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.
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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