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Graphic Designer
FOUND by Kathy
in University of New Mexico, New Mexico
I found this stuck to my monitor one afternoon when I returned from a meeting. No one in the office owned up. I hope whomever left it is OK...
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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'm already chuckling in anticipation of Jan's comment. I hope she's still up.
Its a well know fact that SALT raises blood pressure.
Sounds like someone took Viagra against his doctor's orders...
Good one, Jan. I wonder if "Find me when you're back! My blood pressure is dangerously high! I took Viagra against my doctor's orders and she says the only way to bring it down is to get off!" would work as a pick-up line?
I like that it says "find me" not "call me". It could be too late...
I left this note after I read the debate from yesterday over my gender.
That handwriting makes that Post It note look like those fake advertising Post It notes that one sometimes sees in magazines.
This seems oddly random. (Although I like Jan's explanation.)
Find me when you're back! I hate cooked carrots!
Maybe the person who authored it was angry about something but then found out that the thing he/she was angry about was a mistake but it was too late to remove the note and he/she didn't want to own up.
Funny that the writer of the note assumed the recipient would recognise the handwriting so he/she didn’t need to sign it. But the finder didn’t. Maybe it was left on the wrong desk.
Nice that the writer had enough sense of humour to write ‘my blood pressure is dangerously high’ even if he/she was actually furious about something. ‘I’m angry about something but not angry with you’ I guess.
Thought it might have been from the company nurse/Occupational Health Unit, but then it would have said ‘YOUR blood pressure is dangerously high’ – they run these in-house tests every so often (yes, mine was).
Better than the note I came back to once that said ‘YOU’RE F***ING SACKED’. Luckily the writer later calmed down a bit (he did have high blood pressure though).
Sounds like someone kinky invitation/reouest for sex if you ask me.
I would've been on an adventure the second I saw that note. Forget work, I gotta find this guy!
Perhaps it was put there by someone who saw it on another person's monitor. That person took it from the monitor of the intended and placed in on Kathy's for fun. To keep things going, Kathy should have put it on another random person's monitor...
I'd rather lose you when you're front. Screw your blood pressure.
pt has Perfect spelling, wonderful punctuation, and Especially Remarkable are the capital F and the small g's. Love 'em.
Plus, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it.
I give it a 10!
IT!! It has perfect spelling... pfft.
Looks like female handwriting to me. And, for the record, Viagra LOWERS blood pressure (since it causes blood vessels to dilate).
Stupid typo, i thought you meant pt, as in the short form for patient, so i didn't think you made a typo at all.
High blood pressure is a dangerous thing... I hope someone found this person before something drastic happened.
What it sounds like to me is an inside joke that the finder didn't get. Kinda like "Find me! The smerfs are attacking!"
dave: while it more frequently causes hypotension (esp in people who are also on nitros), it can cause hypertension in a small subset of the population. goodness, is this the best comment i can come up with today? i need to shake off my morning borings today...
the only thing that raises my blood pressure at work are my embicile co-workers, which I have on too many of.
This find was perfect for a friday. The g's are a tell tell sign of who wrote this note. And the F is crossed as thought it was a T to begin with.
hey! wtf man you didn't know that i really needed you yesterday?? now my blood pressure's even higher because a have an angry man on a viagra run chasing after me!
Did anyone check the broom closet? That's where I would go if my blood pressure was dangerously high. Or the nearest bar. Wherever had better TV reception.
Can one's blood pressure be innocuously high?
Oooh, I'm at UNM too, Kathy -- what department are you in? Maybe I can help you solve this mystery!
Too much Microwave Popcorn going around that office! We all know all that SALT is bad for us!
Maria,
I suggest you make 3 copies of this post-it and attach to co-workers' monitors when no one is looking. Play dumb and practice your poker face. Just for fun on Friday.
It's peculiar that this person curls the tails of their g's, but not their y's. I wonder what it means in handwriting analysis.
I feel like that today.
I hope the person came back quickly! And I hope the writer of the note got some medical attention.
My blood pressure is dangerously high means someone has pissed me off, like pissed me off and I’m going to bring a shotgun to work. Jan needs to watch out!
Maria - I have the same problem with my coworkers. It's amazing how many stupid or insipid people are out there, eh!?
Hey Cotton, did you know that microwave popcorn can kill you? Yeah, something about breathing in the chemicals release from the nuking... crazy!
