jesse says he spotted this sign at a great mongolian restaurant in the dallas area. “they recently changed their name from ton’s mongolian grill to tao’s garden, but apparently they haven’t figured out how to spell it yet.”

related: best. potluck. theme. ever.

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says our anonymous facebook user in ottawa: “it’s exactly what it looks like.”

related: in daylights? in sunsets? in midnights? in posts on facebook?

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three u.s. cities where nature-lovers might want to keep their hands to themselves:
1. austin, texas

2. macon, georgia

3. pittsburgh, pennsylvania

(thanks to don in austin, elizabeth in macon, and jasmine in pittsburgh for risking the wrath of some devoted gardening/second amendment enthusiasts to document these warnings.)
related: no “questions” asked

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despite the logo on this breakroom note, nikki in fresno doesn’t work at starbucks. (she just wishes she does.)

related: be curtius

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last year, emily in canterbury, england lived in a house with six other roommates — two guys downstairs, five girls upstairs. as is wont to happen in such circumstances, “we were originally all really good mates, but relationships deteriorated as the year went on,” emily says — “the boys thought the girls were too messy!”
one [...]

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you say you’re politically engaged, but do you know where your candidate stands on…vanity license plates? are they:
a) a bombastic example of the first amendment in action
b) a potent symbol for the reductive nature of america’s two-party political system
c) unwise at any speed
still undecided? take a look at the tags rachel has on her car [...]

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jasy from laurel, maryland spotted this beauty while driving down the jersey turnpike.
“i’m dying to know just how blasphemous denise is to deserve the sign,” jasy says, “but is it really that surprising that the antichrist would claim jersey as home base?”

related: no, He uses vaseline
extra credit: “hey, look our toll plaza over” [nytimes.com]

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our anonymous submitter in takoma park, maryland says her roommate/landlord is constantly leaving little post-its and e-mails for the other roommates, but i think these two have a bit of yum-o synchronicity.

related: the first thing i did when i woke up

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sorcia mcnasty in north carolina says this “piece of art” is located right next to the paper supply drawer.  “we’re not sure if there is really a problem with theft or if occasionally, you know, the machine just runs out of paper. no one wants to question the MACHINE IN MOTION.”
  
related: the passive-aggressive note has not [...]

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as this sign from a montgomery, alabama breakroom shows, “PopCorn Users” remain one of the most persecuted groups in the workplace today.
 
related: bizarre pardoning accident

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for their daughter’s first birthday, mr. and mrs. schmidt decided it would be fun to throw a casual little backyard get-together at their home in rochester, minnesota.
like the good church-going minnesotans they are, the schmidts sent out this e-mail invite to their small-ish congregation of about 200 people, expecting maybe 20 or 30 to stop [...]

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sarah in somerville, mass. wasn’t fazed when she left her apartment one saturday to find this otherwise “run-of-the-mill your-mother-doesn’t-live-here note”…until she rounded the corner and was greeted by photocopies of the same note taped to every available surface in the hallway.

then, the next day, another note appeared near the elevator…

…which had apparently been written on [...]

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rodti and laura elizabeth spotted these charming examples of local scottish color outside an internet cafe in glasgow’s west end.

meanwhile, a grocery story elsewhere in glasgow displays a similar plea for clemency…one that seems intended for a similar clientele.

related: blame it on coke
extra credit: buckfast tonic wine [wikipedia]
the worst toilet in scotland [youtube]

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what do you do when words alone can’t express the depth of your feeling? in the business world, you turn to clip art. and specifically, you turn to screen beans.

if you’ve seen a powerpoint presentation in the last decade, you’re most likely familiar with screen beans, the clip art collection that will not die.
says one [...]

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omar says he found this tucked underneath the windshield his car in noe valley, a neighborhood of san francisco “inhabited by self-centered jackasses — myself included, if you believe this note.”

adds omar: “i should clarify: the author of this masterpiece is talking about residential street parking, not a private/public lot with clearly designated lines or, [...]

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nicole in australia says this note was left on her coworker’s computer. “we work in a fairly small office and no one will own up to putting the note there,” she says — not that they disagree with the sentiment.
think about it, though. which is worse: the click-click-click of long fingernails on a keyboard, or [...]

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this notice was spotted by tom from cambridge, england in “the tiniest little toilet in my college hall” — so tiny, he says, there’s “barely enough room to fit a dog in there if you tried.” (but a few raw steaks? perhaps!)

(massive canine infestation: sharing the stage with the light brown apple moth debacle at [...]

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writes michael in milton keynes, england: “i have an ex-service ambulance which i use as a van and i had parked it on the road round the corner from me for a couple of weeks.
“after two days i got a call from the town council’s abandoned vehicle unit. then i got a few calls from [...]

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an anonymous submitter in ann arbor, michigan received this e-mail from a guy who just moved into her co-op (”basically a co-ed frat house”) for the rest of the summer. “we’ve tried to reason with him,” she says, to no avail. “when asked why he has to get up so early, he says, ‘i have [...]

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