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Least Appropriate Use of Comic Sans
FOUND by Melissa Lorenzen
in Bloomington, Indiana
I found this in a IU student lounge and I couldn't believe they would use Comic Sans for something so serious. I also wondered what the "specific tasks" are that you can do to earn extra cash. And yes, people had taken a few of the tags at the bottom.
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$10 per hour - damn that's good. I'm thinking if I was a narc, this might just work - coke heads aren't the smartest of people.
Yeah, i mean, you'd think they'd at least stick to one font!
I bet this was put up by the campus coke dealer, trying to locate some new clients at the beginning of a new semester.
I'm pretty sure most crackheads already know all about the "specific tasks" they can do to earn themselves more money. Especially the ones known as strawberries.
Oh, Flargy, you're gonna have to get us up to speed on the current vernacular.. or is that something I can google?
I wonder if the experiment involved shock therapy or maybe even magic mushrooms... like something they'd have done in the sixties if there were crack heads back then.
Sounds like a trap to me...
Gather all my personal information so the cops can stake-out MY house? I don't THINK SO!!!
I sense an intervention
looks like this student might have given the 'ethics in psychological practice' class a miss in favour of economics electives - a future advertising executive, perhaps? maybe a lobbyist for gambling or bookmaking?
how could a legitimate, intelligent professor of psychology allow a student to design an experiment involving cash payments to crack heads? also, oddly convenient age parameters.
It's Red Ribbon Week at my kid's school this week. (Anti-drug propaganda.) Is that program nationwide in the U.S.? Anyway, I thought this was apropos.
Not that there is ANY appropriate use for comic sans, but this is by far the worst.
www.bancomicsans.com
strawberry = someone who has sex with someone else to get drugs.
While the comic sans is definitely a plus, my favorite part has to be, "If you really like using cocaine"... well, how objective is that?
On a scale of one to ten, one meaning "only a little" and ten meaning "WOWWW-EEEE", how much do you really like using crack?
Tucker - I Agree. It sounds like a trap. Graduate students/professors doing research would sounds much more professional than this.
No and No. Sorry I don't qualify for this study. I see this as being either one of two things:
A. It's a drug dealer recruiting people for potential clients; or
B. A secret ivitation to rehab unbenounced to the user.
I wouldn't want the cluckers anywhere near me, they like to steal stuff. WOOOOWEEEEE!
it's never smart to give crackheads money, they won't spend it wisely. Once word gets out, there is bound to be a line around the corner.
Extras:
- The crack ho tooth retainment competition
- Best lies and denial story
- The memory quiz
- a special prize for whoever still has a job and or a driver's license.
No really, it might be one of those stings where they lure in the idiots who have warrants or who haven't paid their child support or something.It's not legit though. Here, in the newspaper there is ads like this all the time but it's more like "heroin study" and it's got Duke University or UNC contact numbers. They don't offer extras though.
ok...define heavy use...
this definitely sounds sketchy, i must say.
Specific tasks also include
duration of erection
performance in bed
how well you can roll a dollar bill
I'de like to be in a vicoden study covered the rest and they were good! Best lie and denial stories LOL! How bout best reason's to borrow money.
I KNOW everyone is just joking about the font - RIGHT?
Since when do we judge any message based on the FONT type that's used?
I've never heard that before. I love Comic Sans - I never thought I'd have to edit what font I used....!!!Geeeeeze people.
I sure will take Comic Sans over Times Roman any day of the friggin' week.
As SPECIFICALLY to the find - I think we've seen this one before haven't we?
One of the most boring finds ever imo.
Now I like this find. However, once again the find was taken off a bulletin board and some junky is not getting paid.
From a couple finds back, my stripper name according to 1st pet and 1st street is
Chi Chi 12th Ave.
ARE YOU A HEAVY COCAINE OR CRACK USER?
If so, please call your local police department or 1-800-TIP-A-COP.
This is almost as good as the "Free Crack Giveaway" party on the Dave Chapelle show.
"Is this the 5:00 free crack giveaway????"
Y'all's comments are SO funny! I needed laughs this Monday morning... since I don't have any crack to get me going.
Listening - that is the funniest part to me, too - "if you really like" doing it. "Oh - that's me! I really like doing scrapbooks, playing Putt Putt, AND smoking crack! It's super-duper!"
PS - OT- I must say to those interested in grammar, that the word "y'all" is very useful, as the plural form of "you". There is no equivalent in English that I know of. Except for "you guys", which really sounds bad, especially as "you guys' or guys's". For instance, if I had said "Your comments" in my post above, it might have sounded as if I were referring to a single person's comments. But "y'all" is obviously everybody!
