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December 12, 2007 |
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Missing
FOUND by Elfrida
in Toronto, Canada
I found this list in an old abandoned house among the ruins of an obscure board game called Shadowland. It's written on the back of a Facettes 400 white 2 ply facial tissues box.
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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...
Oh, come on. Why not replace all the game pieces with sharp objects? Shards of glass, aluminum pull tabs, old razor blades...
I wonder why they don't suspect the dog regarding the spaceships? My dog would totally eat spaceships...
I wonder where the spaceships went. Surely they exist somethere.
oups! *somewhere*
Surely the spaceships still exist somewhere. Maybe in someone's garden.
And why didn't someone check the dog's poop for that rare 8 sided die? Is that an octahedron? Come on.
I can empathise, I once forgot where I parked mine, and now I'm trapped on this god forsaken planet untill you discover quasar energy fields
I wonder who wrote this. For some reason I see a mom sitting down and taking inventory of game pieces for upcoming "family night" or some such thing.
Writing w with a dash on top (for "with"), do a lot of people do that? (I do "w/") Or is that like shorthand? Any guesses on her (if it is a she) occupation?
Jan, your comment made me laugh. But this seems like it was a much-loved game... It was obviously played a lot and the find looks kind of worn. Sad that it was left behind. Reminds me of these old, worn scrabble and yahtzee games left in a cabin we rented in the mountains every summer for everyone to use... good times.
I always replace the missing space ships with buttons.
LOL @ GAjasjas2Uja!
its someone ingenious, that's who.
and not to jump ahead or nothin" (ahem), but what lovely goody will come missing tomorrow?
I can only imagine the dork that compiled this list.
I don't see a Mom at all. I see that well-coiffed, slightly-mustachioed Harris(?) - the guru of all things geeky on "Freaks and Geeks."
It actually looks like the list originally only had 1 missing spaceship. It looks like the 2 covers up the 1, and the 's' has been added on later.
I've also never seen so much improvising going on in one post before!
I've played that game... Spaceships? Spaceships? We don't don't need no stinking spaceships.
Domino, in my experience working with doctors and nurses they right w with a dash over it for with.
This was a cool find, I love going in abandoned houses and finding the things left behind.
The list-maker wrote "(suspect dog ate)" but I suspect 'Dog-gate'. Surely there is a conspiracy here.
So how does rolling one 6-sided die twice give you the equivalent of rolling an 8-sided one once?
Mathematician, i suspect there were originally two 8-sided dice.
..and is that a happy face at the bottom beside the word 'turn', or is it just a smudge?
Somebody with a good attitude is not going to let a few missing pieces get them down. I use a bottle of nail polish for my missing hockey paddle on our mini air hockey game.
We use our Monopoly game pieces for any other missing game pieces. (improvised!!)
Looks like a :) to me, too!!
Would I be a total dork if I pointed out that this sounds like ShadowLORD not Shadowland?
JodaBabes- Master of Earth, Air, Fire AND Water is the ultimate ruler of the Power Stone! Mwah ha ha ha haaaaaa!
I'm such a loser.
i don't think i'd use push pins. Buttons are safer. I wonder what the safety freaks would think of using push pins. Tho, i guess you could swallow a button. Now i'm wondering about the lead content of the monopoly pieces.... Safety first, people.
But hey, if you pushed the pins into the board, at least you wouldnt lose your place when someone knocks the board (ever notice that when that happens, its usually the one who's losing?)
Sarasara, I love the way you tweaked that expression.. first, there's something livingly beautiful about the expression "it went missing" when said about inanimate objects. When you wrote "what ... will come missing tomorrow?" -- that's sweet!
A person could probably develop a pretty good motto/logo statement for Found outta that.
Push-pins would be good markers for the Found board game.
Danger, danger, Will Robinson!
i like this find. reminds me of lazy summer nights at the cottage
I found your board game!
http://cgi.cafr.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI
Are those little rings supposed to be the spaceships? Lame. I was hoping for actual little baby rockets.
