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November 24, 2007 |
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All Hail Stutter, Boss of Poles
FOUND by Lisa & Eric
in Brooklyn, New York
We found this on the sidewalk one bright Sunday morning. It was our first glimpse of the plight of our poor, voiceless, neighborhood poles. I don't know about Mr. Stutter, but our eyes are now open!
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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...
Did Macy's change their ad agency?
If they died and made him boss, you-no-punctuation-using-litterbug, keep your trash off of the poles.
Why do people think poles are their personal(free)advertising spaces?
Lisa and Eric, good find!
Jan, I feel safe in saying your comment is the boss of comments today! Thanks for the laugh!
Once again, I bow before Jan. I live to log on at midnight CDT (10 PM out here) and see that Jan has nailed the Find of the Day with the first comment. No one sets the bar higher for the rest of us. Thank you, Jan.
jestem przywódcą język polski
so do the people who died want to fuck him/her up, or is is the handsy pole person that died?....I don't get it.
seriously. what the hell does this mean?
i'm in the same camp as blue.
also, does the person this was addressed to have a speech impediment or is "stutter" the newest insult, moving way beyond the classic "yo mama" slander.... (kind of like the new black... which I believe, today, is grey, or maybe pink)
p.s. if that's they way you talk to friends and family... i never want to meet you. so there. shove it yourself.
What did Stutter ever do to you, huh?
I mean, besides the obvious pole thing, of course...
sorry, I think I got a bit too excited. It should have said "died" instead of "dies".
oh, the grammar. my mind is still reeling about what the second sentence means. i wonder how they died... but not sure I really want to know. I really don't enjoy swimmin' wid the fishes, you dig?
When I first read this, I couldn't help but laugh. As someone with Polish ancestry, I associate "pole" with something other than the Webster's definition. I had to read it both ways. Hehe.
And I love how this person only knows one spelling of the word "too."
Two things. Went down too far in the drop menu. Michelle is not in a bottle. That sounds uncomfortable.
Secondly, I just noticed the find was titled "All hail Stutter." With what I said before, it sounds like a Halocaust reference. Am I reading too far into that?
jestem przywódcą język polski
That's hilarious, król in Polska! I'm sure that this find is just for you! (Like the find on October 12 was for me, sorta. But maybe I am confused.)
(Thank heaven for online translators! If anyone wants to have a bit of fun, go to altavista and change a few sentences from English to French and then back again..)
Thank the sky for the translators on line! If no matter who wants to have a little recreation, goes to the altavista and changes some sentences of English-French and then behind still.
Anyway, this find has too many funny things about it! I love it! Especially the part about from your friends and family at Macy's to a select few (like you)!! Geez, whoever received this must have felt really special. If not one of the select few, at least he/she was LIKE the select few. Kind of like royalty, I guess.
I think it's supposed to be "WHO DIED AND MADE YOU THE BOSS OF POLES?"
OK, here's the deal. It is illegal (and unsightly) to tape or staple flyers and posters to utility poles (those things we used to call "telephone poles" that now carry electricity, telephone lines, cable television wires, etc.). "Stutter" has been tearing down the flyers every time someone puts up new ones. The writer of this invective uses flyers stuck to the poles as a form of advertising and is angry with "Stutter" for taking them down. The writer tries two tactics to change "Stutter's" behavior: the threat of physical violence by "several people" and a lame appeal to "Stutter's" sense of shame. The clichéd phrase, "Who died and made you boss of [whatever]?" implies that "Stutter" doesn't have the authority to remove the flyers. However, this assertion is belied by the fact that posting them is illegal in the first place, and therefore anyone may remove them at any time without reason or recourse. So as a matter of law and good taste, it is the flyer-posting writer who should "leave the poles alone" and find another way to advertise his business.
Terrie-is-so-very said it much more elegantly. Sorry.
First I thought it said:
THERE ARE SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WANT TO FUCK YOU UP WHO DIED
good-night
Exception: Flyers for lost pets are considered exempt from the no-posting rule.
