GolfHos

Two self-anointed "grammar vigilantes" who toured the nation removing typos from public signs have been banned from national parks after vandalizing a historic marker at the Grand Canyon.
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According to court records, Deck and Herson toured the United States from March to May, wiping out errors on government and private signs. On March 28, while at Desert View Watchtower on the South Rim, they used a white-out product and a permanent marker to deface a sign painted more than 60 years ago by artist Mary Colter. The sign, a National Historic Landmark, was considered unique and irreplaceable, according to Sandy Raynor, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix.
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An affidavit by National Park Service agent Christopher A. Smith says investigators learned of the vandalism from an Internet site operated by Deck on behalf of the Typo Eradication Advancement League, or TEAL. Smith identified four members, but only Deck and Herson faced charges.

According to the Internet posting, TEAL members agreed to "stamp out as many typos as we can find, in public signage and other venues where innocent eyes may be befouled by vile stains on the delicate fabric of our language."

Deck's diary account of the Grand Canyon incident was submitted as evidence in court. It says the two men climbed Desert View Watchtower while on holiday from their typo-enforcement duties "and discovered a hand-rendered sign inside that, I regret to report, had a few errors. I know today was supposed to be my day off from typo-hunting, but if I may be permitted to quote that most revered of android law enforcers, Inspector Gadget, 'Always on duty!' I can't shut it off. . . . Will we never be free from the shackles of apostrophic misunderstanding, even in a place surrounded by natural beauty?"

After correcting a misplaced apostrophe and comma, Deck reported, he was aghast to discover what he described as a made-up word: "emense."

"I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further, so we had to let the other typo stand. Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity."
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LOL, I'm too slow. :chiclet:

Aaargh.  stroh's always two steps ahead of me (http://www.golfhos.com/topic-9374.html)  >:(

You beat me by 4 minutes.  This gives me a chance to try the "Merge Topic" feature.  I've ne'er  tried that before.

This should make this thread even more confusing...
This function will merge the messages of two topics into one topic. The messages will be sorted according to the time of posting. Therefore the earliest posted message will be the first message of the merged topic.

They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the watchtower sign.

Does that seem excessive?

Oddly, I just yesterday had a grammar "discussion" with our IT guy.  He was insistent, in his redneck manner, that it was correct to say, "My wife brought some food for Mark and I."  I introduced him to the concept of an object pronoun, objects of prepositions, and the dative case.  While I was making introductions, I threw in the distributive property -- namely, that the subject matter of the exemplary sentence properly may be broken out as "My wife brought some food for Mark" and "My wife brought some food for me, *8==>*head."