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July 05, 2008 |
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Precious
FOUND by Deb
in New York City, New York
I found this on a seat on the uptown number 1 train. There was another find next to it but the writing was a lot more subversive. It said stuff like, "Allah Sucks Dick." I left it alone. Although this find appeared to be written by the same person, it's more endearing.
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I think I've found flyers from the same person on the 1 train! I found mine slipped into the overhead ads. Mine was very patriotic and included hearts and star of davids.
I've got grafitti on the street in front of our home in Kansas...and this kind of thing is being found in NY. May we ALL have hearts and Stars of David! Hope the Fourth was good for everyone!
No criticism to the sentiment itself, but a variation in adjectives would have been more effective, especially given the fact that in many places "precious" has a negative connotation, as in the phrase, "Oh don't be precious about it."
Valued
Outstanding
Priceless
Irreplaceable
Unique
Invaluable
Unforgettable
Marvellous
Wonderful...
Help me out here, Foundhounds!
Sorry.... what do the Beatles have to do with all this? They're not even Americans...
What's with the the '9/11' with the plane flying into the twin towers? Is this an expression of NY solidarity or something more sinister? Someone please enlighten me. (We had an image like this before.)
eeeeugh, creepy. the beatles? yes, maybe the author was under the misconception that they were american.
also, can someone tell me what feb 26 1993 means? again, i'm also not from the US so i may not know what all your important dates are. this is such a weird Find. especially as the accompanying note is as racist/hateful as the Finder says. Oh dear.
I thought it was in 1993 that the first terrorist attack against the Towers was supposed to take place, but was intercepted. You can correct me if I'm wrong
Ok, so, I'm trying to piece together the connections here... Donna Hanover (not the soap opera actress) married Edwin Oster, who works for Joannie Danielides at her media company, and then ... it degenerates into what looks like the product of neurons firing randomly.
Too much aluminum in the diet?
precious biz
precious arre
eww.... i don't like this find - gives me the willies.
why the hell would someone write that down? especially in that over-elaborate hand he or she obviously has to concentrate to maintain.
and what's the deal with that top part? looks .. dunno... psychopatriotic. in its entirety the note seems not at all endearing to me.
even less so as at the first glance it sort of does.
@Child
Yeah. It's creepified... imagine Gollum reading this at open mike poetry night... I
@Child, the handwriting is pure, perfect elementary-school 1960's "Palmer Method." This person was obviously like the girls in my class who copied the method exactly. But this writer apparently never progressed beyond the Method to develop their own, distinctive handwriting.
Wow. Damn that's creepy.
http://foundmagazine.com/find/2322
This find was submitted by a different Finder, but had to have been created by the same hand.
I have a folder full of "ramblings" from a schizophrenic I once knew. I named the File "The Beatles at Shea Stadium" because one of the .. umm. poems mentioned the Beatles at Shea Stadium. It's eerie, haunting stuff.
Oh Lord, don't get me started on Oprah.
Can anyone tell me what Katie Couric and Sharon Stone have to do with being *precious* or 9-11??? Does the author know these people personaly? On a *talk to everyday* note?
Did they put suits of armor on, and jump into the enormous pile of crushed souls, burning scrapnel, and crumbled concrete??
Did they save anyone?? Did they make any charitable money donations, which (Oprah Winfrey, too)they all have too much of anyways, to the remaining family survivors? Or the re-building of the Tower that stands there now, and the *Gravesite* of way too many human beings?
Talk about *psycho* patriotic...GEEZ-LOUIZE!
@K and Gabi: The '93 date signifies the first attack, not thwarted, via car bomb.
Also, if I remember correctly, the 1 train was pretty creepy all by itself. Is the MTA still using those crappy trains with the orange and yellow seats? When I moved (to Bklyn first, then out of the city altogether) the fancy shmancy blue and brushed aluminum trains hadn't really made it to the 1/2/3/9 trains.
I wonder if the people in the list would be flattered or frightened to know they are on it. Also, how would you like to be Lizanne M., knowing that had the paper been 1/4 inch shorter, you wouldn't have been on the list at all?
@Bored.. thanks for finding the previous similar find. I was havin' a déjà vu when I first saw this.
