The Internet Rots The Brain (an ongoing saga)

[koganbot]

So today, I was puzzling over whether the album title Beggars Banquet has an apostrophe before the s or not, and I went to Wikipedia and looked and it did not. But then I thought to myself, "You can't trust Wikipedia, so maybe I should check discogs and allmusic as well." And I went to the address bar and started typing...

And only then, finally, did it occur to me that I own the album Beggars Banquet and it is on a shelf approximately two feet from where I am sitting, and I can actually check the actual album and find out for sure, taking no more than two seconds.

(No apostrophe.)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't the apostrophe be after the s? Not much of a banquet if there's only one diner!

[koganbot]

No apostrophe at all. No possessive. Perhaps the beggars are the ones who are being dined on rather than doing the dining.

(But you don't necessarily need a possessive; I didn't use an apostrophe in the title Readers Poll. It's a poll of the readers but not necessarily one that they can lay claim to. It was my magazine, after all.)

[koganbot]

Ha! My fact-checking department tells me that I did use an apostrophe in the title Readers' Poll. So I guess it was their poll.

Further evidence of brainrot

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i spent the last day or three with nothing but the last seven LPs by the stones on repeat play -- i an not sure what i intend to discover by this means