I hardly ever use it, but I think it should be legitimized. Just a thought! I might try to use it more. What is considered acceptable language changes constantly, so maybe I can start a wave!
OK - I better stop stalling and work now.
I only like smoking crack a fair amount, so I guess I don't qualify. Damn. I really wanted that $10 an hour.
And no, Kevin, people aren't joking about the font. Comic Sans is widely reviled. Stop using it.
I love crack
Marie in C-ville, VA
I don't know where C-ville VA is, but my guess is on the East coast. If you travel farther west, say to WV, you might find y'all a bit annoying. I'd bet you'd even hear a variation of y'all, which is y'uns... to translate: you ones. You must not be *from* the South, either, becaue the formation of the League for Legitimization of Y'all has already been formed, and it is going strong.
Oh, you can use y'all to indicate one person, and *all y'all* indicates a group.
I love Coke
I am trying to figure out what kind of legitimate experiment could be done with a group of crack addicts, it cant be anything good.
Marie, I like the sound of "y'all" when spoken with a gentle, authentic southern drawl. Hey, that rhymed.
Oh my goodness. As I was reading this I thought to myself, this sounds like something I see every day in the psych building at IU. Guess what. IT IS! Sad thing is that there are probably loads of people lined up for this....and a few that I probably know...
I have often wished that I could get paid to sit around, drink beer, smoke and watch bands. I guess I have to smoke crack or use the booger sugar.
Yes we use y'all a lot. We also use all y'all, yaonna (you want to), haller (hollow), and we never live in a city, we live out a city, for example: I'm Amanda and I live out Wayne. I'm moving to Washington (state) next week. I'm sure everyone will know I'm an outsider. However they have some colorful words as well.
Lasers, thanks for defining strawberry for the crack-lingo ignorant among us. However, I think Ice Cube phrased it much more poetically back in 1988 when he said, "To people out there not hip to the fact, a strawberry is a girl sellin' p**** for crack to the Dopeman."
LOL!! I think this was posted by a cop or something. They know crack addicts are stupid and would call on this and its an easy way to get them off the street, you dont have to go looking for them they come to you lol! Great find!
in one of our free papers (the metro), there are ads for clinical trials requiring "healthy cocaine users" all the time. wouldn't the cocaine addiction DQ you from being healthy?
I once believed comic sans a useless font, yet it appears to have a superior function after all.
Best use of comic sans yet.
Amanda in WV...if you live in Wayne, WV you're going to have some serious cultre shock when you move to Washington state!!!
I use to live in Ceredo, WV way back when...
...I went to CK High School!!
When I left there I moved to California, and it was like another WORLD!
If these are the cops, wouldn't that be entrapment?
Anyone else watch Metalocalypse on Adult Swim? "I like Cocainnnneeeee!!!!"
There have been many successful cokeheads.
J Pemberton for example who invented
Coca-Cola. Unfortunately they all end up losing in the end. What could take 10 Hours? Surely not a study, possibly a sophisticated crack cooking operation. I understand it's a lot of work.
i smell bacon...crackheads beware...
when i was there, the fbi had offices there and made a lot of busts went down each semester bc of snitches.
Brown Cow-I live on Ceredo now! SMALL WORLD, I however am a transplant and went to Huntington
Dear Flargy,
I think it's so sad when a girl has to sell her strawberry preserves to buy drugs.
Sean S. Actually, Pemberton lived only about 2 years after inventing Coca-Cola and during that time he sold the rights to it to at least 3 different people and promised it to a couple relatives as well. Pretty messed up and addict-like behavior IMHO. Historians use phrases like "increasingly erratic in his later years." Sounds like a tweaker to me.
I'm not sayin' he was a cokehead... I'm just sayin' he was Cokish...
I am thinking of taking crack or coke (whichever is cheaper and easier to get ahold of) just so that I can participate in this study. It sounds like a good time.
Perhaps comic sans was used to attract the coke/crackheads. Maybe it is accepted by those in the know that that is the prefered font of drug abusers.
The worst job in the world would be "crack whore's assistant".
And Wendy, I think it would only be entrapment if the crack/coke users asked "Are you a cop?" and it was a cop and the cop said no. I think that is how entrapment is supposed to be technically used, but people try to call everything entrapment. "I walked into the police statioon and shot a cop in the face and all of the other cops arrested me! That's entrapment! How was I to know they were there and watching my personal business?!?!"
Oh and sorry to dissapoint both Mona and Pepper but I was actually trying to pursue a certain Rockville Inhabitant so SHHHHH! lol jk :P
Damn...that's right - Give junkies money and experimental drugs. Awesome!
