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July 18, 2007 |
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Birthday Goat
FOUND by Miles
in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
I found this picture in a disposable camera while working on a college campus. There were also a bunch of birthday pictures that turned out really faded. I found it funny that only the goat picture was the only one that survived. Since then I've had it taped to my car visor to remind me how strange everything can become when taken out of context.
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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...
Notice the harness? I believe that is the rarely used seeing-eye goat.
i love goat meat it is amazing with bullseye
someone stole my pet goat and probably ate it :[
they are tasty though
beauuuutiful <3
I swear I've seen this "find" before. Is Found recycling their posts?
Did anyone see that Albee play about the guy who fell in love with the goat? Sylvia was the goat's name. Probably something like that was going on here. The goat *is* pretty fetching, is she not?
I used to have a neighbor that had some goats . they were nice , but their pupils were huge and looked like keyholes . That was weird .
So... am i the only one reminded of that Korn album cover? The one with the kid on the swing and the creepy molester shadow? I wonder what role this goat played in the birthday party activities.
Writer, rejected- The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? is one of the best plays i've seen. Albee kicks ass.
I think I just stepped in goat shit.
Don't go into the light, little goat!
Hahahaha seeing eye goat. I totally want a seeing eye goat.
I think it is an eco-friendly lawn mower...
Notice the shadow? That's the person taking the picture...the sun is behind them....it always amazes me how people don't notice their HUGE shadow when they take pictures like this.
Rex: I thought Albee was really reaching in "The Goat," though there was that powerful moment when the couple is devastated and feels that events have actually literally ruined their love. Been there.
Stare at the middle of the picture. It almost looks like the grass is moving.
I had a goat when I was younger (grew up on a farm). They're actually good pets.
It seems like I recall the seeing eye goat on an episode of Jackass???
Evertime I see a goat I think of Adam Sandler's "The Goat"......Crank it up, fuckers!
Pink harness? A girl goat? Or a women owned it? Hmm...
i like everything about this photo, including the aerial view of the goat & its placement.
it looks like the goat only has three legs {The back one in which you wouldn't be able to see from this angle at all}
Oops, I meant to say {The back one in which you wouldn't be able to see from this angle at all, being the 3rd leg} So, concluding that the front Right leg is missing {if you're facing the same direction as the goat}
It's a goat. A goat on a leash.
That is all.
Weird... I looked at the pic, read the comments and then looked at the picture again and I swear it was different. I think I need less coffee.
I was travelling through some rural area and there was a house with grass growing on its roof that had goats eating it. Goats on the roof. Best house ever.
What? 1:36 in the afternoon, and no one has said this is creepy? What's the Found community coming to?
and Mona Lisa is just a painting by some dead guy, hanging in an old building, ab. Everything here is just what it is... and something more.
Things are more than the sum of their parts. To Rex, its a memory of the Korn album cover (i like the covers better than the music, but i guess that's just me) To other people, its a freaking seeing eye goat (love that image, of some blind guy being forced to wander around a field of particularly tasty grass for a day or so).
Founds make people's imaginations wander. And get their panties in a twist, which is cool. Then they start twisting other people's panties, and well, it goes downhill from there. Pretty soon, its a virtual food fight. Love it.
"Whoa. That must be the momma goat!"
(but there's a pink leash on it so maybe I have a better chance at being right this time...well, I guess it's always 50-50, isn't it? Good thing I don't work with mammals, right?)
A seeing-eye goat would be a great companion to a Guide Cat for the Blind (I once heard on the radio a poem of this name, by Les Barker - but can only find referenes to the poem on the net, not the poem itself. Baaaa!)
that's "references", not "referenes"
Cute goat. Festive pink harness.
You know....? It could have been the GOAT'S birthday party & faded pictures.
People do strange and extravagant things for their pets anymore.
This reminds me of the birthday party in Mrs. Doubtfire. "Watch the pony....he's been drinking a lot of water..."
Jump around!
Guide Cats For The Blind, by Les Barker
The word 'futile' springs to mind,
Mission Impossible, yes that's the attempt to harness for mankind
the intelligence of cats.
You've made a basic error, now let me expound,
this master-servant thing's okay, but not THAT way round.
We don't do the faithful subject,
we don't do the daily grind,
you should never have attempted this -
guide cats for the blind.
Give kitty so much trust,
and we'll abuse the privilege.
