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July 27, 2008 |
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Obligitory
FOUND by Kathy Ornish
in Lansing, Michigan
This list fell out of my library book, "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. I laughed for days and pictured this find being played with the song, "My Wig Fell Off," by Root Boy Slim. Have a listen and read the list.
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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...
don't go for the love actually soundtrack!
Man, don't go with the toupee unless you wanna look desperate. Most guys are sexier topless.
Does this Find look familiar, or have we just had another similar LIST before. That "Coke with lime" entry looks familiar.
Enough with the lists and parking notes! Eeeee-nuffff! I happen to KNOW people have sent in way cooler stuff than this.
I'm sure we've seen this before
Looking on the bright side, maybe coming up soon, we'll get a whole week of our Favorite Kinds of Finds (whatever your Favorites are.. mine are photos and Kid Art.)
Yes, this is a repeat of a previous "find" posted on 9/01/07 (just search Chipoltle, and you can see it for yourself)
There are some awesome finds that are deserve another look, but I really don't find anything so compelling about this particular list that makes it worthy of repeating.
Personally, I'm a little disappointed - couldn't ya'll find something a little more amusing (or at least original) to kick off our Sunday morning???
@ me. that was my first impression too.
Thanks, Cotton. I wonder what the deal is. WTH is going on at Found?
in the same vein as a comment the other day (taking the blame off the found crew), could it be possible that people see a funny find, print it for themselves, and then lose it honestly? or see a funny find, print it to intentionally lose it again, to plant it somewhere? seems odd, but anything's possible, right?
Since I haven't viewed the thousands of finds (yet), this one's new to me and so:
I can only infer that this is a gift list to someone s/he isn't all that found of, - I mean, who gives a back scratcher (actually my mom did once and that is STILL the source of many jokes in our family, especially since she is usually a great gift-giver).
Ummm, as I was saying, toupee and an "obligatory" framed picture reads like a gift to someone who ain't getting a lot of love these days.
And for goodness sake, anyone considering a toupee please read this: Shave your head. This is infinitely sexier than a toupee!
What's a Qdoba?
@daniela sifting through stuff in here:
Qdoba is a chain of pseudo-Mexican restaurants.
It's sexy time for someone.
Thought that second line read:
With you pee.
That would've made this interesting.
This list is so random!
I probably have seen this one before, since I started looking at Found a WHILE ago, but I don't actually remember it, so it's all good!
:D
@daniela, you're right that it's a list of possible gifts to give someone, but not for someone not liked. It's for someone the gift giver knows well. Either they're a couple, or the potential giftee is the father of the giver. These things wouldn't be on a list if you didn't already know that he liked them.
As for back-scratchers, it's a fine gift for certain age groups. My mother gave me one when I was about 9, and I thought it was COOL, although I probably wouldn't have thought that if it was the only thing I got. Additionally, now that I'm over 40, I find myself wishing for a back-scratcher often. I would rather get a back scratcher as a gift than almost anything else, I think.
ugh. enough lists, already, especially retreads.
I've seen this before.
Interestingly enough, if you go back and read the comments on the Finds surrounding the duplicate of this one (titled "shopping list, dated 09-01-07) people were complaining then about an overabundance of LISTS, too.
There were certainly some straaaaange goings-on around that time.
http://foundmagazine.com/comments/1479
9/1/07-That was when we were urging Clover to rent "Love Actually" because she hadn't seen it. haha!
I just had Qdoba last night. Yummy yummy.
I 2nd and 3rd all these notions for better finds. I've sent in 6 or 7 (none of which were lists) and haven't seen any yet.
I'd submit better finds (as in 'no lists') so that they could be published online, but the city I work in is either filled with neatniks, has obsessive sidewalk cleaners, or just plain boring people. (Oh, wait, am I saying that two of those classes of people could be me....)
I was mad it was a list. Then I was happy it wasn't a completely boring list. Then I realized I had seen it before and was again mad.
Who would give a bottle of Diet Coke w/lime or even want one for a gift?????
DUH!
From January 18th:
Midlife Crisis in California
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@ James and Jason: in December, James posted here that you now get 12,000 submissions a year. That's amazing (and truly wonderful), but it suggests that you could cherry-pick the best 700 or so for the magazines and STILL be able to post 30 new, original Finds every day. That way, everyone would eventually get to seen their Finds posted, rather than just 365 people out of 12,000 (3%).
Of course, you might go completely mad, but it would be a lot of fun.
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Jason in FOUND HQ
@Midlife Crisis-- Yes, good news! We've got plans for more than one a day. Unfortunately, it won't be 30 (we need to clean up and optimize images in photoshop before they get posted, and check text for goofs, not to mention making sure things haven't been posted elsewhere, like that darn elephant on the ramp math test...), but I do want to share more than one a day, no question. It will be done!
There are certain kinds of finds that work better on the web-- photos, post-it notes, short lists, etc-- than long four page handwritten journal entries, which work better in print. So we try to keep this in mind as we edit the submissions. Lots of finds work great on paper, and not so great on your screen.
Needless to say, we're upping the ante this year! Hope you enjoy the upcoming changes...
I am drunk. I am also addicted to goddamn chipotle peppers! I put them in fucking everything. check out tabasco's version of Chipotle. hard to find here not so much in can and the us. not real hot but real smokin. if you want hot buy em whole in a can and just grind that shit up and use it like salsaa. it doesn't need nothin!
@Hank: I am stone cold sober. Take my advice, if you dip into the can of peppers with your fingers, don't get them anywhere near your lady's pussy or you'll be in the fucking doghouse. Trust me.
Love Actually is my favorite movie, i suggest renting it if you haven't seen it yet! Also, the spam protection is getting more and more interesting.
Is this a repeat... I think I remember Chipotle gift certificate.