Entries from October 2008

and a happy halloween to you, too

October 31st, 2008 · 91 Comments

spotted by lange from cambridge, mass. while campaigning for obama in new hampshire. says lange: “decided against bugging them with our political spiel. (we assumed they were obama supporters anyway.)”

meanwhile, corporate belt-tightening isn’t going over so well with the office grunts this halloween.  “this was the response to the environment/holiday committee’s lack of halloween candy [...]

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Tags: New Hampshire · holiday spirit · los angeles · office · oregon · party planning committee

the most disgusting thing

October 30th, 2008 · 118 Comments

says filly in new york: “i think it’s safe the assume the writer is neither a) an english major or b) a feminist.”

related: more from the frontlines of post-post feminism

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · exclamation-point happy! · new york · office · spelling and grammar police · that shit is disgusting · toilet · university

you were warned never to push carrie to the limits.

October 29th, 2008 · 187 Comments

now you must face the evil bitchy consequences.

related: pumpkin with a death wish

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Tags: TLDR · facebook · holiday spirit · not-so-veiled threats

and all the pieces matter

October 28th, 2008 · 86 Comments

“if it wasn’t for the handwriting,” says lauren in california, “i would have guessed my mom wrote it.”

meanwhile, carson in valencia found this note (crudely laminated with packing tape) attached to a tree while walking his dog in the park. “maybe next time maggie will think twice about leaving her ceramic cats unattended,” he says.

and [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · california · comma diarrhea · emdash overboard · garbage · neighbors · rhetorical question · seattle · you call that punctuation? · you know who you are

it’s on my dresser, next to my rolling papers

October 27th, 2008 · 123 Comments

jeff in grand blanc, michigan says one of his friends found this note on her bed one day when she came home from school. (and no, you can’t go live there.)

related: passive (voice) abuse

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Tags: drugs · laundry · michigan · moms & dads · visual aids

the identity property of flatmates

October 26th, 2008 · 93 Comments

sarah in new zealand says all three of these notes went up before 10 a.m. on monday (trash day). adds sarah: “we can only assume that oliver keeps some kind of detailed diary about everything that happens in our flat, but only refers to it when things haven’t been done.”

related: 10 people, one kitchen

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Tags: garbage · new zealand · note wars · roommates

i challenge you to an emoticon-off!

October 24th, 2008 · 58 Comments

ah, young love.

related: facebook: a place for frenemies
extra credit: thumbspeak [thenewyorker.com]

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Tags: canada · facebook · frenemies · ontario · smiley

lean cuisine

October 23rd, 2008 · 81 Comments

from sasha in new york: evidence that the financial crisis has begun to trickle down to joe six-pack.

related: desperate times

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Tags: money · new york · office · stealing · thx · university

in other words…move it along, grandma!

October 22nd, 2008 · 62 Comments

both of these signs would have gotten their points across perfectly well in just a few words…but the true passive-aggressive always knows how to convey his or her true meaning with just one more choice phrase.
exhibit a) from paula in logan, utah:

exhibit b) spotted by my pal brooke in savannah, georgia:

related: that means you, edith

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Tags: lOWERCASE l · old folks · plants · pleasantries as afterthought · savannah · utah

i am seriously like gonna hyperventilate and die, and it will be your fault

October 21st, 2008 · 161 Comments

earlier this year, emma in california was sharing a kitchen with three other girls. one day, out of the blue, one of her roommates posted this note. (warning: prepare to reexamine any preconceptions you may have about mormons, straight-edgers, and college-aged women in general.)

by the next morning, emma says, the note was promptly defaced, but [...]

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Tags: cleaning · god · mean girls · roommates · saga · sex sex sex · signed with love · thanks (but not really) · university · you know who you are

thx sandra returns

October 20th, 2008 · 148 Comments

casey in human resources may have moved on, but not to worry — thx sandra is here to solve our global climate crysis!

related: it takes a “genius”

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · anthropomorphism · clip art catastrophe · exclamation-point happy! · san diego · spelling and grammar police · temperature · the earth · thx

the man™: now available in convenient mini-me size!

October 16th, 2008 · 95 Comments

our submitter, b., was shopping at a shoe pavilion in san francisco when she realized she really needed to use the facilities. although there was no public restroom in sight, she did spy the familiar infographic just beyond a doorway marked “employees only.” when she ducked inside, b. was greeted by this sublimely creepy warning [...]

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Tags: big brother-ish · now that's management · ohio · retail hell · san francisco

when mavericks attack

October 15th, 2008 · 132 Comments

joe six-pack in san francisco never actually got this note, because our own passive-aggressive pit bull secondsout swiped it from under his windshield wiper. again, my understanding is that he recused himself,  but i don’t want to talk about that: i’d like to talk about energy.

and also, too, under the umbrella of job creation, therefore:

related: [...]

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Tags: parking · politics · san francisco

but now i’m gold (hooray hooray)

October 14th, 2008 · 60 Comments

meg’s uncanny curatorial ability to uncover the silver lining in any situation was woefully under-appreciated at her last job, but even her former coworkers had to admit that this farewell e-mail was an impressive excavation of meg’s latent passive-aggressive tendencies.

related: this shit is bananas

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Tags: all-staff e-mail · cheers · farewell letter · fired

desperate times

October 13th, 2008 · 77 Comments

need another sign we’re officially in a recession? how ’bout three?
    
 

related: “no” questions asked

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · bicycle · california · excessive underlining · neighbors · san francisco · smiley · thx

let’s not mince words

October 12th, 2008 · 91 Comments

our anonymous submitter reports that a certain less-than-collegial colleague had the gall to dash off this note while the perfume-wearer in question was standing at the photocopier less than five feet away. and, our submitter adds: “she did not attempt at all to disguise her handwriting.”

related: fight or flight

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · exclamation-point happy! · more aggressive than passive · odor · office · oh no you didn't

the slow build

October 9th, 2008 · 106 Comments

like so many passive-aggressive notewriters, the author of this note — which sarah in brockton, mass. says was posted in the elevator, front hallway, back hallway and the mailroom of her building after a particularly rowdy friday — just can’t seem to fully commit to sarcasm as a rhetorical technique.

(you know, because otherwise people [...]

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Tags: massachusetts · neighbors · noise · thanks (but not really)

seriously distruping

October 8th, 2008 · 75 Comments

found on the street by joe in somerville, mass…

related: oh, the irony

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · meta · somerville · spelling and grammar police

an inconvenient truth

October 7th, 2008 · 86 Comments

al gore would likely be pleased hear that marc in san diego rides his bike (a vintage blue colnago) to work in the mornings. a certain evangelical bike messenger, however, was less than impressed.

marc says he’s since ditched his old cable lock. “after this note taught me the error of my ways, i now keep [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · bicycle · stealing

listing in now magazine’s adult classifieds: $70. revenge?

October 6th, 2008 · 72 Comments

…well, you know how it goes.

meanwhile, in melbourne…

and in london…

…a saucy variation on a much-photographed placard from london’s soho:

but my favorite sign was spotted by nick at a backpacker’s hostel in rio:

related: the whore of west babylon

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Tags: "customer service" · australia · canada · melbourne · rio de janeiro · sex sex sex · toronto