It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Bob Eager"
saying something like:

By all accounts one should really use the apostrophe only for numerics such
as "the 90's"

Why? I would say that was one definite occasion where you shouldn't...

Not according to Lynne Truss...

Who would take seriously the opinion of somebody named after a surgical
appliance?
--

Dave