Entries Tagged as 'rainbow-colored'

Do these stilettos match my broomstick?

December 9th, 2009 · 261 Comments

Sarah in London found this note — and the cheeky response — posted in the lobby of her former apartment building.
“Entry to the flats is by way of a concrete outside walkway,” she explains. “Unfortunately, if someone has noisy heels, the sound tends to reverberate throughout the building.”

Of course, the above complainer isn’t the only [...]

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · london · neighbors · noise · rainbow-colored · signed with love · smartass · that's disrespectful

girls gone wild…with colored markers

March 10th, 2009 · 129 Comments

you decide: which masterpiece is most worthy of the lisa frank award for the most artistic expression of repressed rage?
is it exhibit a, from a hip-hop retail store in california?

exhibit b, from an american college dorm?

or exhibit c, from a shared apartment in guelph, ontario?

oh, and ladies? as you busy yourself with your construction paper [...]

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Tags: art · dishes · disturbingly detailed · heart · rainbow-colored · signed with love · smiley · university · your mother doesn't...

he’s just not that into unicorns

February 15th, 2009 · 97 Comments

two target customers for lisa frank’s new line of movie tie-in stickers — coming soon to the hot topic/urban outfitters near you!

(above, from colorado. below, from california.)

related: do not kiss on someone else’s kiss
extra credit: the legend of casey™ and caymus™

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Tags: california · colorado · heart · rainbow-colored · sig o · signed with love · spurned lover · university

the audacity of theft

June 6th, 2008 · 152 Comments

writes an anonymous submitter in houston: “a neighbor in my building put up an obama yard sign on the door of her apartment around the time of the texas primary. when it disappeared, i assumed she took it down herself.” then up went this note — a cheerful bit of propaganda that oh-so-subtly disproves all [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · houston · neighbors · politics · rainbow-colored · spelling and grammar police · that's illegal

you might want to take a hard look at your washcloth first

June 5th, 2008 · 144 Comments

an anonymous submitter in portland, maine is currently chafing under one of the most common irritants of communal living: a roommate “who has never once bought toilet paper.”
she and her other roommate tried some of the more subtle manuevers in the passive-aggressive playbook — up to and including the ol’ hide-and-carry — to no avail. [...]

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Tags: all clogged up · bathroom · maine · paper product fairy · rainbow-colored · roommates · shit · toilet · xoxo

Shittiest secret admirer ever?

April 10th, 2008 · 153 Comments

“My roommate thinks I took her dry erase board when I was 40 miles away the week it was taken,” says an anonymous college student in Tampa, Florida. “She has been leaving me notes like this ALL YEAR.”
God help our poor submitter, but I’m nominating this crazy rainbow of a note for the passive-aggressive hall [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · crazypants · ellipses-crazed · exclamation-point happy! · gloriously redundant · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · oh the irony · rainbow-colored · roommates · stealing · whiteboard