Entries Tagged as 'touching'

we all need somebody to hate on

June 4th, 2008 · 152 Comments

“working in a university library, you get used to a lot of ‘quirky’ personalities,” says our anonymous submitter in manhattan, kansas, “but so far, this is the only one that has decided to put pathology to paper.”

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · Plants · exclamation-point happy! · kansas · nonsensical spacing · touching · university

my secretary, sybil

March 19th, 2008 · 123 Comments

dan spotted this triple-bonus-score of a note at the desk of a receptionist in MTV’s new york office. the craziest part, he says? “she leaves it up there all the time, just in case she calls in sick. it’s just up there, all day, in her face, reaffirming her violent disapproval for people invading her [...]

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Tags: bold-underlined-caps · exclamation-point happy! · overzealous secretary · touching

stop, hammertime

February 26th, 2008 · 86 Comments

so, after seeing this note from daily piglet in columbia, south carolina:

and this one, from anna in providence, rhode island:

and this doozy from an anonymous san francisco office worker…

is it any wonder that this photo from afroswede’s flickrstream (and others) came to mind?

(meanwhile, over at bethany’s “blog”…u can touch this.)
related: can i lick [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · exclamation-point happy! · providence · san francisco · south carolina · temperature · touching

so much for turning the other cheek

December 13th, 2007 · 137 Comments

thanks to sarah for capturing this delicious little slice of life from her christian college in illinois. (delicious like a quart of starbucks coffee almond fudge, not one measly little low-fat frappucino bar.)

related: but He took the wheel

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Tags: apostrophe abuse · excessive underlining · heart · ice cream · illinois · irregular capitalization · jesus · not-so-veiled threats · spelling and grammar police · touching · university · you call that punctuation? · you're like so going to hell

nice move

October 4th, 2007 · 87 Comments

long-simmering roommate issues comes to a head in toronto…
(green ink is being kicked out by black ink.)

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Tags: excessive underlining · not-so-veiled threats · rebuttals · roommates · smiley · spelling and grammar police · toronto · touching