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August 15, 2008 |
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Wisk You Away
FOUND by Nicola Borland
in Los Angeles, California
I found this note on the ground at my local dog park in Highland Park. I went to pick it up and throw it away when I noticed what it was. The only people that go to this park are ones with dogs, so I hope that their dogs like each other too! Although I have to say that the park on is not really the best place to wear a "fabulous dress"! I wish them all the best.
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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...
If I don't wear the fabulous dress, will you still love me?
More than likely, he'll whisk the dress away.
Just like in the beginning of 101 Dalmations! (1960's Disney animated version)
I recently took a class where they had us write letters to the people we hoped to attract as if we had already met them and knew them. The assignment was homework and the next day we came back and shared them. This looks like one of those letters. . . one of the less thought out letters. It's typed and people type home work. Also the dear love is way odd if a person was writing an actual love letter.
Oh, I dunno, Long Time Listener...back in the day my great granny started her love letters "Honoured and Respected Sir." At least the first ones. Then she came down to just "Dearest".
When you shout, "Calgon--take me away!" you get Wisked away in a fabulous dress.
@Jan; can't he do both?
if done properly, whisking your love away is Supposed to result in their dress ultimately being whisked away as well...
dogs......yum
I wouldn't want to get w(h)isked anywhere. It'd get too frothy and airy; I prefer the natural state.
@long time listener --
Yup, smacks of homework to me. Or a shy man dreaming of slipping someone a note but he'll never dare to do it and crumples it up instead. (Yup, that was me aged about 13.)
Anyway if they fell in love why aren't they together already? Why should he need to w(h)isk her anywhere?
Alternatively the letter is from one dog to another (hence typewritten -- dogs don't have very legible handwriting). She must be one of those chihuahuas in a silly tutu.
whisk, for f's sake.
Or cats.
Which would make Darnell one of those cats' whiskers.
Lol..My ex-husbands grandmother ALWAYS called me Darnell. My name is Danielle. For some reason no one corrected her. We were married 5 years! I would always write "Danielle" so not sure if she just thought that was how you pronounced it or what. Anyway seeing Darnell set my mood this morning haha!
Maybe Darnell is the dog, and wants to go for a walk.
@ Long Time Listener: I call my husband Lovee far more then I use his actual name and address him in letters and notes the same way. I also try to type EVERYTHING due to terrible handwriting... handwriting that still shames my school teacher mother.
Most of this letter sounds corny to me, but I can't get enough of Darnell and Love having a park that is theirs. Like when couples have songs. I will have to scout out a geographical location that my Lovee and I can claim stakes on.
Maybe Darnell is aware of the fact the park is not a great place for a fabulous dress; thus, when it gets messed up he can Wisk the dirt away (although my mother always told me Tide was the best).
wonder what the fabulous dress looks like....
Any of you guys remember that actress from the Ghost Whisperer, Jennifer Love Hewitt? It's said that her friens actually call her Love. Maybe this IS the girl's name.
Or maybe Darnell is stalking Jennifer Love Hewitt. This was found in LA, after all.
I've also met 2 women who's names were LOVE. Really!
They were also born in the 60's...not sure if that makes a difference? (Parents being hippies?)
Anyway, I think this is a real note that Darnell wanted to give to LOVE, but either he was too shy or he could have lost it?
If they both are dog owners, and this is *their* park...well, I wish all the best to their *tail-waggers* and to them!
Love will be whisked away wearing a fabulous dress. I hope Darnell has a fabulous place in mind, other than Arby's (or Tommy's...it is L.A., after all).
Joda babes, are you and your husband the Howell's?
Wisk around the collar gets ring around the collar. Every time.
(Good Call, Pastor Z!)
@ Mona: I wish! I would love to be called Lovey. Alas, my husband is the uber-macho-football type so I settle for "Babe".
How nice - but I wonder why it's 'typed' and not handwritten ?
I find even slightly romantic notes WAY MORE so when they are handwritten. . . perhaps his penmanship was SO WRETCHED that he was afraid she wouldn't be able to decipher it. ? ?
I wanna know just what kind of "fabulous dress" one wears to a dog park ? ?
I hate when people put clothes on their pets.
I'd rather be Calgoned away than Wisked.
When I was in late teens, early 20s, I guess I looked very vulnerable... I'd always get these notes from guys at places I bartended or waited tables, that were worded like we had been in love for years. One guy called me at work, and when he said his name, I was all "who?" and he said, "Your boyfriend, silly!" "Ummm... that's not my boyfriend's name, plus, he's in the kitchen." "What? Every time I come in, you talk to me and smile at me! You're my girl!" o_0 Eek! "That's my job, man. I'm just friendly."
I guess I got a little tougher, 'cause that hasn't happened in years. I used to attract the weirdos - that's what this note reminds me of. Like, Darnell just passed by this girl in the park, and she smiled.
