Entries from April 2008

oh, she said it.

April 30th, 2008 · 121 Comments

ellen in san francisco says this note is but the latest development in what has become a toilet paper-thin relationship with her passive-aggressive roommate. it started two months ago, she says, when her roommate “decided after six months of sharing that i was no longer allowed to use her toilet paper. i should mention that […]

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Tags: bathroom · money · paper product fairy · san francisco · smiley

the finest, most literary vagrants

April 29th, 2008 · 80 Comments

writes an anonymous student at binghamton university: “some grad students are mad about the teaching load for TAs, so they have been putting up these posters in order to raise awareness.”
adds our submitter (with a yawn): “i am now more aware of how douche-y they are.”

related: or take a cab!!!

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Tags: binghamton · blitzkrieg approach · new york · raging against the machine · university

He died for your clip art

April 28th, 2008 · 67 Comments

i really thought it couldn’t get more egregious than this clip-art catastrophe from a church in boston (left), which made this one (right) look downright tasteful in comparison.

but then, at a friend’s recent wedding, carey in northern virginia spotted this note — complete with that same punchy little yellow smiley — on several […]

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Tags: cell phone · clip art catastrophe · guilt trip · jesus · spanish · virginia · you're like so going to hell

yahoo! in the toilet? read the writing on the wall.

April 27th, 2008 · 49 Comments

what’s employee morale like inside yahoo’s sunnyvale headquarters, you might ask, amid all the chatter about coming layoffs, the possible microsoft takeover, and everything else? well, according to one anonymous yahoo! employee, in the toilet would be one place to look.
says our yahoo! tipster: “first they took away our right to stand on the toilets. […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · group bitchfest · office · raging against the machine · saga · silicon valley · toilet · yahoo

our customers are always right…except when they’re wrong

April 25th, 2008 · 112 Comments

heather says this pizzeria in victoria, b.c. has been confounding customers with its customer service “policy” for as long as she can remember. (which i guess means…it’s working?)

related: ps bacon is life

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Tags: "customer service" · mixed metaphors · pizza