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November 16, 2007 |
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The Fowl
FOUND by Michelle
in Knoxville, Tennessee
Found this in a book at a used book store. The back says: "SHIRLEY FEEDING THE FOWL AT LAGUNA SCO PROB FALL 88 -THATS A SLICE OF CLARKS BREAD IN THE AIR-"
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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 LOVE SEAGULLS!!!
I HATE SEAGULLS!!
Winter isn't far away. Boats will be few and the surface fish will be swimming deep. If you must study, then study food, and how to get it. This flying business is all very well, but you can't eat a glide, you know. Don't you forget that the reason you fly is to eat.
Looks like Dad's been drinkin again. It's all so pointless...
*involuntary shudder*
Creeepy!
What's that white car in the background, though? an old El Camino or something? I like it.
I don't hate seagulls, but I detest the shirley's of the world who feed them, especially at picnic areas.
Seagulls are big flying rats, man.
The white car in the background is a 60-65 Ford Ranchero.
Funny how the person writing on the back remembered the BRAND of bread and the location, but wasn't sure about the date the photo was taken...
That 'Jonathan' wasn't me btw.
Am I the first to mention Hitchcock?
*shudder*
There is at least one UFO on picture
I thought it was a Mercury. If there is justice in the world, she will get crapped on.
You're the first to mention it, Real Jonathan, but not the first to think it. I thought Tipi Hedren, but then changed my mind to Suzanne Pleshette, cuz she's brunette. (Is Jonathan in midair Livingston Seagull?)
(Oh yes, of course he is. Sorry JLS. Coffee's just kicking in.)
oh the 80s...when you could eat products made with white flour and stlil be considered healthy.
This photo cries out for something witty to be said about it...unfortunately I'm only going on about half a tank here...Shakespeare would have made a very cogent remark about people who feed seabirds being often "gulled" but I don't have the proper "terns" to do it with.
That big car wouldn't be much use in today's stormy "petrel" crisis, now would it? But then look at the SUVs. Anyone who would drive an SUV in today's economy is a blue-footed booby.
OK I'll stop puffin out the puns and crawl in bed for awhile. God help us I have class at 6.30 and it's already 2.
To sleep, perchance to dream...
A seagull took my hotdog away from me. It was my last dollar and I was hungry.
I Love seagulls!!, they taste great on Clarks bread.
I thought the caption was 'Clark's bread', as in the guy who threw the bread was called Clark, rather than a brand name..?
which is good, cos i was thinkin' it was a UFO..
seagulls are predatory aliens controlling our minds and telling us to make more landfill sites for their own cullinary gratification..
Am I the only person who sees (or maybe it's just cares about) the pink blur above the car? What IS that?
this is the scariest find ever
I don't think Clark is the brand name, but rather a friend or a relative that has recently started a new bakery buisness. Maybe her son? hmm . . . Shirley has come up to Laguna to visit for the store's grand opening and then she and Clark decide to pass the afternoon by feeding the day-old bread to the flying rats.
While i loved the book, JLS, if i were the subject of this photo, i would have a look of abject terror on my face. I hate birds, those damned, dirty animals.
Seagulls are the scourge of the universe. They scare the crap out of me.
Also, I've been surrounded by seagulls while sitting in my car eating a biscuit at Bojangles. 200 miles inland. They have it in for me.
imagine, the aliens coming to take over earth will have us all wearing pink feather boas and platform shoes... i dont know why, but i just think that's what pink ship aliens would have us wear.
Man! I was hoping it was UFO.
This picture scares the CRAPOLA out of me! If I were being swarmed by this many birds I would scream my head off! They're birds...they can feed themselves!
Books in used bookstores are the BEST place to find things. Is that JLS comment/quote from the first part of the book, when he is not conforming to the other gulls?
I guess I'll ask - what was the title of the book?
I think that's Clark on the other side of the car taking a leak. Shirley is throwing the bread as a diversion to the Seagulls, in case, you know, they get any ideas. A seagull once stole my 3 year old's donut at the beach and she has hated birds ever since. It's sad because I'm a birder.
Come on, I love that picture. Anything that's done during the fall is worth remembering.
it was from a book called "The Portable Thoreau" I'm a fan of his, and the picture sold me on it. and i have a bizarre fear of birds also, which just made it perfectly ironic
Clark? As in Clark Griswold. This must be an out-take from one of those "Vacation" movies! Why isn't grandma strapped to the roof of the car?
I actually don't hate and am not afraid of seagulls, though one certainly did me wrong when I lived in Bar Harbor, ME. I went through tons of trouble to get this special Maine blueberry muffin and take it to the beach with me, parking far away, walking miles, etc. I finally get there, spread out the blanket, lift the muffin to my mouth....and one of those damn dirty apes took the whole thing right out of my hand. NOT pleased.
Oooh! The enlarged version looks soooo good! It's a keeper.
Oh, it's bread...for a minute there I thought someone was playing Frisbee with the gulls.
