Entries Tagged as 'spelling and grammar police'

if your grandma wrote PSAs

May 1st, 2008 · 133 Comments

j. star says he found this passive-aggressive twist on the old rspca campaign/scottish band in a cincinnati parking lot. (pet-lovers: just to let you know, it was crumpled up on the ground, not on his windshield.)

related: i can has guilt trip?

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Tags: MYOB · cincinatti · dogs · guilt trip · just to let you know · kinda sad · spelling and grammar police

covering all the bases

April 9th, 2008 · 90 Comments

“it seems too many people have made love to the office water cooler,” says lizzy in new york. and some of them, it seems, are getting a little sloppy.

lizzy says the “office of water” thing refers to the fact that “our office is full of water. like, the fridge doesn’t have anything but bottled water […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · d.c. · double-entendre alert · new york · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police · that's unsanitary · water

the passive-aggressive note has not been destroyed; it has been solved

March 21st, 2008 · 112 Comments

this note represents pretty much everything about office culture that makes me cringe. appropriately enough, i can’t even bring myself to call out the specifics — it’s just too overwhelming. (but the sign will always be there…every day, taunting me.)

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · alot · anthropomorphism · fridge · inane cartoon · mixed metaphors · say wha? · spelling and grammar police · u.k.

the minor gall, the major rift

March 11th, 2008 · 102 Comments

to quote chris anderson responding to milton friedman: “a free lunch doesn’t necessarily mean the food is being given away or that you’ll pay for it later — it could just mean someone else is picking up the tab.” indeed, craig in new york offers this example of the negative externalities that […]

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Tags: TLDR · a little patronizing · beverages · gloriously redundant · highlighter · new york · p.s. · spelling and grammar police · underlining

bun — er, pizza — in the oven

February 29th, 2008 · 120 Comments

zakir in montreal came home one night to find his roommate tristan ferociously scribbling this note for his other roommate, vincent. apparently, tristan was baking cookies on saturday night (aww) and when he turned on the stove, the entire apartment filled with smoke from the charred cardboard from vince’s frozen pizza. says zakir: “vincent’s […]

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Tags: double-entendre alert · heart · montreal · oven · pizza · smiley · south carolina · spelling and grammar police