Entries Tagged as 'rainbow-colored'

the audacity of theft

June 6th, 2008 · 149 Comments

writes an anonymous submitter in houston: “a neighbor in my building put up an obama yard sign on the door of her apartment around the time of the texas primary. when it disappeared, i assumed she took it down herself.” then up went this note — a cheerful bit of propaganda that oh-so-subtly disproves all [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · houston · neighbors · rainbow-colored · spelling and grammar police · that's illegal

you might want to take a hard look at your washcloth first

June 5th, 2008 · 142 Comments

an anonymous submitter in portland, maine is currently chafing under one of the most common irritants of communal living: a roommate “who has never once bought toilet paper.”
she and her other roommate tried some of the more subtle manuevers in the passive-aggressive playbook — up to and including the ol’ hide-and-carry — to no avail. [...]

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Tags: all clogged up · bathroom · maine · paper product fairy · rainbow-colored · roommates · shit · toilet · xoxo

shittiest secret admirer ever?

April 10th, 2008 · 148 Comments

“my roommate thinks I took her dry erase board when I was 40 miles away the week it was taken,” says an anonymous college student in tampa, florida. “she has been leaving me notes like this ALL YEAR.”
god help our poor submitter, but i’m nominating this crazy rainbow of a note for the passive-aggressive hall [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · crazypants · ellipses-crazed · exclamation-point happy! · gloriously redundant · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · oh the irony · rainbow-colored · roommates · stealing · whiteboard