Entries Tagged as 'california'
your mother doesn’t work here (or here, or here, or here)
July 6th, 2007 · 62 Comments
Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · moms & dads · nebraska · office · u.k. · virginia · visual aids
wait, what was the first reason again?
June 25th, 2007 · 41 Comments
paul in san diego says this note showed up above both urinals at his office last week.
Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · nose-picking · office · san diego · visual aids
do the rest of us a favor
June 19th, 2007 · 79 Comments
looks like both the mad bomber and richard g. sells have west-coast counterparts:
grossed out? yeah, me too. blame gregory in los angeles for documenting this one (!!!)
related: the mad bomber, act 1: “sorry about the language”
Tags: CAPS LOCK · die bitch die · ellipses-crazed · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · group bitchfest · los angeles · more aggressive than passive · office · piss · shit · that shit is disgusting · toilet
some suggestions for the comfort of your guest
June 19th, 2007 · 53 Comments
first, i’ll let stephanie in los angeles explain the context for this one: “after a night of drinking, i let a friend of mine crash with me at my apartment. this friend, who does have her own apartment in the city, left with me in the morning, yet i still received this email from my [...]
Tags: "helpful" advice · e-mail · los angeles · roommates
servicing over a half-billion people…each and every day.
June 15th, 2007 · 27 Comments
from the bay-area offices of yahoo! hotjobs…
those programmers…so literal-minded, sometimes.
(thiz onez fer u, slackferno.)
Tags: bathroom · double-entendre alert · office · san francisco · sex sex sex · shameless meme-mongering · toilet · yahoo
not so much funny as…wow.
June 15th, 2007 · 14 Comments
found in a recycling bin in california.
(and yes, as veritas notes, most likely the product of a high school english class.)
Tags: california · fiction · heart · sex sex sex
there’s a bedroom behind this wall
June 11th, 2007 · 13 Comments
robert in sacramento found this one on the wall of his apartment building’s laundry room. says robert: “on the surface, i don’t think this sign is too bad. the underlining of “time” and the “thanks a lot!!” at the end push it over the top for me.”
Tags: california · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · laundry · neighbors · sacramento
thanks for eating my lunch
June 5th, 2007 · 11 Comments
(charlie in los angeles did not eat your lunch.)
Tags: excessive underlining · group bitchfest · los angeles · office · office fridge · smartass · smiley · spelling and grammar police · stealing
cross-country elevator action
May 31st, 2007 · 29 Comments
one of these notes is from los angeles; one is from lexington, kentucky. can you guess which is which?
(thanks to eve in kentucky and natalie in l.a. for submitting.)
Tags: california · elevator · kentucky · lexington · los angeles · office · sex sex sex
who’s the smartass?
May 31st, 2007 · 15 Comments
exhibit a, from lindsay in burbank:
says the author of post-it #2: “the next day, she added a note that said, ‘keep eating my sushi and you’re going to find out!’”
and exhibit b, from jason in new haven:
(to the left, the original note. to the right, the response.)
if you’re guessing these guys are engineers, you’re not [...]
Tags: burbank · california · connecticut · food · milk · new haven · office · office fridge · rebuttals · smartass · stealing
visual aids always help
May 30th, 2007 · 17 Comments
from lars in san francisco.
Tags: neighbors · noise · san francisco · sleeping · visual aids
yeah, i got fired…but that hot pocket sure was worth it.
May 30th, 2007 · 14 Comments
this exercise in redundancy is brought to us by erika in los angeles. it’s like the note-writer couldn’t decide which tactic would be most effective and just opted for all of the above.
Tags: "helpful" advice · bullet points · excessive underlining · food · guilt trip · highlighter · los angeles · not-so-veiled threats · office · office fridge · pleasantries as afterthought
gentrification is insanit(ar)y
May 28th, 2007 · 21 Comments
this sign (spotted by seamus in noe valley, san fran) is sort of a west coast version of this, no? again, more crazy than passive-aggressive, but too good to pass up.
Tags: california · excessive underlining · more aggressive than passive · more like crazy · san francisco · spitting

