"Boyd..." is best. Two brothers might be plural, but the family -- "the Boyd family" -- is singular. "Boyd's..." is the best one listed.

"Boyd & Boyd" would work, but a lot of prospective customers would suddenly wonder why these lawyers are asking to paint their house.

boyd brothers painting inc.

Yup.

Gulity of Muder.

They're retarded housewives anyway.

Wat. Does everyone really think (incorrectly) that it is "than whom?' I only ever hear "than who."

from another thread:
English is not my first language, i have a question regarding these double negations. It might very well be intended in this instance (i don't know), but i think a single negation is the intended meaning (i.e. Chino didn't to time in Chino).

I see and hear these from time to time and keep wondering, is is some sort of ongoing joke, is it a mistake, is it slang? I believe the Italian Mafiosi in the Simpsons do it regularly.

"We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (and Blazing Saddles)

You're right. This technically means "We need badges" and it's grammatically incorrect.

The ongoing joke is that using a double-negative implies being uneducated or stupid. However, even knowing this, the double-negative is often used for emphasis. Another use may be:

"Ain't no way I'm eating no squid."

Thanks guys.

I just thought of the song "I can't get no satisfaction" and looked it up on wikipedia. It says "The title line is an example of a double negative resolving to a negative, a common usage in colloquial English."

Here it's clearly used just for emphasis (as quirkasaurus said).

Double negation to equal negation is very common, and acceptable, in black English; it's moderately common as a colloquialism in other forms, but not acceptable in formal or written language.

And yes, black English grammar differs from that of white English. That used to be a huge barrier for some of my students when I was teaching LSAT classes.

I think the blacks may have a problem with that.

I'm constantly correcting my step-son he uses double negatives all the time. The problem is his mother and most of her family uses them all the time.

I'm not a grammar nit at all but this is the one thing that gets under my skin. Probably because it was one thing my mother used to correct me on when I was a kid and not I cant stand it.

Isn't that a triple-negative?

ain't no way i'm not doubting his inability to not mis-quote.