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Cocaine
FOUND by Sheryl
in Michigan
I found this in the parking lot of my high school. I didn't know whether to laugh or not.
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Well. another long haired kid holding something disturbing. Have to say, this is creepier by far.
As for whether to laugh or not, I'd definitely say "not".
At a glance, I thought it said "Cobain".
Page 3 of "Awkward Kids, Posing Weirdly, Holding Things That Are Slightly Unsettling" Coffee Table Edition.
Hahahahah! It's like they're actually paying attention to us!
Jinx, Chrome!
I believe they've already filed the appropriate paperwork for, correctly: Awkward Kids, Posing Weirdly, Holding Things That Are Slightly Unsettling (c)
SPOILER ALERT: I suspect this will be the last chapter in their book.
This person does not have a neck.
I await a thorough examination and plausible rationale from Midlife to explain why the head appears to have launched from our inky cokehead's body.
Now this one to me is more than "slightly unsettling." This one, unlike Gun Child makes me cringe.
I think credit for "the title" goes to SaraSara.
cuz he didn't blow his brains out. he blew his head off.
i think they are trying to quit getting high off of cocain. kudos to you! note the practice guns in the left margin....
So kids are using guns to toot cocaine now? In my day we just used dollar bills.
I didn't even know that anyone still used cocaine, isn't meth more economical?
No no no, there is obviously a large amount of cocaine in the barrel of the gun.
Looks like Sam beat me to it by a coupla seconds...
...is that a promise?
what on earth will tomorrow bring?
a 5 year old holding a chicken head, spurting blood and antifreeze?
christ almighty!
I laughed.
I don't think it means to imply there's cocaine loaded in the gun.
I first read it as, "Cocaine [will] blow your brains out".
But you can look at blow being a street word for cocaine, and it could be more of a "Cocaine: Blow your brains out" type dealio slogan.
Anyway you size it up, it's on the creepy side, so I'd give it an awkward giggle instead of a full laugh.
I think the only thing that could make this creepier is if the eyes were looking forward at you instead of to the side.
Laughed my head off -- but then again, I have had a couple drinks in the last few hours. I mean, a gun? Up the NOSE? Sketched by a 16-year-old? That's just hilarious.
This looks like a rough sketch for a Health class project. Every year we were told to draw or paint an "anti-poster" (against smoking, drugs, unsafe sex and the like). Then the posters were hung up on the bulletin boards in the hall and prizes were given for the top 3 after students voted for their faves. Prizes were usually book tokens or similar. The top 3 were photographed and published in the local paper.
There is a song called 'Cocaine will blow your Brains out', maybe just doodling in class?
Who 'nose?' Maybe this person is a full 'blown' cocaine -head? Or wants to 'blow' his/her 'nose' or his/her brains out?
AAgghh...I'm done...
school would go into lockdown, the swat team, bomb squad, and drug sniffing dogs would be called in and the student "artist" would be removed and hauled off to juvie
I agree with school in this day and age. All the forces we be called in to investigate this issue. Man I wish I grew up in a time where alcohol was the worst issue.
I agree with Stefanie - the gun is a symbol and a pun - and a good one at that!
I don't think it is creepy. I think it would make a very good anti-drug poster!
Back in the Disco Era, we use to snort cocaine from 'bullets'--anybody remember those? That is what the gun made me think of.
I always wonder what is the emotion behind the picture? Especially since this was found at a school. Is a parent or family member using drugs? Has their personal drug use lead them to this conclusion? Is it actually PRO drugs in some demented, suicidal way?
I know from personal experience there is no future in cocaine -- I hope this person didn't have to learn that lesson the hard way!
the floating head would have a much better time with coke up it's nose than a gun. i can't tell you from experience, but...when did suicide become cooler than drugs?
of course, i'm sure the head would have a lot better time if it was actually attached to a body, but we gotta live with what we got. you go bodyless head!
I think you nailed this one basil, it's definitely a sketch for an 'anti' poster for health class.
Any ideas for theme suggestions for next week?
Cobain would make since, but it looks like Cocain. Clever, but sad.
I was going to say that this person has more to worry about than not having a neck, but, i guess if you don't have a neck... well, that just ends things, doesnt it.
This does look like an anti drug thing to me. You know, if you're going to snort cocaine, you may as well just shoot yourself. I thought people mostly smoked crack cocaine these days, rather than snorted it. I don't remember the bullets, in the disco era, but of course, i was still in high school then.
definitely page 3... i can't wait till tomorrow.
I agree with basil on this one - health class rough draft poster. That was my first thought.
