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July 30, 2009 |
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Tight Spot
FOUND by Kayanne Armer
in St. Edwards University, Austin, TX
Parking in Austin is horrible. Parking in Austin when you're late to a final is even worse.
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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...
Was tbis left on your car, Oh Foudner??
*Founder*
Yup..want to know, too, if Kayanne Armer found this note on her car
I hope this is the "apology" note he left to look like insurance info right after he moved the car a foot or so. I hate when people do this...and I live in Wichita, where it's not much of a problem. :)
Kayanne Armer was late to a final in Austin, and was forced to park partially in front of a driveway. The owner of the driveway was considerably outraged. She thought whoever parked the car was surely a "sellfish bastard." Unable to control her anger, she wrote an all-caps note, which usually calmed her down a bit.
Yeah, the "did you expect" rather than "do you expect" suggests that the note writer has done something to enable them to leave.
"Rude" would also include writing a message such as this one.
And it looks to me like the note was signed "selfish bastard!" ('cause if you were addressing it TO a selfish bastard, you'd normally put that at the top of the message, wouldn't you?)
He should write his angry notes in haiku
You selfish Bastard.
How did you expect me to
Get out of my spot?
I say that you are
A rude f*cking idiot
It's MY parking spot!
After reading the Find and then the comments, I darn near signed in as "baby bastard." My parents were married, if anyone cares to know...
However, the last line is suggesting alternate activities to parking badly. It actually says "sell fish, bastard!"
"Go fish" might be better. As in, "find somewhere else to park."
Of course, Sponge Bob may have written this find thinking his absentee father had parked him in. He left Bob's mom because he was a shellfish bastard.
Badump-ump.
Apparently not trying to emulate St. Edward.
SELL FISH BASTARD! Is that some kind of little known Texan colloquialism used when one person has blocked another person's car in?
Hiplainsdrifter, Hahahaha!
"Sell Fish, Bastard," would be better, a severe insult in those parts, kind of like, "Drop Dead, MF!"
Feeling, you should start a business...Insulting Haiku notes.
I would buy them
Probably could have called a tow truck in the time it took to write this "all Caps" letter to the person. I'd be very pissed if I found this on my car. It seems a lot of the times, people say "oh this was on my car/or doorstep" but its usually the wrong person receiving it.
not many people realize that Texans historically have viewed fish mongers with particular disdain because of their inability to park well
@ Made in USA
I like it. I could call it "incoherent ramblings"
@Coyote ... which led me to something else I dind't know until just now looking it up: "monger" is an actual verb (means'to peddle')
I'll have to try dropping it into conversation soon. "Say there, are you going to monger that corset?" "Anyone know where they monger sequins around here" etc.
Librarian: So a war monger is someone who peddles war?
Librarian: So a war monger is someone who peddles war?
Monger is a verb, too? How cool. Let's all use it in a conversation today. Too bad I have already been to town and will be sitting here the rest of the day. Well, not here, here, but at the computer. Perhaps I am a word monger since I make money by transcribing? Yeah, that's it.
Sister Agnes Ignatius got a surprise on her window when she returned from dropping off weekly prayer cards for St. Edward's chapel
@ Lolita ... that's the idea, yeah. A warmonger tries to sell the idea (at least) of war in order to get one going, thinking she or he can make some money off it it. Arms dealers, mercenaries, and so on, fit the bill
OK, just checked a larger and older dictionary, which tells me that the verb form is 'to mong'. I kind of like that better than monger, for some reason.
Ha ha, Rude is a character in Final Fantasy.
I guess that means that people who sell stuff on eBay mong stuff. "I'm gonna mong that on eBay."
The spell checker doesn't seem to know that "mong" is a real verb.
Apparently the note writer did get out of the parking spot, I guess. Or maybe he waited for the car owner who pinned him in to come and read the note, and then drive away so he could get out of the tight spot. That would be an interesting thing to see.
@Phoebe- you put a hurt on me with that one. Now I have to clean the sprayed beer off my screen!
Today's trivia: A "fishmonger" sells fish, indeed,but it is also an Elisabethan word for a pimp with a string of prostitutes. That's why Hamlet tells Polonius, "I know thee--thou art a fishmonger!" Yes, he's pretending to be nuts, but also he's telling Polonius he knows P. is trying to "sell" Ophelia into a good marriage, whether she wants it or not, while ignoring her love for Hamlet...which is also a form of prostitution.
Today's question: If "mong" or "monger" is a verb, what is a "mongrel"?
@ orinoco ... a mongrel would be a dog whose mother was fishmongered (I'm guessing).
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So I just checked the venerable OED, which tells me that the verb "mong" goes back to the 1200's at least, while the verb "monger" only dates back to 1928!
There are only 4 mongers I am aware of -
Fishmonger
Hate Monger
War Monger
and that old stand by the
Whore Monger
Costermonger = literally a "seller of apples" but in practice, any greengrocer who sells in an open marketplace, from a barrow or pushcart etc.
Ironmonger= seller of scrap or new ironware
Don't forget Hughmonger - seller of huge things
holy crap i'm educational!
can one become a mongrel monger in todays economy??
Rumour monger
gossip monger
scandal monger
ironmonger (who sells ironmongery)
costermonger -- originally a seller of Costard apples
Oh, Orinoco beat me to it.
We had this query in our office a while back and I did the whole OED thing then too.
Happy holidays everyone!
PS I had forgotten what the original Find was about.
I was going to say 'Enough passive-aggressive parking notes already!!!!'
Love how RUDELY the note-writer points out someone else's rudeness.
Maybe it's just the color of the pen used, but this Find makes me think of this one:
http://foundmagazine.com/comments/2448
Is it my imagination, or does it seem like there is an abundance of found parking notes originating in Austin?
in Australian temperate waters there's a fish called a Bastard Trumpeter. It is excellent eating, and is often referred to as Trumpeter, or occasionally, a Bastard. Perhaps the admonition was to sell Bastard Trumpeter fish...
yep, found it on my car...still there to remind me everyday that i'm a selfish bitch.
This seriously looks just like my handwriting. Only I don't live in Austin, Texas!!!
i'm not even kidding. i think i wrote this note and put it on a car at the community college in grand rapids. how the HELL did it wind up in TEXAS???!