SHE: I dunno, I’ll ask him.
(Calls over the cube wall)
SHE: Greg, is there an apostrophe in “surf’s up”?
ME: Yes, because it stands for “the surf is up.”
SHE: And what about “bottoms up”?
ME: No, because “bottoms” is plural, not a possessive or a contraction.
SHE: (back to the phone) Okay, he says there’s an apostrophe in the first one but not the second....I dunno, I guess because the surf is definitely the surf but with the second there’s just a whole bunch of bottoms.
Posted by Greg at 06:33 AM on 07/26/06