My family (with the exception of my daughters, who understand, i made sure to show them The Birds, so they will be safe from the scourge of the winged bastids) think i'm a little weird because of my hatred of birds. Hitchcock did me in, i think. those suckers can't be trusted.
I don't mind birds, for the most part, if they're outside, with the exception of seagulls, because of that whole swarming mentality. (I know that they know they freak me out, they do it on purpose)
Things are just about to get shitty.
I'm from Knoxville. I bet you found that at McKays!
When I was in high school we would go to the beach and throw the Seagulls alka selzer tablets. They never learned.
Ever since my dad bought me some popcorn from a vendor on a beach when I was a kid and I was promptly and viciously attacked by a gang of gulls, I've been none to fond of these foul birds. My daughters call them "mine" birds after their chant in Finding Nemo. Apropos indeed!
YUCK!! People who feed the 'GULLS', are gonna' get 'SHIT' on...
Wow, that's a lot of fowl. In addition to the seagulls, I spy domestic ducks, domestic geese, mallard ducks, and coots.
It's like Waldo!
One in five birds (seagulls and pigeons anyway) is actually a cunningly disguised mouse-powered flying machine. Inside is a mouse pedaling his ass off. This technology was developed by the mice when they saw that humans will actually give food to birds, instead of just jumping on chairs and chasing them with brooms.
All your fears are justified.
Has anyone else noticed the lack of interest the birds are showing in the Clark's Bread? I think that right after this picture was snapped, something really awful happened to our dear friend Shirley.
Just about as bad as gulls are geese. In our office park we many geese that are now non-migratory. They're mean, they poop all over the place, and they chase after you. There are also way too many - if only goose hunting was allowed in the office park.
Wow, I didn't notice the geese and ducks before, cool. My kids also experienced a chimney sweep that came trough the chimney (go figure) and was loose in the house. It fell in the bathtub while they were bathing. They were 4 and 2 years old and it very traumatic for them. They still remember it, thus, this also adds to my daughter’s hatred of birds. Shame.
Off the subject, read about this in Time, feed the poor (not the birds)
http://www.freerice.com/
Pepper,
That free rice site is very addictive. I don't think I can get anymore work done today.
At least someone benefits.
I love this picture. It's amazing.
pepper - thanks for forwarding that site. now if only text twist donated something each time i played it on my lunch break. hmm.
Do you all belong to some strange, underground, bird-hating cult???
I never would have guessed a picture like this, of people enjoying themselves by interracting with nature, would elicit such a bizzare negative response.
Birds are the awesomeness!
I don't think that car is a ranchero at all, it looks more like a riviera.
I too am shocked by the haters. They're birds people, not aligators, snakes or spiders. Cute little birds.
love freerice.com. found through pointlesssites.com (another great time waster!) got to up 47 once, but immediately fell to 38. tend to hover around 42.
my dad and i used to feed seagulls in the parking lot at a local mall in baltimore. it's one of the few fond memories i have left of him.
I don't hate gulls as a whole, only when large numbers of them descend upon the beach. That can be unnerving as they fly pretty low and leave poop bombs in their wake.
that is horrifying!
I miss the days when we thought it was OK to feed the geese and ducks... I'd take the boys out and we'd spend hours around the lake, every now and then causing a swarm when we'd throw stale bread. (ha-ha - Just remembering that scene in "About a Boy")
I understand the reasons *not* to do it, but I still miss it.
Actually I hate seagulls, too, but I liked this picture. It's bright and sunny, and it's an action shot (not like some of the more boring pics) but it's not blurry. I like it.
Dave, the scene depicted here is not actually "nature". in "Nature", the gulls would be out eating clams or little crabs or something. The ducks would be swimming around in lakes or ponds, tipping their duck butts up as they catch tasty prey below the surface.
This is a scene highlighting man's interference with nature, and it's gross.
It's really gross when you can't enjoy a day at the park or the lake because every square inch of the ground is covered with goose poop the size of poodle poop.
Rancheros & El Caminos have beds in the back like pick up trucks...that's what makes them so cool!
Classic Bug.. 10 Points!
I played that free rice game the other night after I saw the link on the post secret community board somewhere. I played it until I'd donated 10000 grains.
Seagulls don't exsist, they are western gulls
And I ran, I ran so far away-ay -ay!
thats really pretty. or it would be, if i didn't see that Alfred Hitchcock movie the other day...
Spider, Inland, we call them Dump Gulls.
LOL @ Get in line!
Thank you Pepper and Manda for the freerice and pointless web site I have now spent over 2 hours online and I'm sure I have dropped some IQ points. I am now leaving the house and going out, to lose more IQ points with liquor. Who wants a drink?
get in line. lol at the..what the hell is the name of that band??? oh yeah, flock of seagulls..lol
Apparently, some people here are as unaware of the concept of 'foreground' versus 'background' as they are of makes/models of vehicles.
