Life on the Road

This episode of the Punctuation Police brings you a close cousin to a “favorite” pet peeve of Nick’s: The ATM “PIN Number”.

Since PIN is an acronym, that phrase that people walk around saying all the time is actually

Personal Identification Number Number

Hmmmm.

Here’s another funny redundancy. This one is not just something that people say, but something that has actually been published, produced and enshrined by a major food service company.

Taco Bell would like to sell you a

Five Dollar Buck Box

What??

You know, one of these:

When we first saw this on a signboard outside a store, we assumed it was just an employee’s error.

Needless to say we were stunned to discover the magnitude of the ignorance, which they spent millions of dollars showing off during the Super Bowl.

I can’t eat one. I won’t support it.

Stealing a phrase from the old Star Kist commercials –

Taco Bell doesn’t have food that tastes bad; Taco Bell has food that’s in bad taste.