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| Having fun with our apartment complex...; ...spite! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 02:32 PM (463 Views) | |
| The 89th Key | Jun 7 2006, 02:32 PM Post #1 |
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Well, although we have a nice apartment, the management of this place STINKS! They are inept in almost every aspect, and have pissed Aqua and I off many times. Bad idea. Aqua is one of the most spiteful persons you'll meet. Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy...but if you get on his bad side or call him out on something or start a prank war, it wont be over until he has firebombed your house and eaten your pets. Well, maybe not that bad. Anyway, since they have messed up our rent payments and just cause a hell of a lot of inconvenience to us since we moved here, we figured we would edit their "announcements" that we get every now and then from them. We weren't exactly english majors, and we might even be wrong in certain places, but I think the spirit of what we're doing speaks for itself. Below, are two "announcements" we have received in the last few days, and so what you see below is a scanned image of what we MAIL back to them. Everytime. Hey, they got a C+ this time! One of their better efforts! :lol: PS. As you can see, for purposes of anonymity, we blacked out any info that might be personally identifying. (Sorry, the scan also cut off some of the page on the left side) ![]() ![]()
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| LWpianistin | Jun 7 2006, 02:46 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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:lol: Good idea. Of course, you made some corrections to some already "ok" phrasing/wording, but that makes it better. This kind of thing ALMOST makes me want to stay on campus....ALMOST. |
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| dolmansaxlil | Jun 7 2006, 02:50 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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*snicker My mum's old boss (she used to do embroidery for a fabric shop) used to correct people's grammar (rudely). This included waiters, sales staff at stores she shopped in, her friends, etc. Often, her "corrections" were less correct than the original statements. This woman was also well known for being two-faced, and never seemed to have a good word to say about anyone (at least when she talked about them behind their backs.) She published a monthly newsletter (that she wrote herself) that contained a multitude of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and used a system of punctuation that was unlike anything I've seen used in the English language. I used to do exactly what you did. I'd correct the newsletters and mail them back to her. A couple times I attached additional pages to make notes because I ran out of space.
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| DivaDeb | Jun 7 2006, 03:40 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's one of the favored weapons in my arsenal. When my kids were still in public school, I corrected a particularly error-filled missile from the principal of my daughter's school. We live in a small town. I was so ticked off at this woman that I didn't mail my corrections to her, I tacked them to the bulletin board at the grocery store so every parent who went in the store would see it. |
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| George K | Jun 7 2006, 03:53 PM Post #5 |
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Finally
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Note to self: Never become an enemy of DivaDeb. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 7 2006, 05:21 PM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I'm just going to eat my hotel cookies and write no more. Let me know when it is safe to compose prose again. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| DivaDeb | Jun 7 2006, 05:54 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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no prose, Mik baby...only poetry
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 7 2006, 06:08 PM Post #8 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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The once was a Diva from Kansas Who looked quite alluring in pantses But when she wore a skirt The men would all flirt They all fancied taking their chances. Well. the cookies were good anyway. Edit: I changed the last line.. the original was clumsy, but I polished off a nice Alsatian Gewurtraminer with room service last night (wine shopping in Chicago is great), so I suppose I'm well off to have come up with anything other than 'Here I sit, broken hearted...'.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Optimistic | Jun 7 2006, 06:41 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You guys are fun Aqua, I still haven't gotten your retaliation for that water incident
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Shammy | Jun 7 2006, 07:22 PM Post #10 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Hmmm..... the number thing... I thought anything under 10 was spelled out and anything over ten was usually put in standard form. Is this a new English rule that it must be the same throughout the document? |
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I'd rather fall into chocolate. | |
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| The 89th Key | Jun 7 2006, 07:24 PM Post #11 |
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No, we were just being nit-picky and decided to correct even the most questionable of errors!
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| Horace | Jun 7 2006, 07:28 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Good stuff! I had a small feud with an ultra-liberal and none too bright TA for a political science class I was taking as an elective once, and so he took it upon himself to grade everything I wrote very harshly. Once he circled with a big question mark the phrase "spot on" because he didn't know what it meant - thought I just made it up, presumably. I can attest to the fact that it's annoying to be red-marked for perfectly standard language. (I ended up with a 69.5% in the course which I almost never attended, and he relished giving me a D.) |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| DivaDeb | Jun 7 2006, 07:32 PM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I love you The last time I fell for a poet, I died of consumption in the last act. Actually...that happens to me a lot... |
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| Riley | Jun 7 2006, 07:36 PM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Do they know which apartment it is coming from, or does it arrive anonymously? |
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| The 89th Key | Jun 7 2006, 07:49 PM Post #15 |
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That's up to Aqua, he mails it. We do this because one time they messed up cashing out rent checks one time, and tried to blame it on us. In all honesty, it was 100% their fault, in 3 ways. Anyway, so Aqua and I sat down with the director of finance and pwn3d her in the "debate". It's funny how the coffee-room can totally prepare you for real-world confrontations. She was just a n00b! :lol: |
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| kenny | Jun 7 2006, 08:31 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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DD, I like you more every day!
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| Mikhailoh | Jun 8 2006, 03:36 AM Post #17 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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That's opera... everybody dies at the end, but they sing a big song before they die. This from my sis-in-law Carol who has her Phd in it. I love you too.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Dewey | Jun 8 2006, 03:55 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Missile? Missal?
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 8 2006, 04:22 AM Post #19 |
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Cheers
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Thats hilarious, 89! |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Mark | Jun 8 2006, 04:35 AM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| ***musical princess*** | Jun 8 2006, 05:03 AM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I know this might sound stupid, but it's so cool to see people's handwriting when you are used to just seeing computer text. It was the same when Debs sent me a letter. It didn't seem right to have it hand written. Makes the people seem more 'real'. ![]() x |
| x Caroline x | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jun 8 2006, 05:53 AM Post #22 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yep! See, if we just left to the stuff they completely screwed up (which would be ample), it might look like we were trying to help them out. Nope, the intent of this process is to be a d**k. And believe me, they deserve it. So yeah, the number thing I believe varies, depending on the type of writing style you're using, but meh, I figured why not put it down. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| DivaDeb | Jun 8 2006, 06:02 AM Post #23 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Actually Dewey, I should have used a big M. The school is called Nike Intermediate School. It used to be a Nike missile base. It hasn't changed much. |
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| DivaDeb | Jun 8 2006, 06:10 AM Post #24 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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NO!! ONLY [size=14]I [/size]DIE...everyone else is left to live out their meaningless, grief-stricken existences, haunted by the memory of me. That way I get the last curtain call.
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| sue | Jun 8 2006, 08:22 PM Post #25 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Woah. I've just been trying to catch up on some threads I've missed. Deb, you're good. Really good.
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