Just got this in my inbox - English teachers listen up and plan to celebrate national punctuation day.
"HOW TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL PUNCTUATION DAY
What can you do to participate in National Punctuation Day on September 24!
1. Go to www.NationalPunctuationDay.com and become familiar with punctuation
rules and issues.
2. Organize punctuation activities at your school, library, or office.
3. Share punctuation peeves with founder Jeff Rubin at
Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com.
4. Send photos of incorrectly punctuated signage to Jeff Rubin at
Jeff@NationalPunctuationDay.com
5. Forward this news as a way to spread the importance of proper punctuation.
- Entrants must send a recipe and a sample of their cookie, cake, pastry,
doughnut, or bread baked in the shape of a punctuation mark to National
Punctuation Day, 1517 Buckeye Court, Pinole, CA 94564.
- Entrants must send two print photos ‹ one putting the item in an oven
before baking and the other taking it out when it¹s done. Make sure we can
see the baked goods clearly.
- First-, second-, and third-place winners will receive a box of non-edible
NPD goodies, and all entrants¹ photos and recipes will be published on the
National Punctuation Day website (www.NationalPunctuationDay.com).
- All entries must be received by September 30, 2009.
This looks like a lot of fun