Entries Tagged as 'saga'

oh, shit!

November 11th, 2007 · 172 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 · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · saga · shit · unnecessary "quotation marks"

down and dirty down under (dear)

October 12th, 2007 · 130 Comments

when our saga begins, our anonymous submitter’s girlfriend was living in a tiny apartment in sydney, australia. due to space constraints, she was temporarily sleeping on what our submitter admits was “possibly one of the world’s shittiest sofabeds.”

but while the mailbox notes were presumably written first (based on the tone) they weren’t actually discovered until [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · CAPS LOCK · australia · awk abbrev · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · neighbors · noise · saga · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police · sydney

losing lisa

October 3rd, 2007 · 138 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