Entries Tagged as 'strangers'

“no” questions asked

November 26th, 2007 · 119 Comments

i love how the notewriter quickly abandons the initial pretense here, then completely throws in the towel with the last line.

thanks to adam in san francisco for this masterpiece!

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · CAPS LOCK · confusion??? · san francisco · stealing · strangers

vaguely hostile hostel

September 6th, 2007 · 138 Comments

frequent troublemaker team cassandra sends us a dispatch from her trip to old montreal. the charmant hostel she stayed in had 32 hostelers, two bathrooms, one kitchen, lots of awkward signage, and an overall vibe of, “i’ve said this 10, 000 times and i’m not saying it again.”

plus….

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Tags: bathroom · bathtub · beer · canada · excessive underlining · francais · montreal · opening/closing · smiley · strangers · transliteration

i a beautiful (plus: passive-aggressive challenge #1!)

May 25th, 2007 · 28 Comments

this amazing and somewhat baffling little note comes to us from tiffanni in atlanta, who looks nothing like a man but is confident enough in her femininity not to be troubled by allegations to the contrary.
says tiffanni: “this was left on my windshield by a lady in the wal-mart parking lot. i guess she was [...]

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Tags: atlanta · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · more aggressive than passive · oh snap · parking · spelling and grammar police · strangers

only one or two

May 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

spotted by eric at uncle moe’s in manhattan.

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Tags: excessive underlining · new york · strangers

how about never? does never work for you?

May 18th, 2007 · 6 Comments

from emily: another example of brooklyn’s seemingly unparalleled commitment to exasperated signage. (as previously documented here.)

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Tags: brooklyn · more aggressive than passive · parking · strangers

what is it about dog shit that pushes brooklynites over the edge?

May 18th, 2007 · 18 Comments

wesh snapped this a few years back in red hook, brooklyn, while walking from his brother’s rehearsal dinner to the afterparty bar. (how bougie does park slope’s version look in comparison?)
says wesh: “what gets me are the flags. why flags?”

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Tags: brooklyn · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · shit · strangers