frank writes, “nice blogs….but i would like to point out that your passive-aggressive notes site
is a complete rip-off of a humor piece i wrote over three years ago for the now-defunct humor magazine jest.”
well played, frank! not only is the piece in question quite humorous indeed, but frank’s use of classic passive-aggressive conventions (the faint praise, the “helpful” suggestion) in his e-mail about said piece is exemplary.
read the whole thing here.
EMAIL THIS POST TO A PAL!
15 responses so far ↓
#1 kthejoker
Where are the illustrations!?
May 21, 2007 at 9:23 pm rating: +1
#2 This is Normal, Not! « Half Awake
[...] notes. I swear I’ve seen some of these in my home and office. My current favorite is here (I invite you to guess why it’s my [...]
May 22, 2007 at 8:06 am rating: 0
#3 Kat
Frank’s original piece is funny because notes like the ones on this blog actually exist in real life and everyone has seen them. Therefore, Frank’s an idiot.
May 22, 2007 at 12:49 pm rating: +1
#4 Rachel
Yeah, well, anyone ever heard of Found Magazine? It’s been publishing this stuff for years and years.
May 22, 2007 at 1:16 pm rating: 0
#5 Passive-aggressive notes and signage
[...] from roomates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers. I’m glad I have a conscientious roomate. Here’s my favorite so far. (via: [...]
May 23, 2007 at 9:47 am rating: 0
#6 Frank
Quickly… Kat– my angry email to Kerry was written in jest; she’s a friend of mine. But “Voshon Lenard”– how could you? Unless you’re actually Kerry passive-aggressively commenting on her own post using a pseudonym, in which case, bravo!
Everyone else: if you learn anything from this site, it should be that anonymous notes hurt, and pseudonymous ones hurt even more.
Frank
P.S. Kat, that frowny-face was also insincere.
May 24, 2007 at 12:25 am rating: 0
#7 passive-aggressive linkage « passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers
[...] you liked “paul gauguin, passive-aggressive artist,” you might enjoy “passive-aggressive vegan grocery cashier: a day in the life,” [...]
May 30, 2007 at 5:42 pm rating: 0
#8 the plague
I knew Frank for a sec when I interned at The Colbert Report, he’s really nice. But I don’t know how he would think that this entire site is a rip off, unless all the notes posted were fake, like his. But they aren’t. Everyone knows that comics get their jokes stolen all the time but this just seems fickle. Also, he called this one blog, ‘blogs’. I love how some people think that everything related to a blog - reading, posting, commenting, are all considered ‘blogging’ when in fact those people are idiots.
May 31, 2007 at 11:01 am rating: 0
#9 phil
Not to belabour the point, but I think the reference to ‘meta’ in title of the post might be a clue that Frank was submitting his printed piece as a contribution to the blog, but doing it in a faux “passive aggressive” manner in order to maintain the theme. I know; the joke isn’t funny when you have to ’splain it.
The reference to ‘blogs’ (plural) is due to the fact that the author has another blog (wrongkmiller), as opposed to Frank’s inability to understand the internets.
Hope that helps!! Thanks!! Bye!!!
May 31, 2007 at 2:49 pm rating: 0
#10 passive-aggressive linkage
[...] you liked “paul gauguin, passive-aggressive artist,” you might enjoy “passive-aggressive vegan grocery cashier: a day in the life,” [...]
Jun 8, 2007 at 8:32 am rating: 0
#11 xd3
no wonder it’s now defunct
it looks shit - not very funny at all. (humor magazine that’s not humorous?)
in case you haven’t noticed this site is not similar to your drivel in any way
this frank guy must think he invented the concept of passive-agressiveness
Jul 16, 2007 at 9:44 pm rating: 0
#12 xd3
Also Rachel, I should hope that you’d realised this already but this site is not quite the same as Found (format, content or otherwise)
Jul 16, 2007 at 9:46 pm rating: 0
#13 post-punctuationism
[...] enough, this note isn’t the first reference to van gogh on this [...]
Aug 21, 2007 at 11:06 pm rating: 0
#14 Team Cassandra
I LOVE YOU, FRANK!
I remember seeing this and being hit with a tidal wave of nostalgia…a past roomie of mine was (no lie) almost psychotic and her favourite thing to decorate the house with was sunflowers….she would find them in dollar stores, at farmer’s markets, ikea - wherever. She sought out Van Gogh prints every time she left the house.
She never, never washed a dish - no, wait - she washed some dishes (in a dishwasher) once when she invited our landlord for dinner in order to proposition him (he took her up on it and they were an item for quite a while after that). Mostly though, she’d make breakfast and/or lunch for work and/or come home drunk and cook eloborate meals that she NEVER cleaned up after, leaving dishes strewn all through the house. She even kept dishes (for weeks sometimes) in her bedroom.
When I first found this online it was long after I’d lived with her -
I sent it to her in a mass email to my best buds ( I never emailed her) as something funny I found online:)
Aug 30, 2007 at 1:28 am rating: 0
#15 “that shit is disrespectful”
[...] this is getting so meta digg_skin = ‘compact’; reddit! stumble it! function [...]
Dec 29, 2007 at 2:56 pm rating: 0
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