Entries Tagged as 'note wars'

Do you feel inspired now?

March 18th, 2010 · 132 Comments

At our submitter’s college dorm in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the RAs posts an inspirational quote on the bathroom door each week. When one of the residents questioned why those “thoughts/encouragements” always happened to come from the Bible, the RA responded with a new source of inspiration.

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Tags: RA · lexington · note wars · university

raging against the pinball machine

December 6th, 2009 · 123 Comments

A parable of the state of the “hot dot-com” workplace in 2009: The story goes, according to our anonymous submitter in California, “that some executive-level person decided to put a pinball machine into our break area. After several months, someone must have complained about the noise, because a note went up telling us it was [...]

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Tags: california · note wars · now that's management · office · raging against the machine · rebuttals

pomp and circumvent

November 18th, 2009 · 151 Comments

Who needs a water cooler? Nothing fosters “community” like shared networked printers! Need proof?
First up, an anonymous submission from a cubicle farm in Rochester Hills, Michigan. (Not pictured, our submitter says: two additional copies of the same “Pomptly” note to the left and right of the original.)

And from Illinois…

From Omaha, Nebraska…

(And from Brooklyn…and just about [...]

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Tags: note wars · office · oh snap · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police · the earth

raging against the little guy

October 20th, 2009 · 187 Comments

Kellye from Huntsville, Alabama spotted these notes posted on boarded-up diner during last month’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Explains Kellye: “The broken windows were caused by a few rowdy anarchists/drunk college kids from Oakland who apparently missed the mark in their defiance of the man. Since the vandals represented only a very small cross-section of protesters [...]

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Tags: heart · note wars · pittsburgh · raging against the machine · spelling and grammar police · starbucks

something to ponder

October 11th, 2009 · 102 Comments

Nathan in Norman, Oklahoma doesn’t know the writers of either of these notes, but when he saw this exchange on a fellow student’s drafting board in his architecture studio class, he knew it needed to be documented.

related: who’s the smartass?

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Tags: kinda creepy · note wars · oklahoma · so there · university · whiteboard

tilt your head upwards.

January 4th, 2009 · 78 Comments

josh from annapolis, maryland says the first and last note in this exchange were apparently written by stephen, a college student at a school “known for it’s obtusely intellectual, chronically spacey student body.”
the notes were gone within a few days, but josh says the situation hasn’t exactly improved. in the meantime, he says, “i’m kinda [...]

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Tags: garbage · neighbors · note wars · recycling · you call that punctuation?

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

Oh, the irony

November 13th, 2007 · 103 Comments

Sadly, no backstory for this one, except that it was found on a door in San Francisco — but I think this is one of those exchanges that does pretty much speak for itself.
Despite the obvious criticism richard opens himself up to, I think you have to give the guy props for having the guts [...]

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Tags: dogs · google stalking · neighbors · noise · note wars · san francisco

Losing Lisa

October 3rd, 2007 · 156 Comments

Gina from Santa Cruz lives in a dorm where ten girls share one bathroom. Says gina, “I love saga notes, and feel we need some more of them, so I figured this collection would certainly do the trick.” Indeed, Gina, indeed! The progression here from pleasantries and smileys to — well, you’ll see — is [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · all clogged up · bathroom · die bitch die · eww · excessive underlining · internet citation · it's science! · mean girls · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · note wars · rebuttals · saga · santa cruz · shower · smiley · that shit is disgusting · that's unsanitary · university

To each his own microwave

July 19th, 2007 · 113 Comments

Paddy in Belfast sends us this series of shots from his office kitchen, where several of his coworkers have taken their frustrations with microwave cleanliness into their own hands.
It all started when one day, a microwave appeared bearing this note:

…but SDT wasn’t taking any chances.

Later, a second microwave appeared, complete with its own note:

…which prompted [...]

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Tags: belfast · kitchen · microwave · note wars · office · saga · spelling and grammar police · u.k.

10 people, one kitchen

July 13th, 2007 · 66 Comments

alanna lives in a house in ottawa with nine other girls, where “dishes are always being left in the sink dirty and growing stuff, or clean on the counter taking up space.” a note war has commenced on the window above the fridge.

by popular demand, alanna has helpfully posted another picture showing the underlying notes!

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Tags: canada · dishes · excessive underlining · kitchen · note wars · ottawa · roommates