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In a message dated 5/20/2009 12:50:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
DBird at riversideca.gov writes:

All right, Mr. Smarty  Pants. How would you write the possessive of a 
possessive name—e.g.  McDonald’s? Eh? Eh? 


Here's from Wikipedia, only because I can't find my own Grammar  (the term 
for a grammar book):
 
"If the word or compound already includes a possessive apostrophe, a double 
 possessive results: Tom's sisters' careers; the head of marketing's  
husband's preference; the _master of foxhounds'_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_hunting)  best  dog's death. Some style guides, while allowing that these 
constructions are  possible, advise rephrasing: the preference of the head 
of marketing's  husband. If an original apostrophe, or apostrophe with s, 
occurs at  the end, it is left by itself to do double duty: Our employees are 
better  paid than McDonald's employees; Standard & Poor's indexes are widely  
used; the B-52's greatest hits (the fixed forms of McDonald's and  Standard 
& Poor's already include possessive apostrophes; the B-52's  already has a 
non-possessive apostrophe before its final s). No noun or  noun phrase ever 
includes two apostrophes at its  end."
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