Entries Tagged as 'espanol'

just doing their part to uphold the reputation of americans abroad

September 2nd, 2008 · 118 Comments

edward says this sign was posted on every floor and inside all the elevators at the hotel that headquartered ucla’s study abroad program in granada, spain last semester.

can you blame them? i mean, really — what a waste of perfectly good manchego!

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · cheese · espana · exclamation-point happy! · noise · spain · university

He died for your clip art

April 28th, 2008 · 67 Comments

i really thought it couldn’t get more egregious than this clip-art catastrophe from a church in boston (left), which made this one (right) look downright tasteful in comparison.

but then, at a friend’s recent wedding, carey in northern virginia spotted this note — complete with that same punchy little yellow smiley — on several [...]

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Tags: cell phone · clip art catastrophe · espanol · guatemala · guilt trip · jesus · northern virginia · virginia · you're like so going to hell

can i lick it?

October 8th, 2007 · 98 Comments

no, you can’t  — at least not at erin’s office in indianapolis. explains erin, “my co-worker got tired of people,  separating pages on the printer by licking their fingers so she helpfully taped this box of sortkwik to it.”

meanwhile, alvaro’s office in madrid is having licking issues of its own with the office coffee machine. [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · espanol · indiana · indianapolis · licking · madrid · office · spain