Entries Tagged as 'questionable logic'

it’s not food, mister — it’s ice cream! (drat, foiled again)

November 29th, 2007 · 94 Comments

tourist traps have the best signs. more proof? this exercise in subtlety is from provincetown, mass., where it was spotted by intrepid vacationer teresa from boise.

exhibit b) is from washington, d.c., in a store sam says sold “all sorts of crap, from nixon and michael jackson pins to african drums and sweaters.” (admittedly, this one’s […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · beverages · blitzkrieg approach · cape cod · d.c. · food · ice cream · massachusetts · questionable logic · smoking

just plane rude

November 28th, 2007 · 112 Comments

writes deanne: “because orlando prides itself on being a friendly city, we tend to do most of our dirty work via passive-aggressive notes and signs. this one is from the front door of a tacky tourist shop on international drive. i can get past the reference to ‘plane rude’ but the ‘macdonalds’ analogy is a […]

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Tags: clip art catastrophe · etiquette · exclamation-point happy! · florida · orlando · questionable logic · retail hell · smiley · spelling and grammar police

who are you calling ocd?

November 8th, 2007 · 145 Comments

this just in: starving unborn children aren’t the only casualties of office fridge lunch thievery. as one anonymous new yorker reports, now the sick and the infirm are being picked off, too!

(thank you kindly? best wishes? hungry on the 12th floor, you kill me.)

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Tags: cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · guilt trip · ital overkill · new york · office fridge · questionable logic · rhetorical question · sarcasm · thanks but no thanks

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

passive-allergic

November 4th, 2007 · 336 Comments

“okay, so i’m not sure if i’m in the wrong on this one,” says melanie from sydney. “i have a long haired cat who sheds a lot, so i just used to pick up the bits of fur and throw them out the window.” (um, right, of course.) melanie continues: “i’m on the third […]

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Tags: actions speak louder · australia · cats · neighbors · questionable logic · sydney