GraphJam, it's vs its, Ralph Wiggum

I'm quite a fan of the GraphJam website, so was pleased when R Mason sent me the link to the following chart a while back:



R Mason wrote:

Just found this and posted it to my cubicle wall.

I love that it's is spelled correctly for the green piece and not in the red piece. I'm going to assume that the spelling of 'inpossible' was intentional.

Reminds me of my favourite Simpsons quote (by the character Ralph Wiggum): "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

Friday roundup: cow poison and The Proclaimers

My adventures with photo-sharing website Flickr are continuing – I've now joined GrammarBlog's Grammar Bloopers group and even added a couple of my pictures to it. If you like "photos of spelling errors, apostrophe abuse, dangling modifiers and malapropisms", I recommend you check out the group.

To be honest, signs with misplaced or missing apostrophes are 10 a penny where I live in south London, so photos of these don't float my boat, but I do like snaps like this:


A bottle of cleaning liquid that's "useful for" poisoning cows and pigs. Brilliant.

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I'm also really enjoying the GraphJam website, "song chart memes and pop culture explained in graph form". It must appeal to my stat-crazy brain. Here, for any Proclaimers fans, is the sort of thing it offers:

More graph humour and song chart memes