Hey Pepper, can I borrow your shotgun after you're done?
sand: a really really tall guy will often times have higher blood pressure than a normally sized guy because the pressure needed to get blood to the head has to be that much higher (since it's travelling a longer distance). so in that sense, a tall guy will have non-pathologically high blood pressure, but i hesitate to say whether it's innocuously high because the heart does have to work harder in that case, too. sometimes the heart is proportionally larger, so it's kind of proportionally the same amount of work, but not always. an extreme example would be andre the giant (who died of heart failure i think). and then there's something doctor's call "white coat hypertension," which just means that people get stressed out when they see the doctor. so they have high blood pressure in the doctor's office but pretty much only then, so that's totally innocuous.
you can only die from popcorn fumes if you breathe in a hell of a lot of them. like popcorn packers would have that problem, and only someone who makes 2 bags a day and sits there breathing in the fumes after pulling it out of the microwave (like the citizen in the news) would have that problem. I don't eat butter-flavoured popcorn cos it's gross, but if you're going to worry about your health it would be the salt not the fumes that would kill you.
KILL YOU.
Maybe the writer of this note had amnesia, walked into the wrong office/cubicle, pasted the note, and immediately forgot about it. Maybe they didn't have amnesia, maybe they were drunk. To lower the dangerously high blood pressure.
Maybe their blood pressure is a result of too much cholesterol plaque and only noticed because the writer is stressed out and has to go into hiding -- they didn't own up when the finder asked because they were still hiding. have you found him/her yet?
i feel totally rambly , please excuse this comment.
spam protection: What is 4 times four? 6teen. why is that not accepted?
Lou Gehrig's disease, what are the odds? eh, Graphic Designer.
bunny, a really, really tall guy would have higher blood pressure than an average sized guy, but, assuming he has been really, really tall for quite some time and did not just shoot up several feet overnight, it would be average blood pressure for him, so it would not be considered high (for him). Unlike, say, The Amazing Colossal Man who grew so rapidly that his heart could not keep up and who probably would have died anyway even if he hadn't fallen into Boulder Dam. Poor guy.
Hey little bunny foo foo...
...does the same principle apply if the guy has a really large penis?
Alai -I quite eating microwave popcorn years ago. I had a dog who would eat ANYTHING, and loved regular popcorn, but wouldn't eat a kernel of the nuked stuff. That told me it was dangerous! I use to HATE it when someone burned microwave popcorn in the office. They That smell could be bottled and use it as some type of toxic gas!
Thanks for the heads up – and I’ll let all my popcorn huffing friends know about the danger!
Hey little bunny foo foo...
...does the same principle apply if the guy has a really large penis?
Alai -I quite eating microwave popcorn years ago. I had a dog who would eat ANYTHING, and loved regular popcorn, but wouldn't eat a kernel of the nuked stuff. That told me it was dangerous! I use to HATE it when someone burned microwave popcorn in the office. They That smell could be bottled and use it as some type of toxic gas!
Thanks for the heads up – and I’ll let all my popcorn huffing friends know about the danger!
hey craw: yeah, it would be normal for him, but what we use in hospitals are overly simplistic cutoffs for what constitutes normal (normotensive), kinda high (pre-hypertensive), and high blood pressure (hypertensive), all which doesn't take into account those "normal for him" sort of things. ex: i have have low blood pressure all the time, but it's not catagorized as "normal for me" because the medical community, for the most part, doesn't look at blood pressure as a self-referential thing. 140/90, you've got hypertension, whether it's normal for you or not. which kind of makes sense because a guy with cholesterol-y induced high blood pressure has high blood pressure all the time, so it's "normal" for him. oh..also, it's not simply a function of how quickly you grow (ie, normal really tall guy vs. legitimate giant) because often times a proportional increase in heart size isn't linear with the increase in work demand from the heart with a proportional height increase. does that make sense? okay, i really really have totally exceeded my boring comment quota for the year. why is my brain so freaking unfunny today? what's this about the amazing colossal man? i've never heard of him...
very funny, cotton!
I used to work with this woman who claimed that she was allergic to microwave popcorn fumes, so we could never have it anywhere when she was working, even if you popped it when she wasnt there. But she thought she had been abducted by aliens, too. One time, we faked a ghost sighting (guy down the hall, covered in a blanket, viewed on an observation tv monitor. She totally fell for it, and wouldn't go down that hall anymore, on night shifts.
I think her blood pressure was ok, tho. I'm just rambling. It's been a long week. I'm so glad its Friday.
Sure is a lot of poppycock talk goin' on....
Yeah, Cotton - My cat is something of a vacuum and he won't touch microwaved popcorn either. Definitely a sign.
Turbo, that was funny but a very bad pun. Although the only good puns are bad puns. So, here's to you Turbo!
Thanks for all the info Bunny Foo Foo. Boring can be good... sometimes. But I think you've gotten away with it. I just find it amusing that someone in the medical field uses the moniker "little bunny foo foo". I have to tell ya, I'm not sure what to think about that.