I noticed, however, that all of this kids fingers, thumb included(and it even looks like he has 6 fingers if you turn one of them into 2 mini fingers), are on the HANDLE of the gun, and none are on the trigger. SERIOUS flaw in the drawing if you really wanted to blow your brains out!
I agree, it's an anti poster. And a great one-- I hope it wins a prize. The posters are usually all exactly the same.
It is so disturbing because the state of mind the person was probably in when it was drawn. Effed up on drugs, bottoming out or maybe one of his/her friends or relatives is an addict. Definately, I would not laugh. The artist is probably going through a crisis.
Sleeping, I think you're right about the practice guns in the margin, I couldn't figure it out at first. More evidence that it's an anti- poster, and I'm sticking with that theory and I'm not going to change my mind. It's something I can live with, although I'm not really in favor of anti- posters in general. ("Just say no." ugh.) The suicide/drug overdose/wasted life content is just too depressing. But anyway, sarasara, if what you say is correct about tomorrow's find, we'll definitely need to do some editing. I don't think that image will go with coffee and cake in the living room after dinner.
Mona that's funny!
But I don't think that the gun is supposed to be literal. I think it is supposed to be symbolic of the cocaine - meaning if you use it, it is just like killing yourself, as if you were shooting yourself in the nose.
So I don't think this is meant to be shown as some kid who is high and thinking of suicide, I think it is meant to be shown as cocaine AS the suicide.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid!
so, speaking of anti-posters, in 9th grade I was in the ultra exclusive sex-ed class where we were learning from a curriculum geared toward turning us into peer-teachers and the idea was that we'd teach sex-ed at our school and at other schools.
My anti-slogan? "Ew, what's that, it looks like a vienna sausage!"
With a slogan like that, I guess it's not so bad that the program fell through and we didn't make it into the classroom.
ha.
Looks like someone was entering a drawing into the school's Public Service Message Poster contest.
As a D.A.R.E. alum, seems pretty obvious that it's an "anti-poster" though I didn't know that term. Some clever kid got an idea to dramatize the effects of drug use. Too bad for the artist it will never make it - suicide not a celebrated image in middle school.
Creepiest to me is seeing how many people are sure it's the work of some coked out kid thinking of ending it all. Thoughts of suicide and making puns rarely go together (though the same might not be true for those OVERHEARING puns).
The stuff in the margin is the various stages of what cocoih does to your winky.
Does anyone else think she kind of looks like Lois Griffin? With Peter shoving a gun in her nose? Noone? I guess it's just me then.
If you can fit nearly the entire barrel of a 9mm up your nose, you might have freakishly large nostrils.
In fifth grade we did a poster competition like that, but it was mostly just anti-drugs and alcohol. My submission was really good - I drew it all myself in Tomie DePaola's style, and it was a jester, saying 'Don't Clown around, With Drugs and Alcohol'. Really excellent. Colored pencil.
They didn't believe I'd done it myself and I was disqualified and accused of being a liar.
would cocaine use give you freakishly large nostrils?
nikoli, i think people are using some editorial abbreviation, poetic license, if you will, and saying anti-poster, rather than anti drug use poster.
(which just brings to my mind..why is the word abbreviation such a long word??)
oh, sarasara... vienna sausage? that's cute. I think that demonstrates that its a good thing that the program fell through.
Girl says to naked man: Who you gonna please with that?
Naked man, answering: Me.
Turbo, looks just like Lois. I like the limp "winky" in the margins too. Although, I thought coke did the opposite to the "winky."
Hannahbelle, that's such a bummer! I love Tomie DePaola, and I hope you kept your submission, even though the school jerks stepped all over you and your talents. What a bummer.
That's Tetris in the left margin, not a limp "winky".
Maybe Tetris is a symbol of all the different forms that winkies and hoohoos take. Maybe guns are a form of winkies, too. So maybe you're all right.
Using cocaine is like using a gun, which is like f***ing up your head (there's the winkie reference). Maybe using cocaine is the same as playing a game that you can't ever win. (like Tetris) Maybe I do think too much.
Tetris will make your winky limp, too.
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I hate it.
Wink wink winky
oh i love it . i absolutely love it, awkward kid. I'm going to search high and low for something to submit to that blogspot.. oh this is so cool.
I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him.
jack handy
it looks like they are putting a hairdryer up their nose. frizz your brains out?
