Entries Tagged as 'warning'

Is this chicken, what just hit me in the head, or is this fish?

March 12th, 2010 · 61 Comments

This week’s “WTF? Friday” contribution comes from Carey in Brooklyn, who spotted this warning taped to a telephone pole at a busy intersection in Long Island City. “I looked around carefully,” Carey says, “but there were no flying missiles to be seen.”

related: passive-allergic

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Tags: new york · queens · visual aids · warning

Three things your health teacher didn’t tell you about herpes

June 18th, 2008 · 109 Comments

(A Passiveaggressivenotes.com public disservice announcement)
1. From Portland, Oregon…

2. From Williamsburg, Virginia…

3. From Miami, Florida…

related: come get some
extra credit: Herpes: it’s got new york by the balls [nymag.com]

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Tags: FYI · miami · not-so-veiled threats · now that's not true · portland · roommates · smiley · starbucks · stealing · university · virginia · warning · whiteboard · williamsburg

maybe it’s time for sally struthers to get involved

May 14th, 2008 · 141 Comments

with finals and thesis deadlines coming up, stress levels among grad students at uc-berkeley have been running high (which means attention to the finer points of, say, apostrophe use, are running low). and now there’s a lunch thief on the loose!

sadly, says our submitter, the note’s multi-pronged approach (guilt, threats, helpful advice) seems to [...]

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Tags: apostrophe abuse · berkeley · california · food · fridge · kitchen · preggers · stealing · the homeless · university · warning

Oxford drama

March 2nd, 2008 · 134 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.” (I don’t really understand the causality there, but I’m gonna let that one [...]

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

I know where she lives

January 3rd, 2008 · 126 Comments

Margarita spotted this note in the window of a laundromat in San Francisco. Honestly, she says, “I’m more afraid of a vindictive, threatening neighbor than a laundry ‘theif.’”

related: No, that’s not the British spelling

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Tags: laundry · neighbors · san francisco · spelling and grammar police · stealing · warning