evan in san diego spotted this bilingual warning in a local thrift store. “i particularly enjoy the vaguely racist implication of the spanish translation,” evan adds. “it’s the only sign in the store (among dozens) that’s en espanol.”

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túlio in buenos aires brings us this note, photographed by his amiga ana, on the occasion of ricky’s 49th birthday. (his party was canceled, you see, due to a lack of cooperación.)
“it’s sad and funny at the same time,” túlio writes, to which i’d have to respond, “sí.”

[roughly translated: PARTY SUSPENDED for want of friends' [...]

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edward says this sign was posted on every floor and inside all the elevators at the hotel that headquartered ucla’s study abroad program in granada, spain last semester.

can you blame them? i mean, really — what a waste of perfectly good manchego!

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i really thought it couldn’t get more egregious than this clip-art catastrophe from a church in boston (left), which made this one (right) look downright tasteful in comparison.

but then, at a friend’s recent wedding, carey in northern virginia spotted this note — complete with that same punchy little yellow smiley — on several [...]

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no, you can’t  — at least not at erin’s office in indianapolis. explains erin, “my co-worker got tired of people,  separating pages on the printer by licking their fingers so she helpfully taped this box of sortkwik to it.”

meanwhile, alvaro’s office in madrid is having licking issues of its own with the office coffee machine. [...]

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