Entries Tagged as 'highlighter'

yes, those letters were colored by hand

May 4th, 2008 · 66 Comments

explains our anonymous submitter: “we have a breakdown in communication at this place.”

related: what, no bubble letters?

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · highlighter · how artistic · idiosyncratic Capitalization · office · rainbow-colored · too much time

a lesson in crime

March 30th, 2008 · 57 Comments

finding funny-haha engrish signs in japan is almost too easy, but biella from new york didn’t settle for cheap laughs during her trip. “your english is good,” one might say, but this club’s “advisory” about the tokyo police is pure paranoiac gold.

related: uniformed vigilantes patrol tokyo streets to intimidate slackers [boingboing.net]

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · highlighter · tokyo

the minor gall, the major rift

March 11th, 2008 · 103 Comments

to quote chris anderson responding to milton friedman: “a free lunch doesn’t necessarily mean the food is being given away or that you’ll pay for it later — it could just mean someone else is picking up the tab.” indeed, craig in new york offers this example of the negative externalities that […]

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Tags: TLDR · a little patronizing · beverages · gloriously redundant · highlighter · new york · p.s. · spelling and grammar police · underlining

“if it wasn’t for the toilet, there would be no books”

November 21st, 2007 · 108 Comments

reading in the bathroom is one thing…but kicking back with a purloined snapple? that’s one step too far for this food service establishment, as spotted by jenny in washington, d.c.

you gotta love that passive voice! any kindly guesses re: the crossed-out word?

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Tags: bathroom · highlighter · not-so-veiled threats · passive voice · restaurant · stealing

p-e-t-t-y

July 3rd, 2007 · 32 Comments

tim is the night auditor at a hotel in fort smith, arkansas and hardly ever sees his bosses. instead, they communicate with him through charming memos like this one:

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Tags: arkansas · exclamation-point happy! · highlighter · sarcasm · spelling and grammar police