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Bobby from the Ghost Tour
FOUND by Emily Toner
in Providence, Rhode Island
Found on the ground on Brown Univeristy campus the day after "Love Your Body Day." Miko's is a local sex shop that had a table set up for the event. It was folded and says "A billet-doux" ("love letter" in French) on the front.
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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
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none of those sentences sound like they belong in the same letter...
Hey Bobby,
What's holding you back? Come, let us frolic at Miko's.
-You
Love Your Body Day? But what if your body looks stupid and smells funny?
Good morning Flargy.
Hey,
"Happy Body Odor Day!"
BOO!!
The Ghost Tour Guide
I'll be at Miko's table if you need me...
wasn't there a find a few months ago where the person writing the note wrote his/her name in the first sentence - as if it were a phone call, as if the recipient can't look at the bottom of the note to see who it is from? I just find it a little odd.
Hey-
It's Farmer from The Dell! I love your body, Miko. Meet me at the table.
--Farmer
hahaha whhhat
Providence! The weirdest of towns, and my favorite.
Bobby @ Brown or Bobby Brown...you be the judge.
Dear JodaBabes,
Back at ya, Babe!
Love,
Your Temple
Finally! An honest-to-gawd FIND! Complete with pebble marks from being trod upon!
If you need me, I'll be restocking the inventory over t'Miko's.
Ciao, Bobby-baby!
Isn't every day "Love Your Body Day"? It should be. I'll love your's if you love mine....
Personally, I don't care for "Hey you" as a term of endearment. It's more like something you'd yell at someone parking in a hanicapped spot illegally.
Clover, how do you pronounce "A billet-doux"?
OK, Lance Pants.
I imagine there isn't much "body loving" in Ghost Town.
What does it all mean?............
I hear Miko's is hiring in the area of product development.
I tend to agree with Spider Gomez. I was at the Ghost Tour, though and all the hottest babes were at the Bath and Body Works table. Miko's was teeming with frat boys.
Nightingale, i'm not clover, but i know how to pronounce it
a bee-yay doo. It means a love letter.
I like this note, it's sweet, although with dirty undertones. My favourite kind.
How is that a love letter? It sounds like the person Bobby is writing to might not really know who he is ("it's Bobby from the ghost tour" as opposed to "it's Bobby"), and there is nothing to indicate that “You” is at the Miko’s table: Just that Bobby wants to go hang out there. I imagine “You” opening the letter, screwing up her face in confusion and going “oooookaaaaayyy…”
@Ghost: Haha! It was the same during my campus’ “Love Your Body Day” (which we called “Pamper Yourself Day.” I guess “Love Your Body” just sounded too suggestive.) The girls were all wandering around the bath and beauty products, I suppose thinking “Pamper = Smelling and looking one’s best!” The guys, meanwhile, were lurking in the vicinity of the Condom Kingdom table, no doubt thinking “Pamper = Sex! Sex glorious sex!”
Oh... Ghost TOUR, not Ghost Town. I think I like Ghost Town better. Oh well...
I thought it said "Bobby from the Ghost Town". I was thinking.... gee, that's interesting. A ghost trying to set up a date on Love Your Body Day. Poor guy didn't have one, being a spirit and all, so he thought he would find a nice girl who did and hang out with her.
Oh Miko! Friendliest, least intimidating sex shop in the whole wide world. Word to your mother Bobby.
Hey you,
I'll be over at the FOUND table getting drunk. Go love your body. Skank.
-Turbo
And here I've gone all these years thinking a Billet-Doux was a SWEET letter -- which I suppose also makes sense as a LOVE letter... well, in this case, I like it in the "sweet letter" sense... it fits the letter better :)
Gin in tonic, the strict translation of billet doux is sweet letter, but it informally translates into love letter. Am i right, Mme.Clover?
Who the hell starts a love letter w/ "Hey you"??
??? This should have been sent into www.engrish.com
insted of Found.
@Oatmealio: Lower your voice to the most sensual of whispers, smile, and draw the words out. "Heeeey yoooouuu." (Try not to look/sound creepy while doing it though.)
OK, I'm going on the assumption that "Bobby" is a guy (otherwise it would be "Bobbie" or "Bobbi"...since when are college guys afraid to hang around a sex shop table (or a sex anything?) Bobby must be really uptight. Issues, issues...I smell a burning issue!
How is it a "love letter" or indeed a billet-doux, to salute someone with "Hey you" and then tell them you don't have the bottle to hang out at a table that sells sex toys? Is he hoping that the object of his infection will run over, grab his hand and drag him to the Miko's table?
I'm with "Flea" on this one. Okaaaay....
The object of his infection?!?
Basil, that is the best description of awkward college-boy infatuation EVER!
baby basil, i dont think any of us here would have called this a love letter, but it looks like that's the way Bobby labelled it. Take it up with him, you'll be able to find him at Miko's table, he's the horny looking one.
It's been my experience that chaps/chapettes that give Ghost tours and that are way into ghosts make the best lovers. Like in the movie "Ghost" or the very sexy "Ghost Dad".
