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April 17, 2008 |
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Bammanas.....Nilk......Weed....
FOUND by Todd F.
in Stockton, California
I found this in a shopping cart in the parking lot of the local Food 4 Less. Thought it was odd that it was typed. Wonder if they were under the influence of the bammanas when they typed it?
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
What a list. I hope it's not Weed/Doughnuts but weed doughnuts. I love that it's typed out!
I remember! I remember! A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and a stick of butta.
Anyone?
L, I remember that, too= but only because my old roomie used to say it aaaalll the time.. (he said "container" of milk, though.)
They call me Mellow Yellowww.
But I'm changing my name to Cherry O'Pepsi.
cherry opepsi... a new irish cola? haha
i love how nutritionally balanced this list is (bammanas, milk, eggs... even splenda instead of sugar! good looking out!)
mmmmmmm..... delicious, delicious weed doughnuts.
"Cinnamon Tosst"....Crunch? mmm tasty
I could go for some weed doughnuts.
I love how they couldn't get "bananas" and "milk", but it's spelled "doughnuts" instead of "donuts".
Huh... I didn't know you could buy cinnamon toast. And here I've been slaving away for years making my own.
it does look like a coded message addressed the "Eggs"
how is it that 98% of finds are lists? ...
How can all of this be on the same list? Is the grocer also the dealer?
I think I'm shopping at the wrong Food-4-Less.
Cinnamon Tosst? How far, I wonder? Like the new Finnish sport of cellphone tossing...the farther the throw, the more points.
This list is a masterpiece of compensation: Eggs, Bammanas, Splenda and Milk attempting to offset the excess of Doughnuts, Weed, Cherry Pepsi and Butter. For some people, Splenda has the side effects associated with some drugs (dizziness, headache etc) so maybe it's not a "healthy" choice.
Weed doughnuts aren't nearly as nice as hash brownies, though.
Seems as though there was more than just bammanas influencing their typing or their choice of foods. Wish there was a store around here where all of those items could be purchased. It sure would save me a lot of time.
I just love that it's been typed. And it obviously a recently used list. Who still uses typerwriters nowadays?!? (I would if I had one...)
What a breakfast...wake 'n bake anyone? That reminds me, I just ran out of weed doughnuts...
I put weed doughnuts everytime on my list, but never seem to find them at the store:(
What a relevant spam question...
28 times 15 is what?
Thats awesome!!
Bammanas! That's just plain fun to say. I love this list. Cherry O'Pepsi and Bammanas. *giggle* Weed Doughnuts. Don't those come from Krispy Kreme? They always use the long spelling DOUGHnuts. Dunkin Donuts uses shorthand/lazy spelling DOnuts. So if it was Weed Donuts they would have been from Dunkin Donuts but since it's Dough-nuts gotta be those jewels from KK. yummies.
I'm blithering aren't I? Time to STFU. :>
Baby B, you'd change your mind if you ever tried MY weed doughnuts.
Ummm, which aisle can I find the weed my wife put on her shopping list she typed up with her TYPEWRITER.
Ok, if I just get stuff for breakfast, and Pepsi, that'll buy me some time to make my REAL list. Oh! If I type it out on that old typewriter, that would be fun! (And waste even more time.)
Bammana mamma fo famma...
I'm guessing the weed doughnuts would give you the munchies...so I would recommend eating them first. I would eat the bammanas next (they sound filling).=)
I donuts are doughnuts, then I suppose donut holes are dough-noughts, no?
I meant:
*IF* donuts are doughnuts, then I suppose donut holes are dough-noughts, no?
YUM! My kind of meal. Spam protection: Yellow and blue mixed makes GREEN!
Don't forget the nachos, capn' crunch and visine!
"Nilk" just might possibly qualify as my favorite misspelling, ever. "Bammanas" is good too, but "nilk" is so short and sweet, and it's just an all-around funny word.
Nilk, nilk, nilk...
I also find it odd that the shopper plans to purchase Cherry OPepsi, bammanas, cinnamon toast, and doughnuts, but he opts to purchase Splenda over regular sugar.
Obammana in '08
Jamie in da couch- most of the grocery list finds come right from the shopping cart the list maker made- or the parking lot.
Maybe Cherry O is actually CHEERIO Cereal...I mean, they obviously CANNOT spell! Even buzzed, this is a stretch...
fee fi fo famma
I think that OPepsi is a typo because O and P are right next to each other on the keyboard and the typist just said screw it and went on because they are obviously not the best typer/speller ever. On the other hand, it does sound very cool. OPepsi OPepsi, wherefore art thou, OPepsi?
then again, maybe cherry opepsi is.. Cherry Pepsi, with a type-0.
