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Posted By: leon

Hey Folks,
Hankron (hey David) brought up a point that is near and dear to me in the thread where John and Kenny are duking it out. He pointed out my use of the apostrophe's and comma's etc.....first of all let me say that sometimes I make mistakes in typing, and so forth, but I usually know what to do and have just made a mistake. For that reason you will rarely see me correct anyone's grammar or English AND I know about glass houses. With all of that being said there are cards that I really like and everytime I see them I cringe...they are basically saying that "you are literally "safe"".....well no one is literally a "safe" as safe is an adjective or verb or something....but it ain't no noun regards all

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Posted By: leon

and I realize that a safe...like where I keep my cards IS a noun.....so none of that wisecracking....and "every time" is 2 words.....later

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Posted By: Hankron

Perhaps safes and birds were the premiums.

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Posted By: Hankron

Personally, I'm shocked that SGC doesn't have a second grade for grammar, spelling and narrative consistancy. However, this would mean that few no 1981 Fleer could grade above a Fair.

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Posted By: Hankron

I can hear the future board debates:

"How does SGC cross over to GAI as far as punctuation goes? I hear they're pretty rough."

"I hear that those cheetos muchers at PSA only use one dictionary when grading for spelling. I'm contacting my lawyer."

"A 5??!?! Beckett wouldn't know a double entendre from their ass."

"A 3??!!? I'll plit PSA's infitive."

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Posted By: Bob Luce

"You're safe" seems to make grammatical sense. I would say the real mistake is that the cards read "your" instead of "you're".

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: Hankron

Bob, I wasn't being serious. I don't even know what "Have a cuckoo!" means. Perhaps that's what Connie Mack had when someone accidentally sat on hat.

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Posted By: leon

Thanks for joining our happy little forum. That is exactly what I meant by this thread. Without the apostrophe it looks like the cards are saying "you are a safe" etc, when it should obviously be "you're safe"....take care

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Posted By: runscott

(provided I knew there was no apostrophe in the word they were saying, which would be improbable)

...my response would be: "Thanks! I didn't notice it was getting away!" John, Julie picked up on that right away, which I would have expected. Her problem isn't with grammar (which she obviously understands better than any of us), but rather with typing.

"Your Safe!" is far closer to "You're Safe!" than to "You're a Safe!" - I really have no idea how you made that leap. The word 'your' is possessive no matter how you cut it.

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Posted By: TBob

was an art form for little pieces of cardboard which were given out to kids who bought candy in the early 1900's. If the cards were printed today, they would have said "You're, like, out! Don't Go There. Whassup with a Cuckoo."

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Posted By: Hankron

I think the baseball card collectors, auction houses and card graders of the world can be confident that it's not supposed to mean "If you eat Close's Chocolates you are a safe." A strange marketing ploy, at best.

Though, I must admit that the potential of having a cuckoo doesn't goad me towards tasting their product. I think it's similar to when you drink pop when you have pop rocks in your mouth.

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Posted By: MW

If I were to guess, I'd say that a "cuckoo" is a type of candy or confection produced by the George Close company. Then again, with the previous grammatical error and the oft-confusing early 20th century lexicon, who knows?

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Posted By: runscott

(Grandpa Simpson)

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Posted By: warshawlaw

SGC listed this item exactly as it should be listed: the way it is [mis]spelled on the card itself. If the card has a spelling error that is part of the identifying information, it is not the job of the grader to correct it. This comes up quite often with T225 cards, where the Khedivial company for some silly reason misspelled its own name as "Khedival" on a lot of cards, and with the T226 Red Sun "Puglistic" Subjects. In both cases, the correct designation on the holder is the designation on the card itself. I suppose that the grader could use [sic] to indicate he is aware of the error and is replicating it on purpose, but what is the point of that on a card holder?

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Posted By: leon

You corrected me for something I didn't say. Go back and re-read my first post. Where does it say that I am talking about SGC? I am talking about the back of the cards. I agree that grading companies SHOULD put exactly what is on the card and sometimes they put the correction too, which is ok by me. I think Bob might have thought I was implying something about SGC too. I wasn't. With all due respect to the best grading company I like my cards more than their slabs.....later (I, or someone, will start a thread but how 'bout them auction prices!!)