Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for May 20, 2020

He gives you what you want, for a nominal apostro fee.

Theres a Monty Python joke here somewhere.

‘Tis no one’s fault but your own.

Its so sad.

Call a doctor, she’s having contractions!

It is what it is.

Meanwhile, Its is having its own identify crisis, for he knows he is not it is.

Only if you lose that chip on your shoulder. LOL

It’s hard to shake those labels!

identity theft!

Whose possessive?

People think it’s possessive, but its not.

It’s true…

Slap my head why don’t you!

Well, sometimes I feel like it and other times I’m not!

It’s what it’s

A bit of a stretch, but it works

I’ve been fighting this battle at work for over 40 years. The plural of RCP is RCPs, not RCP’s. (we use lots of acronyms like this in our industry.) BTW, that stands for Reactor Coolant Pump.

For those who deal with apostrophic problems, there’s a fun book called The Girls Like Spaghetti. It explains it humorously and with pictures, but it works for grown-ups as well as kids.

Excellent!

That is ‘it is’, not ‘its’ which is possessive! But that’s the whole point, so I don’t know…

And the rule is so simple: It’s “it’s” when it’s “it is,” otherwise it’s “its.”

Definitely an apostrophe catastrophe…

It’s its mysgraphia.

Very erudite, @Mark.

It is, isn’t? No wait..

The doc should know what to do. It’s not an unusual case.

You can’t control how other people act (or, in this case, their ignorance of basic punctuation), but you can control how you react to it.

It is sad