You are all a bunch of crack heads. Comic Sans rocks! It's the fun and quirky font.
* It was used as the font for the text inside the tags of Beanie Babies.
* It is the font used for the house style of UCI Cinema literature and publicity.
* It is used for the description on Hershey's chocolate bars.
* It is used in The Sims for text in text boxes.
* It is used in the liner notes of the CD reissues of The Savage Rose albums.
* It is used for the subtitles and the majority of other text in the video games Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.
* It is used to display text in the Xbox 360 game Viva Piñata.
* It is used in the current Portugal national basketball team uniform.
HAHAHA this is one of the funnyest finds ever. it's like on the simpsons when homer wins a free boat and he gets aressted ! hehe, who ever shows up for this is definetly on something
COMIC SANS IS THE BLACK PLAGUE OF OUR DAY! I want to puke every time I see it.
It's not fair nor accurate to assume that all crack addicts are stupid. I've actually known a few in my days spent in 12-Step meetings who were quite the brains. I think most people would be surprised at the variety of 'type' of person who become crack addicts.
Also, I think it's hillarious when someone (SuzyQ, in this case) refers to it as "taking" drugs, rather than "doing" them or "scoring" them, etc. Clearly never been near that scene, it seems. Good girl.
I also think this find would be even rock-awesomer if there were quotes around the comic sans. " "
(Wouldn't it be funny if we could use the font of our choice in this comment section? I would use Comic Sans regularly just to induce Imbibed's puke.)
Amamnda!! It is a small world!
Wish I had a Gino's Pizza and a Hot Dog from the Chatter Box -- is it still there in Kenova? If not, a bowl of Chilli from Chili Willi's will do!
After that, I want to go to Dreamland Pool, and then to Camden Park!
Ghost, i've often thought the same thing. But don't you think it'd just give people something else to obsess about? We've already got the grammar nazis, the spelling nerds and the cokeheads up in arms on a near daily basis. Who needs font freaks adding to the fray.
the bancomicsans site has some rocking fonts, tho i don't know how to use them.
I've wanted to underline, italicize, etc... I wish i could do that. Oh well.
I'm sorry to harp on something a few posts back, but please do not use y'all to refer to one person. That never happens in the real world-- only in movies where the leading actress is pretending (badly) to have a southern accent. There must be two other people present to qualify as a "y'all." "All y'all" is usually reserved for larger numbers, and is sometimes accompanied by a sweep of the hand over the group.
Re: the coke-- definitely a dealer looking for new users to run errands.
Ghost - I am totally with ya on the font choice movement!
However, I have to say that Mona has a good point. But don't we come here to look at weird and interesting finds, get embroiled in stupid arguments, and to waste time? I could be wrong....
Your Right Dave! I retract my earlier statement I do know a guy that went through NA and he is one of the sweetest smartest guys I know. :D
I do believe you are right, Alai. That is, in fact, my purpose in life. I'm just saying, with such a full agenda already, you know, bad grammar, worse spelling, stupidity abounding... adding font arguments to the mix just might make our task unmanageable.
They plan to put chips in the addicts' heads, so that they can remotely monitor the crackies' behavior in their natural habitat.
The first ten hours of the "experiment", they'll just toss the users a few rocks and observe them in a clinical environment.
Ultimately, the purpose is so that crack heads can be more accurately portrayed by actors in blocbuster hollywood movies. Not enough Robert Downey Juniors and Wynonas.
I know a crackhead named Tim
He cuts down the lights really dim
He lies on his back
and smokes all his crack
and life goes on without him
In the IU Psychology building there are tons of advertisements for drug studies and things....i think most of them have the comic sans font. My personal favorite is the one asking for marajuana users who like sex. Too bad those studies don't get you credit for class....
Brown Cow-HA Yeah Ginos is still here and the chatterbox is now a BBQ place, but still have hotdogs! Dreamland is the only pool in the area still open. Camden Park still needs a revamp but its open....barely LOL.
Isabel: So you propose these are actually legitimate? WOW, in that case count me in for the weed and sex study because those are my favorite pastimes.
Lost Southerner:
Thank you!! I was thinking the same thing. The use of the term ya'll when speaking to one person drives me bonkers!!!!! I want to scream, 'It's a contraction of the words you and all!' Therefore you cannot use it in reference to one person unless they have multiple Personality Disorder.
No shit, Sean! How much does is cost to sign up for that study?