Yessssss! Can we help?
a few years ago, i decided to have a new years resolution that i could finally keep, so i thought, why not something easy like "i will not try meth or coke."
that was good for a while, but then i thought maybe i should switch things up.
so last year, i decided to get hooked on both and pop out a minimum of 5 kids before year's end. (actually, my -then-coworkers and i all decided to do this. it looked like so much fun)
i'm not sure what happened, guess i got distracted or something, cos i've yet to fulfill my resolution. the timing's pretty bad too, there's only 5 weeks left, that's not enough time to harvest a multitude of babies, plus develop a couple of nasty addictions!
oh, what am i to do?
This reminds me of one of those D.A.R.E. things, you know they have you make an anti-drug poster.
I LOVE BLOW!
this is for sure an attempt at an anti-drug poster!
its funny...disturbing, but funny becuase it looks like they practiced drawing on the side of the paper and that practice definately payed off,that gun looks very realistic if not backwards.
This might just be one of those suicide attempts that doen't quite work... Might just leave you blind or without a sense of smell.
I hereby dedicate this find to the memory of Kevin DuBrow, who I'm sure, at one point in his life, was an Awkward Kid, Posing Weirdly, Holding Things That Are Slightly Unsettling (c)
I was definitely thinking this was a product of this year's D.A.R.E. poster project gone a little too far. Ha! The idea of a student turning this in for such an assignment is so funny to me.
Very nice. I wonder if it was for a class or for the hell of it though. We used to have to do public message type posters like this in health class. The sawed off knuckles give me the creeps.
When I was in second grade the big anti-drug campaign, besides "just say no", was "don't be pushed". The weatherman, Dick Albert, who I had a huge crush on, was in some of the psa's, or they played the psa's on the channel he did news for and somehoe in my brain they were linked. I drew my own don't be pushed poster (with these neat-o crayons that turn into watercolors when you brush water over the paper) and asked my mom to send it in to Dick Albert. She said she did, but a few years later I found it in our basement.
i'm sure you're right turbo, but then again, weren't we all?
Awkward kid, that's cool you did that. I bookmarked it and I will look for a pic to send you.
To the dear AWKWARD KID, whomever you may be, THANK YOU FOR TOTALLY ROCKING MY WORLD! And on behalf of everyone who doesn't mind letting me thank you for them, THANK YOU!
What a wonderful collaboration!
Laff. Please, if it's funny to you - laff! This applies to any situation. Humor isn't dependent on morals. Laughing doesn't mean you are agreeing or belittling whatever it is you're laughing at. It's just a way to express how something makes you feel.
Laugh now and maybe you'll be able to give it the thoughtful consideration it deserves later instead of being stymied by that insipid question forever. To sit there and wonder if you should laugh about something only delays more contemplation...it delays honesty.
I never heard it called a winky.
I'm so excited! Awkward kid! You're the coolest! I'll definitely search my archives. I'm sure I have awkward kids, and some are probably holding somewhat unsettling things.
Turbo, that made me laugh, what you said about the stuff in the margin.
Hannahbelle, it's teachers like that who give education a bad name. What are they doing in that profession, anyway? I hope you continue to make art in spite of their stupidity. (My opinion is that art doesn't belong in competitions anyway.)
That's hilarious, Mona! Is there an abbreviation for abbreviation?
hi found staff!
so are we going to have another awkwardly-posing-kid-holding-things-that-generally- tomorrow?
I really think we're on a roll here. and don't worry, we can handle it!!:-)
~waiting with antici-PATION!
sara
Good shit Awkward Kid. And EVERYONE at this space -- great posts the past few weeks -- diggin' it!!
Is it just me, or was the gun drawn by a different hand? Strokes are much bolder and assured, like they went to a better artist to draw the gun because it was an important part of the message. Or maybe they drew the gun first, and then "scribbled" the person in the background after.
Orinoco, it's just you.
Not that you're paranoid or anything.
Heh heh.
;-)
membrane, i agree wholeheartedly with what you say. laugh, then decide (of course, that gets me in trouble, sometimes, but i dont regret it)
AWKWARD K -- YOU ROCK!! (and thanks for the succinct & catchy coffee-book-table title, sarasara!!)
Hmmm.... Does the Deer Panty-Cricket photo qualify as awkward kids holding really weird things (that make us very-very uncomfortable??)
I dont know, Camelia. We'll have to put that question to the editors.
It is awkward people... touching weird things... i dont know. have to ask the jury.
I laughed too... does this make me a bad person.
Also, the eyes made me thing of a Pink FLoyd song...
"I've got wild, staring eyes. And I've got a strong urge to fly! But I've got nowhere to fly to..."
