Kendall was waiting for her peach perfection at the Jamba Juice in Elmhurst, Illinois when she spotted this note on the napkin-holder. Writes Kendall: “I guess it’s their passive-aggressive way of saying, ‘take fewer napkins, a**hole!’”
A tip for would-be internet meme-mongers: as of this writing, algoreknowshowmanynapkinsyoutake.com is still available. (What are you waiting for? apparently, these days they’re handing out book deals to any idiot with a blog!)
UPDATE 10/12/09: A copycat is on the loose in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! (As spotted by Paul in Nebraska)
UPDATE 9/24/10: Another real-world homage! This time, from an office in Los Angeles. (It took two years for this to spread to the West Coast? Really?)
related: The audacity of theft
extra credit: isyournewbicycle.com
239 responses so far ↓
#1
Peter Myers
Live Green. Vote Green. http://www.myersforcalifornia.com
(Unlike other politicians, leaving the first comment is the dirtiest campaign trick I have in my book, so be nice.)
Jul 21, 2008 at 11:58 pm rating: 90
#2
zombieBlanco
But does he know if it’s best to leave the toilet lid up or down?
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:00 am rating: 90
#3
piglet
congrats on the book deal! that is awesome.
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:07 am rating: 90
#4
Resident Grammarian esq
Well then I’ll take a few extra so he can have a proper sample size.
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:07 am rating: 90
#5
Burghardt
wow, this puts Al Gore’s creepiness up there with Santa Claus and the transgender locker room janitor. Stop breathing down my neck and let me drink my stinkin’ smoothie.
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:09 am rating: 90
#6
Canthz_B
Al Gore knows if you’re wearing clean underwear.
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:11 am rating: 90
#7
Miss Unloop
Maybe they are using those napkins to plug up the hole in the ozone layer…
The inconvenient truth is that those restaurant napkins just aren’t that darned absorbent!
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:13 am rating: 90
#8
Miss Unloop
I used those napkins stuffing my cheeks for my Godfather impression.
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:13 am rating: 90
#9
Anonymoose
Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he did invent global warming.
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:15 am rating: 90
#10
Miss Unloop
God, I hope Al Gore doesn’t keep track of how much toilet paper we use too…
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:19 am rating: 90
#11
Kev Orng
Maybe, but Dick Cheney is monitoring your email
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:21 am rating: 90
#12
Canthz_B
So I took a few extra napkins.
There are plenty more in Al Gore’s lock-box. Right next to the dirty pictures of Tipper!
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:39 am rating: 90
#13
Canthz_B
How could Al Gore fall so far, so fast.
From Vice President to Jamba Juice napkin monitor in eight short years.
From tie breaking vote in the Senate to helping his teen-aged boss with his tie.
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:51 am rating: 90
#14
fantasy
Maybe I need more napkins to clean up the “tomatoe” mess you left!
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:55 am rating: 90
#15
fantasy
Al Gore, Dan Quayle WTF, who cares!
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:04 am rating: 90
#16
Martin Heidegger
Honestly, Al Gore knowing about my napkin consumption is the least of my concerns.
So what if he’s some sort of omniscient being? He’s not omnipotent like some politicians seem to be, so I don’t really mind.
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:37 am rating: 90
#17
cherry
i’m not gonna lie, every time i do something environmentally unsound (e.g. throwing a bottle into a trash can) i raise my hands to the sky in a prayer and say “sorry al.”
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:43 am rating: 90
#18
maytagman
I just checked in to say hi to anglophile. Hi anglophile! You’re a fucking asshole, cheers!
Jul 22, 2008 at 2:00 am rating: 90
#19
ajr
And some idiot already took “algoreknows.com” today!
Jul 22, 2008 at 2:30 am rating: 90
#20
fink
You’re the man now, dog!
Jul 22, 2008 at 3:06 am rating: 90
#21
Nicolas
You don’t really know about this urtil you’ve handled trashcans at a fast food joint and seen how many piles of napkins people throw away. I’ve seen trashbags filled with an entire sequoia’s worth of paper towels.
Jul 22, 2008 at 4:40 am rating: 90
#22
Kev Orng
I usually take a few extra napkins so I can clean up coffee spills in my car. The napkin stash is vital for any motorist. Kinda like Ford Prefect’s towel.