@Flea In Your Ear (creepy name, by the way; eeeewwww) -
Glad I didn't get the memo for Pamper yourself day. Wouldn't I be the odd man out walking around campus in a diaper.
You're only supposed to love your body on one special day?
Geez, I do everything wrong.
@Flea in your ear ... I'm thinking Bobby doesn't even know this person he met on the Ghost Tour. I mean, "Hey You" makes it sound like he didn't even catch her name. Now he wants to impress her with his worldliness and savoir faire (hey! Look at me!! I'm writing French words!!!) by calling his mash note a billet doux and mentioning a local sex shop.
Freshmen! When will they grow up?!
Thank you mona lisa in the louvre!
And by the way, *I think* you're the first person to ever address me since I started posting here! (Double Thank You!).
@brain problem: Not meant to be creepy, sorry! That’s the hard part of using an inside joke as one's name:-/
And you would definitely have been odd man, but that might have been a good thing: Open displays of humor and intelligence are often richly rewarded! (They don’t happen often around here.)
Well, Gin in Tonic, i usually like Gin in Soda, but i made an exception in your case. lol. mmmm now i know what i want for lunch..
In my head, this guy's "heeeey" sounds exactly like The Fonz.
And at least Bobby is making a (rather ham-fisted) stab at sophistication. The note could have read
"Hey you,
Let’s trade: I'll love your body if you love mine. Scored some awesome stuff at the Miko's table! Meet me behind the Ghost Tours in ten minutes. I'll be the guy in the "cocks" baseball cap.
-bobby"
@brain problem - i like the way you think! and you wouldn't be the odd man out if you had a group of easily persuaded friends with you...
@flea in your ear - you're right, they don't. but at least we are rid of "first" girl. i can't even remember her name anymore and i'm not going to go through old posts to remind myself of something i'm VERY happy to forget!
and i have to ask... what's a Ghost Tour?
My friends call me Tonic... Since "Tonic in Gin" doesn't quite make sense, I wanted to try to be a little clever like so many of you here... I want a Bloody Mary for lunch.
@Rebel: Hahaha I meant my personal geographical location. Open displays of humor and intelligence don’t happen often in my town. I don't want to get lynched by the Foundees! I do agree that it is wonderful to be rid of "First" girl. I've never quite been sure what that “first” stuff is supposed to mean. I know that it shows up a lot on the websites my sister visits. (Perez Hilton, x17, etc.)
@Rebel: Ghost Tours are tours of sites which are supposedly haunted. I know there are quite a few in Philadelphia, Florida, New Orleans, Chicago, Texas...
I was wondering about the Ghost Tour myself:
http://www.providenceghosttour.com/?content=ab
So - she went on the ghost tour (oops - assumed "she"; who knows?), then to Love Your Body Day? Then maybe Love Your Bobby Day.
I had a couple friends, who when they saw me, would say "hey, you" and it always sounded like they were SO glad to see me, like - wow! It's YOU. So I kinda like that greeting. Wow, now that I think of it, they were both former lovers. Hm.
(lovers of me, not each other)
(as far as I know)
Hmmm...perhaps "you" as in "Hey you" isn't a female at all. What if Bobby hasn't come out of the closet yet and wants to hang out at Miko's table but doesn't want to be seen playing with the boy-toys instead of the boys' toys. The plot thickens!
Tonic, with a bloody mary, at least you're getting your vegetables in there.
i'm in for a bloody mary. hell, I'll even buy the first round...
@Curious:
Upon first glance at today's find that is exactly what I thought our mysterious Bobby wrote was, "Love your Bobby Day". Which got me to thinking: this guy either needs some help coming up with romantic dates for 'hey you' or He is a nympho.
Geez guys, Love Your Body Day is October 18 and it is a way to celebrate women's bodies in a society where thin white bodies are taught to be the standard.
Love your bodies ladies. You are beautiful.
@Alice in the looking glass - Thanks for the info! It sounds really cool, I'd love to go on one! I think they should have some where I am, I mean, surely there are some haunted farm houses or barns out here in the middle of b.f.e!!!!
@Flea in your ear - That goes for my geographical location as well. I may be in a fishbowl, but I feel like I'm adrift in a sea of idiots! As far as the 'first' thing goes, I'm not sure about the why, maybe it's some sort of honor to be the first one to blindly stumble across something online and make a retarded comment about it???
The following message does not pertain to the find of the day, which was found to be rather dull despite the location it mentions (We should all expect more from sex shops considering the people that go there... At any rate, why does the finder know that anyway?): This is Kira (the rude one)... Until recently I was unaware that there was already a Kira on this board. A kind and gentle soul who merely wished to make relevant observations about finds... I sincerely apologize for using their name and will herefore-after use Kirax... I apologize for any dirt I may have put to the name Kira and hope that it may all be attracted to Kirax from now on.
wow.. Kirax (if that is your name) usually people say, "I'm the nice one", they don't cop to being the bad one. kudos to you. Tho, if you were really the rude one, you would have forced her to change.
I agree with Mona...but kudos for you for not being rude.
Winston, kudos to you, just cuz that word makes me laugh.
