The fight for the correct use of punctuation and grammar has begun...

There's only so much bad English a person can take. If you're at your wits end from seeing that sign in the corner shop advertising "CD'S + dvd's!!!!!1" and considering switching to English 2, then this is the place for you. Hapfairy Productions Limited and DeviantArt.com welcome you to: Who are SPAMCOP? SPAMCOP started as a joke between Uber-Spork(Moosey) and Crystal Falls (Hapfairy) on the DeviantArt website.  It was such a popular suggestion that it developed into its own club, which had the following introduction: Armed with our bible, 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves', me and =uber-spork are establishing a new organisation, which shall be known by the following acronym: SPAMCOP: Society for the Prevention of Ample Misuse and Corruption of Punctuation. If you see a sign in a shop window saying "Come inside for CD's and DVD's, including film Two Weeks Notice!!" do you feel fine? Or do you, as Lynne Truss would put it, get 'a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker'? If the last one is the case, then sign up to our group. Let us prevent such incidents as I witnessed this morning: the sign on the school notice board that read - "Join up for D of E! We take part in many activitys'! Its a great opportunity." And that was written by a teacher. "So, here is what you will need if you wish to join the punctuation war (stop when you start to feel uncomfortable): -Correction fluid -Big pens -Plain stickers to remove incorrect punctuation -Coloured stickers to add required punctuation -Tin of paint with big brush -Guerilla-style clothing -Strong medication for personality disorder -Loudhailer -Gun." (If you choose the gun you're probably better suited to Al-Quaeda than SPAMCOP. :-P) So, who's with me? What do we want? We want English to be used as it should be. Here are our demands: - A ban on all text message writing, for example "cu l8r", unless you're seriously running out of characters.  - A law that states that all shops/businesses/anyone who writes a sign has to use the correct punctuation and grammar. Booklets should be sent out to inform people how to do this, for example: - The complete annhilation of anyone who thinks it is appropriate to talk in capitals LIKE THIS or use hundreds of exclamation marks unless they are really pissed off. When do we want it? Now! "I am a Deviant Artist, can I join SPAMCOP?" Sure. Just go to the SPAMCOP page and devwatch us. "I am some kind of random person, can I join SPAMCOP?" Sure. Just send us an e-mail with the following information:   Your name or sexy nickname Your age Website address (optional) E-mail address (optional) Your persuasion - Male/Female/Miscellaneous I would like to sign up to SPAMCOP (tick) I would like to sign up for the invisible newsletter (tick) Where you would like your name to be displayed - the SPAMCOP DA site/Hapfairy site/Billboard in Times Square/All of the above Any additional comments Or fill out the form at http://hapfairy.tripod.com/hapnews.html. Who are our current members? - Hapfairy - Moosey - Dan - Kakbarnf - Spaz102 - Princess Moonshine - Purple-Ducks - Beef-Lasagne - Equinox2004 - Digital Disaster - 109cita - Kool-Kittykat - Henry The Magical Robot -  Laughing Astarael - Gp-Cpt-Head - Platinus - Rikkurox - BurtonEarny - Dat Pixely Kid - Ken Kenny Ken Ken - Just Call Me God And finally, a Seven Wonders style SPAMCOP picture: OFFICIAL TRANSLATION: Crystal: Go SPAMCOP! We will not stop in the fight for punctuation! Moosey: Err, Crystal? You appear to have turned purple and cheesy. Also, there is a snail on my head. And... Crystal: I have a dream that one day, on the black and white fields of a printed page, commas and apostrophes will be properly placed. Never again will we see a sign for "Banana's" or "Book's"... Moosey: That is very optimistic of you but DEAR GOD A LION IS TRYING TO EAT ME. Crystal: Moosey, whatever your problem is, it can wait for punctuation. And stop talking in capitals, it's bad for the digestion. RANDOM TRIPLE TRANSLATION: (Greek to English to Chinese to English to Japanese to English) Crystal: The pork meat and the officer where the ham is chopped up go! We do not stop for the punctuation mark swaying! Moosey: Misunderstand, the crystal? Presently itself purple and cheaply it becomes the cheese. In addition, the snail of my head exists. And... Crystal: The page which has 1 day dream, is printed to be black and at the sector of white, the party and the apostrophe - it is put appropriately. As for us concerning "the mpana'nas" in "book" the sign which is not seen under any condition for the second time... Moosey: But as for that you the God which becomes love it is the very optimistic place. The lion tries me who am eaten! Crystal: It is Moosey and any your problem, as for that it is possible to wait for the punctuation mark. And stop the capital city, that is the bad guy for digestion power.   © HapFairy Productions 2006, SCE