Entries Tagged as 'rhetorical question'

“What if someone like you had stolen Baby Jesus?”

December 16th, 2009 · 215 Comments

As this note from Columbus, Ohio demonstrates, ’tis the season to be hilariously self-righteous!

related: All I want for Christmas
extra credit: Baby Jesus Theft [Wikipedia]
Roundup of stolen Baby Jesus reports [Wonkette]
Baby Jesus found! [FOUND Magazine]

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Tags: holiday spirit · jesus · office fridge · rhetorical question · spelling and grammar police · stealing

But what about Hawaiian shirt day?

March 23rd, 2009 · 116 Comments

Our submitter, Glenn, says this all-staff e-mail “just kinda sucked the life out of us” around his office. “It was like a Mom saying ‘Guess what, kids?” in a really excited voice, and then saying ‘You’re going to the dentist!!!‘”

But the best part of this note — besides the pitch-perfect forced jollity — is the [...]

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Tags: a little patronizing · all-staff e-mail · now that's management · office · rhetorical question · texas

and all the pieces matter

October 28th, 2008 · 88 Comments

“If it wasn’t for the handwriting,” says Lauren in California, “I would have guessed my mom wrote it.”

Meanwhile, Carson in Valencia found this note (crudely laminated with packing tape) attached to a tree while walking his dog in the park. “Maybe next time Maggie will think twice about leaving her ceramic cats unattended,” he says.

And [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · california · comma diarrhea · emdash overboard · garbage · neighbors · rhetorical question · seattle · you call that punctuation? · you know who you are

help yourself

March 24th, 2008 · 43 Comments

spotted by doppelfrog at london’s paddington station…

related: water, water everywhere

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Tags: london · rhetorical question · subway · water · whiteboard

Who are you calling OCD?

November 8th, 2007 · 149 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 not really)

Your to lazy

October 15th, 2007 · 178 Comments

Those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter (a GM at a property management firm in Springfield, Missouri) for today’s masterpiece. “One of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “I got halfway [...]

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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism · your/you're

dear vandal

September 13th, 2007 · 170 Comments

“random people seem to have a lot of fun vandalizing portland’s many bus stops,” says kathryn. “several of the stops i use frequently have had their schedules removed, which is oh- so-helpful. the other day when i went to the stop in front of my office to go home, i noticed this little note. they [...]

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Tags: die bitch die · portland · rhetorical question · vandalism

who would’ve thought? it figures

September 3rd, 2007 · 167 Comments

as it turns out, the internet isn’t the best place for the secret journal you don’t want your roommate to see. but for the other party involved, it certainly makes for some fascinating reading.

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Tags: a matter of taste · attire · blog · dishes · rhetorical question · roommates · sponges

really, enough with the weather

June 18th, 2007 · 63 Comments

this one makes me wince. seriously, ouch.

(from cassandra in toronto.)

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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · elevator · neighbors · rhetorical question · toronto

May the sanctity of the sink prevail!!

June 14th, 2007 · 98 Comments

(From Midgy in Madison, Wisconsin.)
related: With 17 roommates, it could have been worse

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · TLDR · dishes · not-so-veiled threats · p.s. · rhetorical question · roommates · sarcasm · spelling and grammar police · wisconsin

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

CARE: it makes a difference

May 25th, 2007 · 23 Comments

This girl is like the archetypal freshman roommate, no?

From Megan in Charleston, who was not the slob that this note might suggest.

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Tags: dishes · excessive underlining · garbage · not-so-veiled threats · rhetorical question · roommates · south carolina · university · whiteboard