Entries Tagged as 'confusion???'

your new favorite emo-punk band: the light brown apple moth debacle

June 20th, 2008 · 165 Comments

spotted in a high foot traffic area of sausalito, california…

god bless the bay area.
related: gentrification is insanit(ar)y

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Tags: bay area · california · confusion??? · irregular capitalization · neighbors · san francisco · sausalito

to the victor goes the bile

January 17th, 2008 · 59 Comments

ruben in oregon works for an apple reseller where the managers like to fire up the sales team with little competitions. (iphones don’t sell themselves, people! for that, you’ll have to hold out for version 2.0.) when josh, the store’s very own dwight schrute, was pronounced the winner of a recent contest, things unfolded pretty [...]

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Tags: confusion??? · group bitchfest · office · oregon · retail hell · whiteboard

office anthropomorphism

December 29th, 2007 · 64 Comments

many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:

from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:

from ben in san antonio, a talking door:

and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · annapolis · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · d.c. · irregular capitalization · maryland · microwave · opening/closing · san antonio · san francisco · texas · toilet

seriously!?!

December 11th, 2007 · 56 Comments

the inimitable jeff rubin passes along this note from the foyer of his park slope apartment building. yup, that’s what you think it is there on the floor. (perhaps a hapless victim of the bag-tampering deliquent?)

jeff says the shit was cleaned up when he checked a few hours later.
meanwhile, elsewhere in brooklyn, confusion still reigns.

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Tags: brooklyn · confusion??? · dogs · park slope · shit

“no” questions asked

November 26th, 2007 · 119 Comments

i love how the notewriter quickly abandons the initial pretense here, then completely throws in the towel with the last line.

thanks to adam in san francisco for this masterpiece!

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · CAPS LOCK · confusion??? · san francisco · stealing · strangers

perhaps a committee to assess the health of the committee?

August 20th, 2007 · 101 Comments

“the healthy companies committee” explains katherine in d.c., is the name of the office pep squad led by the sender of the e-mail. (”ironically,” she adds, “he does not seem to be able to deal with his frustration in a ‘healthy’ way.”)
the hilarity of this note is more subtle than say, a “thank you terry,” [...]

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Tags: comma diarrhea · confusion??? · d.c. · dishes · dishwasher · e-mail · exclamation-point happy! · not-so-veiled threats · office · questionable logic · royal we · spelling and grammar police

is that a question or a command!?!?

June 6th, 2007 · 9 Comments

found on the company dishwasher by pete m.at the bottom: “if you would like a lesson in telling the difference between the machine being on or not, please see reception.” (now that’s a power point presentation i’d love to see.)

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · confusion??? · dishwasher · office · opening/closing