This is "Funny"

Sour Bob mentioned this...and I know I am an absolute abuser of the "quotes" thing. I do it all the time. I try to limit it to times I'm being ironic, but sometimes those little marks beckon me to abuse them and I do, oh, I do.

I do draw the line at making that annoying quotes sign while I'm speaking. Unless I'm talking to my sister and then I do it just to bother her. It's a little known law that you can now legally shoot someone when they make that annoying quote sign while speaking. Please check with your local law enforcement before you take my word for it.

Anyway...what this issue brought to mind is a sign in the window of a local grocery store. It reads:

'We "Welcome" You To The Village Market'

Maybe, they're actually enclosing a direct quote from their employees...but I've been there several times and I have never heard anyone say "Welcome!". So if that was their claim, then it's a lie.

I like to think they're using the quotes in a more ironic way. The "Welcome" in quotes is a sarcastic dig at the store patrons.

'Oh, yes...."Welcome" to our store.' [Eyes roll]

Since this store is in a rather well-to-do area...I think they do mean it "ironically" they aren't really "Welcoming" at all.

Comments

[Kristine]

LOL, just a few days ago my husband and I ate lunch at a drugstore soda fountain. The menu sign on the wall said "THANK YOU!" I asked my husband who they were quoting. Just then we heard one of the old ladies at the counter say "thank you!" So our mystery was solved.

[allie]

My husband's birtday card from his grandmother (who we are having relationship difficulties with) and it said: to a "special" grandson. we are aware and amused of the overuse of quotations, and thought that these quotes from grandma might just mean what we think they mean!