For all the grown-up kids out there who didn’t particularly enjoy grammar classes, let’s have a quick reminder what quotation marks are, since it will be relevant to get the distorted and alternate meanings shared in this post.

So, these punctuation marks are used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. You want to use quotation marks with direct quotes, with titles of certain works, to imply alternate meanings, and to write words as words.

There are cases when quotation marks are used not for actual quotes, but rather to carry a connotation of sarcasm, a tongue-in-cheek admission that the thing in quotes isn’t actually what it’s said to be. When that happens, things take a weird turn.

Scroll down below and see how suspiciously used quotes look and sound in practice. Now, although we cannot really tell whether the authors of these misused quotes used them deliberately or it happened by accident, we cannot deny the entertainment of it all. Psst! More misused quotes can be found in Bored Panda‘s previous feature right here.

#1 The What Sauce?

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#2 How Touching

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#3 Now That’s A Clever Slogan

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#4 Threatening Church

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#5 The Cop Cars In Orange Country Florida All Say Making A Difference In Comic Sans With Useless Quotation Marks. Makes It Seem Like They Aren’t Making A Difference

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#6 I Don’t Find This Very Reassuring

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#7 I Don’t Understand What They Were Trying To Accomplish With The Quotes

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#8 When You Find Out That You’re Adopted

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#9 Miami-Dade Police At Their Best

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#10 He Was Definitely Loved

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#11 “Heroes”

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#12 This Massage Parlor Is A Little Sus

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#13 I’ve Said It Before And I’ll Say It Again: Quotation Marks Are Not For Emphasis

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#14 Vaguely Threatening Church

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#15 Sure

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#16 The Place You Go When You Need A Negative Test

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#17 No Wonder It’s So Small

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#18 Let’s Just Say You Don’t Pay… With Money

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#19 I “Love” My “Husband” Dearly

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#20 “Duck”

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#21 I Almost Went Into The Next Room

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#22 “Our” Community

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#23 It’s There To Fool The Horses

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#24 The Pharmacy Thinks I’m Fueling Someone’s Drug Habit

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#25 What Kind Of Hotel Is This?

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#26 Just Saw This In A McDonald’s

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#27 “Jesus”

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#28 This Is Just Suspicious All Around

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#29 So The Food Isn’t Fresh Then, Got It

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#30 Alleged “Filmmaker”

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#31 Something Tells Me I’m Not Going To Get A Prize Every Time

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#32 My Cousin Got This For His 18th Birthday

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#33 I Don’t Think I Want To Know What This Means

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#34 “Rest” Room?

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#35 “Husband”

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#36 “It’s Real Food”

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#37 Thanks, I Hate The Magic Stool Bus

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#38 I Require The “Sauce”

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#39 This Sign At A Hotel I Stayed In Last Night

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#40 “Guitar Lessons”

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#41 Reminder That Covid Is “Real”

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#42 I Think I’ll Pass

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#43 So Subjective

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#44 Found At My Local “Mall Sword Store”

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#45 Hmm

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#46 Is It Tho? As Seen Heading North On I-95 In Boca Raton, FL Yesterday

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#47 Are You Implying It Was Me Who Poop In The Grass?

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#48 Oh… Was I Here Before?

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#49 Are You Though?

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#50 Ah Yes… A “Shoe” Shine

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#51 My Best Friend Works At A Physical Therapy Practice And She Sent Me This

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#52 How “Natural” Are We Talking Here?

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#53 Will You Really Miss Us While You’re Closed? I’m Not Convinced

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#54 I Am Kayla And My Dad Packed All Of My Things So They Could Move. I Have No Idea What Is In Here

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#55 Is “Dipping Powder” Code For Coke?

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#56 “Children”

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#57 “Hospital”

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#58 So What Kind Of Milk Are We Talking, Exactly?

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#59 Quietly Move My Cat Indoors

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#60 “Spaghetti”

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#61 Please Work Here, There Is “Good Pay”

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#62 I’d Rather Not

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#63 “Vegetarian” Spring Rolls

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#64 Spotted At A Restaurant In Town

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#65 Appropriate Suspicious Quotes

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#66 “Taxi”

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#67 I’m Not Sure If Their Hands Are Clean

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#68 Would You Eat This Salsa

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#69 Great Value And Suspicious Quotes. Wow

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#70 A Cocktail That’s Finished With ‘Love’

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#71 Oh My

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#72 “You’re Welcome”? From Costco In KCMO

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#73 I’m Not Sure If This Is A Legit Vitamin

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#74 “Birds”

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#75 So-Called “Son”

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#76 “Fresh” Seafood

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#77 My Sister Made This For My “Mom” About 25-30 Years Ago

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#78 So… Don’t Trust The Science? (Sign Outside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Office For Extra Irony)

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#79 I Wonder If There’s A Name For This Old-Fashioned Schoolhouse Type Of Decor

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#80 “Real Facts”

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#81 Oh No

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#82 I’ll Pass, Thanks

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#83 Son And “Daughter”

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#84 She Hates Her Dog

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#85 We “Care” At This Carehome

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#86 Someone Clearly Doesn’t Know How Quotation Marks Work

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#87 “Peace” Within Our Time

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#88 My Grandma Always Puts “Love You” In Quotes

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#89 Not Sure What It Is

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#90 What Exactly Are We Picking?

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#91 Who Wants A Slice Of “Pizza”?

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#92 Use Them For “Fishing”

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#93 Suspicious Honest

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#94 Go Ahead… Take It

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#95 4 Out Of 5 “Dentists” Agree

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#96 Very Suspicious Indeed

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#97 This Is Extremely Threatening

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#98 Some Chicken I Got From My Local Supermarket

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#99 Doubt It

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#100 Thanks “Mom”

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#101 When Neither Bags, Convenience Nor Coronavirus Is Real: Triple Threat

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#102 Please Wear A Mask

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#103 What Are They Serving Exactly?

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#104 “Security”

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#105 The Realest “Cream” In Town

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#106 What Are They Actually Learning?

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#107 Incorrect Usage Of Quotation Marks

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#108 It’s “Orange”

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#109 I Don’t Think I Want To Bring My Dog Here

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#110 Patient Survey

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#111 I’m Not Falling For It

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#112 Found This Subtle Threat In Pakistan

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#113 But Did It Though?

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#114 This Sign In Front Of The Busiest Subway On My University’s Campus

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#115 Yeah, Right

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#116 So Is It High Precision Or Not

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#117 What In The Everloving Heck Is That Made Of

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#118 Three-In-One Combo At My Local Brooklyn Dollar Store

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#119 Saw This At The Local Landfill. I’m Sure My Safety Is On Their Mind

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#120 One Slice A Day, Unless There’s Three

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#121 Valentine’s Day Card From My Parents With Some Suspicious Advice

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#122 Not Sure If I’m Buying A Kebab Or Drugs

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#123 Does The Smiley Face Make It Better?

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#124 Unsettling, Really

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#125 Must Be One Of Those People Who Thinks That Birds Aren’t Real

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#126 “Green”

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#127 My Son Really Did Turn Six Today, Despite His Grandparents’ Inexplicable Use Of Quotation Marks

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#128 Who Else Would Do That?

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#129 Come “Wash” Your “Car”

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#130 Jesus And “I”

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