Entries Tagged as 'water'

that personalized stationery finally comes in handy

June 10th, 2009 · 132 Comments

extra p in charlottesville, virginia found this note in his office break room. he draws our attention to two sections in particular: “the ‘let there be closure’ line, which seems more appropriate for a break-up note, and the ‘mark an X if you threw it away’ part, which reminds me of grade school mash notes. [...]

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Tags: charlottesville · office · stealing · virginia · water

paying through the spout

May 25th, 2009 · 190 Comments

our anonymous submitter in ontario, canada found this note in the office lunch area. apparently, the water in the office cooler had been going like crazy until the new pay-per-sip policy was enacted.
“while people were willing to pay,” our submitter says, “whoever was changing the bottles was not doing it as often as before the [...]

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Tags: money · office · office cop · ontario · water

so…the water cooler’s hosting rainbow parties again?

May 13th, 2009 · 153 Comments

spotted above the office water cooler by josh in “boston”…

related: and all the pieces matter

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Tags: boston · office · unnecessary "quotation marks" · water · you know who you are

covering all the bases

April 9th, 2008 · 91 Comments

“it seems too many people have made love to the office water cooler,” says lizzy in new york. and some of them, it seems, are getting a little sloppy.

lizzy says the “office of water” thing refers to the fact that “our office is full of water. like, the fridge doesn’t have anything but bottled water [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · d.c. · double-entendre alert · new york · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police · that's unsanitary · water

help yourself

March 24th, 2008 · 43 Comments

spotted by doppelfrog at london’s paddington station…

related: water, water everywhere

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Tags: london · rhetorical question · subway · water · whiteboard

upon further reflection, screw you

September 1st, 2007 · 52 Comments

while jessica was a college student in boston, she lived in a five-person apartment with one friend and three strangers. jess says apartment issues were rarely (if ever– there was only one “meeting”) talked about directly (there was but one “meeting), but were instead handled through a series of “love notes” from anne, like this [...]

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Tags: boston · cleaning · dishes · garbage · guests · not-so-veiled threats · vermin · water · your mother doesn't...

is this what a post-post-feminist looks like?

August 15th, 2007 · 107 Comments

brandy in york haven, p.a. forgot to put water back in the fridge, she says, “and my boyfriend likes his cold water.” yikes.

also note the list of tasks for brandy and her boyfriend at upper right. um, so much for challenging gender stereotypes at home, huh?

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · heart · more aggressive than passive · pennsylvania · sig o · smiley · water · whiteboard

water, water everywhere

August 7th, 2007 · 40 Comments

notes rayya in canterbury, kent: “informing the building landlord about a sticky tap would probably have been a more sensible move than guilt-tripping the female staff into feeling responsible for global water shortages!”

it doesn’t end there: says rayya, “not only are we responsible for global water shortages but we’re breaking people’s limbs.  the ‘please’ [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathtub · danger · guilt trip · u.k. · water

next time, go for the fiji?

May 24th, 2007 · 10 Comments

this fiendishly funny note comes to us courtesy of jennifer in philly, who does not condone the theft of bottled water of any kind.

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Tags: "helpful" advice · exclamation-point happy! · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · oh snap · stealing · water