@baby basil.. I've never heard "Oh don't be precious about it." Can you give an example of when that might be used? I kind of like the way it sounds. I might like to use it now and then. Do you say it if someone is being overly sentimental?
@Ana, that's hilarious. So true!
@Farmer, kuh-razy! hahahaha!
@Child.. psychopatriotic!! I love that word! Cuz I was listening to booming firecrackers ALL NIGHT LONG. I swear, it went on until 4:00 AM in my neighborhood. I just feel so sorry for the dogs.
Awesome
Rad
Bitchin'
Holy
Esteemed
Cherished
Dear
My Ex's drug dealer's name is Precious. I hate that effin' word.
I just went back and read the comments from the other one like this, which was Sept. 11, 2007. Those are some of the most interesting comments on any one found day, everyone remembering where they were when the twin towers were hit. Near the very bottom of the 100+ comments, you can Deb described this very find! So here it is at last!
My sister wanted to have a daughter and name her "Precious Bunny".
Instead, right now she has a rabbit named Precious.
*you can read where Deb described this very find* oups!
@Clover: "Precious" in the negative sense comes from the French "precieuse" in the the 18th century sense of the play "Les Trois Precieuse Ridiculeuse" (spelling? I can speak it and read it and understand it--but write it, not so much!)In Spanish they have the word "preciosista"--like the ladies of the Sun King's court who could only sleep sitting up with roses strewn on a lace pillow, or only ate fresh baby vegetables. I believe you speak French, so you may have more background for the term than I can give you.
"Precious" in English can mean someone who is too delicate about something, idealistic in a very aery-faery pseudospiritual way. Prince Charles has been labelled "precious" for his eco-schemes that were just a tad bit (!) out of touch with reality. You can even be precious about your food...only eating a certain type of organic veggie from the sunkissed plains of Tuscany, or only washing your face with Evian water...like that. We call em "ubervores" because they have to have le best of le best.
WTF? No Precious Madonna??
take me home, please. Now.
thanks, Bored, for finding that other find. I knew i saw this writing before.
don't pretend
I think you know
I'm damn precious..
and hell yeah,
I'm the motherf*ckin' princess...
Baby basil, thank you. I get it! I can see there will be many opportunities to use the expression.. since I seem to be surrounded with beaucoup de precieux et precieuses.
Really pretty handwriting, but cursive letters look awkward with capitalized abbreviations.
I don't think it matters that precious has a negative connotation to some people. It's still a word with positive connotations and there's no clue that it is being used otherwise here.
I think the person is listing off what's important to her, both on a wide scale and a personal level.
Okay, so is MTA the Manhattan Transit Authority? Metro Transit Authority?
TLC=T-Boz, LeftEye and Chilli?
And I don't know what PAPD is, either. Anyone?
@ SHADOWBOXING- Maybe PAPD is the Pensylvania Police Department because I'm sure they helped out with the disaster. Also, the author could've lived there herself, before New York? Or maybe she does live there...
I dunno'...
@Bored, thanks for finding that. I knew I'd seen it before.
Basil, thanks for the elucidation on 'precious'... so I don't have to do that now! -- but you are much more illuminating that I could have been. I knew about the French usage but I didn't know that the Spanish have them too!
Wasn't there a black athlete called Precious something? Mackenzie?
(Oh, I just googled the name -- Precious Mckenzie, a South African MALE weightlifter!)
@ shadowboxing: PAPD is the Port Authority Police Dept. Yep.
Also @ Shadowboxing: And yes. Metropolitan Transit Authority.
TLC on the other hand... I have no idea. Maybe. Left-eye is dead after all. She was always my fave, what with the condom eye-patch and the what-nots.
Oh, unless it is the Taxi and Limousine Commission. But, why would that be on the list?
baby basil, maybe it is a rhetorical device like "anaphora" which is: "Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses."
And good call, Clover in the Lawn! When I saw a similar find, I just had to mention this one, and subsequently submit it. I wonder if the writer knows that he/she is a bit of a "FOUND" celebrity? :P
I found another one JUST LIKE THIS on the 6 train a few months ago and sent it in to Found although it hasnt been posted yet. Very similar handwriting and a drawing of the American flag...looks like we have a serial patriot on our hands.
This is a repeat!