Entries Tagged as 'unnecessary "quotation marks"'

sheena is a paintballer

July 9th, 2008 · 177 Comments

where do you suppose this “anomous” tampa, florida resident stands on the whole nature-vs.-nurture debate?

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related: your to lazy

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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · crazypants · dubious scientific claims · exclamation-point happy! · florida · gloriously redundant · irregular capitalization · kids today · moms & dads · neighbors · spelling and grammar police · tampa · the lawn · unnecessary "quotation marks"

and god knows what

June 16th, 2008 · 140 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 [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · boston · crazypants · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"

maybe “no teenagers” would have been simpler

June 2nd, 2008 · 135 Comments

our anonymous submitter spotted this signage at a homemade water park somewhere near cherry point, south carolina.

related: and pull up your pants

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Tags: crazypants · sex sex sex · south carolina · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks" · you know who you are

it takes a “genius” to come up with a potluck theme like this one

May 28th, 2008 · 303 Comments

dealing with the rantings of your crazy boss or overzealous receptionist is one thing. but what do you do when your office’s resident passive-aggressive note-leaver doesn’t even work there? casey in san diego (a.k.a. the beloved runbarbara) says that’s the situation she’s found herself in at her job.
the offender, sandra, “has met me a total [...]

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the zagat guide to threatening signage

January 31st, 2008 · 86 Comments

“beware,” indeed: walking along “west 25th or so” in manhattan, this “work of art” was enough to make eric “personally” “shit his pants.”

tangential: the zagat history of my last relationship [the new yorker]

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Tags: new york · not-so-veiled threats · unnecessary "quotation marks"