K, so, we’ve all seen a million notes like this…

(Check out that sad little orphan S!)
 
 
 
…but it actually takes a real mother to poke a hole in that logic.

related: Your mother doesn’t work here. Or here. Or here.

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Our anonymous university student in Cambridge, England found this note pinned to the door of his shared college house. “The guy who wrote it moved here from America about five weeks ago and is about eight years older than the rest of us in the house. He seems to be a nice guy, but has [...]

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you decide: which masterpiece is most worthy of the lisa frank award for the most artistic expression of repressed rage?
is it exhibit a, from a hip-hop retail store in california?

exhibit b, from an american college dorm?

or exhibit c, from a shared apartment in guelph, ontario?

oh, and ladies? as you busy yourself with your construction paper [...]

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it’s the question of the day: have you voted yet?
if NO, please consider the following (from campaign field offices in “fake virginia” and philadelphia) before heading to the polls.

if YES —  why not celebrate your participation in the democratic process in the most american way possible: buyin’ stuff!
related: herbie goes to washington

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sarah in somerville, mass. wasn’t fazed when she left her apartment one saturday to find this otherwise “run-of-the-mill your-mother-doesn’t-live-here note”…until she rounded the corner and was greeted by photocopies of the same note taped to every available surface in the hallway.

then, the next day, another note appeared near the elevator…

…which had apparently been written on [...]

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this note was posted in the girls’ toilets at a college dorm in canberra, australia.

later, this note was slipped under the doors of everyone on the floor.

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Writes our anonymous submitter in Corte Madera, California: “We have a lot of passive-aggressive notes up around the office, and most of them are addressed to the entire office staff in common areas. You can imagine my surprise when after eating lunch and going out for a smoke break with some coworkers today, we came [...]

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while jessica was a college student in boston, she lived in a five-person apartment with one friend and three strangers. jess says apartment issues were rarely (if ever– there was only one “meeting”) talked about directly (there was but one “meeting), but were instead handled through a series of “love notes” from anne, like this [...]

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