You think you're going out?
You're opening the fridge.
You think I'm trying to help you?
I'm not serving man but mammon.
You think you've gained a faithful friend?
You've lost a plate of salmon.
I might lead you down the high street,
I'll be back when I have dined,
we get very, very hungry, being
guide cats for the blind.
It can't be very pleasant,
of this I've little doubt,
to have your head stuck in a cat flap,
whether facing in or out.
You could be here a day or two,
with half of you out in the rain,
I've got to go, I've things to do,
maybe I'll pass this way again.
A dog would go for help,
cats are not that way inclined,
cats have better things to do than being
guide cats for the blind.
Of some matters I am ignorant,
but this I know for certain,
the best place for a blind man isn't
halfway up a curtain.
And why do they have to be up
on a roof at 4 a.m.?
It's a perfect place for me,
but what's in it for them?
It was where I had to go, and he
just tags along behind,
I don't know why, only a fool would follow
guide cats for the blind.
I once met a man called Pavlov,
from time to time he rang a bell,
simple things make humans happy,
but I have to say that, well
I found it a disturbance, and,
poor chap, I think he knew it,
and soon he only rang his bell
when I wanted him to do it.
Did you ask for our assistance?
If you did, well we've declined,
here we are, an oxymoron -
guide cats for the blind.
Too bad the camera was lost. I bet there was some anguish over that. Maybe this goat was in a birthday party petting zoo? Maybe the second disposable camera had all the petting zoo pictures and the lost one had the cake and present pictures?
Mona Lisa, I love you! Thanks for the poem!!!
I think by referencing Korn and Albee we implied creepy.
Unless you think fucking goats is cute or hott or something.
Whoa, this find is so creepy. I think it's a homosexual boy goat with cross-dressing tendencies. I wish there was handwriting to analyze.
(back to reality) i think this find is cute :) I love goats. If I was blind, I'd totally request a seeing-eye goat.
Our neighbors up the street have a goat that looks suspiciously similar to this one. Pink-ish harness and all. Theirs is some sort of weird miniature one that rides around in the wagon with the kids. But then agian, I'm guessing most small brown goats look alike, unless your Heidi or something.
Bah, I either need a spell check, a proof-reader or a shot of coffee. I meant to say "unless you're Heidi," as in you are, not your very own, belonging to you, Swedish little girl.
Strange...I just read about Kaziah the Goat Woman today and now this post!
You should ALWAYS put your goat/dog/pet on a harness and NOT on a collar because animals can hang themselves! They could hang around virtually unharmed by a harness untill you discovered them, but by the throat? Not so long...
Harness your creatures, people!
1. You're welcome, Carolyn.
2. Comment, directed to those of us who give a crap about spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. (and not meant to be negative to those of you who don't give a crap. I'm working on respecting your right to be wrong): Does anyone else feel the stress of making sure everything is spelled and punctuated and apostrophe'd properly before sending a post? (in reference to Beeswax's comment about her misuse of 'your') I'll agree to get off of my high horse (or goat) if the rest of you grammar and spelling nerds do. (including myself in the grammar and spelling nerd group, of course.)
What a great find!
Goats can be/are kind of creepy IMO....something in their faces & eyes.
But, this one is kind of cute.
Beeswax - Your reference to Heidi made me feel better - loved that book as a kid.
*giggles* "Goat"..."Heidi"..."Kid&qu the puns are so baaaaad - but boy I needed that laugh today. Thanks.
MonaLisa - Thank you for that poem! I've ever read it before - Love it!
I'm with the camp that finds it a bit creepy.. Goats always invoke thoughts of things satanic for me.. and the shadow falling over the "cute little goat"...? Just sinister.
I second Mona Lisa's motion to get off the high grammar horse, as long as we can still make fun of errors in the Finds of the Day.
(Heidi was Swiss.)
Goats, snakes and cats are the only animals with vertical, slit-type pupils. They are also all associated with Old Harry. I think the strange eyes are what does it, though of course having never looked Satan in the eye, I don't know if he has them too.
As to the goat, yes, it's cute, yes, it looks friendly, and no, there's nothing creepy about it.
Thanks for the poem, Mona.
My dad used to say, "You're a good kid, but who likes goats?"