This is a first-draft retail Christmas promotion. For starters, Banana Republic is offering a tall merino wool turtleneck sweater in six colors for $78. Among the available accessories for the Black & Decker AD600 cordless drill/driver is a nose-hair trimmer ($19.95/Sears). What appears to be long side-hair is actually a pair of Sennheiser 650 supra-aural headphones ($350 street price) with upgraded Cardas cables ($185/Music Direct) that thread discreetly inside the turtleneck to a waist-worn 160GB iPod Classic ($249, Apple). Tired of trying to link together so many products for their online catalog, the graphic designer has listed two of her options for avoiding the holiday season altogether. For the second draft, may I suggest more forehead and less upper lip?
Nice, Crisis. Been doing a little online holiday shopping in your spare time? Bet you've got a hella wishlist....
8-)
Flag on the play: illegal use of Hella.
Hella modifies a modifier. So you could say "hella long wishlist" or "hella big wishlist" but not just "hella wishlist".
Modify the modifier.
Thank you for ensuring my safety. I admit I just don't "get" hella. I was really going to say "helluva wishlist" and decided to use "hella" as a reference to a previous Find. ("Helluva wishlist" means "hell of a wishlist" as in "Crisis, I bet you've got one hell of a wishlist there..." leading one to speculate what he might actually be wishing for this holiday season. Turtle necks and nosehair trimmers? I wonder....)
In any case, Crisis knew exactly what I meant, I'm sure. I won't try to use the word "hella" again, because I still don't "get" it, even with your remarkable explanation.
Please be aware that grammar corrections, even for slang, almost always ruin the joke. I'll try to modify my modifiers if you modify your sense of humor. Deal?
Good smackdown, Night!
5 creepies.
im with baby basil. they always used to make us draw "anti-drug" posters in health class and we'd have to come up with catchy slogans. with a little bit of cleaning up, i'd say this could actually be a good anti-drug advertisement!
That's not my wishlist, Nightingale. :-) I got everything I ever wanted for Christmas in August this year.
Hella!
You must've been an awfully (hella?) good boy to have gotten your Christmas presents 4 months early. What's your secret?
I realise when I first looked at this I had two thoughts:
(a) the kid is holding the gun the wrong way, by the barrel, and is sticking the handle up his/her nose, and/or
(b) the kid's lips line up with the gun to look like a pair of little ears, so it looks as if he/she is sticking a rather unhappy small dog up his/her nose.
Must be past my bedtime.
Another one of those commonly misspelled words ... realized. Realize . So our vocabulary words are: definitely, definite, realize, and realized.
Voices, you're awfully loud and obnoxious for your voice being inside your head.
Jonathan doesn't misspell words. He's British. The English spell realize "realise".
So take your list and shove it. You're not teaching anyone here anything except what a prig you are.
Back at you, at least I wrote without name calling. Prig.
AND.. You're judgenmental. I didn't know the English spell it that way. I was trying to be funny because I've seen those two words spelled "wrong" a lot of times. Jonathan, if that offended you I apologize. I'm sure there are times Jonathan misspells words, also.Your hardline defense of him makes me think you're either him or crushin' on his flirty posts.
So take your bitter attitude and "shove it" . ( 1970 called, they want their insults back. )
Jonathan misspelled Motzart. He left out the first t.
Voices, please accept my apology. I don't know what came over me. I think I just get so tired of people in this community correcting other's grammar and spelling, and I snapped.
I am not Jonathan. He would never had made such a low comment. I respect him very much and did him no favors by replying to you on his behalf. (Jonathan, I'm sorry if I embarrassed you.)
I accept, thank you. I like ghosts anyway.
i laughed to. thats a big nostril hee
In Australia we spell realise like that to. realise and compromise and colour. thats right colour has a u. weird but you know thats what its like in the land of crocodiles and kangaroos...crazy stuff all sorts of crazy stuff.
Oh, missed all those.
No worries.
Thanks for your support and/or concern!
I misspell words all the time. Thank hevins for SpellChecker.
In my line of work we have to take an executive decision on 'realise'/'realize' for each job, and be consistent throughout. Either is 'right', just a matter of choice.
We did one job with a couple of charming American authors and they more or less *insisted* we change all their '-ize's to '-ise's!
Actually some words really do have to be one or the other, depending on their derivation. But I couldn't tell you which without looking in the dikshunary.
AmRadio in Australia, thanks, nice to have your support to(o). But we spell 'too' 'too' and not 'to' -- oops.
Strange when what seems to us perfectly normal and natural is thought by others to be wrong or crazy, huh?
'Two nations divided by a common language'? Who said that? Churchill? G B Shaw?
Goodnight all.
Jonathan: Hahahahahaha! Bless you for "it looks as if he/she is sticking a rather unhappy small dog up his/her nose." You rule!!