The Amazing Colossal Man! Don't you watch MST3K? Dude got nuked and grew humongous. Product of the 50's cold war scare. He had a girlfriend before he got humongified, so ya gotta wonder if they tried to get it on after he started to grow. Probably worried he'd experience a growth spurt during penetration. RIP! Oops!
that amazing colossal man sounds like an urban legend. People don't grow enormous from radiation exposure. They get radiation poisoning...
i think we've all lost our funny today.
I just remembered he came back in War of the Colossal Beast, apparently survived the fall, and his heart continued working, although the decrease in oxygen to his brain made him go insane. Maybe that's why no one claimed the note! Lack of oxygen to his brain caused him to forget he even wrote it!
umm, it's a movie...
oh. it's a movie. sorry. my bad. taking things too literally.
can i just comment on the improper use of 'whomever'? it doesn't belong there.
i've lost my ability to think in any manner but concretely
Doesn't it just get on your nerves when people try to be correct but then get it wrong? Like saying, "Give it to him and I." Duh. It's 'me' when it's the subject (of the prepositional phrase in this instance).
This reminds me of a dad joke. He would come up to someone and slap them on the back and say, "Hey, guess who's (whose) back!"
I appreciate that the writer of the note used the proper form of you're.
I'll bet nobody fessed up to leaving the note for Kathy because he/she was still hiding in the supply room after a stresful encounter with the boss (i had a boss who threatened to rip out my eyebrow ring with pliers once - his name was Al Monarch, and he was a real shitbag)waiting for Kathy to come give them some "medical attention" (because " . . . and for the love of god bring the bong." was implied in his/her note between "Find me when you're back" and "My blood preassure is dangerously high")
too bad Kathy's not a very good friend and can't recognize an emergency situation when she sees one.
alai...yeah, there's really no good excuse for that. it's the song my brother, sister & i used to sing at the top of our lungs to mask the sounds of our pummeling each other from our parents. unfortunately, my mom caught on and instead of concealing our misdeeds, it served to alert her that we were dangerously close to knocking her kid count from 3 to 1. the lyrics were pretty weird, too: "little bunny foo foo walking through the forest, picking up some sea shells and throwing them away." i'm pretty sure we must have really mangled some real song. i'm not sure that qualifies as an explanation, but it's the closest thing i've got.
sand: what's MST3K? some sort of super right-wing tv station broadcasting gruesome "don't have sex or else!" cautionary tales?
Maybe Kathy didn't go to her co-worker's aid because she was afraid that very someone might fart in her face?
MST3K was a show on Comedy Central in the 90's about a guy named joe on a spaceship with a talking robotic crow and gumball machine. They were forced to watch rerun's of bad b-grade movies, but managed to keep themselves entertained by overdubbing these movies with their own comments.
Yeah, Turbo, I fart a lot when I have high blood pressure, too. Too bad she didn't have a 'no farting' sign to hang up.
MST3K is Mystery Science Theater 3000. Evil scientists shoot a guy into outer space and force him to watch bad movies. He builds some robots for company, and they sit and make fun of the movie. Much like we do here at Found. I haven't seen it on TV in awhile, though. Maybe the SciFi channel?
Joel
Mike Nelson
Little bunny foo foo: I was actually laughing out loud at work. Yes, you mangled the song badly, but it was so kooky to begin with that your actually might make more sense! It's "...scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head." A good fairy threatens to turn him "into a goon" if he doesn't knock it off. Repeat. It ends in a bad pun. I learned it as a kid, too. Thanks for the laugh!
hare today, goon tomorrow?
yup! what else. :)
"We'll send him cheezy movies.. the worst we can find (sha la la)"
I miss MST3K! Haven't seen it in a long, long time. A few years ago, they had a marathon all Thanksgiving Day. It was awesome. My tools at work are named Tom Servo, Gypsy and Crow (bar)(yeah, I name my tools. Don't you?)
LOL @ Sam in Battle Creek, reading between the lines of the blood pressure post it.. I think you're dead on! "For the Love of God..!"
Your best girl friend at work left this note for you, Kathy. This is code for "meet me in the ladies room! My period just started unexpectedly and I'm unprepared! Bring supplies!"
So nobody finds it funny that tall people have higher blood pressure?
That is grandpa joke if I ever heard one.
Oh, and as a graphic designer, i understand the dangerously high blood pressure and the warning to a co-worker. It probably means that you're going to snap at your boss and/or dumb ass client.
well, if you can afford two cynical comments - first, Kathy knew very well who left this post-it note, and she was just desperate to submit something to Found, similar to someone who recently submitted a notice she pulled off her neighborhood lamppost (albeit, a righteously funny note) last fall about coyotes - can we not contain ourselves to legitimately bizarre foundlings? And second, and hate me if you will, my god, people, you seem for the most part like a lot of clique-ish folks - are you all lonely hearts, or what? What do you all do in your lives or jobs that you have time to do this every day?
penelope, join us.. join us... it's fun. read every morning. read every night. comment. use fake names (just not someone else's). let the spirit move you. have some fun. the comment board is your oyster. the world is yours. say hello to my little friend.
was there actually a "debate" over Guy, Incognito's gender,or just that one post?