I have tears streaming down my face I am laughing so hard, not just at the find, which is priceless, but at all the comments, too!
@steve in the projects -- I, too, am definitely shopping at the wrong Food 4 Less!
*gasp* Perhaps OPepsi is the real, full and formal name for the drink? Just like opossum is the full name for a possum. But who, outside a biology class, says opossum? Saying "last night was a bad night for opossums" would have Bubba going "say wha?" while "last night was a bad night for possums" would get the point across that there's lots of new road kill on the highway (and to bring a shovel quick-like.)
Gad, I'm blithering again.
Pass the weed doughnuts, please. And a Pepsi.
I'm going to greet every one today with a fake british accent saying "Cherry O good fellow".
Not that I want to spoil anyone's fun but maybe I can make an ounce of sense out of this.
My mother has this friend from college who is blind. Every bit of her correspondance over the years has looked like this. For heaven's sake she can't tell when she's made a typo. She never even knew when the typewriter ribbon was bad unless someone got a letter that was blank.
As an adult I've come to love her correspondance for all the fun -- and often times Freudian -- typos. Good entertainment.
Cherry O'Pepsi is my favorite Dropkick Murphys song, but please - I've had enough fiddles and bagpipes and fake Irish accents in my punk for the next forty years or so.
Farmer...I always knew you were a doughnut.
Smokin' bammana peels in between meals, smokin' bammana peels sounds like this...
I'd love to write more, but I'm off to get my semi-annual bammammagram now.
Wait a minute...I just realized, he's going to pick up a bunch of Sri Lankan cities, or maybe some African tribes! Really, go and Google "bammana"!
Yeah, a local find! Who the heck still has a typewriter AND still uses it???
Flargy wrote, "Wait a minute...I just realized, he's going to pick up a bunch of Sri Lankan cities, or maybe some African tribes! Really, go and Google "bammana"!"
....HA, I knew bammanas were filling!
All you boys out there need to step up and be a bammana.
Apronk---Do I recognize you from Pop Candy?
Also, I agree with Baby Basil. Hash brownies eclipse weed doughnuts!!
And..."Cherry O'Pepsi" sounds like a stripper name.
Oh yeah...Feminista, we still use typewriters at work, especially on irregular size paper that doesn't easily go through our printers.
They do not sell weed dough nuts at Food 4 Less.
I've checked.
(spell check says doughnuts isn't a word, so I used its suggestion. silly spell check)
I love you all :)
But I think we're neglecting the fascinating contribution from right in the middle... this is obviously some sort of coded message that was dropped when the spy was attacked at the local Food 4 Less. Winston Churchill is doomed!
Bammanas 'n Nilk is dee-licious!!
I want a bammana nilkshake! Yumbalicious!
I think the thing that scares me the most about this list is the Splenda... I don't want chlorine in my sugar, thanks...
lots of simulposting going on lately.. great minds thinking alike. I like it. I like it a LOT!
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/745
Bammana Republic Unite!
I had the same thought as CuriousKat (hi Kat!), only I wondered if it might be a little old lady (or gent) with arthritic fingers, so unable to hold a pen but just able to bash the keys on an old typewriter, but with not good enough eyesight to see when they're hitting the wrong key.
I've had letters like this at work from customers, and you think they're really funny until you realise how much effort has gone into writing them at all.
Doesn't account for the Weed though (unless it takes away the pain of the arthritis). Don't get THAT in my supermarket.
Doughnuts is of course the 'correct' spelling of donuts -- more evidence of a well-brought-up and literate older person.
Although it would be rough to find doughnuts in your trough or hanging from a bough, I must think this through (*cough* -- glad you brought that up). That's tough enough!
So why aren't they pronounced 'duff-nuts'?
Cherry-O! (or Cheeri-ough)
Jonathan, maybe it WAS a little old guy who can't see the keys and it's supposed to be "NEED doughnuts". An "N" and a "W" can look similar on the keyboard...Although I hate to spoil the idea that there are really weed doughnuts out there.
I've always called them dognuts.
This is one of my favorite finds... amusing and aesthetically pleasing :)
Maybe the author was heading up to/through Weed, CA and wanted to be sure to purchase doughnuts for the trip? (Probably not.)
This find, and the comments, just made me laugh my ass off!
Isn't weed legal for medicinal purposes in CA?
It soitinly is, Dorothy.
I know of a case in Finland where they were making Viagra bread (yes really!), so weed doughnuts isn't much of a stretch.
Viagra bread? That gives wheat starch a whole new meaning.
I'm late getting my comment in!!
