Anal-Retentiveness (was: Re: [geeks] a little advice about DNS and naming conventions)

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:07:45AM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> Oh, we all have our little anal triggers.  Mine is the use of "its" and 
> "it's":
> it's = "It is"
> its = "the possessive of it" (much like his or hers)
> I get totally PISSED when I see this in print.

My pet peeves:

"my bad"
and bad use of 's.  e.g., "coke's for sale".  

Yesterday, Long John Silvers had a sign: "FIHS AND SHRIMP COMBO".  uh, what?

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX