Entries Tagged as 'awk abbrev'
If you’d like to join a vigilante punctuation posse or a grassroots typography militia, Washington State might be the place for you.
In one Seattle suburb, for example, an underground group has targeted a certain “JS,” who sources say “has some serious control/micromanagement issues, and enjoys flaunting his power to tell people what to do a liiiittle too much. He also tends to find nasty ways to get revenge on people who contradict him.”
![Please leave out apostrophe's [sic] / symbols from customer names (commas - OK) JS Please leave out apostrophes from plural nouns.](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4678366801_edd1f19d91.jpg "Please leave out apostrophe's [sic] / symbols from customer names (commas - OK) JS Please leave out apostrophes from plural nouns.")
Elsewhere in Seattle, “office professionalism” seems to have no bearing on freedom of speech…as long as you use the right typeface, of course.
related: Completely valid rebuttals
Tags: "too inside fucking baseball" · apostrophe catastrophe · awk abbrev · Comic Sans Alert · Helsinki · most popular notes of 2010 · music · not-so-veiled threats
What to do after you’ve already written your daily letters to the editor, congressman and the local weatherman and you’ve still got hours to go before the early bird buffet? Well, you turn to the classifieds!
related: Cloudy with a chance of hate mail
Tags: awk abbrev · comma diarrhea · excessive underlining · Houston · old folks · unsolicited feedback · You call that punctuation?
When Julie in Elkhart, Indiana saw this note from her roommate, Molly…
![Molly's Pet Peive [sic]: Drippy Faucets. Please turn them off completely when you are done. Thanks](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2305/2173488239_90edf74cf0.jpg "Molly's Pet Peive [sic]: Drippy Faucets. Please turn them off completely when you are done. Thanks")
…she decided it was time to go on the offensive.
Then came the counter attack…
![Molly's 2nd pet peeve: Having to tell ppl to turn the facet [sic] off in the first place](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2381/2173488247_89dbd127f1.jpg "Molly's 2nd pet peeve: Having to tell ppl to turn the facet [sic] off in the first place")
…and 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 · most popular notes of 2008 · note wars · oh snap · roommates · smiley · spelling and grammar police
“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 up Ron Paul stories on Reddit and Digg to add their two cents here.
Tags: awk abbrev · college life · group bitchfest · itemized list · money · more aggressive than passive · RA · raging against the machine · Wisconsin
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 after a third note was slipped under the apartment door…
Mortified, our loving couple did, in fact, move their mattress to the floor. But that didn’t seem to placate their dear nameless neighb, who pinned this note to the the building’s common noticeboard…
“Ironically,” our submitter says, “it was found when we were moving out the horrible couch.”
related: visual aids always help
Tags: "helpful" advice · Australia · awk abbrev · CAPS LOCK · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy!!!! · most popular notes of 2007 · neighbors · noise · saga · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police · Sydney