Southerner, lost in the Great White North -
You have clearly been up North far, far to long. You have lost your manners. It is plain ol' rude of you to assume you are the penultimate resource when it comes to Southern-isms. My Mammaw uses y'all to indicate one as well as many, and all y'all for lots of us. She was born and raised on the piece of land that I now live on, and her family homesteaded the place, so she's as southern as a buttermilk biscuit. If you want to differ, so be it, but don't go 'round assuming you're the only one who knows the South.
Amanda, WOW...it's been a long timme since I thought about good old C-K!!!
WV has the BEST hot dogs in the world -- Chicago, NYC -- they don't have a thing better than a WV hot dog! But that maybe because it was a treat to go to the Chatter Box with my Dad, and have a dog while he threw back a few cold ones-LOL!!!
Glad to hear some of my old haunts are still around! Good luck to you in Washington state!!
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Mona and friends. Oh, UtahChick I'm so disapointed. HA!
I have a friend on crack and she keeps selling family heirlooms to buy crack, so I keep buying them, really cheap. I feel guilty, should I?
Has anyone seen the postsecrets video on youtube? Its awesome I have it posted on myspace if anyone wants to check it out. www.myspace.com/utahupsgurl
Correction, its a myspace video, but it is on youtube too.
Sandy, will you give her or her family members the opportunity to buy them back at little or no profit to you, if and when they want? (like when she gets clean and realizes her mistakes, or when her family figures out what's happening.) If so, then don't feel too guilty. If not, and they're truly "family heirlooms", then you should feel as low as her dealers should. (but we all know they don't.)
My spam protection question: the opposite of north? South, y'all.
I think thay may have found the To Do list of one "research participant" after the study lol
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/472
Actually, think, I've already contacted her mother and told her what I'm doing, she was greatful I had them and not some pawn shop, but I still feel a little guilty. However, I have a beautiful mink coat and diamond ring.
Gotcha Mona.
Sandy - better you than some random person. Your friend's mom can ask you for the stuff if she wants any of it back. And if you get some nice stuff out of it, well, that's not bad either.
<FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS" SIZE=4 COLOR="#FF5050"> i ♥ comic sans
Ohhhh, Finnie, if only the Found Board allowed html!! (but if it did, someone probably woulda done that by 8AM Eastern time.)
Sandy, I've got one "word" for you:
eBay!!!
sounds like a police trap, to me. lol
what a great find!
However, I don't know any crackheads that like Comic Sans or hanging out at the library.
Lasers - thanks for the vocab lesson, I thought Flargy was talking about strawberry shortcakes (which are dirty, but non-crack-related)
brain problem situation in my head: "penultimate" means "second to last." I misused the word for decades until my boss, a crossword puzzle genius, corrected me. Damn! I hate to be wrong. P. S. I like your comments.
10 hours? Seriously? Damn.
This is entirely daffy enough to be a geniune undergraduate or graduate university study. My guess is that it involves pre-testing (self-reporting and assessment) on behaviors and attitudes, subsequent participation in several behavioral therapy sessions, and post-testing on the same indicators to determine if there were any significant changes.
The part that has undergraduate written all over it is "If you really like using...." That's hilarious.
And Captain D. Dragon is right: in the 1960s, clinical treatment for certain types of addictive behavior included aversive therapy and even the use of LSD (before it became illegal). Cool.
Sandy, you should feel guilty - what you are doing is called enabling.
Desperate Cynic, I'd love to get high with you.
run forest run, go to jail and don't get out for free...what stupid is, is what stupid does..get a doctor who can give you Meds that are legal. just don't drive while doing them..there's the catch for us corp people.. if you have a script and are a " little off" at work you can get away with it...think people.. use your head..and not your dead brain..valium is legal if u have a script.. loving it in Oklahoma..I think I deserve my " quite time"..Kids Know it all. don't they? like we haven't been there..live and learn.. let them figure it out..
What would you all (y'all?) say if the font was Jokerman? LOL .. can't you just see it?
I think the whole world should go in for a pot-and-sex study.
('Cept the little kids.)
What about "youse"?
I have a prof who uses this all the time.
"Do youse guys have any other questions?"
"Let me know if youse want any more information on that."
Mary Jane and Chatty Kathy: Thanks! Hahahaha!
youse guys it what we said when I grew up in New York, now I say ya'll.the new yorker still comes out every so often.But drugs are still drugs.. find a good doctor who will write what you what..love my dr. bobby...god bless insurance..
8-)
Just finished 10 hours in the crack study - the time just flew by...
Hahahaa Jan! Ch-ching!
I hadn't really thought consciously about it, but the "extra that can be won on specific tasks" sounds like they will pit all the crackheads against each other in an obstacle course, or maybe see who can put shapes in the correct holes the fastest.