I see a mother sitting at a kitchen table, 3 little boy sourrounding her... The youngest on her knee. The dice rooled once and the dog, attracted by that moving object snapped it. No more dice... no more game... the little one is sobbing while the 2 older keeping their tears inside.
Dont worry, Mommy will "fix" it, with her mommy super power. (I dont know if your kids think you have those but I swear, when i see them looking at me with those eyes... >.<) So mommy wrote down the missing part to calm the 3 of them, improvising missing piece so they can still play while she will go to the shopping center with her wagon car, with fake wood panneling on the side, to find a way to get some of the missing part.
The "smiley" at the end is to convince her boys, that are reading over her shoulder, that she will definitly find the part and not to cry.
OR
It was meant for a garage sale and she just wrote down the missing part of that dorky game they never really played and even wonder why the part are missing =P he little :) is to try to bait the potential custommer that the game is "really" fun =P
Totally found the game:
http://cgi.cafr.ebay.ca/Shadowland-PB-1983-Fan
It appears to have 8 sided dices and something looking like spaceships... with alot of imagination... Its from 1983... 25 years old.. hmmm =P
Damn, someone beat me to the the "I found the game" game =P Curse you ZZ, curse you! ^_~
one of the things i love about Found is that the people who come here, attracted to the found objects, also share something deeper. i don't comment very often because every time i have something to say about a find, i see that others (usually right up at the top of the comment list) have already shared the exact same observation and experience. neat. :)
i notice the same thing, hilary. you can tell a lot about a person by what they post. The other day, those comments about the note to April.. that showed a lot about people's relationships with their relationships. This one.. their childhood... others.. who knows.
I think it is a mom writing this for her little boys and not an über geek, if it was an geek they would have plenty of 8 sided dice handy.
Lily: 1983 was only 24 years ago:-P Don't prematurely age us!
Actually, for some reason (read: Birthday coming and feeling odd about entering mid-twenties) this find makes me feel achingly nostalgic. It's weird to think that something from my childhood could be found in ruins, in an abandoned house.
The TRUTH is out there. Probably inside a vacuum cleaner bag.
Anyone wanna join me? I'm breaking out my old Dungeons and Dragons stuff.
18th Level Magic-user here. Got my Bag of Infinate Holding all packed and ready to go.
Oh come on! For the love of God, just buy a new game and stop improvising. And it's completely obvious where the spaceships went: home, to outer space, of course.
She's a nurse! The 'with' symbol is a combination between the 'w/' and the 'c' with a line over it. Or she could be a doctor I guess... but more likely she's a nurse. cheers!
I am here not rolling my 2-sided die.
Now who's the geek?
Sounds like a fun game.
I'd just like to thank Elfrida for including in the comment the description of the back of the note.
Anyone else singing Weezer?
Lady Brandy, I also thought of D and D--a favorite game of my brothers. And I am even picturing a much younger Gary Gygax in his little house next to his little shoemaker shop playing this with some of the other townies when I see this. Of course, this would be long before the game hit it big and changed the lives of a lot of people in this town.
Reminds me of when my sister and I used to chew the little pegs that represent people so that we could collect disability insurance when we played LIFE (not part of the game rules). We would also substitute the cars with other objects. Spaceships would have been fun!
My sister put some LIFE people up her nose and they got stuck in there. Good times.
terrie is so funny! My brother but beans up his and they spouted.
Sally, I wonder if disability insurance would work when your 24 in the game of life.
this is like totally off-topic... sorry! but i dont know where else to post it! i went to a found event a while back and i couldnt help like feeling i was at a stoopid "rothbart boys" show. i love found stuff so much but i couldn't care less about the emo music and everything. i wanna see founds and keep it all that. he should do a stupid book tour if he wants to talk about himself all the time.
but wait, i love the website and the books! but i cant help feeling like he's trying make it all about himself. i hate to be a negatron but i want it to be a "FOUND" not a "DAVY" show. am i alone here? did anyone else get that feeling?
