Entries Tagged as 'university'

maybe if was hawaiian shirt day?

April 11th, 2008 · 50 Comments

alexa in texas works in a graduate lab of five students. one friday, she says, “our advisor came in around 9:30 a.m. looking for us. no dice: except for one poor guy, we were all out. when the hard-working crew finally rolled in around 1:30 (or, um, 3 p.m.), they were greeted by this inspirational […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · lab rats · nice and subtle · now that's management · office · texas · university

what, no bubble letters?

March 26th, 2008 · 83 Comments

cameron in hyde park, n.y. brings us this “maybe not-so-classic dorm dispute: girl meets boy, girl likes boy, boy has girlfriend, girl obsesses over boy, boy’s female neighbors post rejection note from boy to girl, girl…threatens neighbors, artistically.”

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Tags: MYOB · danger · disturbingly detailed · exclamation-point happy! · spurned lover · university

oxford drama

March 2nd, 2008 · 108 Comments

our submitter found this glorious piece of work on the door to the common room at her oxford university dorm. “the guy who left it was a 6′5 redheaded dude who wore cravats,” she says. “no one was gonna fuck with him.” (don’t really understand the causality there, but i’m gonna let that one go.) […]

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Tags: just an asshole · signed with love · u.k. · university · warning

eau dear

February 11th, 2008 · 86 Comments

this oh-so-subtle note was posted by mary’s former boss, “a pathetic professor in a backwater institution” where 90% of the graduate students happened to be korean, japanese, or chinese.
“nevermind that he doused himself with great lashings of brut in an attempt to jazz up the bald-up-top-ponytail-in-back look he had going on,” mary says. “there were […]

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Tags: a little insensitive · a matter of taste · clip art catastrophe · fish · microwave · office · smell · spelling and grammar police · university

paul newman: the franz ferdinand of the fridge

January 27th, 2008 · 86 Comments

this fridge saga (from a boston-area university lab building) comes to us with a confession on the part of the anonymous submitter: she started it, sort of.
it all began when she discovered that her salad dressing had been mysteriously disposed of. sad that she had to eat dry lettuce for lunch, she left a note […]

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Tags: food · fridge · lab rats · massachusetts · saga · university · whiteboard