Entries Tagged as 'obnoxious definition'

the art of the passive-aggressive note

May 23rd, 2008 · 81 Comments

sure, it’d be easier and quicker to just clean it up. but the modern passive-aggressive (like katey in berkeley’s ex-roommmate) can’t pass up the opportunity to make a point.

a common variation on the van der rohe approach, as documented below by sam in dallas, is the so-called “reverse magritte.”

meanwhile, post-modern passive-aggressives (like this new [...]

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covering all the bases

April 9th, 2008 · 90 Comments

“it seems too many people have made love to the office water cooler,” says lizzy in new york. and some of them, it seems, are getting a little sloppy.

lizzy says the “office of water” thing refers to the fact that “our office is full of water. like, the fridge doesn’t have anything but bottled water [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · d.c. · double-entendre alert · new york · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police · that's unsanitary · water

free markets, free people, free papers

October 19th, 2007 · 216 Comments

another doozy of an apartment manager note from oakland, california. our anonymous submitter wasn’t able to save any of those 14 notices, so it’s unclear if any of them were anything like this one.

related: love, apt. 3 

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · excessive underlining · guilt trip · landlord · neighbors · newspaper · oakland · obnoxious definition · stealing

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

August 8th, 2007 · 50 Comments

in all fairness, says brandi in austin, “this note was written after our dishes became so caked with fungus that we had to buy new stuff. the smell was also REALLY bad.”

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