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Borgasm
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Merci by Borgasm

September 10th, 2009 12:50 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Whilst in Scotland, I couldn't help but notice that along the roadway, there were signs posted, simply saying, "Thank You". These signs were as regular as stop signs, or speed limit signs.
I asked my grandfather,"why are there Thank You signs posted?"
He replied,"Well, it's thanking us for driving safely. Also, if you can't read the sign, you're driving too fast."
He may have been telling the truth, but I preferred to interpret the sign at face value, like a bumper sticker that says, "Don't be a jerk." Just "Thank You".

Make a Thank You sign, and post it appropriately.
Thank you.

Sooooo this was a fun task. At work today I made five signs that said Thank you in large lettering and added a couple dozen other thank yous in different languages from Afrikaans to Japanese to Dutch. Regrettably, they did not print out in colour like I had hoped, but they looked pretty nice nonetheless.

I decided to put one in a bathroom, somewhere people would see it, near the sinks. I eventually settled on posting it on the paper towel dispenser; that way, people would see it after they washed their hands and be thanked for their good hygiene skills. I sincerely hope that at least a few people will find this as funny as I do.

The other signs were to be placed in various high-traffic areas around campus. I will be monitoring them with the help of my friends to see how long they last before being taken down or scribbled on.

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post it

post it

p-p-p-post it!


The sign

The sign

I had a few different colour fonts on it, but the printer only did black and white...


MS Word is language-ignorant!

MS Word is language-ignorant!

I just loved how many languages MS Word can't spell "thank you" in.


thank you for washing

thank you for washing

The first sign went on a paper towel dispenser in the dorm bathroom. I thought it would be nice, what with H1N1 going around campus, to thank people for washing up. The girls in there were totally uninterested in what I was doing, which is nice, I guess.


thank you for shopping

thank you for shopping

Here I posted a sign outside the Campus Cache, our convenience store that shares a building with 3 different dorms (including Rin's but not mine).


thank you for sleeping

thank you for sleeping

This one went outside my dorm. I was afraid the door guard would say something but nobody paid any attention.


thank you for eating

thank you for eating

This one went on the main doors to the tilly (our college's cafeteria). Since we put these up late at night there was nobody there. It should be fun to see how long it lasts. :)


thank you for loitering

thank you for loitering

This one went on the second set of doors to the wood center, where all of campus comes to get breakfast, taco bell, coffee, baked goods, have meetings, watch tv, steal wifi, go bowling, shoot pool, play arcade games and more. It'll get seen plenty there.


a better picture of the wood center sign

a better picture of the wood center sign

There was a woman cleaning up inside and she looked at us as we were posting this one. I was nervous but again, she just walked away with no comment.



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grand, isn´t it?
posted by susy derkins on September 13th, 2009 11:09 PM

I hope that you enjoyed the particular flavor of the tasking nervousness.

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posted by Borgasm on September 16th, 2009 10:48 AM

It was fun. I was totally preparing excuses and speeches in my mind. Not to explain sf0 and what I was doing, but to further confuse anyone who tried to stop me. :P

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posted by Anna Louise on October 13th, 2009 6:50 AM

That's a great completion! I love how you wrote it in all those languages :-)

And I guess that is one of the things this game teaches us - very few people actually pay attention to what others are doing, or at least they won't question it, so there's a whole lot of things you can do 'between the lines' so to speak.

I wonder how long they will be up!

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posted by Borgasm on October 13th, 2009 1:18 PM

All of them were torn down after a few days, except the one in the girls bathroom and the one in the cache. The one in the bathroom is gone now (I think) but the one outside the Cache is still up! Somebody wrote "Devin was here" on it, though.