As one of the Miko Ladies, I must say that the out-pouring of love is touching! Thank you!
For those of you who aren't yet familiar with Miko check us out @
www.ohmiko.com
xoxo
I can't help thinking of the singer Mika, with his song "big girls (you are beautiful)" and how it would be great if he had a table at a love your body day, handing out corsets and feather boas to all the larger ladies. Ah, isn't it great to exploit obese people as a consumer group by pretending it's ok to be huge, because a little gay man says you are beautiful and if you buy his record, then you are empowered. That's my rant over. And I am a girl, and I am overweight, just so you know. Don't know why. la
@Rebel: "Adrift in a sea of idiots"... Very poetic! I was just thinking "every time you speak, a fairy dies" at someone shouting next to my cubicle, but your description better illustrates the sense of isolation and discontent.
I wonder if “You” felt adrift in a sea of idiots upon receipt of Bobby’s note.
My twin brother’s girlfriend used to host a party on October 18th: she and all her female friends would drink wine, listen to power-ballads, discuss lingerie and sex toys, and finally break out small hand-mirrors to examine their lady-bits. I was invited to the party last year by the time we had reached that last part I was hiding in the bedroom with my brother watching M*A*S*H DVDs.
"Mash note," Realist? How very 19th century! I guess it's true that history does repeat itself. "To make a mash" meant to make someone fall in love with you in about the 1890's. That's why Bugs Bunny used to yell "Masher!" and hit someone in the old Warner Bros cartoons.
"It's Bobby from the Ghost Tour"...sounds like a phone conversation from a TV sitcom: "Hi, Julie? This is Bobby...Bobby Martin...from the Ghost Tour." She has no idea who he is, and after reading "I wish I could go hang out at the Miko's Table" doesn't want to know. So go hang out there...alone...
Somehow this find reminds me of that old pickup line, "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
The name is intended to be Kira, but I'm adding the x to differentiate myself. Honestly, I might be rude, but I do abide by a certain amount of common courtesy. I celebrate "love your body day" everyday. Never at a sex shop though... Why does the author want to hang out there anyway? What a creepy guy. <counter id="creepy" value++ />
This note makes me envision the writer as someone like the brothers on "Night at the Roxbury" with their huge 80's cell phone and slicked back hair.
I wonder if his booth was called "Ghost Town" or if it's just a ghost town because everyone is over at the Miko's table.
Help. Nothing to do with this FOUND... but how do I get to the "Hey, it's me" section?!
Tonic: click on the orange "News of the Found" in the upper left, right above the archives search. Then you'll see a link on the right hand side.
Or c&p this:
http://whatsup.foundmagazine.com/?cat=14
Those pages are loading slowly for me today....
@Kira-x
You are rude AND kinda dumb, if you ask me. Not nice of me, I know, but geeze. Not everyone who goes to a sex shop is some creepy pervert. Sure, there are a fair amount of creepy perverts in some sex shops, but there are creepy perverts everywhere. For someone who celebrates Love Your Body Day every day, you sure are closed minded.
@Lisa in Miko
Thank you for the link, on behalf of all the junior high school kids who read here daily.
Getting a few updates to the site taken care of today and next week! Prepare for some goofiness on the pages while updates are being made. Onwards and upwards FOUND friends!
The goofiness whilst updating are like finds themselves!
I'm a Brown student who knows a VERY creepy frat boy named Bobby. Actually, he is known to most as "Creepy Bobby." Was Creepy Bobby skulking around the Miko table? Probably
Mention of a sex toy shop would usually get this crowd going with a rousing conversation of beads and salads. ( Chill mom. )
Hey Overworked in Keeney, I know exactly who you're talking about. I wonder, though...
huh. i didn't know any other schools did "love your body day". i thought it was just unca hippie stuff. :P
Maybe you're right Wayland, I sit next to Creepy Bobby in one of my classes sometimes and he has very beautiful handwriting that does not look like this. Still, how many Bobbys do you know? Creepy ones at that?
The writing of this note looks like a Bobby's handwriting I went to Jr. High and High School with, exactly... I wonder if it's him! Hmmm.
@your mother in shock...
the link does not bring you directly to the website, but to a disclaimer page, that we are an 18 plus site. Jr High students have a few years to go till they are of age. Also, I am not entirely naive, but if i pre-teen is going to surpass the disclaimer, they are prob also going to google adult subject matter, or find it on myspace.
Keeney:
You sit next to Creepy Bobby!? I'm so sorry. I'm really not surprised that he has pretty handwriting, though.
I only know one other Bobby here, and he is decidedly not creepy at all.
Oh, so that makes it ok? Because they're going to find it anyway? Please.
Yeah, that makes it ok.
finally! a find from my fabulous state. loveeee mikos.
Wayland-
No only do I sometimes sit next to Creepy Bobby, but I used to regularly get asked on sketchy dates until I finally came right out and said I wasn't interested.
Oh Creepy Bobby. The sad thing is that apparently he actually is sleeping with lots of freshman girls. So his game must be successful sometimes.
How did you know that Miko was over there?
How did you know where I was to give me this note.
YOu're weird.