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I WIN!!!
ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!
IM FIRST!!!
Fantastic for you.
It’d have been funnier if the second sign was posted with staples.
Arranged like quotation marks.
hmmm i disagree…
or do i?
A trifecta then two burns. Three WINs on the page…another trifecta!
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]thanks loz
LOL!
Hi dilly *waves*
I thought of that too…
lolz tho.
and emphasized with quotation marks =P
Double fail. Those are ditto marks, not quotation marks.
Big difference, my friend.
Exactly.
I beg your pardon? How would ditto marks fit in that sentence at all?????????????
Ditto marks are used below words to indicate that the writer is repeating the above words without actually doing so.
Those are quotation marks.
Learn the difference, placement is everything.
hi
you would be funnier if you were posted with staples
agree totally
but stilll…
xDDDDDDDDDDDD
lol!
I definitely agree.
You are the
livingbraindead proof of what failblog moderators are not doing.The use of quotation marks for emphasis is my second least favourite habit ever. “Fresh” vegetables. On “sale” now!
Let me guess… your first least favorite habit ever is to break nesting protocol and reply a comment with an unrelated comment.just for the sake of being close to the top of the page
Only unrelated in the insolent mind of a cretin looking to chalk up nastiness points.
Please let me another guess… you fail in relationships in the same way you fail determining when things are related
Kaldeko accidenty the failblog etiquette!
It’s nesting season!
Here come the birds.
where’s avis?
LOL! loufail, CHILL, dog. (cat?)
and KKK, change your username, first of all, and secondly, spell accidentally right.
The “whole” etiquette?
More than half.
99%?
Just here… not nesting anymore
nest!
lest the rest of the best have incest…
failblog has etiquette now? When did they send out the memo?
It’s on the notice board.
But we made sure to use thumb tacks.
No, we used “thumb tacks”.
look! I’m nesting!
It must not have had the new TPS report cover on it so we missed it.
Umm… yeah…
f*ck that fax machine.
*hands Lou a “make” and nods head in agreement*
*makes Lou a hand*
*gives Lou a finger*
*bakes Lou a cake*
*brings some wine*
Lets eat and drink and celebrate that next Friday is closer!
Here’s your “drink”…drink it quick, sometimes the poison’s at the bottom!
At the bottom? I like my poisoned drinks shaken, not stirred.
I prefer my poison in the middle. It’s more of a surprise that way.
I prefer mine on the side as an option.
I like mine low-fat.
I drank what?
Heh heh heh…
I like my poison on the left side.
How sinister.
I like my poison on the outside.
i lol’d at that one, Dragon.
i like my poison… erm… out of the glass and on the floor.
You all fail..
BTW what song that you play has a B-diminished chord? That is what you be playin…
Please “do not” try to be funny, you’re just failing.
You fail
Understanding joke fail?
Incest FTW! Hmmm, didn’t think I would ever say that, but there you have it.
Maybe he fails in relationships because he fails in determining when things are related. Or which people are related to him.
I’m saying he’s into incest.
“LMAO”
“WIN”
LM “F” AO
F stands for *facepalm*
LMAO “Brewski”! Very good!
You mean “good”.
I suggest you “don’t” click on my name, then!
*watches Kaldeko suffer an embalism after clicking on Loz’s name*
IT’S…TOO…MUCH…CAN’T…HANDLE…
*Blam!*
Whew, thank goodness that’s over with.
I LOL’d
I can’t stand to see lesser creatures suffer. Sometimes it’s better to put them out of their misery.
I concur
i “conqor” in fail
hey theres a trifecta here, I fail for spelling, fail for replying on
a dead conversation, and a fail w/ a really bad pun, lol
I LOL’d. My favorite: Come in and worship “God”.
Authentic Mexican “Food” is always good too.
Really? I have personally found it to be not very good at all. And sometimes it can cause dysentery.
That’s how you know it’s authentic.
Damn! How could toilet that slip by me?!?!
You must be slightly loo-ny.
Or full of shit. (too much?)
“L”ULZ.
I hope embalisms are not as bad as embolisms
they do “resemble” each other though.
Resembal? Or resembol?
Recymbal
Risembool!
Rangers!
Isn’t that what they do at funeral parlors?
Wow, that’s “awesome”! I’ve been looking for a site like that my whole “life”!
“Really!”
May I quote you?
This ‘99 Honda Civic “runs great” and “won’t catch fire while waiting at stoplights!”
Only flipped once.
as far as i can see, you’re third. Sorry buddy but somebody beat ya to it.
No, he beat himself. Twice.
