Punctuation Marks Get Their Day (-- ‘Finally!?’)

A local businessman driven crazy by misplaced commas, ellipses and quotation marks has created a new holiday, National Punctuation Day, to be celebrated today.

Jeff Rubin, who runs a newsletter production business, launched the holiday after years of reading the newspaper, red pen in hand, circling examples of poor punctuation.

On his “more serious Type A personality days,” as Rubin described them, he would send the offending newspapers back with nasty notes attached.

“Now it has become a mission for me,” Rubin said. “I’m really trying to help people pay more attention to punctuation and how it affects their business life.”