Entries Tagged as 'blitzkrieg approach'

the finest, most literary vagrants

April 29th, 2008 · 80 Comments

writes an anonymous student at binghamton university: “some grad students are mad about the teaching load for TAs, so they have been putting up these posters in order to raise awareness.”
adds our submitter (with a yawn): “i am now more aware of how douche-y they are.”

related: or take a cab!!!

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Tags: binghamton · blitzkrieg approach · new york · raging against the machine · university

stop, hammertime

February 26th, 2008 · 82 Comments

so, after seeing this note from daily piglet in columbia, south carolina:

and this one, from anna in providence, rhode island:

and this doozy from an anonymous san francisco office worker…

is it any wonder that this photo from afroswede’s flickrstream (and others) came to mind?

(meanwhile, over at bethany’s “blog”…u can touch this.)
related: can i lick […]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · exclamation-point happy! · providence · san francisco · south carolina · temperature · touching

landmine in my bloodline

February 8th, 2008 · 106 Comments

nothing could have prepared lauren in oakland for the passive-aggressive avalanche that awaited her the other day at her new apartment. she calls the experience of finding the notes totally surreal. “it keeps playing back in slow motion in my mind, from the second i saw the first one hanging over the threshold to my […]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · chore wheel · cleaning · ellipses-crazed · oakland · roommates · spelling and grammar police

then we came to the end

January 15th, 2008 · 90 Comments

it was a “killer busy” week at the office, so gord in ontario admits that he and his coworkers left the place in a certain state of disarray. (such is the wont of “creative professionals.”) unfortunately, the boss chose that weekend to pop in to give some people an impromptu tour. on monday, these adorable […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · blitzkrieg approach · canada · casual sexism · office · ontario · that shit is disgusting

the sincerest form of passive-aggression

December 30th, 2007 · 45 Comments

laura in boston says one of the restrooms at her school is a real note bonanza. the inside of the stall features no fewer than four individual notes about proper flushing etiquette, and immediately outside the restroom are two (slightly contradictory notes) about proper door opening/closing procedure.

but what’s most interesting? how a couple of those […]

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Tags: bathroom · blitzkrieg approach · boston · meta · opening/closing · toilet