Thursday celebration of punctuation
Posted on: Thursday, 24 September 2009, 15:00 CDT
The California man behind Thursday's National Punctuation Day said he is holding a contest for pastries shaped like punctuation marks.
Jeff Rubin, 59, of Pinole, a punctuation enthusiast and former copy editor, said he is celebrating this year's National Punctuation Day, which has been listed as a holiday in Chase's Calendar of Events since 2004, by starting a contest for punctuation-shaped desserts, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.
The contest ends Sept. 30.
Rubin, who now owns a newsletter business, said he spends his mornings highlighting punctuation errors in newspapers and then sends the papers back to the article writers with notes.
Once I entered journalism as a trade, my anal self took over,
he said.
Source: United Press International
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