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Eat a bag of Dicks. 
So is my soon to be 27 yr son. He was a certified writing fellow in college.
Several weeks ago we had a very interesting text exchange involving the proper placement of punctuation inside or outside parentheses.
Yes, we are word nerds.
For many years I was a professional typesetter and proofreader.
To my embarrassment I can't stop myself from correcting other people's spelling errors.
They just jump out at me. It's a disease!
...peeves are:
1. the ubiquitous apostrophe at the end of any word ending with an 's'
2. "Him and me went to the movies." People do it correctly in the singular. No one ever says, "Him went to the movies," or "Me went to the movies." Why doesn't it translate to the plural?
3. I have heard several instances of people making a possessive out of "I" - Mary and I's vacation.
UNPRESIDENTED!!!
They are over there, and they are over hear...they are lurking in this topic and that topic.. They will get you when you least expect it...OPPPPPPPPS ....I hear one coming at me know...I had better scam out of here