Thanks for the "welcomes" yesterday. I tried to register but it wouldn't let me...
Maybe this was written by a two year old. My son says "bana" for "banana" and "bommom" for "bottom". Just a thought.
Right after I read your comment Flargy I noticed next to me one of my son's cd's. It's labeled Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Madly, Rancid, Leftover Crack, and Choking Victim. Oh my.
Jonathan, it has always struck me as absurd that the letter combination "ough" can be pronounced so many different ways: off, uff, ooh, aw, oh, ow.
Actually, now that I've itemized it like that, I realize something kind of cool - the entire dialog of the typical porn flick can conceivably be carried out using only the letters o-u-g-h! What order the pronunciations are in depends on the "plot," I guess.
Turbo, the shop half a block from the Tune Inn (an old New Haven underground venue) was usually referred to as Drunken Dognuts. I think they only sold Munchkins.
Are you sure it's not "flogging Molly" ?
Yeah Josie, that's it! Flogging Molly. I'm taking this cd in my car and listening to it.
I'm always confused by draught/drought. No matter how many times I see it, I initially think it says: drawt or drout. And then,huh,oh...draft. I think the guy who made this language up might have been a bit of a wise-ass.
I only wanted to state for the record that this is my favorite find ever so far.
i should have made a list when i went to the story the other day---i forgot socks, so i had to do laundry
Ok, since they're raining on my parade over at the other Find of the Day, go look! My name is in the orange box above!
(Thanks Tangint.)
And it's no wonder it's so hard to teach kids to read... -ough is tough!
That's cool, Nightingale :) Heh, the other Find of the Day is pretty uninspiring anyway.
cherry o'pepsi! i wish that was my name too. and NILK. hee. awesome.
Nilk? LOL.
I wish I could find some of those weed doughnuts...
Nilk. I love nilk. I guess that's why I have young bones. Yes, I do. Very young bones.
Nice work, Night!! You're famous!! Well, I mean even MORE famous.
All day long I've had that UB40 tune in my head 'Cherry Oh Baby' only I've been singing 'Cherry oh Pepsi'.
The Weed Doughnuts took me back to the Milky Way in Amsterdam. Anyone been there besides me? Lots of unusual edible things there.
Cheers!
You so totally ROCK, Night in Gale!!! How cool is that!
Thanks you guys. It was fun. 8-)
@reading too much...you're right, learning English reading skills is tough through the lack of enough phonics to go round, though it can be thoroughly enjoyed.
I always tell my US/UK friends who have emigrated to Spain to make SURE their kids learn to read in English *first*--otherwise they seldom bother to learn it well, as Spanish is phonetic and easier. If they don't learn it at home, they don't bother because Spanish is what they're surrounded by.
This is indeed a coded message, which has fallen into the wrong hands.
Agents codenamed ‘Eggs’ (known to you as Eggs1234) and ‘Cinnamon Toast’ are the addressees of the note, which was typed by a carefully trained mouse under difficult and dangerous circumstances in the Oval Office.
They are to find and intercept the Arab terrorists known as The Bammanas, and the IRA activists Nilk and Cherry O’Pepsi.
Targets to be plied with large quantities of Butter and Splenda until sweet and oleaginous, before being rendered helplessly compliant by means of Weed Doughnuts.
@mlm, apparently yes, you do recognize me.
This Find is making me hungry.
Re: arthritis, it could be that banging on the keys is so difficult that they just said "screw it" and accepted the typos. I know it's difficult enough for me to type on my laptop on days when my arthritis is flaring; the thought of using a typewriter then makes me wince.
It might not be an older arthritic person at all. It might be a kid who is obsessed with Grandma's manual typewriter (old things being fascinating to the computer generation). Being used to backspacing to erase mistakes, the kid just types merrily on. I used to love the sound of the typewriter and would willingly have typed anything for my parents, including a shopping list. In that case "weed" could be a joke for an older kid, or it could be a mistake for "need doughnuts". And kid asked how to spell doughnuts and got the real spelling.
I have an aunt who was in a car accident that caused brain damage. Where she can talk and function perfectly, her handwriting is horrible now. She types EVERYTHING! On an old school typewriter. Says it is faster than booting up the computer and printing. The spelling is atrocious, but you kind of get used to it.
L -
I remember! I remember! A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and a stick of butta.
What does that means?? (the second comment). It's SOO familiar to me and it's going to drive me crazy now! Is it a movie or a commercial?
Cameron--I think it was an animated skit from the Electric Company or Sesame Street about a little kid whose mother sent him to the store for these items and he had to remember them all. (I think?)
I love that they could actually spell doughnuts right, but not toast.. or milk.. or bananas.