@Monkey, I have to agree with you on this one... I think he wants to wisk both the girl & her dress away.
@ Curious: now I'm looking at this FOUND in a whole new way. I took it as a sappy love note, but now I know it was written by some creep (probably the Vampire Rapist) who’s made up an imaginary relationship with a complete stranger he saw in a park. Ewwwww!
What are the chances that “Love” ISN’T sitting at the bottom of a cellar well rubbing lotion on it’s skin?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/15/lost
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man i wish i had been the finder of this.
Just for today I'm gonna assume that it's a real note from a real man writing to his long-term girlfriend to meet him in the park so that he can propose to her where they first met.
*Swoon*
(I need to believe).
Just for today I'm gonna assume that it's a real note from a real man writing to his long-term girlfriend to meet him in the park so that he can propose to her where they first met.
*Swoon*
(I need to believe).
@Stranger in the park -- so nice it was posted twice.
I like that very romantic wondering. My mood just lifted thinking of the possibility of being all dolled up in a non-doll place and feeling like the only two people in that moment and time. Where they first met, saw each other -- with that fabulous dress -- big sloppy kisses, tears and Yes! Yes! Yes! I'll marry you. Big sloppy kisses. Yummy!!!!
Sorry if I ruined the mood.
Believe, Stranger! Believe!
Where I grew up there were 2 elderly sisters named Texas and Lovelace (pronounced Loveless) Mont. Her sister hated the way Lovey's name was pronounced, so it was Lovey until she died in her late 80's. She had a very creaky but refined old-lady voice, and over the phone it was a real experience as a kid to hear, "Good evening, this is Lovey Mont. Is your father at home? Might I perchance speak to him?" She actually talked like that...she had been an "elocutionist."
The way the text is so straight and perfect while the paper under it is crumpled makes this look fake.
Although, if you were going to fake a note I'm sure you could come up with one more interesting than this one.
@JodaBabes, because it puts the lotion in the basket.
@ MONA- You're a great FOUND-HOUND!!! I loved the other FIND of yours...the one where the hubby hollowed out his *so-called* book collection (to his wife anyway) and after he passed, the wife gave the collection away to some woman, thinking she was gonna' score some excellent books. BOY...did she ever!! All those *porn* and *nudes* polaroids...from wayyy back...I'd would have LOVED to FIND that one, for sure!
@ JODABABES- That totally terrifies me...being locked in a cellar, no windows, in a cage, beaten and used as a slave, etc...no need to get graphic but that is just...100% pure terror!
@JodaBabes & Rebel: "or it gets the hose again."
I have several friends who walk around saying that line over and over again, like a tic.
Holly, on this other site i frequent, bookninja, there was a huge discussion on what the bookseller should have done with those.
http://www.bookninja.com/?paged=4
you have to scroll down that page a bit, if youre interested, and then click on the 'discuss' to read all of the opinions. If you think this place gets a little judgenmental at times, you should see these guys go at it.
seriously. crumple a piece of paper you have typed. then flatten it and make a photo copy. the words are straight because the paper is flat, but the creases on the paper create shadows while being copied. hence the straight words but crumpled paper.
another point. how or why would you "fake" a find. what would be the point other than to entertain you? quit being a tool and enjoy the finds
@ Mouth: In my house it's not at all unusual to hear "Would ya?" being called from another room for no reason other than to elicit a response of “You ‘bout a size fourteen” or "I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard."
Is there a movie more quotable?
Dear Darnell de Bergerac,
I'm sure some straight men call dresses "fabulous" but not many. Did somebody help you write this note...I don't know maybe a close female friend or your gay brother?
Your BFF,
terrieissovery
Hmm...35 words and 4 are LOVE? Ish.
*Whine whine whine sexual indiscretion sexual indiscretion whine whine sexual indiscretion more wine cheese sexual indiscretion sexual indiscretion whine*
Sorry about all the space at the end of my post my hand slipped as I was posting.
What ended up happening
http://tinyurl.com/6luljv
LOL @ Terrie: Great connection! I love that movie and have the French version with Gérard Depardieu.
I thought Darnell was a female name.
that LOLspeak is worse than text language. shudder, cringe.. cry and weep.
I mean, it's kinda cute on the silly pictures. But all those people commenting in LOLspeak? It's freakin' weird.
Lolita, all the Darnells I've known or known of were male and black. I'll bet there are some female Darnells somewhere though.
How romantic.
You rarely see that anymore..
True, pure romance.
Its hard to find.
@ MONA- Thank-you ever so much for the *tip* on Bookninja, Love it!!!
It will now be one of my new sites to frequent.
A few things:
1) I've seen my boyfriend's handwriting, and, believe me, Times New Roman has great potential for being more romantic.
2) The same boyfriend would not flinch a bit at showing his love with such a note, the word "fabulous" included.
No way! I know about those eggs, and what you've done to them.