kellye from huntsville, alabama spotted these notes posted on boarded-up diner during last month’s G20 summit in pittsburgh.
explains kellye: “the broken windows were caused by a few rowdy anarchists/drunk college kids from oakland who apparently missed the mark in their defiance of the man. since the vandals represented only a very small cross-section of protesters [...]
Entries Tagged as 'spelling and grammar police'
raging against the little guy
October 20th, 2009 · 144 Comments
Tags: heart · note wars · pittsburgh · raging against the machine · spelling and grammar police · starbucks
miss place is SO SERIOUS
October 15th, 2009 · 237 Comments
ashley in richmond, virginia says this e-mail was sent to every single employee at her office. then, “after thirty minutes, the sender attempted to recall it six times.” (that’s how you know she was SO SERIOUS.)
related: the classic all-staff e-mail
Tags: CAPS LOCK · all-staff e-mail · cell phone · richmond · spelling and grammar police
gone country
September 25th, 2009 · 146 Comments
before you embark on this visual road trip through from rural north america, remember: guns don’t kill possums. CELL PHONES KILL POSSUMS. (and potentially one-thumbed former sea captains.)
related: the right to bear fruit
extra credit: playing possum [awkwardfamilyphotos.com]
Tags: more aggressive than passive · spelling and grammar police
totally fried green tomatoes
September 9th, 2009 · 94 Comments
shannon in new york saw this note posted on the fence of the nearby community garden while she and her roommate were taking her dog for a walk for.
the thought of a little old lady glued to her binoculars at 4 in the morning, this had them laughing for many prepositional phrases of time.
related: the [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · excessive underlining · new york · plants · spelling and grammar police · stealing · wtf?
2 notes, 1 cupcake
August 28th, 2009 · 89 Comments
this restroom sign from baton rouge, louisiana manages to combine variations on two of the genre’s most irritating cliches — the rhyme that must be flushed and the clip art that must be stopped…with some additional ridiculous floral clip art thrown in for good measure.
and yet, somehow, this note manages to offend me even more. [...]
Tags: bathroom · clip art catastrophe · exclamation-point happy! · spelling and grammar police · toilet
from the rejected first draft of the amelie screenplay
August 24th, 2009 · 99 Comments
no, it’s not really “passive-aggressive.” but this find — spotted by matthew in los angeles — is just too magical to keep to myself.
oh, and mishell, if you ever jog on down to austin and want to share a banana-free breakfast taco or tamale, let me know. (but let’s say 9:30, ’cause i have something [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · los angeles · not so much passive-aggressive · spelling and grammar police · too good to be real? · wtf?
your a geneous
July 10th, 2009 · 105 Comments
writes amy in canada: “part of my job (as a civilian employed by the canadian armed forces) is to install or repair network services out to remote areas of our training area. here are a few of the notes i saw while puttering around with my cabling and switches.”
happy (very) belated canada day!
related: (don’t?) wash [...]
Tags: canada · spelling and grammar police
repestect yourself
June 29th, 2009 · 161 Comments
presenting the winner of the creative spelling (and spacing) of the year award, spotted by rob in the recently-painted elevator of his brooklyn apartment building.
it has a lovely lyric quality to it, no?
related: your are welcome to our home
Tags: CAPS LOCK · bizarro spacing · brooklyn · elevator · landlord · now that's management · spelling and grammar police · your/you're
your are welcome to our home
May 22nd, 2009 · 155 Comments
writes linda in austin, texas: “this note popped up a few months ago on my downstairs neighbor’s door, but i didn’t take a look at it until now.” but how much longer will it be before she garners an invite from this gracious host?
related: why you don’t want to go to b-school, in two words
Tags: CAPS LOCK · austin · neighbors · spelling and grammar police
i’ll have u know
May 6th, 2009 · 290 Comments
a busy working mom in austin, texas got this little love note on her blackberry from her sixteen-year-old son. (michael is his friend, by the way, not the craft store.)
in the end, our submitter adds, he didn’t take the bus after all. total bluff!
related: friends don’t lie 2 friends
Tags: austin · e-mail · high school · kids today · moms & dads · signed with love · spelling and grammar police
some advice on roommate living
April 28th, 2009 · 142 Comments
our anonymous submitter was mildly amused when he noticed this little hypothetical how-to pop up in his facebook feed. but the real kicker, he realized, is that the one person tagged in the note happens to be (ouch) the notewriter’s current roommate.
adds our submitter: “to my surprise, the girl never commented on it, but i’m [...]
