in all fairness, says brandi in austin, “this note was written after our dishes became so caked with fungus that we had to buy new stuff. the smell was also REALLY bad.”
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August 8th, 2007 · 50 comments
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#1 loren
Mmmmm… FUNGUS.
Definitely deserving of a note if that crap was happening - illlccchhhh!
Aug 8, 2007 at 7:00 pm rating: 0
#2 Andy
Half-eaten shit?
I wouldn’t even try to eat shit.
Nice ref to m-w.com, in case you need to define your shit, ya’ll.
The collective? Are you a bunch of hippies or socialists? I don’t think we have gotten socialist p/a notes here yet. That’d be exciting.
Aug 8, 2007 at 7:20 pm rating: 0
#3 jfruh
It’s the “see m-w.com” that really pushes this one over the top, I have to say.
Aug 8, 2007 at 7:21 pm rating: 0
#4 Naomi
Damn… I don’t like washing dishes, but actually leaving them until they grow fungus is just NASTY.
Aug 8, 2007 at 7:21 pm rating: 0
#5 Ceryniti
Funny. I love the including but not limited to. I wonder how many people actually live there.
Growing fungus is pretty freakin bad. I wouldn’t put up with it.
Aug 8, 2007 at 8:01 pm rating: 0
#6 Dr. Nona
I think you should start a new category called “sharpie” or “write out loud”. Something about the handwritten sharpie note is doubly funny. I’m thinking of this and “May the sanctity of the sink prevail.
Aug 8, 2007 at 8:11 pm rating: 0
#7 Super_Fan#99
How many people wrote this note? The writing goes sporadically back and forth between print, block letters and nice cursive. If I saw this note I would run, this person is obviously crazy as a shithouse rat.
Is the *Please Commence Immediately* part really necessary before a tirade like that?
Aug 8, 2007 at 8:50 pm rating: 0
#8 twitchy
Superfan, I think your just percieving the ’swooshy’ (for lack of a better word) handwriting as cursive, I don’t see any cursive on this note. Block letters, sorta, I guess the all caps stuff counts…
But your comment reminds me of a teacher i used to have. She ALWAYS switched from print to cursive and back again while writing on the board, sometime she even switched mid-word (yes, one word, two kinds of writing!) It absolutely drove me nuts, and towards the end of the year, the whole class started poking fun at her for doing it.
Aug 8, 2007 at 9:51 pm rating: 0
#9 Ariel
I would hate to be one of the people mentioned in the note. Singling out is never fun.
And also, what if I was a visitor and I walked in and farted. Does that make me one of the people the note is referring to?
Just a thought
Aug 8, 2007 at 10:03 pm rating: 0
#10 Jay
Flatulence, defacation, copulation — yep, I think that covers it.
Aug 8, 2007 at 11:49 pm rating: 0
#11 miss manners
Just when you think she/he’s going to invite someone to a personal smackdown, he defers to m-w.com. And the half eaten shit was the fudge on the cake! This one is my fave so far.
Aug 9, 2007 at 1:46 am rating: 0
#12 sigh
The part that gets me is being so damn lazy that you won’t put rinsed off dishes in a dishwasher. they don’t even have to wash up!!!
Aug 9, 2007 at 2:19 am rating: 0
#13 Bonstermunch
At least they aren’t letting perfectly good “energy pie” go fungal. I mean, that shit is expensive.
Also, isn’t that a lowercase l in PlEASE?
Aug 9, 2007 at 2:51 am rating: 0
#14 Karin
Team Sharpie!
Fungus on dishes, that IS nasty. *shudder*
Aug 9, 2007 at 4:28 am rating: 0
#15 PatHMV
I didn’t realize that “collectives” even had “owners/operators.” Is there an elected executive committee? Does membership on it rotate from day to day in pure egalitarian fashion?
