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Leftovers
FOUND by Rochelle
in Groton, Connecticut
Found this on the ground while doing some work in my yard. Thought it was an odd bit of advice.
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this reminds me of something i read today that said "Sex is the safest sport"
i think if i saw this sign i would leave my leftovers right next to it on the counter, perhaps with a note that said "I like to live on the edge"
Because that worries us even more than the mixing of hydrogen and H20...
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1389
the safest thing to do is wear sunscreen. (thanks baz)
the safest thing to do is stay in bed.
the safest thing to do is curl up in a little ball and hope it all passes over
Wear a helmet!
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/2643
The dumbest thing to do is make too much chili and leave it for Ron in an effort to patch things up.
@Lars: we have Finds from Ct and Tx today!
I wonder if someone but this up in a breakroom to help deter the hungry ants.
oops...I meant "put this up"
The safest thing to do is let sleeping dogs lie.
"Perhaps the worst thing that can happen is to reach into the refrigerator and come out with something that you cannot identify at all. You literally do not know what it is. Could be meat, could be cake. Usually, at a time like that, I'll bluff. "Honey, is this good?" "Well, what is it?" "I don't know. I've never seen anything like it. It looks like...meatcake!" "Well, smell it." (snort, sniff) "It has absolutely no smell whatsoever!" "It's good! Put it back! Somebody is saving it. It'll turn up in something." Thats what frightens me. That someone will consider it a challenge and use it just because it's in there.
It's a leftover. What a sad word that is. Leftover. How would you like to be...a leftover? Well, it wouldn't be bad if they were taking people out to be shot. I might even volunteer. But, y'know, leftovers make you feel good twice. D'ja ever think about that? When you first put them away, you feel really intelligent- "I'm saving food!" And then, after a month, when hair is growing out of them and you throw them away you feel...really intelligent. "I'm saving my life!"
-George Carlin
. . . but be sure to remove the refrigerator door first to prevent accidental suffocation.
My Great Aunt had leftovers in her fridge from the 80's: Trust me, it wasn't safe.
the safest thing to do is to not jump in front of a speeding truck.
It is also the ONLY way to grow mold for your homeschooling science experiments.
Safety First!
Captain:
Could that maybe explain why the Reid kids smell like cheese? =)
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/4958
I'm thrilled that refrigerate is spelled correctly!
Safe words of wisdom from my Dad, regarding leftovers:
"When in doubt, throw it out."
@ John: you've got your funny on today. lol
Agent Ling Hi, you beat me to it.
SAFEST thing is to throw them away.
Next safest thing is to freeze 'em.
(Maybe a would-be 'polite' passive-aggressive note signifying 'Stop leaving food lying around in the kitchen!!!')
Wondered if this was a typographer inordinately proud of the beautiful lower-case f's in his font.
What font is this anway? Bembo? (my favourite... can't be sure without a capital R!). But it appears to be letter-spaced, i.e. the individual letters are artificially far apart.
Odd.
I don't know what the font is- strange letter spacing, indeed. That's a very long tilde, too...
I DO have a font in my collection called Leftovers, though. (doesn't look a thing like this.)
Ahh... My best friend just came down with a wicked case of food poisoning thanks to the consumption of some un-refrigerated leftovers... I think I’ll forward this public service announcement along to him.
And after spending the better part of the year gingerly avoiding my housemate's UFB (Unidentifiable Food Bits) which have a tendency to accumulate in the 'fridge after a week of her ordering take-away and then not finishing it, I am inclined to agree with Agent Ling Hi, Agent Ling Hi's dad, and Jonathan: When in doubt, bin it. (Unless of course it's stew or shepherd’s pie, in which case it is actually better the next day.) I just finished dealing with The Night of The Living Pizza, and am getting ready to tackle Dawn of The Dead Chicken and Chips.
The safest thing is to wear a condom.
leftovers... condoms... sloppy seconds?
(throw refrigeration and my free mental associations wander in the general direction of necrophilia.. not somewhere I expected to go on a lovely Tuesday morning, but hey.)
hahaha, necrophilia is funny.
a womans head was found by two children on a beach in Scotland today, that's be quite a thing to see on the site!
The safest thing to do is to look both ways before crossing the street.
I threw out some realy funky old gravy this morning from my fridge. <shivers>
Considering the climate where this was found it could be a reference to someone using (what we call in my house) "the walk in cooler" ... a screened in porch in the winter. Quite handy for those oversize food products commonly consumed in the winter (Giant Turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Giant ham for Easter)
I had know idea! This is good to know...
Ha! Spam question: Do you see a doctor or a dentist for a toothache?
Oops. I had NO idea. sorry I was getting ahead of myself.
The most dangerous thing to do is making toast while taking a bath.
The safest thing to do is either bitchslap a piranha or dry hump a Boeing 747.
The safest thing to do is install padding on all the walls when you live with a three year old.
Side note: Every time I log in, I'm taken to a different Find. It's like playing Find Roulette today, and I'm not complaining!
Chrome Toaster, I can't believe you have a collection of fonts! You also seem to have an unnatural knowledge of fonts - are you a fontologist or a fontasist?
That said, this looks like your usual passive-aggressive type note left in a communal space - the person is too scared to just come up to you and say "Put your food in the fridge FFS" so they resort to going back to their computer, up-ping the font to about 48, surreptitiously composing, printing and trimming the note, and then sneaking into said communal space in the hours of darkness in case they are caught having an opinion. These types of people should be hunted down and tickled quite fiercely until they LIGHTEN UP!!!!!
