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April 12, 2008 |
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Use Your Eyes!
FOUND by Jim Neve
in Norbury, London, UK
Found in a gutter in Norbury Crescent.
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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...
I don't get it. Is it some British thing? Jonathan? Orinoco?
"...I'm not on the lowered section of pave..."? Is this a British expression?
I was gonna ask the same thing. Thanks for not letting me look like the dumb one. Hahaha!
Don't get it.
Ok, all us dumb Americans, let's join hands and sing Kumbiya.
Hey come on now, the only dumb question is the question that we didn't ask, right??
(plus, I really hate how they hyphenated sect-
ion.)
Eric, is that you, Mon? I thought I could smell your herb from the next Find....
That fish-hook's so close to that eyeball...
Maybe it's a jewelry thing. Nice find...it's a mystery too.
Use your ANGRY eyes... (they go well with :-| the "small mouth")
I re-read it several times and then hoped comments would explain it. . . I too am confused and don't get it. What a stupid yank I am.
I googled 'pave'.
One result was the acronym "Parents Active for Vision Education".
...brings a whole new perspective to "use your eyes!"
Cryptic, indeed. Looks like the writer's native language is not English. "Pave" should be "pavement." But, a note? What, another parking note? Like, was the person being accused of parking on the inclined section of pavement (sidewalk to you Americans) which helps wheelchairs etc over the kerb/curb? That's about the only explanation I can come up with. The writer says, "LOOK, dummy, I'm NOT parked on the "ramp" of the sidewalk--I'm across the intersection!" or some such. Obviously it's not on the "lowered section of pavement" (ie ramp)--it's in the gutter!
Interesting exclamation point.
OK, that's enough parking-related finds for a week or a month or so.
I am from England and I am haven't heard it called "pave" before either. I think it is parking related though too. In residential roads people have those lowered pavement sections in front of their houses to signify that it is their drive so maybe this person was parked in front of someone's house and they got arsey but there wasn't a lowered dection of pavement so he was actually perfectly within his rights to park there.
So it should be "I am not on the lowered section of PAVING". Maybe.
My word of the day is "arsey". Thank you Effie!
ohgod. i'm such an idiot. I thought she was saying she's not on the lower sect.
and then ion of pave..
i should use me eyes
No I hang not..
That's what I thought it said at first.
Kumbiya.
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What about the 1st part of the note? "No I have not..." have not what???
No I have not jumped over the Moon.
No I have not eaten green eggs and ham
No I have not seen you naked (and don't want to).
No I have not ridden a donkey.
No, I have not left a note on an evil parker's car.
*no comma*
Pave is a type of bread in boulangeries in France. I think it has something to do with the student uprising in 1968. The bread is shaped like the paving stones in the street that students used to blockade the streets and perhaps throw at the police. (?)
And certainly this has nothing to do with this note. It's just interesting.
By the way, there are student protests going on in France right now. 11,000 marched in Paris a couple of days ago.
I am only talking about this because I have no idea whatsoever what this find means, and it's causing random connections to form in my brain.
This is very interesting! We're coming upon the 40 year anniversary of these world-changing events, unbelievable.
Sous le pavé, le Podtour!
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/agnes_poir
Dang, the whole link didn't come through. Try this (all on one line):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
interactive/2008/apr/01/1968
Or Google:
Sous le pavé, le Podtour!
and you will find it.
I like how they spelled "of" O-V at first.
I was gonna say there's a pave pearl, too (with an accent thingie on the E in pave), but5 I guess that's why Sand mentioned jewelry..
something about a low red sect... gaaah I'm gonna go try and hook a ride on a comet.
"No, I have not parked on your drive" I think
I don't know what this note means, but it's funny if you read it in an exaggerated Arnold Schwarzenegger voice.
They've come back to their car and found a parking ticket on the windscreen, sorry, that's windshield to you folks, issuing them with a fine or penalty charge for having parked on 'the lowered section of pavement', i.e. presumably a driveway or wheelchair ramp or some such.
So 'No I have not' is in answer to the accusation on the parking ticket.
The driver speaks (and writes) perfectly good English but is so furious that he (or, less probably, she) can't be bothered to spell out the whole word 'pavement', since the traffic warden/parking attendant person will know what the writer means if he ever comes back to read the note, which he won't.
The best thing the poor guy can do is take a photo of his car to prove how he was parked, then argue it out in court. But the traffic warden chappie will have taken a photo of it too, which will 'prove' that the car was parked illegally.
Or it wasn't a parking ticket but a passive-aggressive note from a neighbour.
The driver should count himself lucky his car wasn't towed away. That's several fruitless phone calls trying to find out where it's beeen towed away to, plus standing in a queue for an hour with lots of angry people in a Kafkaesque windowless room, plus a £200 fine. And when you do eventually get your car back, some of the shiny bits aren't on it any more -- but you don't discover that until much later, so it's too late to accuse the police/tow-away guys of nicking them.
Since you ask, I'd parked in a residents-only bay on a Sunday, under a sign which had aways said 'Monday to Saturday' until that moment -- which is why I'd chosen to park there -- but had mysteriously changed to 'Monday to Sunday' and I had failed to notice. (Not, like, 'At any time' or 'Seven days a week' or something obvious.) Don't you just love parking in London.
That's enough parking notes, thanks.
@Clover, have you ever tried www.tinyurl.com? You may find it helpful for posting links.
At first I thought it said "No I Haug not..." Haug was the name of my middle school health teacher...
Anyhoo, I don't think we'll ever figure this one out for sure...
Also, the spam question:
What is 2012 minus 4?
Is this a statement on the Mayan Calender prophecy?!?!?
I like the angry boobs at the end.
Angry boobs.. lol @ Eric.
REminds me of the scene in toy story (1 or 2, dont remember) when Mrs. PotatoHead says....
"you forgot to pack your angry eyes"... that line kills me.
I have seen the "ion of pave" with my own eyes. It happens very late at night in the northern hemisphere.
Yeesh! Now I have Loggins & Messina stuck in my head...
What a shot you could be if
you could shoot at me
with those...
Angry...
Boobs?