Entries Tagged as 'sad face'

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?

or possilly, that no body ‘b’ there

January 12th, 2008 · 74 Comments

mishee was about to go ahead and just pay for that snapple…until she saw this colorful little note at a drugstore in sunnyvale, california. phew!

UPDATE: mishee (ever the overachiever) has returned to the scene to satisfy your curiosity about the signs behind the signs…and finds her snapple-drinking plans foiled in the process!

related: if it weren’t [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · bathroom · california · sad face · silicon valley · spelling and grammar police · 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.

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Tags: excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · office · office fridge · sad face · spelling and grammar police · stealing · unnecessary "quotation marks" · whiteboard