Entries Tagged as 'shameless meme-mongering'

al gore knows you drove when you could have taken your new bicycle

July 21st, 2008 · 234 Comments

kendall was waiting for her peach perfection at the jamba juice in elmhurst, illinois when she spotted this note on the napkin-holder. writes kendall: “i guess it’s their passive-aggressive way of saying, ‘take fewer napkins, a**hole!’”

a tip for would-be internet meme-mongers: as of this writing, algoreknowshowmanynapkinsyoutake.com is still available. (what are you waiting for? apparently, [...]

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Tags: "customer service" · guilt trip · illinois · politics · shameless meme-mongering · the earth

be informed, homeland security will be

November 6th, 2007 · 193 Comments

PES picked this note out of an apartment building in newark, nj in 2004 because he loved the paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.

p.s. for more deliciousness, be sure to check out the stop-motion shorts at eatpes.com.

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · gloriously redundant · graffiti · jersey · landlord · loitering · newark · not-so-veiled threats · questionable logic · shameless meme-mongering · smoking

the “your mother doesn’t work here” of the hospitality industry

October 31st, 2007 · 182 Comments

my former roommate eric inspired this roundup (and an overly dramatic round of gagging/hair-pulling/eye-gouging on my part) by passing along a photo of this sign spotted on marco island, florida — though it could have been anywhere on main street, usa. note the small print at top, which reads: “signs sold in our gift shop.”

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Tags: florida · kids · shameless meme-mongering

they were shivering, not dancing

October 24th, 2007 · 141 Comments

chris has held on to this note from his college days at suny binghamton since 1990, which i believe makes this the oldest note to grace this site thus far.
the years seem to have given him some perspective on the situation, and chris fully admits to being the apartment’s “thermostat tyrant,” always nagging everyone to [...]

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Tags: binghamton · new york · shameless meme-mongering · smartass · temperature · university

servicing over a half-billion people…each and every day.

June 15th, 2007 · 27 Comments

from the bay-area offices of yahoo! hotjobs…

those programmers…so literal-minded, sometimes.
(thiz onez fer u, slackferno.)

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Tags: bathroom · double-entendre alert · office · san francisco · sex sex sex · shameless meme-mongering · toilet · yahoo

and the coco-pops weren’t even yours.

June 9th, 2007 · 18 Comments

vici lives in london with five roommates — all guys.
(if you don’t have a house full of cereal-stealing warcraft players like vici and don’t get the “orly?” thing…wikipedia to the rescue!)
related: cereal killer 

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Tags: food · london · rebuttals · roommates · shameless meme-mongering · stealing · university

be curtius

May 23rd, 2007 · 9 Comments

the stolen item in question here? a serving of creamer.

this one’s an anonymous submission, but i have my suspicions…even if the grammar is a little off.

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · group bitchfest · office · office fridge · shameless meme-mongering · spelling and grammar police · stealing