The napkin stash is also useful for those, uh, roadside emergencies.
Jul 22, 2008 at 6:57 am rating: 90
#23
Holiday Djinn
What people don’t realize is that Al Gore created the internet just for this reason. He knew that without webcams, bloggers and social networking sites that keeping track of every single napkin that is used would be a lot more difficult. He is trying to save the planet after all!
Jul 22, 2008 at 7:17 am rating: 90
#24
Brian
Well, if it’s like everything else, Al Gore only wants you to use 1.5 napkins. That way they won’t run out when he comes through and grabs 70 of them and when Tipper comes through and takes her usual 70. There should also be 50 each left over for his SUV-Limo driver, the pilot for his private jet, and Michael Moore. Then his vehement supporters can use 20-30 each while standing around waiting to chasitse anyone who exceeds the 1.5 limit.
Jul 22, 2008 at 7:28 am rating: 90
#25
jimmyjimmyjimmyjimmykalamahoo! kalamahee! kalamabringachairplease!
ceiling al gore is watching you masturbate
Jul 22, 2008 at 7:30 am rating: 90
#26
ama
really? i demand a recount.
Jul 22, 2008 at 7:35 am rating: 90
#27
Krystolla
Al Gore is watching the napkins because Jesus was too busy guarding the soap.
Jul 22, 2008 at 7:59 am rating: 90
#28
claw71
Oh you’d better rinse out
the bucket of grout
you’d better not buy
the quilted two ply
Al Gore is power pointing, you clowns
He’s pounding his fist
to protect polar ice
Your carbon footprint
is too big by twice
Al Gore is power pointing, you clown
He sees you when you’re driving
He sees napkins you take
He knows is you’re using low watt bulbs
So conserve you big dumb flake
So…. you’d better rinse out
the bucket of grout
you’d better not buy
the quilted two ply
Al Gore is power pointing, you clowns
Jul 22, 2008 at 8:52 am rating: 90
#29
Mishee
Of course Al Gore knows how many napkins you take! The dude doesn’t have a job! I didn’t know it was so bad that he was hanging out at Jamba Juice all day, but hey, you go where the work is!
Jul 22, 2008 at 8:54 am rating: 90
#30
Ryan
IT IS PROVEN AL GORE IS MORE SANITARY THAN MOST WOMEN
PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS AND LEAVE SOME NAPKINS.
SANDRA
Jul 22, 2008 at 9:11 am rating: 90
#31
GhostWriter
Al Gore
Knows How
Many
Aspirins
I Take
Jul 22, 2008 at 9:17 am rating: 90
#32
Al Gore and the Green Police
Every juice you buy
Every ass you wipe
Every nose you blow
Every lawn you mow
Ill be watching you
Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
Save the nature, clown
Or I will hunt you down
Every trash you dump
Every gas you pump
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
PS. I am super cereal!!
Jul 22, 2008 at 9:18 am rating: 90
#33
Quite Contrary
Crap. First my mother and my language. Then Jesus and my SUV. And now Al Gore and my napkins.
Leave me alone! If I want to swear like a sailor while driving my SUV through the dry cleaners drive through window and then stop by McDonald’s to get a big mac, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong with asking for extra napkins to make sure I clean up the spill on the baby cow leather interior.
Jul 22, 2008 at 10:11 am rating: 90
#34
Oh Snap!
Those napkins were fucking delicious!
Jul 22, 2008 at 10:40 am rating: 90
#35
Canthz_B
It figures Al is nosing around napkin dispensers. He’s looked everywhere else for “missing” ballots!
Jul 22, 2008 at 11:27 am rating: 90
#36
Mishee
#100! (Sorry guys, I am feeling saucy today!)
hee hee
Jul 22, 2008 at 11:29 am rating: 90
#37
Ryan
Think that napkin had a “hanging chad”
Jul 22, 2008 at 11:44 am rating: 90
#38
ama
http://www.environmentaltalk.com/wp-content/uploads/Al_Gore_fishy.jpg
“Now what the dickens am I supposed to wipe my hands on?? A penguin?!”