Happy Birthday
We should send him a card, he was clearly an accident.
Sad that u has nothing else to do to be first here on your birthday
actually it was an expression like what those rapper say.
I’m not going to say what I thought you said (hint: it involved the word rapper).
It’s okay…he has experience raping. He put it on his application.
He’ll work for mim wage or hier.
Ironic much?
EPIC WIN!!!!
DAMMIT I JUST LOST!
NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY???
Comes out nicely with club soda and a firm hand.
But that’s how it started!
You should change your name to Dr. Fail.
Leaf Dr Hugh alone before you get him fuming. Your second-hand joke isn’t appreciated.
I could *FOOOM!* his ash, but I actually think you took care of him quite nicely, Admiral.
FIRST!!!
As you previously stated in the above post, so this would actually be your 2nd 1st. Try to keep up with the big kids k?
2th first.
Reminds me of an episode of Friends. The one where Joey doesn’t understand the air quotation marks and uses them to say “I’m sorry”.
-10 points for the Friends reference.
we’re keeping score?
-1 point for “score”
What’s wrong with scoring? I find it relaxes me after a long, hard day at work.
(insert sexual innuendo here)
sexual innuendo
Oh, you inserted it gooooood!
Be careful with that, I don’t want to have to buy you a card.
It’s ok, I can’t accident a kid anymore.
Are you inserting kids? Be careful, that’s how you accident them!
But…but…
*sigh* Ok.
*skulks off to corner*
+20 points for using Dots….
So now I’m up ten? SCORE!
+5 trillion points for being up ten
Well, this isn’t fun anymore. Points shouldn’t be awarded for just anything. My warm fuzzy feeling is gone.
Have some hot cocoa, that always helps
*slurp*
Thank you, that’s much better.
Now have some cold cocoa.
Pleh!
Hmm… ellipsis win?
- 10 point for calling an elipse “dots”.
-42 points for not knowing the difference between an ellipse and an ellipsis.
-20 points for calling elipsis “elipse”
HOMG, I want to make babies with whoever posted the second note.
Um Hummm! *Winks*
As long as you’re of legal age and willing; hop aboard.
Must…not…..staple… As if not bringing up Anubis, foxes, and Led Zeppelin wasn’t hard enough, now they’re banning quotation marks AND staples. For shame.
I think we should add AC/DC to your list as well. : )
Dammit, memory fail. I meant Led Zeppelin.
Which is already there. Ok, I’m going to have to go to bed. Tonight is not my night.
*pats katy on shoulder*
It’s ok, we all have days like that from time to time.
It’s okay. AC/DC is good. So is Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden.
“Hail” Anubis!
Yeah, and Santa, Horus, Re, Jesus, that one guy, Fox McCloud, and all the other beloved childrens’ characters.
Stargate reference?
When in doubt, use random characters from wingdings font to taper off of quotations. It’s the literary equivalent of a nicotine patch.
You’re just upset that Horus is a Chozo.
please DO NOT italicize for emphasis
please do not capitalize for emphasis
please do not for emphasis
I accidenty for emphasis!
you accidentely your accidenty
FAIL.
Then be careful with accident kids.
do not emphasis
I believe it’s un-bold for emphasis.
how do you un-bold that which has not been bold-ed?
In 3 simple steps:
1st.- Bold
2nd.- Un-bold
3rd.- Bold again.
But then it would be bold, again, and not un-bolded…..OW MY BRAIN
Don’t sweat it. If you use bold all the time and you un-bold certain parts for emphasis… Nevermind.
What is the sound of one font unbolding?
If a font un-bolds in a forest…
LOL
*cleans coffee out of keyboard*
You have a brain?
…
Wow.
I know…it’s so difficult to recognize something you’ve never used before, isn’t it? But good for you, you’re on your way!
This is “very” entertaining.
so subtle and smart…
This phenomenon of using quotation marks for emphasis seems to be a purely American thing. I’ve never seen any incidence of it here. That’s not to say we don’t have some shocking signs with horrendous grammar, but I’ve never seen quotation marks used in that way. Thankfully. It’s so strange!
George Bush is our “president”. ‘Nuff said.
Do you think Obama should legislate against it? Loz may be right, I have never seen this particular example of grammar/punctuation fail in the land of Oz either.
“Yes He Can”
I think there should be strict laws on punctuation, period.
That’s an exclamation alot of us could make!
*wedges between ‘a’ and ‘lot’*
Ahh, that feels better.
thanks Loz
But I question what is the best way to proceed???
How about banning all quotation marks, and then giving them out to those who prove worthy?
