nadia received this letter from her boyfriend’s cousin, amy, who recently relocated with her boyfriend from saskatoon to victoria, canada…and have been shacking up with nadia and her boyfriend since then. over the past month, roomie relations have become a bit strained, to say the least.
“we had to send a stray cat she was harboring [...]
Entries Tagged as 'spelling and grammar police'
an official declaration of the silent treatment
July 1st, 2008 · 346 Comments
Tags: "helpful" advice · TLDR · canada · p.s. · roommates · spelling and grammar police
there is a poor speller among us
June 30th, 2008 · 97 Comments
writes our anonymous submitter from kentucky: “I work at a gym. I was checking the women’s locker room to make sure it wasn’t a fetid stinkpit (it wasn’t) when I saw three of these lying on the counter. i went to throw them out and found a whole mess of them in the trashcan, too.”
related: [...]
Tags: gym · kentucky · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police · stealing
you’re toast
June 25th, 2008 · 108 Comments
courtney in california spotted this in the front yard of a neighborhood she happened to be cruising through today — one she says is “full of blue-hairs.”
adds courtney: “i may be knocking on this person’s front door sometime this week. i HAVE to know what melba’s letter said!”
related: you can do it. we can’t help
Tags: MYOB · california · crazypants · exclamation-point happy! · old folks · spelling and grammar police
all your baristas are belong to us
June 17th, 2008 · 159 Comments
spotted by weston in the backroom of a dallas starbucks: the coffee chain’s recipe for the “keep-our-employees-locked-in-petty-arguments-so-they-won’t-unionize-accino”!
(add one pump “disgruntled english lit ph.d.s” + one pump “functional illiterates”; shake well.)
related: an extra bold request
extra credit: starbucks gossip
Tags: bathroom · group bitchfest · say wha? · spelling and grammar police · starbucks · towels · you call that a comeback?
and god knows what
June 16th, 2008 · 141 Comments
most drivers could easily identify these duct-tape wrapped shapes as the universal sign for “caution: crazy person ahead,” but our submitter in boston actually pulled over and parked in order to get a better look. up close, “the signs were even crazier than we thought,” she reports. “seriously, what happened to this guy?”
related: movin’ out [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · boston · crazypants · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"
the audacity of theft
June 6th, 2008 · 150 Comments
writes an anonymous submitter in houston: “a neighbor in my building put up an obama yard sign on the door of her apartment around the time of the texas primary. when it disappeared, i assumed she took it down herself.” then up went this note — a cheerful bit of propaganda that oh-so-subtly disproves all [...]
Tags: CAPS LOCK · houston · neighbors · rainbow-colored · spelling and grammar police · that's illegal

