what to do after you’ve already written your daily letters to the editor, your congressman and the local weatherman, and you’ve still got hours to go before the early bird buffet? well, you turn to the classifieds!
reports dyah in houston: “a guy at school advertised his garage sale in the houston chronicle, and received this [...]
Entries Tagged as 'awk abbrev'
a day in the life of a crank
April 15th, 2009 · 170 Comments
Tags: awk abbrev · excessive underlining · houston · old folks · you call that punctuation?
i before e except after c ftw
January 10th, 2008 · 104 Comments
when julie in elkhart, indiana saw this note from her roommate, molly…
she decided it was time to go on the offensive.
then came the counter attack…
…then julie photographed the exchange and sent it to us. game, set, match.
related: i know where she lives
Tags: awk abbrev · i before e · indiana · oh snap · roommates · smiley · spelling and grammar police
no bread and circuses! but maybe an ice cream social?
November 15th, 2007 · 162 Comments
“our CA (community advisor) posted this friendly note on our bathroom door,” says our submitter, a college student in milwaukee.
the dorm residents — apparently a libertarian-minded bunch — were pissed about frequent CAD (common area damage) charges for putting recyclables in the trash instead of the mandatory recycling bin. they took a break from ranking [...]
Tags: awk abbrev · group bitchfest · itemized list · money · more aggressive than passive · raging against the machine · university · wisconsin
down and dirty down under (dear)
October 12th, 2007 · 144 Comments
when our saga begins, our anonymous submitter’s girlfriend was living in a tiny apartment in sydney, australia. due to space constraints, she was temporarily sleeping on what our submitter admits was “possibly one of the world’s shittiest sofabeds.”
but while the mailbox notes were presumably written first (based on the tone) they weren’t actually discovered until [...]
Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · australia · awk abbrev · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · neighbors · noise · saga · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police · sydney