Aug 9, 2007 at 6:34 am rating: 0
#16 Heather
My favorite part:
*Please commence immediately*
Aug 9, 2007 at 6:37 am rating: 0
#17 Ty
Ahh, Austin…How fondly I remember walking past all the Co-ops. lol…And can someone please explain to me why hippies always drive the old beaten up gas guzzlers?? There were always two or three sitting in front of the Co-ops looking like they might never move again.
Owner/operator might refer to the fact that everyone is an owner/operator. But I could be wrong.
Aug 9, 2007 at 6:49 am rating: 0
#18 GhostWriter
I actually went back to the message, attempting to find reference to, “…the fudge on the cake”
…and then it hit me.
Aug 9, 2007 at 7:11 am rating: 0
#19 Shanna
I am fearing that I may be “crazy as a shithouse rat” as my writing is all over the place!
Aug 9, 2007 at 7:54 am rating: 0
#20 Vampira
I go back and forth between cursive and not because I have to write so damn much at work. I’ll usually pick what will finish my word fastest.
Aug 9, 2007 at 7:56 am rating: 0
#21 Fraulein N
This is hilarious. Owners/operators is clearly about to “commence” with some violence. If fungus on the damn DISHES doesn’t make these people want to clean up, maybe fear will.
Aug 9, 2007 at 8:01 am rating: 0
#22 PatHMV
Ty, I thought about that, but then that would be like a memo:
From: Everyone who lives here.
To: Everyone who lives here.
Maybe the house is actually owned by the chief hippie-in-residence, and this is sort of like a missive from Ray and Alice to Arlo and the gang:
Notice!!!! To anyone who eats Thanksgiving Dinner in this old church: Please DO NOT leave dirty dishes, old beer bottles, half eaten shit strewn about our old church. Please place ALL trash in bags and take to the dump. Please take the trash to the official dump. Do NOT leave it at the base of some hill on the side of the road, as you MAY BE ARRESTED.
Thank you, Ray and Alice.
Aug 9, 2007 at 8:07 am rating: 0
#23 Zsa
“the collective” brings to mind the Borgs~ Apparently if you are someone who DOES ANYTHING in this apartment you will be assimilated. Do not resist.
The double negative (guests are not excluded) and actually describing what to do with the dirty dishes makes it for me. Best note in days!
Aug 9, 2007 at 8:12 am rating: 0
#24 Writer, Rejected
This note utterly annoys and exhausts me with its catalog of bodily functions, guest names, instructions of the obvious, and household chores. I also hate it when people try to speak for the collective whole. Just speak for yourselves, irritating passive aggressive note-writers.
I have to go lie down now.
Aug 9, 2007 at 8:36 am rating: 0
#25 will
In my opinion, living in a collective is the first sign that you’ve done something seriously wrong with your life. Notes pointing out additional failures are just rubbing it in.
Aug 9, 2007 at 9:21 am rating: 0
#26 Meeg
I like the inconsitent capitalization. Also, I agreed that it’s the “see m-w.com for a definition of full” that sets the notes over the edge into passive aggression.
Aug 9, 2007 at 10:02 am rating: 0
#27 Super_Fan#99
Resistance is futile. The Borg rule.
Early this morning when I posted about the handwriting changing I really wanted to say something about “the collective” but I couldn’t quite place where I remembered it from. Thanks Zsa.
I guess there isn’t any cursive in there after all, but there are many random words capitalized for no raisin. Hmm….could be a secret message.
Aug 9, 2007 at 10:11 am rating: 0
#28 Super_Fan#99
P.S.
Just went to m-w.com hoping for another site like this, imagine my disappointment.
Aug 9, 2007 at 10:14 am rating: 0
#29 sarah
paper plates, cups and plastic silverware would be a good investment for this house.
Aug 9, 2007 at 11:11 am rating: 0
#30 PatHMV
Yeah, the link to m-w.com was just boring. It would have been much more fun to say: “See Google.”
Put the right search terms in, and they could have found a picture of a garbage can at precisely the level the “owners and operators” consider to be “full.”
Aug 9, 2007 at 11:19 am rating: 0
#31 Tarn
The more notes like this I see, the happier I am that I live alone!
