Spotted by Kelly at gas station somewhere between Los Angeles and Monterey, California: a prime example of why notewriters (and corporations) cannot live on spell-check alone.
related: Stupid is as stuiped does
Little Dippers and Effeminate Stationery, Inc.
July 28th, 2010 · 60 comments
FILED UNDER: California · Clearly a non-native English speaker · gas station · irregular capitalization · spelling and grammar police · toilet · You call that punctuation?
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#1
Nylund
I like to think that maybe this gas station has a french alternative to my porcelain thrown that I have yet to experience, but I’m thinking that maybe I just haven’t thought this “threw”.
Jul 28, 2010 at 9:20 pm rating: 13
#2
Nylund
Ummm…the thrown/throne typo was totally part of my joke. I swear.
Jul 28, 2010 at 9:21 pm rating: 28
#3
Wade
Funny. I would think that if the papers go through, the toilette wouldn’t clog.
I can, however, understand drawing the line at dippers, no matter what their size…or age.
Jul 28, 2010 at 9:23 pm rating: 11
#4
Kevin
Well, at least every word is spelled correctly, even if they’re the wrong words. A-minus for effort.
Jul 28, 2010 at 9:23 pm rating: 20
#5
Julie
At least they appreciate my corporation. We work hard over they’re!
Jul 28, 2010 at 9:27 pm rating: 32
#6
JetJackson
Zees ees sooo redeeculoos! where em eye suppoosed to put zee toilette payper zen ey!? En ze basget beside ze toilette… noh noh, Euh! zees place ees so uncultured!
Jul 28, 2010 at 9:30 pm rating: 26
#7
zenvelo
they must have run this through Google translator from English to Canadian…
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:06 pm rating: 14
#8
Diana
ESL, anyone?
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:08 pm rating: 3
#9
schambers
Masculine papers are okay, they don’t plug the toilette.
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:16 pm rating: 19
#10
sandra
All that and comma splices too. What a hot mess!
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:18 pm rating: 7
#11
emzmcgee
Well I was happy at least to see the correct ‘your’ used.
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:33 pm rating: 7
#12
surrahsurrah
Mmmmm, baby dippers.
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:34 pm rating: 5
#13
gladystopia
And people say it’s hard to read Lolcat.
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:45 pm rating: 9
#14
danny pants
The sign didn’t say we couldn’t put fireworks in the toilet. Checkmate.
Jul 28, 2010 at 10:48 pm rating: 13
#15
Xenobiologista
I’m just curious as to what kind of misspelling of “toilet” would be corrected to “toilette” by spellcheck.
Just tried…
“toilte”, “toliet” and “toylet” in MS Word all generate “toilet” as the first suggestion.
“toilete” generates “toilette”. Maybe that’s it.
Jul 28, 2010 at 11:14 pm rating: 8
#16
SeriousOpinion
I think they outsourced the “printing” job to China!
Jul 28, 2010 at 11:27 pm rating: 2
#17
MySecrets
Someone very motivated made that sign. Or maybe he/she intentioanlly made it hoping to be found and shown on passiveaggressivenotes.com …
Jul 28, 2010 at 11:34 pm rating: 2
#18
aaa
Sometimes I think that people write jacked up notes like this just to see if people will take photos of them and mock them online.
Jul 29, 2010 at 12:40 am rating: 4
#19
Canthz_B
Thetis was last seen dipping her baby in a California gas station “toilette”?
That kind of reputation kind of Styx with a person.*
*Definitions: Ache…ill ease*
Jul 29, 2010 at 4:38 am rating: 15
#20
Froget Menot
Too many feces , too little time ?
Jul 29, 2010 at 5:20 am rating: 2
#21
Froget Menot
And as i got out.. the Toilette police busted me
i had to hand out my feminine papers to get through.
Jul 29, 2010 at 6:09 am rating: 8
#22
eslinger
Those feminine papers were fucking delicious. So were the baby dippers.
(What? We were all waiting for it to be said.
)
Jul 29, 2010 at 6:36 am rating: 1
#23
Froget Menot
“Harpic French ! ”
Lesson 1
“Eau de toilette” fragrance doesnt come from toilets at all.
Its palatable when all spirits are gone.
you may now go back to your facebook.
Jul 29, 2010 at 7:22 am rating: 0
#24
Other Julie
There is a local Chinese buffet which I frequent but I had never set foot inside the bathroom until a couple of days ago. They had a similar sign, requesting that customers please not flush toilet paper because it would clog the toilet. I am assuming this is a result of people lining the seat with copious amounts of toilet paper and then flushing it, so rather than depositing my comparably tiny amount of used toilet paper into the overflowing wastebasket in the stall, I went ahead and flushed it.
Jul 29, 2010 at 8:10 am rating: 2
#25
Lauren A.
Oh this cracked me uphen I saw it too! It’s at a gas station near downtown Santa Barbara… owned by some very sweet, yet very poor English speaking, Vietnamese people. I have sent this picture to so many, kudos to Kelly for sending it to PAN!
Jul 29, 2010 at 1:03 pm rating: 1
#26
Mrs Rocheter
I just died a little inside.
Jul 31, 2010 at 12:20 pm rating: 0
#27
George
Great language
Aug 4, 2010 at 11:03 am rating: 0
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