'Of' Course It's Wrong!!!!

Just been listening to 'Black and White' by Three Dog Night.  Love that song.  That bloke could hold a tune really well, too.  Have been watching a film clip of them singing on some variety show, I think.  Look past the nut-choking, moose knuckle-inducing pants, and listen to the song's message.  Wouldn't go so far a to call it a sublime song, but it's really a nice little tune to mellow out to.  Michael Jackson had a number with a similar name, as did INXS.  Liked the INXS one, but was a touch meh about Jacko's.  I'm a touch meh about all of Jacko's stuff, if I think about it.  Which I don't.  Got better things to worry about. 

So what's worrying me?  The freaking SMS I got from my son's high school, that's what!!!  Oh, don't get me wrong, the cherubic lad is in no strife.  It was just a generic text to all the Year 7 parents to advise the Naplan results should have been received via their kids' backpacks etc already.  I saw my boy's Naplan results yesterday, and let me tell you - BRAGGING MOTHER ALERT!! - he is almost off the scale in good results in spelling, and mathematics, and just about every other area 'they' tested the students on.  But what's really making me want to stab baby kittens is the wording of the text: 'You should of received...'.   Yes, 'of' instead of 'have'.  You know, if I was running this country, or State, or even this town, I would decree that anybody found guilty of this crime against grammar be dragged to a public place, locked in stocks, and pelted hard with rotting vegetable matter.  My aim is as rough as my singing voice, but so infuriated does this grammatical nonsense make me, the hatred is enough to guide my arm and I could do some serious damage as I bounce an old turnip off some perpetrator's head.  I am regretting cleaning out my vegie crisper the other day, because that old carrot so wilted even Viagra wouldn't firm it could have come in very handy.  I exploded, 'Jesus Christ jumping up and down on a pogo stick fitted with an outboard motor!', and my weary husband just said, 'Yes, dear.'

Seriously, people, stop saying 'would of' instead of 'would have'.  IT'S EVIL!!!