Given that I've been known to correct typos on menus and chalkboards outside of stores and restaurants, I got a kick out of this story on two guys who are now banned from national parks for a year for defacing a sign at the Grand Canyon.
Now, I don't necessarily advocate defacing historic signs that were hand lettered by the architect, but I do understand the impulse to put a stray apostrophe back where it belongs.
The Typo Eradication Advancement League's Web site seems to be down for the moment, but I have it bookmarked so I can check for updates later. I'd love to read their stories about traveling the country fixing typos.
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Men after my own heart. I've been known to do the same thing, though not with as much forethought. I did have to pass, though, on a sign proclaiming all the benefits of the organic "fluor" at trader joe's one day, because it was such a work of art. I just wanted to know fluor-what? -escent? -oscopic?
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