I overheard them saying that the grant money was running low so we got to earn our bus fare by playing Perfection with a game they found at a garage sale for $1.00.
www.areyougame.com/images/items/HB4060.jpg
I agree with Marie. We need a plural form of "you" in English. Y'all, you guys, or vous. I'm honestly surprised that y'all hasn't become bona fide.
Bonkers, i forgot about that one: youse, but spelled "yous". This actually makes the most sense. Add an s to a singular word. (oh my, that looks a lot like the French "vous" which seems like an odd coincidence, doesn't it?)
Clover, do thou return to Elisabethan English. "Thee" or "thou" is singular, "ye" is many. Which is where y'all comes from--ye all. Read a King James Bible that hasn't been "revised" and thou will find the phrase, "When ye all have gathered"...etc.
And for those who want to know, thou is formal, thee is familiar.
If thee knew any old-side Quakers, thee would have experience of this. They call it "plain speech."
Personally, I prefer Comic Sans to all other fonts, when reading... It's the best choice for teaching English to non-English speakers too. Letters like "g" and "a" are displayed as characters that shouldn't be hand-written, but the foreigners try anyway. I'd like to hear (learn) why so many folks disapprove of Comic Sans when it's the most easily comprehended. I come acrodd such statements often and have yet to understand the peeve.
Brain Situation - no rudeness intended of course.
It's just that my Granny-- with plenty of southern street cred herself, having lived out her life on a tobacco farm, bless her heart-- would say that "y'all"-singular is just bad grammar.
Either way, I'd take it over "youse" any day, or the typical Boston salutation "<grunt>".
For some reason, that wiseguy sounding "youse" is prevalent in Butte, Montana, too. (Byooooooot!!) "whadda youse guys wanna do?" I've never understood why, and I've never heard a MT Native from any other city or town use it. Only people from Butte. Odd.
Rugged Individual, I think people are just looking for a cause. Wanting to be a part of something bigger than themselves. Warring against a cute little font called Comic Sans is hella easier than worrying about, say, troops in Iraq, fires in California, Post Katrina New Orleans, or global warming.. you know.
Fabulous! Now I can FINALLY earn enough money to support my crack habit!
Sir Orinoco, my goodman: "thou is formal, thee is familiar" is interesting -- is that only among Quakers?
I'd always assumed 'thou' is nominative and 'thee' is accusative (as in I/me and we/us).
And I had thought 'y'all' probably came from Irish?
I think I need some new dictionaries!
i always thought "yous" was a rhode island thing. that and chunk from the goonies....... heyyyyyy youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu guyyyyyyyyyyys.
Well, there is always yinz that could be said. But that is mainly a Pittsburgh term. Also written as yunz, youinz, or yuinz.
yeah...just call 911 and tell us where you are. we will pick you up!! lol
Plastic: OMg I was thinking the EXACT same thing. I was like "Where's the free crack at 5?" LOLOL.
Dave Chappelle rocks. Go Tyrone! haha.
Erika, I would love to come down and knock back a few Iron City tall boys with yinz. And I could even bring along some pop for the non-drinking crowd. Unfortunately, I can't make the trip right now because my car is pretty much held together with duct tape and gum bands.
Flargy, not to mention your head, my poor dear. Did they sever your corpus callosum? Are you now two separate people in there?
I thought the poster meant they were looking for overweight cocaine and crack users.
Vivi:
Yes.
No.
So if your a heavy coke user you should go???How about if your a light user?I mean they should put "If your Curious in trying Cocain then call this number for more information"
It doesn't say it's a study, it says it's an "experiment." Maybe it's a hybrid car company that's trying to make a car that runs on crackheads. Look out crackheads, it's a trap!
Flargy, I'm so glad you're OK. Has it helped?Did they leave the posterior third? I'm thinking good thoughts for you for rapid healing and easier days ahead.
oh indiana university how i love you....
I'm about to start grad school at IU... Maybe I should rethink this decision?
Specific Tasks?
What kind of extra are we talking here?
I think it's a covert crack party invite.
Haha, so would it have been more "appropriate" if they used Times New Roman, or Arial?
Does the font really matter, I mean 10 bucks an hour... ;D
haha.
Are you people f-ing serious? Who gives a shit what font they use?
I used to be a coke head this would be perfect work basically getting paid to be a coke head not to mention coke money.
I do wonder though, about the line:
"If you REALLY like using coke or crack"
hmmm.... makes me weary
This is how vampires order delivery. I'll have do use this idea in my town. Muahahaha