Found never found my fair city. They had to get all broke down and shit. They could have easily fixed their van with push pins and toothpicks and had a damned spaceship!
My dalmation once ate the pink and blue people from the game of Life (what a way to go!) and the all the color pegs from the Mastermind game. Result? Confetti poop for 2 days!
To "He's like nails":
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy yourself at a Found event. I went to the one in Dallas on Monday and had a good time.
I don't know what you were expecting, but the Found events ARE book tours. And the Rothbart boys have been on tour trying to sell their books and music. I've never been to a "traditional" book tour before, but I had fun drinking and laughing and talking to Davy. I don't consider the songs I heard to be "emo music". The two I can remember were "Bus or Beer" and "The Booty Don't Stop" and they are both hilariously funny, based on Finds. But, I understand everyone's music tastes are different.
The cool thing is, you can still love this website and the Found books, and you don't ever have to go to another event or listen to Peter's CD's, and that's ok.
Turbo, you shoulda come down to Dallas. I was ready to buy you a beer! 8-)
I found a battleship in my heating vent. Also, I saw a UFO once up close. It was quiet just like all the folks say on t.v.
@ He's like nails...
I saw the FOUND show, and I really enjoyed myself. It wasn't exactly what I thought it would be, much more talking, less looking at finds. I just expected it to be more of an exhibit, with actual finds. I enjoyed Davy reading them, though. That was good fun. It made up for there not being anything tangible for me to see.
I have to admit, I can't stop singing "The Booty Don't Stop." I'm even considering buying that album, just so I can own that song. The rest of bro's music is good by me, but that song's got a great hook.
The one thing I didn't expect to come away with was the huge crush I now have on Andrew Cohen. That is one sexy speech impediment!
D in the corridor, before I quit playing, I was a 14th lvl rouge. Man, I miss being an outcast in highschool all of a sudden.
Oh, what great memories of board games! This makes me incredibly sad, thinking of all those games with missing pieces, their cardboard tops taped together, stacked in the closets of parents whose children have all grown. I'm going to call my mom and see if she still has my old Stratego game.
What was that game with the pop-o-matic? Trouble? I loved that one! And it was easy to lose pieces. I was always green.
I like this post, but I wonder why someone would take the time to write out an explanation of something that is so unnecessary. It's self-explanatory when you look inside a gamebox and find a button or shard of glass and not enough player pieces. That's like people who come into a room where you are sitting and say aloud "there you are!". I think, wow, thank god you said that, cause I could have misplaced me. So obvious.
this game sounds so cool! spaceships...awesome!
By the way, anyone wanta join www.lost.eu/17c95? it's the coolest game ever!
Did someone already say this might have been bought at a yard sale? I bought a game at a yard sale this summer, and even asked if all the pieces were there and they said yes. I wish at least there'd been a note like this in it because they weren't all there. It was an old Star Wars game.
I also remember using toothpicks for our missing 'CRIBBAGE' pegs!!
Fantastic board games for the lazy days of summer at the cottage on the lake....ahhh!
I cant belive people are like "I wish i was still playing [insert here D&D or Magic Gathering, or any game]
I never really stopped ... you should totally start again... its actually alot more fun when we are older ^_^ Well for me at least !
Gather your olds friends arround a dinner, open a good bottle of wine and start a new game, something casual ^_^ Its hard to get started again at first but its SO much fun ^_^
It help keping in touch and add yet another reason to gather together and have fun. Im glad I never lost this ^_^
I do miss the game sometimes, but my adult children give me such shit about having played it in my youth, I don't think I could ever paly again. That and the fact my former Dungeonmaster is now in a Mental Health facility.
I still play 'Crib', 'Euchre', 'Trivial Pursuit', and 'Monopoly'!!
Never gave them up...however, reading is my 'fave'!!
I still play 'Crib', 'Euchre', 'Trivial Pursuit', and 'Monopoly'!!
Never gave them up...however, reading is my 'fave'!!