Entries Tagged as 'kitchen'

special people garage

June 21st, 2007 · 33 Comments

this is a special note indeed.
the idiosyncratic spelling, spacing, bolding and are fascinating — i love how the third sentence is so rhetorical it doesn’t deserve a question mark — but i think what i enjoy most is the after-the-fact realization that the desired action here just wasn’t quite explicit enough.

(thanks to molly in [...]

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Tags: d.c. · dishes · dishwasher · kitchen · office · spelling and grammar police

if goebbels had e-mail…

June 8th, 2007 · 26 Comments

i’m guessing it would look nothing like this note:(just click to enlarge.)

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Tags: dishes · exclamation-point happy! · kitchen · office · rhetorical question · smiley · spelling and grammar police

the souls of our shoes

June 5th, 2007 · 21 Comments

this important safety message is brought to you from an anonymous worker at a call center in toronto…

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Tags: attire · danger · e-mail · kitchen · office · spelling and grammar police · toronto

the post-it wars

June 4th, 2007 · 20 Comments

after receiving numerous “helpful tips” from her roommate at the university of minnesota…

lydia decided to add a few post-its of her own.

(the large signs on the oven and the microwave were already there.)

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Tags: "helpful" advice · cleaning · dishes · etiquette · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · food · kitchen · microwave · minnesota · rebuttals · roommates · sponges · university

stay home!!!

June 2nd, 2007 · 17 Comments

(from an anonymous submitter in maryland.)

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Tags: "helpful" advice · exclamation-point happy! · illness · kitchen · maryland · office · spelling and grammar police