In the not too distant future, somewhere in time and space, Mike Nelson and his robot pals were caught in an endless chase. Pursued by a woman whose name is Pearl, an evil gal who wants to rule the world. She threw a few things in her purse and in her rocket ship she hunts them all across the universe.
"I'll send them cheesy movies! The worst I can find.(Sha la la!) He'll have to sit and watch them all and I'll monitor his mind."
(Sha la la!)
Now keep in mind Mike can't control when the movies begin or end. He'll have to keep his sanity with the help of his robot friends...
ROBOT ROLLCALL!
Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo! CROOOOOOOOW!
If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts (sha la la!), repeat to yourself "It's just a show! I should really just relax."
On Mystery Science Theater 3000!
That's my favorite chunk of MST3K, with Mike and Pearl (although Dr. Forester was genius).
Penelope,
It's not a matter of what We can afford. Can YOU afford to leave 2 cynical comments? I think sometimes people feel so safe behind their nicknames here, that they forget their manners and say rude things that could hurt other people's feelings.
I think it's insulting to Kathy that you question her integrity in submitting this Find. Who's to judge the legitimacy of HOW something is found? If it's good enough for Davy and Jason, then it's good enough for us.
I think, for the most part, we Found Fans consider ourselves an online community. And just like any community, there will be all types of people, from all walks of life with varying degrees of intelligence, wit, passion, and time to spend commenting here. A bonus to our community being online is we have members from all over the world!
There's nothing wrong with having a lonely heart. Many people do and feel ashamed of that because of comments such as yours. How wonderful that one could log onto a website and feel like part of something beyond their own brain! Actual friendships have been formed via Found!
I hope you'll be able to find a few moments a week to read here and add your 2 cents worth. It doesn't have to take much more time than that. It certainly doesn't need to take as much time as I've taken in this reply to you, but I have a lot of passion for this project.
I would just like to reiterate that real people with real human emotions are the source of the thoughts expressed in the comment section. Let's ALL be respectful of that.
cassisu: you have truly rocked my family's world with that revelation. i called both my brother and sister after reading your post and told them the real lyrics, and we decided to have a pummeling reunion for the occasion!
i once found a post it note on my computer that said "Oh, there you are." and whoever left it for me was right. there i was.
Boo, thanks (and Chrome T too) -- wow! Thanks for MST3K. How wonderful to come across an entire mythology (in rhyme!) that one has never even heard of before tonight. (Ya see, Penelope? FOUND broadens the mind!) No doubt there are UK equivalents (Blake’s 7? Metal Mickey? Hitch-Hiker’s Guide?) but I’ll spare you the quotes...
Meanwhile I'll start quoting Wagner's Ring at you if you're not careful. (Siegfried’s sword is called 'Nothung' which means 'Needful'. There are only two dwarves, and their names are Alberich and Mime. I could go on... Wagner certainly does.)
Goodnight all. xx
I accidentally made a woman at work cry the other day. She's kind of always ranting and bitching at the top of her lungs and she hates everybody, and I knew she wouldn't like the pile of work I gave her at the last minute, but I didn't think she'd cry. I'd have preferred a little post-it. Actually, I just hope she doesn't show up at work on Monday with a shotgun, because I'm probably on the top of her list.
JohnCommoner, she has a lot of stress in her life. Maybe you could leave a nice little something on HER desk Monday morning. Couldn't hurt....
Night - that's a very nice suggestion and I probably should. But to be honest I'm scared shitless of her when she's in a good mood, let alone on one of her bad days. She's wound really tight, and even an apology raises her ire. I'll have to ask one of her buddies how to proceed without risking getting killed.
JohnC., I don't blame you for being scared. I was thinking something anonymous, even something as dumb as a post-it with a smiley face. If you're feeling bad for making her cry, don't worry about it too much. Tears are not bad, she probably needed the release. In any case, don't forget you bullet-proof vest in the morning. 8-)
For the record, I liked Joel waaay better than Mike on MST3K. Joel was much funnier and more spontaneous. (I think maybe Joel smoked a lot of spacey weed and Mike just said "no")
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/mstfaq/basics.html
I respect that. To each their own, chrome.
I nominate Compact Pussycat for prez of the apparent yet nonexistent clique on the Found board.
Dang, I knew there was something wrong with me. Now I know what it is -- I'm apparent yet nonexistent! Phooey.
All phenomena are apparent yet empty, or nonexistent if you prefer. That's a central tenet in my religion. Thank you for reminding me. I love the display that is FOUND.
That's interesting, Crisis. I'm a Frisbeetarian myself.
That's gotta be scary!