Agreed. Along with a hefty licensing fee.
“Lets see what we got here… improper use of a semicolon, overuse of elipses – that’ll cost you… and how did you get an exclamation point in that? Not gonna be cheap my friend, not gonna be cheap at all.”
You have the right to remain “silent”. “Anything” you say can and “will” be used against you.
With jailtime fro habitual offenders?
“What you in for?” Murder. “Me, I overuse commas.”
What does a jailtime fro look like?
I’m American, and I “never” use quotation marks for emphasis.
Sadly, it has also spread to Canada. And never fails to annoy the hell out of me every time I see it. So this picture really made my day – definitely a win!
Some of the ye olde australian stuff does that too, for example XXXX, the “popular” beer.
I prefer to think of it as sarcasm rather than emphasis though.
Richard Simmons is an “enthusiastic” man.
I think the quotations belong around “man” in that sentence.
not first!!!!
(thought I’d try and start a new trend)
Personally, I love it when “people” mis-use quotation marks, and hyphens, and caPitals. Soooo much fun. Oh I left out; the unnecessary use of extra letters, namely vowels.
I think I just heard every deceased English/Grammar Teacher in the world simultaneously roll over in thier graves.
And there they go again… in *their* graves.
Ugh, it must be bedtime, too many spelling failures
Aside from AsTheCrowFlies completely missing in_a_box’s irony, I particularly liked ‘Grammar Teacher’ being given capital letters.
It’s a whole comment of fun!
OOOOoooooohhhhh….
*facepalm*
*hangs head in shame*
I give up
Here, crow, come sit in my boat with me. I named it the Failboat. It’s not very pretty, but there’s beer!!
Sounds good to me. Thank you !!
We shall imbibe and listen to Pink Floyd.
*sings*
You are only coming through in waaaaves
Your lips move, but I can’t hear what you’re saaaaying!
I’m “sailing” away
I’m glad someone noticed my irony, lol.
Remember, i before e, except after c.
Maybe this is the exception.
Funny, I heard everyone with an irony deficiency go ‘huh?’. :p
they were getting an irony supplement with their daily sarcasm supply
But they confused the two. *cue teachers rolling again…*
I believe I missed my irony supplement today and took two sarcasms instead.
If you find yourself with snark lasting more than four hours, call your doctor.
I like the irony patch.
They’re spinning in their graves at a cool 130 rpm.
Quick; hook up a generator too them! thats rite America we can poor grammer/spelling, hour way too energie and dependens?
(Typing that made my brain hurt.)
I always type with my fingers. Less pain that way.
Personally, I love it when “people” misuse semicolons. It makes me lol.
Damn, you beat me to it.
darn, i knew i forgot to list one of them!
You forgot the improper use of a semicolon.
Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or using periods when they’re not supposed to. Drives. Me. Nuts.
Definitely don’t click the link in my name, then…
LOZ, LOZ, LOOOKIEEE!!!!!! This one is IN ENGLAND!!! Your innocence proclamation has been voided!!!
ZOMG! Okay, I’ll have to take it back. Although I will assert that it is a highly rare occurrence!
Hee hee hee!
Plllbbbtt! :p
Oops. I clicked on your name. *goes nuts* =D
DON’T use italics for emphasis.
The only way that could have had more WIN is if the winning note had been stapled to the board.
Or maybe I should say the “only” way that could have had “more” WIN is if the winning “note” had been stapled to “the” board.
I think you mean the “board.”
This post makes me “happy”
Is that a staple on your corkboard or are you just happy to see it?
haha that is great, thanks for sharing.
Superlative!
6th floor of Soda Hall FTW!
ROTFL
This is exactly the kind of thing I would LOVE to do!!
It’s a shame that when I come into read the comments, almost all of them consist of people calling other people bad names and complaining about one another’s stupidity. For once can we have a comment page that is actually full of comments on the LOL in question? Of course, no one will ever get to read this because it’s way at the bottom of the page.
Oh, well.
I read it.
I am still looking for the LOL in question. I would have some questions of my own…
tl, “dr”.
If you would LOVE to do exactly this king of, my advice is “go ahead and do it”.
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Life is short but idiots are legion, enjoy them!
[First, burn your copy of "How to make friends..." if you have one
No.
What an anal office if they dont allow “quotes” on board posts – who cares! I bet employees have to punch out when they blow their nose, or have to pee.
Yeah, because I’m SO sure that a fully authorized office policy maker posted that second sign.
On a vaguely related note, I did get in trouble for spending 8 minutes in my office bathroom once…
That’s some snarky goodness right there.