I grew up in the country, and my best friend lived on a dairy farm. They had a "pet" goat who was very mean and would bite and butt anyone who came near it/her/him. The only way to get it to behave was to punch it between the eyes (I'm afraid of offending animal-rights-defenders, but I'm quite sure the goat's skull was harder than our fists...) Anyway - my memory is that the goat was HUGE - as big as a small pony at least, but I've been told over and over that it was actually the size of this little guy in the photo. I remain unconvinced and have an unreasonable dislike of goats to this day.
errors in finds are fair game
i agree about the goats eyes looking like satan
I love Satan! Horns of the goat!!!
(I had to open a different browser window to go to dictionary.com to make sure I spelled "ancient" correctly. I feel ya, Mona Lisa)
That goat is the devil dressed as a little girl's party favor, definitely. Neither would I wish to have sexual relations with it because that's just plain creepy.
I am so happy to read that everyone is correcting their own grammer, spelling and punctuation errors today. I feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
my father and grand father were drinking one evening like old chums. While my mother was away shopping in town, the men took it upon themselves to get my mothers pet goat drunk. They took it another step and cooked him, in an underground pit. They made birria out of him. My mother was well, you can guess. Pissed the eff off. How messed up was that?
s, God Bless our pet goats. May they rest in peace.
I love goats (like one loves puppies, kitties and icecream). My neighbors had them and they were some of the coolest pets ever - oddly enough, ducks make horrible pets...
Oh, and Mona - this isn't a grammer lesson or spelling session but you sort of mixed metaphors up there. Very funny for sure but how does bunching people's panties become a food fight?
(on a personal note - spelling and grammer helps especially in a setting like this. It makes it easier for us, the reader, to understand what the hell it is you are talking about - ie "eats shoots and leaves")
Is it a little ironic that a seeing-eye goat would be photographed?
Writer, Rejected: The Goat or Who is Sylvia haunts me to this day. That is NOT a good first date play (but a perfect venue if you want to break up with someone).
Yodel-a-hee, yodel-a-hee, yodel-a-hee-hoo!
THERE'S my goat!!
I worry more about the tricky spam questions than I do the spelling/grammar/punctuation in my posts. I think the goat is a cutie, my step-grandpa had goats we used to feed all the time. The photo brought back some nice memories.
traumatized -- i have had many pet goats in my day and one was a 3.5 foot tall billy goat(named Billy!).. and he was very mean as well.. he would butt so hard it could break bones, and he thought he was just playing! anyway.. we would beat him in the head with 2x4's and snow shovels and he loved it.. i dont think you should dwell on your punches
Sorry, my bad about the nationality of Heidi. It's been about 20 years since I read the book, so that's my excuse. I do seem to recall thinking that the girl on the Swiss Miss box o' pudding was Heidi when I was younger (and, yes, my brother told me what a moron I was for that).
Lonely Goatherd: thanks, now I have the Sound of Music soundtrack running through my brain. I'll get you for this.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAT!
This brings back so many childhood memories! Our goat was called Flitt and she looked a lot like this little precious bundle. She was nice as a kid but when she grew up she got a bit mean (as kid's will). She managed to impale my cousin's lip on her horn one day (ouch!). She (the goat, not my cousin) also liked to get drunk on Southern Comfort and cola (blame my mother and her drunken neighbour).
It was an easy mistake, Bees. Had your brother not called you a moron you would've remembered to this day.
E-del-weiss, e-del-weiss...
Why do people think goats' eyes look like from Satan? Have they met Satan before?
ady- I know what you're saying. Once went on a first date to a Sam Shepherd play about a guy who beats his wife to the point of brain damage and then it get's all bizzare and Sam Shepherd-y. It wasn't a very good production either, which didn't help.
Mona- come to the dark side, it is you're destnity.
Another "creepy" find! Sweet!
Also, where did all the people who used to flip out about gender assumptions/stereotypes go? I read all kinds of comments suggesting the pink harness meant female goat or goat dressed for a female child, and no one shouted about boys like pink too!! What is the world coming to? hehe
Rex:
I'm your density. I mean...your destiny.
Mona, that's a great poem, thank you. Spot on for cat mentality.
Yes, goats are creepy in general (the weird eyes, mythological associations, eat anything, headstrong) but this particular one just looks sweet and a bit nervous -- who is this very tall person blocking my sunlight??
Happy birthday to an old friend and his kid.
xo