Entries Tagged as 'brooklyn'

roommate fumes; unilever marketing execs rejoice

February 3rd, 2008 · 64 Comments

curse as much as you want, dude: you’re still bitching about body wash. (personally, that’s what i’d call a gamekiller.)

related: i swear this isn’t some sort of stealth viral marketing campaign

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Tags: beer · brooklyn · new york · stealing · whiteboard

seriously!?!

December 11th, 2007 · 56 Comments

the inimitable jeff rubin passes along this note from the foyer of his park slope apartment building. yup, that’s what you think it is there on the floor. (perhaps a hapless victim of the bag-tampering deliquent?)

jeff says the shit was cleaned up when he checked a few hours later.
meanwhile, elsewhere in brooklyn, confusion still reigns.

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Tags: brooklyn · confusion??? · dogs · shit

i’ve got my eye on you

November 27th, 2007 · 135 Comments

laura spotted this punchline of a note (”you know it’s time to move out when…”) at her apartment building in downtown brooklyn. or rather, her former apartment building.

it’s unclear whether the note-leaver was motivated by recent research suggesting that pictures of eyes may deter crime. meanwhile, kim documented a convenience store in worcester, massachusetts taking […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · massachusetts · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · stealing · underlining · worcester

oh, shit!

November 11th, 2007 · 171 Comments

my own neighborhood of park slope, brooklyn has high concentrations of dogs, babies, crazies and bloggers, which makes for a heady brew of incredibly well-documented passive-aggressiveness. certain notes (like this long-running series) show up in my inbox over and over again. i’ve gotten various iterations of this note from no fewer than six different […]

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Tags: apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · dogs · ellipses-crazed · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · saga · shit · underlining · unnecessary "quotation marks"

extremely loud and incredibly close quarters

August 6th, 2007 · 67 Comments

amy in seattle says her favorite part of the note is the children (please, think of the children!) but i was most impressed by the use of both “being effected” and “being impacted” in a single sentence. those loud, “vulgar-related” noises might, in fact, be the sound of english teachers around the world crying out […]

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Tags: brooklyn · neighbors · seattle · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police