Looks like the note was used for target practice… Probably the rest of the housemates had a food flinging contest to demonstrate their feelings. (I wouldn’t know such things, though, having never participated in such a flagrant display of disrespect. *cough*)
The safest thing to do is to FREEZE your leftovers. Unless of course, if they contain mayonnaise or hardboiled egg. Then it's the unsafest thing you can do!
Food in suspended animation...cryonics for food...the freezer!
Cabbage Tree: Chrome is a font of knowledge.
The last word is a rebus! Remember those idle school activities?
leftovers = eft in lovers = f'in' lovers
~The safest thing
to do is refrigerate
your f'in' lovers.
Amen. I've always wondered what to do with those f'in' lovers. Now I know.
yay for leftovers
*is eating some now*
I like it better as f-in' lovers.
Chrome has a font fetish. I have a typographic one too. Type as art. That's why that tilda makes such a grand flourish!
The safest thing is to thoroughly destroy every note you ever write, or else we WILL find it and we WILL mock you.
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Cabbage, I'd say fontophile...? You don't even want to KNOW how many fonts I've amassed! For no apparent reason.
I recently found great comfort in the fact that I'm not alone: It seems that many others out there in cyberland love fonts as much as I do. As for the leftovers font, I've retyped this message, in that font, and will post it on my myspace, for those of you who are just dying to see what it looks like.. later though. gotta run.
Chrome, you're an "infont."
This had to have been written to my mother-in-law. She is famous for (ignorantly) trying to sicken families. For *one* example, last summer she made spanish rice with ground beef for a picnic that was the next day, and left it out all night since she had no room in the fridge. Then she brought it to the oudoor picnic and set it in the 95 degree sun. And she wonders why she has chronic diarrhea.
The safest thing to do is to do nothing.
I'm not logging in today because I don't want to be caught telling on my mil, but...
I can top chillin's story. MY mil has a little bin of flour in her cupboard labeled "fish flour". She uses it to coat raw fish before she cooks it, then puts the leftover flour back in the cupboard in that container to use next time fish is on the menu. EEK! Suffice it to say we don't visit when she offers to make a fish dinner.
Nightingale, just don't throw your "infont" out the window on your mother's teacher's birthday cake.
And now I am ready to hurl. No fish or rice for me today.
The safest thing to do is supervise while your husband cooks, eat a lovely dinner, and then supervise while your children clean up the kitchen. It's an exhausting job, but I think I can handle it.
I got some advice Dont leave your shoes outside your room.Dont mess around at school.
Dont invest in Bear-who ever thay are. Dont buy emron shers. Dont smoke crack. Dont put fingers in plug sockets. If a oven feels hot the first time then dont do it again i still going to be hot the 2nd time . Dont slam revoving doors. Dont buy a time-shere in Tibet.
Dont Dont join any crazy sects in Waco (just kidding) More than anything Dont eat yello snow lol Jamie
@ Yesterday's lunch: Never! My infont is a sweet bebby. xo
@Chillin and anonymous chicken: I won't eat my mil's cooking either, for the same reasons. What is it with that generation?
@Jamie: don't take any wooden nickles.
@So clever: Finn lovers do it in the sauna.
eww,eww, eww! The fish flour got to me, as did Point of Order's "walk in cooler," which my parents often use,too. I'm visualizing the giant dried out turkey cadaver on the back porch being eyeballed by the neighborhood racoons. gaachh!
@ Jonathan too: the font is Garamond 3, a 1936 Linotype version of a 1917 American typefounders design, now available as an Adobe postscript font.
A $26 font, and someone threw it out on the ground. What were they thinking?? Thanks, Rocky, for the info! I have Garamond, but it doesn't look like the fancy schmancy Garamond3.
I think Rochelle should pass this one over to my dumbass roommates. They haven't yet seemed to grasp the concept of food safety, despite being twenty.
OMG! When I was living in Berkeley, there were these guys from NorthDakota (and this is nothing against NO. Daks, because I lived there once upon a time, too, and met many, many wonderful people) across the hall, and they SO Needed a babysitter! They were keeping their lunch meat in the cupboard! There were ants crawling all over it! And they were still eating it!! They would just ... brush off the ants... and make a sandwich. (they were well past twenty, too.)
Sometimes I wonder if people who grew up with the leftovers being left out all night, and re-served the following day, "fish flour", mold being scraped off the food before serving, green baloney, and those little brown bugs in the flour and cearal (chronic diarrhea, anyone?) actually build up immunites to food borne illnesses that serve them throughout their adult lives.
Chromey, people have no respect for fonts. Tossing them to the ground, misspelling with them, using bad language... I'm going to campaign for the rights of fonts. People will have to type with comic sans ms, until they learn to spell, use proper grammar etc.
Mona, I'm with you 100% on your Prevention of Cruelty to Fonts campaign. You can be our first queen.
@Night: Ha! I laugh again!
OH Rocky.... me?? the Queen??? I am honoured.
(ps.say hi to bullwinkle for me)
Hey Mona, since you're the designated Queen of Fonts, can you get me a font based on the handwriting of the Latin portion of
http://foundmagazine.com/find/1648
This Find? Thanks.
That has got to be the funniest thing in the world.
haha, the 'safest thing to do'..
wow.. they must be poor? =]
And don't forget it FIFO it!
this definitely made me lol.