my own neighborhood of park slope, brooklyn has high concentrations of dogs, babies, crazies and bloggers, which makes for a heady brew of incredibly well-documented passive-aggressiveness. certain notes (like this long-running series) show up in my inbox over and over again. i’ve gotten various iterations of this note from no fewer than six different [...]
Entries Tagged as 'unnecessary "quotation marks"'
oh, shit!
November 11th, 2007 · 172 Comments
Tags: apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · dogs · ellipses-crazed · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · saga · shit · unnecessary "quotation marks"
it’s not, like, rocket science
October 25th, 2007 · 123 Comments
aarwenn from seattle found this note in her office’s cafeteria, which she says is a hot spot for bad writers with passive-aggressive issues. “of course,” she says, “here at Large Aerospace Company, a lot of us have ‘issues.’”
Tags: fun with euphemism · garbage · just wondering · office · seattle · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"
cubicle etiquette
July 17th, 2007 · 99 Comments
this series of signs (all made by one person, and pinned up across an entire bulletin board) is among my all-time favorites. the glorious redundancies, the inappropriate quotation marks, the clip art — oh, it’s just too good.
(yeah, the last one is blurry. our anonymous canadian submitter apologizes.)
Tags: canada · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · music · noise · odor · office · office cop · privacy · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"
no money, no trophy
July 12th, 2007 · 66 Comments
this exercise in mass shaming is brought to us by rocky in san diego, who adds: “these are 5-year-olds playing t-ball.”
Tags: CAPS LOCK · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · moms & dads · money · san diego · unnecessary "quotation marks"
this is your “last warning”
June 4th, 2007 · 9 Comments
a doozy from our pals over at the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.
Tags: moving/not moving · office · unnecessary "quotation marks"
i swear this isn’t some kind of stealth viral marketing campaign
May 29th, 2007 · 35 Comments
…but hot pockets are totally the car radios of the communal freezer.
exhibit a: new york city
exhibit b: southern oregon
exhibit c: washington, d.c.
exhibit d: oahu, hawaii
thanks to beth at columbia and dj shaggy for their help in uncovering this phenomenon.
Tags: excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · office · office fridge · sad face · spelling and grammar police · stealing · unnecessary "quotation marks" · whiteboard

