Entries Tagged as 'garbage'

two birds with one snowman

February 20th, 2008 · 51 Comments

while other passive-aggressives plow through post-its with wild abandon, the caretaker of kale’s building in winnipeg has a more economical style.

p.s. vetta, i think the only thing that would make me love this note more is if your postscript began with “i wish…”
related: and what’s your christmas wish?

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Tags: garbage · holiday spirit · p.s.

this is why your postal worker is disgruntled

January 14th, 2008 · 72 Comments

amanda spotted this on the door of the post office in milford, pennsylvania. (confidential to the fecal matter general: dude, i know recycling can be a hassle sometimes, but this seems like a little much.)

perhaps the brooklynites who issued this poetical preemptive warning knew what they were doing all along…

related: this is why your server […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · garbage · going postal · more like crazy · pennsylvania · shit

eats, shoots and leaves

November 18th, 2007 · 166 Comments

joey in pittsburgh spotted this one on the campus of carnegie-mellon university. now that’s the thanksgiving spirit!

meanwhile, a different version of this photo floating around shows what appears to be a copy-edited version. ain’t punctuation grand?

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Tags: garbage · pittsburgh · punctuation abuse · you're like so going to hell

be informed, homeland security will be

November 6th, 2007 · 188 Comments

PES picked this note out of an apartment building in newark, nj in 2004 because he loved the paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.

p.s. for more deliciousness, be sure to check out the stop-motion shorts at eatpes.com.

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · gloriously redundant · graffiti · jersey · landlord · loitering · newark · not-so-veiled threats · questionable logic · shameless meme-mongering · smoking

it’s not, like, rocket science

October 25th, 2007 · 122 Comments

aarwenn from seattle found this note in her office’s cafeteria, which she says is a hot spot for bad writers with passive-aggressive issues. “of course,” she says, “here at Large Aerospace Company, a lot of us have ‘issues.’”

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Tags: bugs · fun with euphemism · garbage · just wondering · office · seattle · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"