Jul 22, 2008 at 12:19 pm rating: 90
#39
lacochran
Congrats on the book. You rock!
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:02 pm rating: 90
#40
Kev Orng
You guys have Al Gore who gives lectures, we have David Suzuki, who makes commercials telling us how less power usage = more beer money.
You think Al Gore’s napkin spies are creepy, wait till you find David Suzuki poking around in your basement fridge.
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:39 pm rating: 90
#41
Delurker
Does Al Gore know about the hay I stole? What about the food I took from the mouth of a pre-born child? The laundry?!? Does he know about the wet laundry I took out of the machine?!? Or that it was I who left dirty dishes in the sink?!?!?!
Crap,crap,crap,crap,crap.
Jul 22, 2008 at 2:09 pm rating: 90
#42
Clickums
What’s next? We will soon be reduced to using just one square of toilet paper per dump? Whoa to the people who spill things and have diarrhea!
Jul 22, 2008 at 2:12 pm rating: 90
#43
barth
Wonder why Gore got all the attention in this thread??
What about Jamba?
JMBA (Nasdaq) stock is trading at 1/8 of its value of a year ago. Might napkin conservation be a concern for Jamba’s $$$ survival, and Al’s global warming ‘truth’ is but a convenient scapegoat?
Jul 22, 2008 at 2:53 pm rating: 90
#44
Joe
“God only knows how many napkins you take!”
Al Gore = God? Say it ain’t so!
Jul 22, 2008 at 3:01 pm rating: 90
#45
Summer
does anyone else picture Al Gore standing behind the dispenser with a big plastic, scary head like the burger King?
Jul 22, 2008 at 3:44 pm rating: 90
#46
aaa
Al Gore has a giant house and a private jet. Al Gore fails.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Jul 22, 2008 at 4:25 pm rating: 90
#47
aaa
I need to spend more time on the internet. Here I was thinking that I was the only one who imagined Al Gore as some kind of evil, eco-groovy Robot Santa. :/
Jul 22, 2008 at 4:29 pm rating: 90
#48
ShockedAtTheIgnorance
So many people buying the great Global Lie. Here’s some facts for you. The south polar ice cap is growing very rapidly. The earth has been cooling since 1998. Solar Cycle 24 – GOOGLE IT! 70% of Gore’s sources are models based on a typo! The Earth is not/no longer warming. Storms are becoming more infrequent.
But most importantly. Humans CANNOT affect the Global Climate. We are no where near producing enough “greenhouse gases” to change the weather at all. Stop buying the bulls***!
Jul 22, 2008 at 11:06 pm rating: 90
#49
Sweet Sister Morphine
If I ever have kids, I’m going to tell them that Al Gore watches everything they do, and will come and eat their liver if they don’t behave.
I think it’s the least I could do, seeing as when I was little, my mum used to tell me that if I wasn’t good, the Communists would come and get me.
My grandmother used to threaten to cut my head off and replace it with a cabbage.
It’s no wonder I turned out the way I am.
Jul 23, 2008 at 2:51 am rating: 90
#50
maytagman
well, this place is worse than high school – I can see that now. someone pointed that out earlier, how right they were. better to just move on and not stare too much.
Jul 23, 2008 at 3:29 am rating: 90
#51
Max
Al Gore is watching the napkins you use because he plans to sell you carbon neutral napkins.
Al Gore invented a market with his promotion of global warming. He’s getting rich.
Jul 24, 2008 at 3:08 pm rating: 90
#52
Lurker
Al sees you when you’re sleeping,
Al knows when you’re awake.
Al knows if you’ve been bad or good,
And how many sheets you take.
Oh, you’d better watch out,
You’d better not cry,
When wiping your mouth,
Use ONE, and here’s why:
Albert Gore is comin’ to town!
Jul 24, 2008 at 3:45 pm rating: 90
#53
ashley
oh man. i live in elmhurst. fuck those stupid high school and college kids at that jamba juice, they’re incredibly stupid and annoying. how about you focus on making my damn drink and not on gossiping who’s fucking whom in front of me, or letting me know that al gore is the next santa claus.
Aug 25, 2008 at 9:01 am rating: 90
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