cameron says the window cases in her college dorm are typically filled with run-of-the-mill upcoming event calendars or bland motivational posters, so this educational display caught her a little off guard.
related: no bread and circuses! but maybe an ice cream social?
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— Kris
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#1
CindytheCunty
That bike lane was effin delicious!
Apr 14, 2008 at 12:43 am rating: +1
#2
Troy McClure
Wow. This is positively literary by our standards. Can anyone spot a single error? And … can it be … the headline is in Iambic pentameter!
But soft! What spite through yonder window speaks?
It is advice, for how to kill no one.
Get wise, fair one, or you’ll squish someone soon.
So learn to effin drive or take a cab!
Apr 14, 2008 at 1:23 am rating: +15
#3
Lorrie
Most beautiful: phonetically spelled out curse-word replacement sounds. EFFIN – as opposed to F-IN’. Love it.
Apr 14, 2008 at 2:08 am rating: +2
#4
secondsout
What Cameron didn’t mention was that this is actually in her dorm room. Apparently her friends wanted to send her a message.
Apr 14, 2008 at 2:42 am rating: +2
#5
secondsout
Learn to (effin) drive or take a cab? OK, learning to drive takes some time and practice. How hard is it to learn to take a cab?
Apr 14, 2008 at 2:43 am rating: +2
#6
Arrica Lee
I wish I could see it myself.
Apr 14, 2008 at 2:44 am rating: 0
#7
TuesdayPillow
They’re missing one thing: The suggestion that students team up and do wheelbarrow races across campus. Fitness and Fun rolled up into One!
Apr 14, 2008 at 3:36 am rating: +1
#8
damon
Campus display case? Hell, I’d take all of this down and tape it to my car’s rear windshield.
Apr 14, 2008 at 4:38 am rating: +3
#9
marcopuffin
the instruction re the railroad tracks seems a little redundant – if you’re smart enough to notice the tracks, aren’t you smart enough to see if a train’s coming?
Apr 14, 2008 at 4:58 am rating: 0
#10
marcopuffin
This is a very bossy explosion of notes all in one place. Indeed it seems almost psychotic – is this the “special” dorm?
Apr 14, 2008 at 5:00 am rating: +5
#11
Agent Inspired
I think maybe someone told this woman to get a hobby… and she did.
Apr 14, 2008 at 5:13 am rating: +2
#12
The Great Joe Bivins
This may be the best thing I’ve ever seen on here. It looks like an announcement board but it reads like a frustrated note furiously scribbled in Sharpie on the back of a phone bill!
Apr 14, 2008 at 6:13 am rating: +4
#13
DirtyOldLady
I dunno… I think a few rainbow hearts and smiley faces, maybe some fuzzy-animal clip-art, would’ve taken this display from merely eye-catching to truly sublime PA notes Nirvana. Especially if they’d managed to squeeze a “thanks” in there somewhere, or a not-so-veiled reference to whoever did the bad driving that led to this little lesson in the first place.
Apr 14, 2008 at 6:28 am rating: +2
#14
DirtyOldLady
By day, she’s a mild-mannered Informational Display artist. By night, she’s a parking lot vigilante! Let evildoers and bad drivers beware the wrath of… Meter Maid!!!
Not your everyday superhero.
Apr 14, 2008 at 6:31 am rating: +4
#15
anglophile
Oh fer chrissakes. You hit a girl on a bike one time and she goes all psycho-crusader on you. And it wasn’t even my fault, really. I wasn’t talking on my phone. I was text-messaging.
Apr 14, 2008 at 6:46 am rating: +18
#16
philos
What the hell. Why is the stop sign placed so that the P is obscured by the frame of the box? Why? Makes me want to kill someone. All the effin effort that went into making that stupid collage’o'duh and they couldn’t make it so you could actually see the stop sign. Or any of the signs for that matter, you can’t fully see any of them.
Jesus H. Christ. Learn how to effin space out your elements so that the thing has a cohesive feel. Clearly there were no design students involved in the making of this mess.
Apr 14, 2008 at 7:47 am rating: +3
#17
theblackdog
This has to be one of the best P-A bulletin boards I ever saw.