Oh. Utility poles.
Owww! Owww! Thank you, Candy. Hahahahahahaha!
So an ungrammatical, poorly spelled attack is really going to get your point across. I love how the angry commiter of pole-misdemeanor used a dirty, crumpled piece of paper to get his point across...so classy--NOT. Said point must be between his ears!
If you're going to slag off a person publicly, have a little class. Otherwise you just look pathetic...
I wonder if the Wombles are about. Hmmmm.... Did she see the invite from Jonathan to find him in the winding lairs of MySpace, I wonder.
Wkradł się tu narodowy patriotyzm.
Dodam od siebie, że się boję tych komentarzy. Zła karteczka wywołuje złe komentarze (złych?)ludzi.
Yay! Curse words!
Hmmm...this is how I interpreted it-->Author: Too the Stutter Keep your hands off our advertisment-Stutter: Leave the poles alone-Author: There are several people who want too fuck you up-Stutter: Who died and made you boss of the poles
Of course, with no punctuation or proper grammer, and smaller case letters...HoO NoSe???????
get your stinkin' flyers off my poles!
Please note that this is addressed to 'A select few (like you) from your friends & family at Macy's'. Terribly polite! Wouldn't want to miss their Friends and Family event, now would we? Might meet some nice Bosses of Poles there, not to mention Several people who want to... er... oh.
BabelFish won't do Polish. Boo. Can't quite figure out człowiek's drift...
Orinoco? Never quite sure if 'he' is male or otherwise. Sexing Wombles is a difficult science.
Still waiting, anyway. *sigh*
this is why i love found
Polish/ English translator...
http://www.poltran.com/
When I first read this I read it as: "there are several people who want to fuck you up, who died." I thought, won't it be kinda hard for them fuck up anyone when they are dead?
So this was found on the sidewalk, not on a pole? Love it! That tells me that "Stutter" saw it and just ripped it down, too - crumpled it, and maybe stepped on it for good measure. Which is about what this threat is worth.
Thank the sky for the translators on the line! If no matter who wants to have a little of recreation, goes to the altavista and changes some sentences of English-French and then behind always.
Thanks, Kerst in. This is what poltran.com made of czlowiek's comment:
fear person in. said: National patriotism here Wkradł. I will add, that I fear these comments. Evokes sheet of paper bad < evil > ( bad? ) People.
Thank sky for on-line translators! If everyone liked to have little fun, go to the Alta Vista and changing you some sentences from English to the German and then back again.
(That's enough of that joke -- Ed.)
Aha! Ahahahahaha. What gender is a Womble??? Hee hee hee, wouldn't you like to know. (Not sex, Wombles don't have sex. We just get recycled after about 100 years.)
Jonathan, I don't know how far back to go to find the tunnel into your Myspace burrow. We Wombles aren't on Myspace...at least not yet...and Wellington is off to Canada for awhile so I'm alone at the keyboard. If I knew how far back to look (a week? two?) I might find Chrome Toaster's wormhole. Wombles love being underground so a wormhole, though a tight fit for my chubby self, should be OK. There should be enough "space" hee hee. BTW CHROMEY, thanks for lending us your help.
As for today's find, who told the advertiser that the poles were his personal private property? We Wombles are known for taking down adverts from poles and recycling the paper. Best place for it!
Did anyone else realize that the person who wrote this misused the word 'too' for 'to?'
Seriously...grammar failure!
National patriotism have crept here. I will add, that I fear these comments. "Bad" found cause "bad" comments of (bad?) people.
Jonathan good work;)
Orinoco, go back to Doomd on Nov. 13th.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/1710
You have to scroll down some 80 comments or so to find "chrome toaster in Denial. Classic, clinical denial." This is the mouth of the tunnel.
Stutter? Is stutting the act of removing advertising from poles? As it, "I hate that band. Let's stut them, and stut them good."