Tags: facebook · frenemies · roommates · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police
this!! is how!! you know!! we mean it!!!
March 31st, 2009 · 128 Comments
writes desiree: “this is a note at the express (stamps-only counter) at a very busy post office in washington, d.c. they are apparently!! very!! uptight!! like everyone else in d.c. (myself included)!!”
meanwhile!! in florida…
and! in los angeles!
related: ain’t that the gospel truth?
Tags: CAPS LOCK · clip art catastrophe · d.c. · exclamation-point happy! · spelling and grammar police · you call that punctuation?
the candyman can’t
March 13th, 2009 · 154 Comments
“one morning last summer,” writes stephanie in illinois, “my brother and i arrived at the company where we worked to find these notes posted to the candy vending machine. (mind you, it was 8:45 in the morning.) apparently, the man who fills the vending machines — a.k.a ‘the candy man’ — had failed to restock [...]
Tags: illinois · office · pleasantries as afterthought · questionable logic · raging against the machine · sad face · spelling and grammar police · vending
silent protest
January 27th, 2009 · 100 Comments
tara in vancouver organized a meetup for “progressive, radical and lefty librarians” at a place called subeez cafe. it wasn’t until afterwards — when she took a look at the contact sheet she’d passed around — that she realized at least one attendee was less-than-pleased with her choice of venue.
“they didn’t complain to me directly, [...]
Tags: politics · spelling and grammar police · unsolicited feedback · vancouver
southern comfort
January 18th, 2009 · 121 Comments
though the issue might not be top of mind for sophisticated and urbane readership of this website, let this serve as your warning: should you find yourself in, say, fayetteville, arkansas (like melissa, a california transplant currently attending the u of a) you’ll soon realize how important it is to lay down the law with [...]
Tags: all-staff e-mail · arkansas · baltimore · garbage · southern charm · spelling and grammar police · spitting
sigh-ned
January 11th, 2009 · 89 Comments
our anonymous submitter in cleveland found this note taped to the office paper shredder. “my first thought was, ‘wow, this person has issues deeper than the full shredder,’” he says.
related: especially deborah
Tags: cleveland · crazypants · exclamation-point happy! · highlighter · office · ohio · spelling and grammar police
the rules for strip bingo
December 8th, 2008 · 61 Comments
spotted in the basement of a church where people play bingo all the time, says yamis in garfield, new jersey, who adds: “i guess we know the demographics of the crowd.”
related: more like hardly working
Tags: CAPS LOCK · jersey · old folks · spelling and grammar police · temperature · your/you're
sincerely, disappointed
November 20th, 2008 · 126 Comments
our anonymous submitter says this display is just one of many microwave missives his coworker has created. “someone tore it down and threw it on the floor once,” he says, “but she put it back up, laminated with heavy-duty tape.”
and of course, the art-imitating-life inspiration for this post:
related: to each his own microwave
extra credit: pam [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · highlighter · microwave · new york · not-so-veiled threats · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police
“that’s what she said”
November 18th, 2008 · 199 Comments
spotted by randi in charlotte, north carolina, this one’s straight out of the michael scott playbook.
related: to the victor goes the bile
Tags: faint praise · north carolina · now that's management · oh no you didn't · spelling and grammar police
the scarlet status update
November 14th, 2008 · 189 Comments
today’s facebook friday submission comes from an anonymous onlooker in college park, maryland. (read from the bottom up.)
related: i challenge you to an emoticon-off!
Tags: ex drama · facebook · spelling and grammar police

