literally earmarking funds
June 18th, 2005 by Fitz

Ear Infection Vaccine Effort Underway - Yahoo! News
A powerful group of public and private institutions are literally earmarking funds and expertise toward a vaccine against common ear infections.
Submitted by Nic Dafis:
Not unless said funds and expertise have ears, which can be marked.
It was a nice attempt at a pun, though.
July 5th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
And what a superb accompanying picture! (I’m assuming Photoshop wizardry rather than your ownership of a goat).
July 6th, 2005 at 9:58 am
I added the cash, but everything else in the picture (the “ear-mark”) is untouched.