Entries Tagged as 'odor'

i’ll tell you what’s classy, though…

September 25th, 2008 · 149 Comments

“let me preface this by saying that the ladies’ room at work is quite clean,” writes angie in stamford, connecticut. “i’m not saying it’s where i eat my lunch, but it’s a very satisfactory restroom.”
it was something of a surprise, then, she says, when this sign appeared on each of the walls and stall doors.

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Tags: bathroom · clip art catastrophe · connecticut · odor · office · stamford

fight or flight

July 28th, 2008 · 194 Comments

in terms of the appropriate sympathetic nervous system response, an e-mail subject line like “big favor” is kinda the modern cubicle-dweller’s equivalent of “saber-tooth tiger outside cave!”

(note: this e-mail, our seattle-area submitter says, is from the very same person who brought us this.)
related: perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?

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Tags: all-staff e-mail · irregular capitalization · odor · office · oh no you didn't · seattle · thanks (but not really) · vomit

scatological poetry slam

July 22nd, 2008 · 221 Comments

given the highly intellectual discussions this site’s commenters have become known for, it seems safe to assume that the question “how are we to judge poetry?” is one that you, dear reader, have no doubt pondered on many an occasion, along with other more academic concerns such as the proper resting state of the toilet [...]

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Tags: canada · illinois · odor · office · toilet · toronto

perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?

May 19th, 2008 · 112 Comments

our anonymous submitter spotted these notes in the shared kitchen of a “professional building” — one our submitter says is full of shrinks. perhaps one of them could deduce whether “i.e. me” fits the DSM’s criteria for a diagnosis…or whether she’s just having a little trouble with her latin.

related: eau dear
extra credit: “food odors [...]

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Tags: casual xenophobia · food · freudian shit · i.e. or e.g. it's all greek -- or is it latin? -- to me · odor · office fridge · oh snap

when you can’t blame the dog

March 6th, 2008 · 123 Comments

spotted by maureen in cincinnati, ohio…

(actually, just kidding — it’s from a conference center in dayton. but how awesome would that be?)
related: blame it on coke

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Tags: bathroom · dayton · odor · ohio

eau dear

February 11th, 2008 · 90 Comments

this oh-so-subtle note was posted by mary’s former boss, “a pathetic professor in a backwater institution” where 90% of the graduate students happened to be korean, japanese, or chinese.
“nevermind that he doused himself with great lashings of brut in an attempt to jazz up the bald-up-top-ponytail-in-back look he had going on,” mary says. “there were [...]

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Tags: a little insensitive · a matter of taste · clip art catastrophe · fish · microwave · odor · office · spelling and grammar police · university