudo-Spanish Costa Lotta Campground and worst of all the Northern Fourty hobby farm. .
For years there was also a sign on someone's acreage cut onto a big wooden slab.
........John & Norah
...........Smith
Only when you looked a little closer Norah's name was carved into a piece of 2 by 4 and nailed overtop of the first wife's name. It's hard to get more sincere than that!!!

That's a new one for me. The first time you read it, it's cute and brings a little smile. But see it again? It's immediately a very old joke. Wonder why?

There's a diner in Tioga County, Pennsylvania called La Ponda Rosa. I like to think of it as the Pink Pound.

'Seen since the start of this string:
On left and right truck mud flaps: Passing Side / Suicide
Hairdresser: Shear Madness
Small Farm sign: Backacres
I dislike contrived and witless names like Ye Olde Spirit Shoppee and such when the place is plainly quite new. Signage makers get paid by the letter, so it's good for the economy I suppose, (he said dispiritedly)

edit: 'didn't mean to plagiarize wofahulicodoc - please excuse my oversight. O'bow

"Shears to you" and "The Mane Attraction" are a coupla locals.

the Permanent Solution

I know. hard to believe.

There is a dispensing optician in the University District of Seattle whose business is called "Eyes Right."