Entries Tagged as 'dishwasher'

the sink half-empty

September 4th, 2008 · 50 Comments

our anonymous submitter sneakily snapped a photo of the whiteboard at a friend’s house in urbana, illinois.

related: oh sweetie, i love it when you talk dirty!

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Tags: dishes · dishwasher · excessive underlining · illinois · rebuttals · roommates · signed with love · urbana · whiteboard

i asked santa for a baby alive, and all i got was this stupid dishwasher

July 2nd, 2008 · 140 Comments

i didn’t think i’d ever see a kitchen appliance more inappropriately anthropomorphized than this fridge, but i think this dishwasher note (from an anonymous submitter in england) dials the WTF-factor up to 11.

related: the passive-aggressive note has not been destroyed; it has been solved

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · anthropomorphism · bold-underlined-caps · dishes · dishwasher · mixed metaphors · sad face · shit · u.k. · wtf?

ps bacon is life

September 1st, 2007 · 174 Comments

the coast newspaper in halifax recently invited its readers to share their “passive-aggressive roommate tales.” (gee, what a great idea!)
my favorite part:

Excerpts from a 34-point note sent to a former roommate:
2. Your rent was always late and it was not paid in full.
4. You used the dishes and baking ware that we provided to you [...]

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Tags: bullet points · canada · cleaning · dishes · dishwasher · food · halifax · money · revenge · roommates

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

special people garage

June 21st, 2007 · 33 Comments

this is a special note indeed.
the idiosyncratic spelling, spacing, bolding and are fascinating — i love how the third sentence is so rhetorical it doesn’t deserve a question mark — but i think what i enjoy most is the after-the-fact realization that the desired action here just wasn’t quite explicit enough.

(thanks to molly in [...]

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Tags: d.c. · dishes · dishwasher · kitchen · office · 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