I'd rather have a speech impediment than be unable to use punctuation.
"Tsk, tsk", adding this note author to the Naughty List.
May I request you all chatter about wombles and carry on your virtual relationships at your myspace pages? I don't mean that derogatory but really. And myspace is perfect for that kind of dialog.
Now I'm ready to be insulted and deleted.
totally off today's find ...
Australians have voted out long time Prime Minister and war-mongerer (amongst many other sins) John Howard!!!!!
One day soon, G W Bush will bite the dust and half you in the US will be as elated as half of us in Oz are today!!
Not to worry, Mr (Ms) Right here. You chat about what you want to chat about, and don't mind us for doing likewise. We wouldn't dream of insulting you, and it's not up to us to delete you!
We're just having fun, pay no attention.
)'j*(
człowiek, you are the Boss of Poles!
Congratulations,grot. It must be a wonderful feeling. I'm sure when Bush is gone, more than half of us will be elated too. If only he hadn't ruined us so badly.
Why get so wrapped up in what is and isn't legal? Who cares. Post your advertisements on poles, I say. Don't let The Man getcha down! ;)
I wonder if, indeed, boss of the poles is a dynastic system, or if one needs to be voted to become boss of the poles. hmmmmmm. interesting thoughts.
I feel badly about the people who may or may not have died.
at a former job we had a cleaning service which employed mostly polish immigrants who would leave notes like this around. i read poles as polish people too.
This year, friends and family coupons are good Nov. 28- Dec. 3... Let me know if you need a coupon. 20% off. :-)
Wow, I thought it meant that there have been several people who wanted to mess with the adressee but they died. Now THAT would be spooky.
It looks like the author took a junk mail envelope from Macy's and tore it not-so-carefully in half to write this, for lack of other paper.
thesoundbites.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/stutternyc
silly stutter is not an insult or a verb as to remove posters - they're a band in NYC brooklyn, where this was found that keeps plastering all their posters on the poles. and being pole hogs.
I don't usually criticize spelling and grammar too much, because it would be very hypocritical of me. However, I have to say that this poster is the perfect example of the importance of punctuation.
I'm not sure if the last sentence is supposed to read:
"There are several people who want to fuck you up who died and made you the boss of the poles."
This leads me to believe that the persons who are touching the signs have every right to touch them. They're in charge after all.
or:
"There are several people who want to fuck you up! Who died and made you the boss of the poles?"
This is a threat.... now how is this person supposed to know what to continue/ not continue doing with the pole?
See, Tori?? That's why us grammarians get all bent out of shape about bad grammar and lack of punctuation. Good communication, that's all I'm about.
Poles are a wonderful when used for messages, BUT NOT STICKERS...........because STICKER SUCK! They are such a waste of space! I'll take a depressing note anyday over a sticker. Why is everyone full of HATE??
WE grammarians.
I had no idea it was against the law to post fliers on poles. Why? That's a bad law.
That's my favorite part..."WHO DIED AND MADE U THE BOSS OF POLES"
Very funny!!!!
AH oh no. they took it off the pole! now stutter won't know that hes gonna get fucked up! Whose looking after the people. Come on
"Law abiding citizen said:
I had no idea it was against the law to post fliers on poles. Why?"
Thank you for asking! There are two reasons. For wooden poles, the utility companies claim that posters, nails, staples and such create a climbing hazard for their workers. However, I can't think of the last time I saw a utility worker actually climbing a pole rather than using a hydraulic bucket, so I don't know if the safety issue remains valid.
The second reason is that postering is technically a form of vandalism and defacing property. It is illegal to put posters on utility and street light poles for the same reason it is to put them on private or public buildings without permission.
I wonder how many people have actually been arrested for committing this heinous act? Hahahaha!
Now, who exactly is the boss of my pole?
I think I know the man that the note is yelling at (not personally!). He walks down the streets and avenues, tearing down Stoop Sale signs from poles and hating the world...