The Borg eat? And fart? News to me…
Aug 9, 2007 at 11:49 am rating: 0
#32 Super_Fan#99
and fuck evidently
Aug 9, 2007 at 12:13 pm rating: 0
#33 Tarn
Indeed!
The Borg, it seems, have a lot more fun than I gave them credit for.
I wanna be assimilated!
Aug 9, 2007 at 12:58 pm rating: 0
#34 joey
i have a roommate who tells everyone that she looooves to wash dishes.
problem is, she doesn’t like to wash pots or pans and i have to end up doing them.
oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, some people have it worse
Aug 9, 2007 at 1:55 pm rating: 0
#35 marla
Epic failure for team fungus. That note is much tamer than the one I would have written.
Aug 9, 2007 at 3:02 pm rating: 0
#36 pedgehog
@PatHMV - I enjoyed the Alice’s Restaurant reference.
My cat’s name is Arlo!
Aug 9, 2007 at 3:04 pm rating: 0
#37 Zsa
THAT’S the phrase! Resistance is futile. I hurt myself trying to remember it. shorted out my synapses and had to re-boot
Thanks Super_Fan~
Aug 9, 2007 at 3:07 pm rating: 0
#38 joebec
that’s just a bunch of lazy bitches right there. Get em!
Aug 10, 2007 at 2:09 pm rating: 0
#39 PatHMV
Thanks, Pedgehog! I was hoping somebody would appreciate it. I’m focused on Arlo right now, because he’s coming to play in my hometown next February, and he’s going to be singing Alice’s Restaurant.
Aug 10, 2007 at 2:36 pm rating: 0
#40 L
I’ve had fungus grow on dishes that sat in my sink for about six months. I lived alone, so it wasn’t a big deal. I eventually threw them out. I don’t think it ever developed an odor though, unless I just go used to it.
Aug 10, 2007 at 7:24 pm rating: 0
#41 ruth
maybe this person should chose their roomates more carefully
Aug 11, 2007 at 2:05 pm rating: 0
#42 Lisa R.
This note is boring.
Aug 12, 2007 at 12:43 am rating: 0
#43 Down10
I have deduced, by the writing of the note and the response below that Brandi, and possibly Summer, indeed fart.
Aug 13, 2007 at 12:04 am rating: 0
#44 Craniac
L: You’re a person after my own heart. I’ve left pots and pans for so long before that I had to throw them away because they were too nasty to face cleaning. Most people never have to face their inner slob completely, but some of us have done so — oh the horror, the horror.
Aug 14, 2007 at 8:28 am rating: 0
#45 Craniac
By the way, I’m from Austin too. But let that be no reflection on this pleasant place.
Aug 14, 2007 at 8:31 am rating: 0
#46 GVI
dang Craniac & L wuts going on there lol you sure you 2 are not included in that P/A note???
Aug 15, 2007 at 6:42 pm rating: 0
#47 Mandy
AMEN.
I love the part about the Surgeon General and Anthony’s good Christian heart.
It’s obvious as D put it that he worships “Terry” and not Jeebus.
Also, I think Anthony has posted the notes on his OWN door rather than Rene’s and that Terry is ANOTHER tenant who is expressing his appreciation for Anthony serving Rene old-school bitch style. yo.
Aug 16, 2007 at 2:12 pm rating: 0
#48 Ree B.
This is why I live alone…. My shit is EVERYWHERE… but I manage to clean it up before it festers and molds.
Aug 20, 2007 at 8:31 pm rating: 0
#49 xxpartyguyxx
omg i just figured out the m-w.com. I thought it was m.w.com so couldn’t find it. I burst out laughing. LOL
Aug 21, 2007 at 2:02 pm rating: 0
#50 Christine
LMAO while reading this, favorite part - Please Commence Immediately. The fungi growing on the dishes reminds me of my roommate Brad and how he would leave the kitchen a mess for days!
Mar 19, 2008 at 4:50 pm rating: 0
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