a doozy from our pals over at the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.
Entries Tagged as 'You call that punctuation?'
this is your “last warning”
June 4th, 2007 · 10 Comments
Tags: moving/not moving · office · unnecessary "quotation marks"
Welcome to the office!
June 4th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Explains JDB: “The blue note went up first, then we hired a bunch of contractors. The red note went up shortly after that.”
Tags: cleaning · coffee · exclamation-point happy!!!! · office
Danke [for the sarcasm]!!!
June 4th, 2007 · 42 Comments
Tim found this note in the basement storeroom of an apartment building in Kiel, Germany:
Tim’s rough translation:
THANKS for filling [up the storeroom]!!!
I was able to get to the meter just SUPER!!!
tenant 5/1 [fifth floor, first apartment]
[hand written at the bottom] Many thanks from me too, tenant 5/2
Tags: Deutsche · exclamation-point happy!!!! · neighbors
The Post-it Wars
June 4th, 2007 · 23 Comments
After receiving numerous “helpful tips” from her roommate at the University of Minnesota…
…Lydia decided to add a few “tips” of her own. (The large signs on the oven and the microwave were already there.)
related: Meet the world’s crankiest roommate
Tags: "helpful" advice · blitzkrieg approach · cleaning · college life · dishes · etiquette · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy!!!! · food · kitchen · microwave · Minnesota · rebuttals · roommates · sponges
If you sprinkle ellipses when you tinkle…
June 3rd, 2007 · 24 Comments
Maybe it’s the manic use of ellipses and exclamation points, but this note makes me extremely uncomfortable.
Says submitter Erica in New York City, “As bad as it can get in the ladies’, I’ve been told the men’s bathroom is even worse.”
Tags: "helpful" advice · bathroom · bullet points · Comic Sans Alert · ellipses-crazed · exclamation-point happy!!!! · hygiene · New York · office · spelling and grammar police · toilet
Stay home!!!
June 2nd, 2007 · 24 Comments
(from an anonymous submitter in Maryland.)
Tags: "helpful" advice · exclamation-point happy!!!! · illness · kitchen · Maryland · office · spelling and grammar police
This means you!!!
May 31st, 2007 · 16 Comments
From Amy in Ocean Pines, Maryland, who explains: “I have had a problem with the people I live with (namely my husband and sister) who do not understand the concept that a dryer full of lint is a fire hazard [!!!]”
Tags: exclamation-point happy!!!! · family · Maryland
I swear this isn’t some kind of stealth viral marketing campaign
May 29th, 2007 · 33 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.
![To the individual whom [sic] stole the hotpockets! They did not belong to you! By you consuming said hotpockets you have committed a theft! This shall not be tolerated!](http://passiveaggressivenotes.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/hotpocketapa.jpg "To the individual whom [sic] stole the hotpockets! They did not belong to you! By you consuming said hotpockets you have committed a theft! This shall not be tolerated!")
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
