Entries Tagged as 'university'

what, no bubble letters?

March 26th, 2008 · 85 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 · 90 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 · odor · office · 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

so much for turning the other cheek

December 13th, 2007 · 137 Comments

thanks to sarah for capturing this delicious little slice of life from her christian college in illinois. (delicious like a quart of starbucks coffee almond fudge, not one measly little low-fat frappucino bar.)

related: but He took the wheel

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Tags: apostrophe abuse · excessive underlining · heart · ice cream · illinois · irregular capitalization · jesus · not-so-veiled threats · spelling and grammar police · touching · university · you call that punctuation? · you're like so going to hell

get your own :)

December 9th, 2007 · 79 Comments

individual cheese pizza with chicken, bacon, sun-dried tomato and feta cheese plus a side salad: $6.31. addressing your note “to whom it may concern” when you only have one roommate? (you know the rest.)

(thanks to todd in stillwater, oklahoma for snapping the photo.)
related: you left evidence

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Tags: excessive underlining · oklahoma · pizza · pleasantries as afterthought · roommates · smiley · university