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IBM and Its thoughts, not IBM and It's = it is thoughts. If you can't tell the difference, this might help.

Dammit, it's hell knowing how to write. I know exactly what the poster meant, but my vision focuses intently on the errant apostrophe, unable to concentrate on anything else, trying to banish it with the force of pure frustration.

Feel free to mod into oblivion, it will only aid me in damning the lot of you as ignorant philistines. Thank you and goodnight.

There's that... or you can always take Bob the Angry Flower's approach...

There's that... or you can always take Bob the Angry Flower's approach...

I wish you luck in the process of learning the English language. I realize it's a difficult language for people who didn't speak it in childhood.

PLEASE!

Bob the Angry Flower

• How to use a comma.
• How to use a question mark.
• How to use an apostrophe, you idiots!

...or wait, it is...
cube root of five hundred

So this is one of those ideas with it's own obsolescence!

When will people learn to use "its" and "it's" correctly? You might want to print out a copy of this cartoon for reference.

Bob the Angry Flower's Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots.

For someone with such a tone of righteousness in their post, you need to learn some basic grammar, you twatwaffle.

... I believe you are in dire need of this:

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots.

I used it in the sens of "something that is owned by it", which you may notice is called posessive.

But which doesn't apply to possessive pronouns like his, hers, its, and theirs. English is tough, eh?

I think that with all the power and money Microsoft has, WMV will win out. I believe they've already experimented with WMV movie theatres.

Oh, and please talk to Bob:

http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif

Coffee with Sinistar from the (usually) funny Bob the Angry Flower.

Coffee with Sinistar from the (usually) funny Bob the Angry Flower.

Apostrophe's???

Quite simply, nerds like comics. Especially chara Opus:)

Here's some links to help you catch up with the rest of us:

Dilbert
Calvin and Hobbes
the Far Side
the 5th Wave
Bob the Angry Flower
Foxtrot

A friendly reminder about it's and its:

itsits.gif (safe for work)

You shouldn't add an apostrophe to a noun just because it's plural.
The apostrophe has several proper uses in English, including indication of possession and indication of a contraction. It is not proper to insert one into plural nouns before the "s" for no reason.

I'd also point out there's a possibility that the people with PhDs at other institutions who recently ordered Itanium2 or Opteron clusters also knew something. (This something might be that different jobs have different 'optimal' computer designs... or it might be that someone made non-optimal choices, or that they were offered different deals from manufacturers.)

I think it's time the slashdot editors were paid a visit by an angy flower...

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots.

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots.

Your grammar for the "YOU FAIL IT" post is not statistically optimal.

God dammit! What the FUCK happened to my free will?

I'm rehearsing this for when I jump into the camera's tomorrow

For a guy with "It's... It's... Pflipp" in his .sig, may I suggest Bob's quick guide to the apostrophe :).

I see we have to run through this one more time.

I celebrate the wisdom of Bob the Angry Flower.

jeez

American's chose -er.

Here's my favorite apostrophe lesson. It doesn't deal with "it's", but other thing's that moron's write often.

"Fix this when I'm less drunk"'s and, "This better fucking work GODDAMMIT!"'s

as a condition of it's funding,

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, you idiots

For your reference, you illiterate moron.

Anybody taking bets on how long it will take Robin Hood to spew it's legal folks at slashdot?

> As Leon Brooks sums it up in his famous book "The Mythical Man Month"... Leon hit's the nail right on the head....

It's a shame we don't teach IT people the names of other practitioners in their field, or how to use apostrophes.

That'd be *Fredrick* Brooks.

And Bob.

Bob wants you to learn to use the apostrophe

This line gave me a good chuckle. I expect that most people did not even notice the grammatical error in a sentence talking about low error densities.

Note: The rules for its/it's are not covered in Bob's Quick Guide To The Apostrophe, You Idiots since the Guide covers nouns and 'it' is a pronoun.

The RIAA is a distribution company

Minor nit: The RIAA is an industry association. It's the Recording Industry Association of America. It's kind of like how there is probably a Shoe Association that Nike, Reebok, etc. all belong to. Or like the Downtown Businessmen and Giant Mechanical Spider Association.

Lots of different companies belong to the RIAA. If RIAA is suing someone, it's basically because it's a) more efficient than having each little label sue individually, and b) because the group is allowed to exercise the right of the members to sue on their behalf.

Is on-topic. Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots.

True, though you may want to look here .

I can't quite remember if they are from lions or tigers, but i believe it was from tigers.

False on both counts. Domestic cats were originally bred from the African wild cat, although some folks think that certain breeds like the Maine Coon Cat arose from people crossing domestic cats with the European wild cat. I read in a biology textbook somewhere that most large cats cannot purr, while most small cats can, and this distinction between "growling cats" and "purring cats" is one reason why most large cats are put in genus Panthera while most small cats are put in genus Felis. Don't know what cladistics has to say about this; my information is a few years out of date.

Humans don't need genetic engineering or even planned breeding programs to produce interesting effects... check out the Singapore Drain Cat for a totally unplanned micro-feline (ranges from 4-9 lbs.) Also Google for "Scottish Fold" and "Cornish Rex", though these were mutants that were encouraged via selective breeding....

Hey, as long as we're being fussy and using [sic], shouldn't that be "it's," rather than "its"?

"it's" := "it is"

Please refer to Bob's quick guide to the apostrophe, you idiots before posting. Thanks.

On the other hand, about the only thing I know about "antena's" is that there is a nice introduction to apostrophe usage floating around on the web.

I did worse than that. Given Tolkien's fondness of subtitles ("The Hobbit, or There and Back Again"), I figured it was one single title called Farmer Giles of Ham, the Adventures of Tom Bombadil Leaf by Niggle and Smith of Wooton Major, implying that Tom Bombadil Leaf (whoever that is) has a secret identity as Farmer Giles of Ham, and his adventures would be written in the second person by two guys named Niggle and Smith from some fictional Wooton Major somewhere in Middle Earth. I couldn't quite figure out how that translated into four different stories. My guess was that it would be like The Silmarillion, where it's technically a single book, but it's really a whole bunch of different stories.

Punctuation is good. Use it to avoid these kinds of mistakes. And while we're at it, punctuation can be bad, too. It's not a case of more == better, but correct use == readable.

Asteroid 2030!!!!!!!!!

Just send them here.

Out of curiosity, what is a "health salt"? I've never heard of such before...

(oh, and for some reason, this keeps coming to mind: http://www.angryflower.com/nacl.gif.)

Oh boy, you sure asked for it...

A little cartoon entitled "Yes"...

Offtopic? Maybe. Graphically humorous? Hell yeah.