I wish my college dorm had these.
Apr 14, 2008 at 7:58 am rating: +2
#18
karin
I wonder where this college is – has all the references (particularly the train tracks that no one pays attention to unless there’s a mile long train going thru cutting off 90% of the dorms from the classrooms) to where I went to college. but the colors are off – should be purple, gold and white rather than red, black and yellow…
Apr 14, 2008 at 8:02 am rating: 0
#19
claw71
Sammy Hagar, ladies and gentlemen:
The speed limit is 10, but I’m late for class
Stupid bike riders better let me pass
One hand on the wheel, and one for the phone
I play with myself when I drive al0ne…yeah
So stick another PA note up on the sign
I don’t even care if I draw a fine
Take my permit all that jive…I’ll still drive, effing drive
Apr 14, 2008 at 8:20 am rating: +4
#20
orangetiki
Nothing like making a collage out of a P.A. Note
Apr 14, 2008 at 8:36 am rating: +2
#21
RunBarbara
It’s not effin illegal yet to talk and drive. I don’t think its effin illegal until July and even then you just need an effin hands-free kit. Additionally, if you can’t hear a train and have to look before you cross maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to wander off alone.
Apr 14, 2008 at 8:43 am rating: +2
#22
Quite Contrary
I never knew scrapbooking could be passive aggressive. I’m effin impressed.
Apr 14, 2008 at 9:05 am rating: +4
#23
Katzndogz
I’ve been watching too much Sarah Connor. I have this vision of Cameron the terminator trying to fit in with a dorm full of college girls.
Apr 14, 2008 at 9:26 am rating: 0
#24
Summer
Shadow Box P/A, enclosed to protect your precious collection of campus transportation directives.
Apr 14, 2008 at 10:19 am rating: +1
#25
KittyKat
They posted numbers for taxis, but not for driving schools? I don’t think they really want anyone to effin learn anything. Cameron, you should leave a P/A note on behalf of us all.
Apr 14, 2008 at 11:54 am rating: 0
#26
aaa
Damn. The only posters I’ve gotten from my RAs were about the dangers of insomnia and the history of the university. :/
What college student has enough money to take a cab everywhere, anyway? (Kids whose rich daddies buy them into Harvard or Yale don’t count.)
Apr 14, 2008 at 12:46 pm rating: 0
#27
Coke-aholic
Now we know why Susie is failing Pastry Making 101! She’s been spending too much time making pointless collages that no one reads . I bet Susie is going to end up working at the DMV when she grows up.
Apr 14, 2008 at 1:17 pm rating: +1
#28
Bellabeastie
I want to know how many people have access to the effin key to open this thing up?
Team Conspirancy Theory at the CIA
Apr 14, 2008 at 2:21 pm rating: 0
#29
Mika Muyo
that sh*t is true, i’ve almost been hit twice because b*tches were using their phones while driving!
Apr 14, 2008 at 5:13 pm rating: 0
#30
Penelope
I don’t find it passive agressive, nor funny. This is serious stuff.
In Gainesville, FL we had a brilliant husband and father, a few months from getting his Ph.D. degree, who was killed by an imbecile who was talking in his cell phone and rode into the bike lane.
For the record, the biker was wearing a helmet and all the safety parafernalia. His wife never had the chance to say goodbye, his son was not one year old yet.
Apr 15, 2008 at 12:59 am rating: +1
#31
bellabeastie
Whoa — lighten up, Penelope. We don’t know when we are going to be born or when we will die.
Or why. My advice, take a cab.
Apr 15, 2008 at 7:31 am rating: 0
#32
bellabeastie
The number(s) are conveniently posted on the effin note.
Apr 15, 2008 at 7:32 am rating: 0
#33 the finest, most literary vagrants
[...] or take a cab!!! [...]
Apr 29, 2008 at 6:46 pm rating: 0
#34
alexa
so I realize this is almost a year later, but the moment I saw the (845) on the note I knew it had to be CIA where I went to school. I wish I had taken a picture of some of the other notes I saw throughout my three years there. =[
Feb 25, 2009 at 11:29 pm rating: 0
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