Entries Tagged as 'United States'
Hannah spotted this bit of holiday cheer at the Southern Christmas Show in Charlotte, North Carolina. While the other vendors were busy handing out free samples and entertaining kids, this fellow was “keepin’ it Southern.”

related: Merry Terry says enjoy this tree!
Tags: Christmas · holiday spirit · North Carolina
I can only imagine the search queries that went into locating this delightful bit of clip art, which now decorates the ladies’ room at a medical school in Philadelphia. Now pour Lady Sansa some wine.

related: The Shark Week Scriptures
extra credit: Public Toilet Survival Kit
Tags: bathroom · clip art catastrophe · hygiene · office · Philadelphia
“You can’t tell from the photo,” our submitter says, “but the paper quality of this notice is above average. I guess there’s no cheap printer paper for angry Upper East Side residents!”

Although our submitter admits she was surprised this wasn’t posted by a Wall Street Journal subscriber, I’d say this more or less fits with the unique approach of the typical New York Times subscriber. WSJ-ers, on the other hand…

related: Comrades, take notice!
extra credit: The People’s Daily salutes Kim Jong Eun, 2012′s Sexiest Man Alive
extra extra credit: “Commie Mints”
Tags: New York · newspaper · stealing
That’s right narcs, just move it along!

(Now fast-forward about 10 years or so…)

related: See you never again in my life
Tags: go away · kids · rainbow-colored · Tampa
This is just…a thing of beauty.

related: You don’t mess with Bob Mess.
Tags: exclamation-point happy!!!! · knocking · Sacramento · so this is a thing? · that's disrespectful · unnecessary "quotation marks"
“There have been a lot of missionaries coming to our apartment building lately,” our submitter says, and apparently the occupants of Unit 307 have had enough of it. Adds our submitter: “I thought the Jesus Band-aids were a nice touch.”

related: You will be CURSED if you wake my sleeping baby!
Tags: California · God · Jesus · knocking
In Manhattan, a shortage of pumpkin spice lattes triggered mayhem overshadowed only by an actual disaster.
In Minnesota, however, it seems that some folks still haven’t heard the news that “Pumpkin is the New Bacon.”At our submitter’s office in Minneapolis, a proffered can of pumpkin spice tea sparked a Midwestern snark-off, complete with smilies.

related: Grow an orange tree and grow up
extra credit: The Inescapable Pumpkin Spice Trend [thekitchn.com]
Tags: Minneapolis/St. Paul · note wars · office · smartass · smiley · tea
“We believe in a generous America, in a compassionate America, in a tolerant America…We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and forever will be, the United States of America.” —President Obama, in his election-night acceptance speech
Meanwhile, in Rochester Hills, Michigan:

Rob says this anonymous note was attached to a canned good collected his son’s Boy Scout Troop. “I’m not sure what type of ‘adult’ deems a canned food drive for the less fortunate as a worthy platform for spewing political vitriol to the Boy Scouts who collected the food, but one can only hope that the next four years brings prosperity for everyone except this self-righteous idiot.”
related post: ¡Bienvenido! Mi casa no es su casa.
extra credit: The 20 Biggest Sore Losers of Election Night [salon.com]
Intel, UPS halt funding to Boy Scouts Over Anti-Gay Discrimination [AP]
Tags: heartwarming compassion · Michigan · most popular notes of 2012 · politics · unsolicited feedback
“How low do you have to go to steal flowers from someone’s grave?” wonders Ash in East Lansing, Michigan.

At the very least, I suppose, you’ve have to be someone untroubled by the prospect of being publicly chided or privately haunted. In Providence, Rhode Island, Moira noticed that the flowers at this memorial had very recently been dug up again.

related: Rolling over in his grave
extra credit: “Man arrested for stealing flowers off graves to give to girlfriend”
Tags: flowers, trees, houseplants & gardens · kinda creepy · Michigan · public shaming · stealing
Writes Tim in Jacksonville, Florida: “Apparently people on the Westside don’t process instructions very well.”
An alternative explanation: People at the Westside Winn-Dixie don’t utilize bold type very well.

related: Pain at the pump
Tags: "customer service" · gas station · Jacksonville