See: TJ's Country Place restaurant, in Clintonville, Columbus, Ohio :) I love this strip because, like David, I went to IU Bloomington, and now I live in Columbus, Ohio! https://clintonvillehistory.com/wp-content/images/web-images-2021-02-neon-signage/tee-jayes.jpg
CapTookay
2023-12-27 17:59:04 +0000 UTC
Transcript
Panel two
Sign: Peejay's. Paint & Hardware. Customer service at it's best
Panel four:
Jocelyne: Okay, I'm gonna need a can of red paint and your tallest ladder.
BBCC
2019-03-02 07:57:33 +0000 UTC
I would like to note it took me forever to notice what the joke was here and I am embarrassed because I point out that error all the time. I'm sorry, Joss, I failed you.
Panel One: Just hanging out, Joss being adorable. I just want to squish her, she's so cute!
Panel Two: D'oh! Store, why? Come on, nobody noticed that? Nobody?
Panel Three: Awwwww, Joss! She's so adorable! She looks so HUFFY. No, bad sign! You don't get to make basic grammar boo boos, bad! Writer Jocelyne will not stand for it!
Panel Four: Joss, no, jail's a real place you can go for vandalism. But yeah, she's devoted to her art. Willing to climb up and fix it herself, anyways, rather than point out the mistake to the store. Respect, Joss.
BBCC
2016-12-29 20:46:42 +0000 UTC
I would have said use she/her pronouns, but I have a friend who is a transwoman who prefers he/his pronouns, so honestly, I think we will have to wait for a a comic of Jocelyne telling us.
Airyu
2015-10-11 23:54:41 +0000 UTC
See, I thought she'd want to change it to "veejay's." Then I saw the "it's" and I understood. I'm a copyeditor for a living. This strip is my life.
Maya
2015-09-29 10:33:30 +0000 UTC
Oh, I just noticed you have a link there to the prior month's bonus comic, too! Excellent! =D I was worried it was lost in the update deluge!
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2014-10-02 23:26:21 +0000 UTC
Hopefully I didn't miss any big announcement or newspost on this, but what pronouns should we be using to refer to Jocelyne? I'm assuming we should use feminine pronouns because that seems to be her preference, but I'm guessing she isn't open about that in-universe just yet. Or am I just overthinking this?
Mia
2014-10-02 16:09:22 +0000 UTC
Thanks for explaining it to me. Looks like I need to retake grade school english. How embarrassing.
Joel Bennett Rice
2014-09-29 07:03:32 +0000 UTC
Look at the sign. "Customer service at it's best". "It's" reads "it is", which, to a grammar freak like Jocelyne, is one of the worst crimes imaginable
Vex Fidel
2014-09-29 02:27:05 +0000 UTC
There's a misplaced apostrophe in "Its" - the sign currently reads "Customer service at it is best."
Io Black
2014-09-28 12:44:05 +0000 UTC
I'm just gonna swallow my pride here. I've stayed quiet for a day to avoid feeling dumb but I'm caving. Will someone please explain the joke to me? I don't get it.
Joel Bennett Rice
2014-09-28 12:07:29 +0000 UTC
ATM machine for me.
DVW
2014-09-28 07:36:12 +0000 UTC
I feel terrible because my first thought was PEEJAY'S, and I was like "one, why would Jocelyne be making a BJ joke, and two, you'd need yellow paint to turn the P into a B."
Jonathan P
2014-09-28 04:36:54 +0000 UTC
Aagh!
AAAUGH!
Populuxe
2014-09-28 00:59:31 +0000 UTC
My biggest peeve in this regard: Personal PIN Number
Antonio E Gonzalez
2014-09-28 00:56:15 +0000 UTC
gotta be honest, I'm so tempted to repost this for truth, but I won't
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2014-09-28 00:23:39 +0000 UTC
I love that it's obviously a TJ Country Kitchen sign.
Jamieson
2014-09-27 23:30:50 +0000 UTC
At least there are no unnecessary quotation marks.
PW
2014-09-27 20:53:32 +0000 UTC
I winced when I saw it, then was overjoyed when it turned out to be the punchline.