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I'm really a bit of a purist when it comes to quotation marks.  I prefer for them to be used only for direct quotations.  I realize that that hope is not based entirely in reality, however.

Because quotation marks are also often used to indicate that something is not authentic or an imperfect substitute or something other than what it is called, misuse of quotation marks, particularly by those who use them as a misguided way to draw attention to or put emphasis on a word or group of words, can be quite hilarious.

So they might be Black Angus steaks, but they darned sure are not certified.  The word certified, by the way, was in quotation marks everywhere it occurred in the menu.  If you're going to use them incorrectly, I suppose you might as well use them consistently incorrectly, eh?

And then there's this high note of quotation mark misusage hilarity:

Actually, it's far more sad than hilarious.

I'm not sure what the EXes are all about, and I'm not going to get into a discussion about the use of till instead of until.  That's a gripe for another day.  There's just so much wrong with almost everything in that sign, it's hard to me to see straight at this point.  My eyes are burning.  Look away!

If your retinas are not aflame from the atrocity above, you may want to check out The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.  Hilarious stuff over there.  Better, even, than the examples above.