McWriters

I realize it’s just a little sign for a basketball tournament. But, is it really unreasonable to expect a sign that is hung within a school to contain the correct spelling of such an important word? I certainly don’t advocate reliance upon word processor program spell checkers, but at least they will alert you that [...]

This can’t possibly be good news for that school district…

I thought this was an entertaining article from Fox News today. Personally, my favorite was the Children’s Dimetapp warning, “be careful when driving a motor vehicle.” Most of these warnings are absolutely ludicrous. The article lists only a few examples, so I thought it might be fun to come up with some additional ones that [...]

A friend of mine who works in Spokane, WA snapped this picture  (near Montgomery and Argonne) and sent it to me. Someone at the road department obviously messed up. I wonder if they recognized the mistake and were “too busy” with other tasks or if they just never looked to see what the message was [...]

I had alluded to the need to capture this picture in a previous post. Thanks to my sister-in-law, I now have a picture of this mistake (thanks Tina!).
Rabbit Trail: Why did Tina have the opportunity to get this picture for me? Unfortunately, she had to go to this grocery store to request a refund for [...]

My daughter discovered this sign recently on a local bike path here in Coeur d’Alene. The ironic thing about this particular sign is that it is near the front of a school (Woodland Middle School, by the Comcast Building)! You would think/hope that one of the teachers would have called someone about the error on [...]