“Smooth move, Ferguson!” he said with a snort, his laughter echoing down the empty hallway. He started to walk on, then stopped short. That tuna-salad sandwich can wait, he thought. This was the English Department, after all — someone should be keeping up appearances! With that, the graduate student made an abrupt about-face, scurrying back to the tiny office he had just left to compose a suitable caps-locked rejoinder.
This, he could already tell, would be the highlight of his week.
Author’s note: The chair above was spotted by Ben in a hallway of the English Building (oh, the shame!) at the University of Cincinnati. Adds Ben: “I don’t know how you write a note with only a few words on it, all of them huge, and mess one up so badly.”
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#1
QBALL
Too many cocktails before leaving the English Dept. or,, perhaps one pissed off person because they fell off the chair on their “arse”.. oh and FIRST,, wow, I feel beter now…. spell check broken
Apr 29, 2011 at 4:43 pm rating: 2
#2
wonderman
Hah! I think I like pan’s commentary before the note even more than the note. Good job.
Apr 29, 2011 at 4:57 pm rating: 9
#3
Quite Contrary
Isn’t spellcheck spelled “spell check?”
Apr 29, 2011 at 5:03 pm rating: 2
#4
Psycho
I’m assuming someone has the “skip all cap words” choice selected in Word. Once people get used to the red lines for spell-checking, they don’t proof.
Apr 29, 2011 at 5:12 pm rating: 6
#5
oi
Did Daniel Brian from Cracked.com write background commentary on today’s PAN?
Apr 29, 2011 at 5:19 pm rating: 4
#6
HA
“This was this the English Department ”
OH THE IRONY.
Apr 29, 2011 at 5:45 pm rating: 6
#7
Bonobo
I enjoy the fact the the post about spelling and the English department contains “This was this the English Department.”
EDIT – Ah! Snaked by HA.
Apr 29, 2011 at 5:53 pm rating: 2
#8
DLo
Danegr, from the ancient Sumerian, meaning, “SonufaBITCH that hurt! I fell right on the floor! This piece of shit is broken!”
Apr 29, 2011 at 5:56 pm rating: 26
#9
Mel
Clearly this is meant to be “dane-gr”, a reference to a little-known scene from Hamlet (usually not included in stage productions) in which the Dane takes his anger at his mother and stepfather out on a chair, whose broken, detached back is then left to symbolize the disjointed family relations throughout the play. Since standardized spelling had not yet been introduced in Shakespeare’s day, “gr” was a perfectly acceptable onomatopoeia for what today requires more than one r.
…this is probably why I’m not an English major.
Apr 29, 2011 at 6:13 pm rating: 19
#10
Jiu Jitsu Los Angeles
Maybe he was saying “Dane… Grr!” to the person who broke it? I suppose we’ll never know. But don’t rule it out.
Apr 29, 2011 at 6:14 pm rating: 3
#11
Mrs.Beasley
Thanks for the heads-up about my desk chair, mate!
Sincerely,
Ralph Danegr
Apr 29, 2011 at 6:15 pm rating: 27
#12
TickleMyBambo
This is what happens when drunk college students decide to race office chairs around the building only with the end result being a broken chair and a note warning of “danegr” to anyone who dares to sit down. Despite the drunken misspelling, one must give them props for being considerate enough to let people know of the broken object.
Team Danegr!
Apr 29, 2011 at 6:30 pm rating: 9
#13
pony girl
WANRING:
DYSLEXIA HAPEPNS
Apr 29, 2011 at 6:32 pm rating: 8
#14
jessi
my retort note would’ve read:
CAUTION!
SPELLCHECK BORKEN!
Apr 29, 2011 at 9:41 pm rating: 12
#15
Lisa
I’m far more concerned with those stains on the chair. “Warning: The person who uses this chair suffers from incontinence!”
Apr 29, 2011 at 9:49 pm rating: 4
#16
Nunavut Guy
Suspension of reality….it works in Hollywood.
Apr 29, 2011 at 9:53 pm rating: 0
#17
Kara
Grammar and spelling come secondary: I’m more impressed that there was a sign at all. I spent (wasted?) four years getting an English degree, and the only time I ever sat in a chair that wasn’t jacked up was when our class was temporarily relocated to the IT Building due to a bomb threat.
Apr 29, 2011 at 10:41 pm rating: 1
#18
zenvelo
That sign is so wrong, it should say “DANEGR! MYSTERY STAINS!”
Apr 29, 2011 at 10:56 pm rating: 3
#19
Worker 11811
Where’s the Comic Sans?
Where are the extra exclamation points? !!!!!
Needs more underlining and bold face type, too!!!!
Do those things and it would be PERFECT!!!!
Apr 30, 2011 at 9:24 am rating: 2
#20
Ben
This isn’t the first time I enacted social change in this hallway through the use of PANs. There was a bench that had been covered with computer monitors for over a year until I put up a sign that said: “Warning. This bench is heavily monitored.”
They were gone the next day.
Apr 30, 2011 at 9:42 am rating: 21
#21
Adrienne
Why is there a huge fuckin piss stain on the chair?
Apr 30, 2011 at 11:01 am rating: 0
#22
UC student
I feel obligated to mention that the website’s tag for “Cincinatti” is misspelled. We spell the city Cincinnati. Thank goodness I’m not part of the English department!
Apr 30, 2011 at 1:14 pm rating: 0
#23
Angus
I love how your description above the picture sounds like something Adrian Mole would write
Apr 30, 2011 at 3:13 pm rating: 3
#24
bamboocurl
I was looking at chairs at the Ikea website the past few days and when I saw the title, I was surprised that a chair had been recalled. So I googled this infamous Ikea Danegr chair…
The google suggestion let me in on the joke.
Apr 30, 2011 at 7:31 pm rating: 8
#25
easily distracted
Sadly, something like this would be the highlight of my week.
May 1, 2011 at 6:35 pm rating: 2
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