The question posed by The Captain was regarding the White car in the Background. It's a Ford Ranchero.
The Light Ivy Gold car in the Foreground is a Ford Galaxie.
And birds are the most evil, hateful, virulent, disease-ridden, loathsome creatures to blight this otherwise moderately-acceptable planet.
Mona, Turbo, Flargy, Clover, Midlife, Nightengale, and Ultah Chick. Check out the site. Lean and give at the same time.
http://www.freerice.com/
You forgot me Pepp.
Birds do not cause oil spills, send trash into outer space, invade other countries for spurious material gain, or destroy rainforests.
They are not nearly as dirty as most human beings. You don't believe me? Nothing is as toxic as a human bite that breaks the skin.
Gulls are scavengers. They do not ask people to feed them, but like opportunists throughout creation, they will take what's going.
The only junk food they eat is what is thrown to them by humans. You never see an obese gull on line in McJunkfood, now do you?
Bird haters have issues that have nothing to do with the avians themselves.
Wow, Chrome, you have good eyesight to spot that yellow Bug hiding in there!
In the UK we spot green Eddie Stobart lorries. On the M20 they get beaten by Norbert Dentressangle red trucks from France, and sometimes Willi Betz blue/yellow ones.
My ex-girlfriend got used to me turning up and saying '12 Norberts, two Willis and an Eddie!'
Yeah, ex. Must prove something.
THanks, Pepp, i found that rice site a while ago... i get up to 42, then slam back down again cuz of some obscure stupid word...grrrr
birds are bad luck. i won't allow anything in my house with even a bird drawn on it.
Now that's weird. That's like a brain tic.
Or American Eagle clothes.
it's not a brain tic...it's an old italian thing. we're weird like that. having superstitious beliefs is not the same as having a compulsion.
so DO you allow money in your house, Becky? "NO CASH" makes a valid point up there.
Okay, someone is impostering me. I did not post that twice. Not important I know, but I want you to know I know who you are.
Are nose Pepper and anus Pepper the same person? Is it a personality split?
To whichever of you wrote about Clark taking a leak... maybe he had Shirley distract the birds with his bread because he has a fear of public urination. I can't use urinals for the very same reason. I often throw cheeseburgers to distract all the fat guys in the restroom while I pee.
Birds are fine and lovely animals and they are an important part of life on earth. That being said, in a large group, they are creepy and grabby and the poop too much. Don't feed the birds and you don't have those problems.
REAL FLOCK OF SEAGULS
HAHAHAHAHA
At first glance, did anyone else think that was Elvis taking a leak?
Okay, not ALL birds are rats! Domesticated, parrots, budgies, canaries, etc...are fine, as long as there are only 1 of them in a cage. More than 1 of ANY kind of bird...is horrid!
Attack mode!! Seriously! The Canadian Geese are dangerous when in large packs, and or have their babies with them. They'll chase you down for the food you have!!
Not to mention ALL the poop they leave...suppose it's good for the grass? Maybe too acidicy?
Who cares? This find is a great vacation pic, tho'!
The car is NOT an El Camino or a Ford Ranchero '73, otherwise it would have a pick-up in the back!!
This is what I think the model of the white car is, a '70's LTD or a '72 Ford GT Ranchero, the '73 is like a an El Camino!
awesome action shot. love the bread in the air, haha.
The geese are the scariest birds in this picture, not the seagulls.
I love birds, though. Once a seagull dropped a mess in my hair in Sausalito, and that was icky. But that was just an accident of nature. I love to feed birds and watch what they do. I also loved to watch my daughter, when she was little, lead the groups of gulls at the beach and control them with her sack of bread crumbs. So much power in that. She thought she should be able to do the same with people, but it doesn't work that way.
Where is LAGUNA SCO PROB?
Right now on TV the movie "The Birds" is playing! Honestly! (I have actually never seen it, but it's looking pretty creepy.)
Clover, I was thinking "prob" was short for probably- as though whoever titled the pic couldn't remember exactly what year they went with Shirley and Elvis to Laguna (Southern California... observatory.. ocean..? I got nothin.)
When you google Laguna SCO, (or Laguna Sco Prob) this found magazine page pops up.
Mmmm . . . Clarks bread.
Here's my best guess. The Laguna Seca Raceway (sometimes mistakenly called Laguna Seco) is located in the coastal hills of Monterey County, California. Steve McQueen raced there in 1959, two years after it opened. On September 17, 1987, Pope John Paul II celebrated mass at Laguna Seca Raceway, where 50,000 people had gathered to see him. Home to the American Championship Car Racing "World Series" and other major car and motorcycle events since 1957, a driver named Danny Sullivan won the Champ Car/CART race in 1988 (the year this picture was taken). The oddest thing about the picture to me is that there aren't more cars in the parking area (suggesting they weren't there during a race). However, since Laguna Seca is part of the Monterey County Parks Department, it is available for other uses as well. Perhaps Shirley and Elvis drove out there simply to feed the birds.