I was nested from deprived parenthesis.
this picture makes me giggle but it IRKS ME TO NO END when people use quotation marks for emphasis, because, honestly it just makes them look like idiots =.=
quotation marks are for quotations.
its in the name, srsly
There’s a company around here whose slogan (boldly emblazoned on their trucks, no less) is:
“Technically” the best.
With the quotes around technically. Which implies to me that they’re considered best only on a technicality, like their last name is Best or something.
I would be tempted to nail a sign on the board with six inch nails. That should cause a flood of quotations.
Just don’t use nine inch nails or they’ll violate you.
and f.uck you like an animal?
Please do not use inch mark for quotation marks.
Those aren’t quotation marks.
Those are primes.
Typography fail.
Oh, so rad. Would’ve been radder yet if the response message had been stapled to the bulletin board.
sign very win! sign epic win, even! yay!
This would have been funnier if it hadn’t already been used on the English Fail blog, like, several months ago.
This one is good, i can imagine what kind of the geek had put up the first one lol
amazing.
Holy crap! Failblog correctly posted AND correctly labeled win? Chalk up an actual win for failblog! *faints*
You have no idea how often that happens to me. Argh.
I would have posted that sign with staples to spite whoever posted the first sign, just to add injury to insult.
I say “injury to insult” instead of the inverse because staples are a bitch to remove.
fail to self: staple removers exist :I
That’s why you hide his staple remover befor you put the sign up. And you know it was a guy that put the first sign up.
Befor?
Close relative of afte.
would have been a epic win if they both had staples on them
not only does this fit here at failblog but it also settles in with blog of misused quotation marks
After all the sign fails we’ve had, it’s nice to have a sign win.
I can see why people might get irritated by the office grammar nazi, but as a grammar nazi myself I can understand the annoyance of incorrectly used quotes more. It’s not just a grammar issue; it’s likely that the first note was posted by someone in a position of authority, who, ironically, cannot get around grammar basics.
At my work (café) there is a sign above the sink: “Please do not pour milk/food/’soup’ down the sink.” I would have understood “milk” better, as we do serve soy
And how do you pour food? I digress…
it would have made epic win if they had used staples.
I always wondered what it meant when they did that! Lol!
WIN
love the humour and intellect of the person posting the second notice, give ‘em a gong
My gram-r izn’t bad. Itz your reading comprehension that iz FAIL!
Lawl Noob!
You’ll be able to “keep” your leg.
I now pronounce you “man” and wife.
Happy birthday, “Dad”!
See, quotes for emphasis works just “fine”.
Grammar ninja strikes again!
Actually, those are inch marks, which makes the second sign a FAIL after all.
I love this. One of my big twitch-inducers… I always thing “allegedly” when I see thing wrapped in quotation marks.
Ah, my hero!
And the list grows, first it was no bold letters and now it’s no quotations. Next it will be no vowels!
great post!
Pls d nt s qttn mrks fr mphss…
I don’t know who made that sign, but I love them.
._. bet someone added the sign below just for the sake of taking the photo…
those are not quotation marks, they are marks representing feet or a foot.
THIS IS AT OU! OH MY GOSH I HAD CLASS IN THIS CLASSROOM!!!!!!!
Those, good sir, are Siamese apostrophes twins. Go ahead, highlight them. You will be able to highlight them individually. Just like the following apostrophe emphasized statement.
NOT QUOTATION MARKS!–>”OVEREMPHASIS”<–NOT QUOTATION MARKS!
Crap… I think they rigged the apostrophes on this site to be camouflaged as quotation marks… ‘,’,’
More accurately:
Please do not call prime marks quotation marks.
Everyone knows you use italics when wanting to use emphasis. *napolian dynamite voice* GOSH!
actually, those are inch marks and not quotation marks…
lol, there’s “Burnout Paradise” map near these signs
It seems suspiciously well organized…
Reminds me of a note left on the McDonald’s break room bulletin board. Someone drew an arrow to the author’s name and wrote “Your dumb”. I drew arrows to that comment and wrote “My dumb what?” and “YOU’RE dumber!”
Thats AWESOME!
And after the writer of the top sign sues the paper company, their paper now parses wiki code correctly.
No. Double quotes boldens the text. Single quotes italicize it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
”italic”
”’bold”’
ur wrong EPIC WIN
hehe
they should have stapled the second sign to the bulletin board
WIN…and snarky as hell!!
It’d be funnier if the response was stapled on.
please do not use signs for communication
What am I doing on Failblog in the first place. I should be writing a report right now.
Please don’t call double prime marks quotation marks!