Entries Tagged as 'seattle'

and all the pieces matter

October 28th, 2008 · 86 Comments

“if it wasn’t for the handwriting,” says lauren in california, “i would have guessed my mom wrote it.”

meanwhile, carson in valencia found this note (crudely laminated with packing tape) attached to a tree while walking his dog in the park. “maybe next time maggie will think twice about leaving her ceramic cats unattended,” he says.

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · california · comma diarrhea · emdash overboard · garbage · neighbors · rhetorical question · seattle · you call that punctuation? · you know who you are

fight or flight

July 28th, 2008 · 195 Comments

in terms of the appropriate sympathetic nervous system response, an e-mail subject line like “big favor” is kinda the modern cubicle-dweller’s equivalent of “saber-tooth tiger outside cave!”

(note: this e-mail, our seattle-area submitter says, is from the very same person who brought us this.)
related: perhaps it’s time for a little group therapy?

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Tags: all-staff e-mail · irregular capitalization · odor · office · oh no you didn't · seattle · thanks (but not really) · vomit

franger al fresco

July 26th, 2008 · 118 Comments

geetha in sydney says this note appeared in the shared dining room the day after the city’s gay mardi gras. the best part? “a few people admitted the condom might be theirs, but nobody would take credit for the note.”

related: dearest roommate

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Tags: roommates · seattle · smiley · stealing · sydney · visual aids

the parking class

May 22nd, 2008 · 71 Comments

this lovely little exchange from seattle comes to us via the ever-brilliant dan savage at the stranger. it reads a bit like a “SAHM vs. WOHM” faceoff on urbanbaby, with blessedly fewer acronyms.

(more backstory and larger versions of the photos over at the slog.)
related: there’s hertz…and there’s “not exactly”

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Tags: neighbors · oh snap · parking · seattle

the more you know

May 15th, 2008 · 173 Comments

this public service announcement is brought to us by tully’s coffee, courtesy of megan in seattle.

related: “if it wasn’t for the toilet, there’d be no books”

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Tags: "customer service" · bathroom · drugs · highlighter · p.s. · seattle · spelling and grammar police · stars

it’s not, like, rocket science

October 25th, 2007 · 123 Comments

aarwenn from seattle found this note in her office’s cafeteria, which she says is a hot spot for bad writers with passive-aggressive issues. “of course,” she says, “here at Large Aerospace Company, a lot of us have ‘issues.’”

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Tags: fun with euphemism · garbage · just wondering · office · seattle · spelling and grammar police · unnecessary "quotation marks"

just in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm…

September 26th, 2007 · 97 Comments

a staff-all email from an anonymous submitter in seattle…

what’s muscle milk, you ask? well, say its makers, “muscle milk is arguably america’s favorite protein.” apparently because unlike, say, chicken, muscle milk comes in flavors like “egg nog,” “chocolate banana crunch” and “root beer float.”
related: try a bite 

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · comic sans alert · ellipses-crazed · office fridge · sarcasm · seattle · spelling and grammar police · stealing

excuse me, I believe you have my stapler

September 19th, 2007 · 266 Comments

attention: corporate emergency in the chicagoland area!

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Tags: a little uptight · and that's an order · chicago · crazy boss · excessive underlining · not-so-veiled threats · office · office supplies · seattle · spelling and grammar police

we don’t want your ugly placemats

August 24th, 2007 · 98 Comments

damien saw this at the salvation army in seattle.
says damien, “the kicker on this one isn’t as much what’s said as what ISN’T said. this note clearly had a lot more to it that was — probably by a clearer head — snipped off.

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · seattle · thanks but no thanks

extremely loud and incredibly close quarters

August 6th, 2007 · 69 Comments

amy in seattle says her favorite part of the note is the children (please, think of the children!) but i was most impressed by the use of both “being effected” and “being impacted” in a single sentence. those loud, “vulgar-related” noises might, in fact, be the sound of english teachers around the world crying out [...]

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Tags: brooklyn · neighbors · seattle · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police