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April 09, 2008 |
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The Big City
FOUND by Davy Jones
in Richmond, Virginia
I was walking down Cary Street, and saw this on the sidewalk. It immediately made me wonder: who says the big city has time for YOU, Post-it note?
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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...
Neither to I....
(Jesus christ, what kind of spam protection question is "what is 28 times 15"? You would need to be a robot to know the answer to that!)
i have no time for big idiots
I have no map for the big city.
What's that extra line for? Is it a hyphen between Have and No? A blank line in the same place? An accent mark over the e in time?
darkshines, you need to be high to answer that spam question.
Off the subject but does anybody know what the make out club really is? Sounds like a good idea.
Pre-coffee dyslexia kicked in and I read "I have nothing for the big city" which really changes the tone of the message.
i wonder what the little dash is about after have and before no time (notime?).
@the city: i clicked on the make out club cause i like the art of the ad. looks to me like yet another teenage girl hooks up with 40 y/o man site.
I have no time for messages like this.
I'll bet the Big city has no time for the writer of this Find either.
Hilary, oh ew. Nothing happens when I click on it. Thanks for checking!
Librarian and hilary, I think the little line is because this post-it came from a game. One of those ice-breakers they play at meetings or youth group. Everyone gets a post-it and starts with "I have" and then finishes the sentence. I don't know where it goes from there. Maybe they put them in a hat and pull them out and guess whose is who's. Or maybe it was from ESL (ELL) class and the teacher put them on the students' backs and they walked around asking each other questions in English until they got enough clues to figure out what the signs on their backs say. I've done this kind of thing in foreign language class. However, "I have no time for the big city" would be a tough one to guess. It was probably supposed to end with something like "a bike" or "a cat." But someone got bored.
Hello grammar-helpers .. is it whose or who's? They both look weird at this time in the morning.
I choose to use that hyphen between no and time.
@Clover, "whose" is possessive and "who's" is a contraction for "who is".
Yeah! A find from Richmond!
WORD!!!
I've always disliked big cities. I could go on, but I'll just leave it at "to each their own."
The writer could probably make ample time for the big titty.
I have no time for the big city
I am very busy these days
Printing out every word
Of my manifesto on Post-
it's
Me neither. I can always find plenty to do in the country. The city, on the other hand...seems like I work all the time and nothing ever gets done.
Ahh, all y'all hating on the big city! I love the pub on the corner, the Festivals nearly every weekend once it gets warm, the First Fridays art walk,sitting on the porch saying hi to everyone that walks by, and being able to walk almost everywhere (grocery store, my kid's school, church).
And, when it snows hard, I don't have to go to Kroger to stock up on milk and bread like my suburbanite co-workers. I just walk to the corner store where the owners live above it or better yet, down to the pub and grab a window seat and watch everyone slide down the hill.
I know "its to each his own" but I love city living, especially in my funky little historic city.
I guessed that the writer was trying to say something to his/her friend but couldn't be heard above the roar of traffic so had to write it down.
Clover's theory makes more sense though (as always).
OK, so -- today's game: when we get bored, we can all post 'I have --' what?
Here we go.
I have...
curtain-up in 67 minutes.
@Terrie: post-it manifesto. Ha! I like it! It gives me visions of bold postmodern art installations.
Tossed from the window of a Greyhound Bus as its writer bid a sneering farewell to Richmond in all of its oh-so-big city nonsense.
The writer is now unhappily settled in Lynchburg, VA. S/he has more time now.
And you can rest better tonight knowing that the big city has no time for you.
Isn't it that people who live in the country usually have more time than people in the city? The whole hustle & bustle thing?
The words "no" and "time" being joined together makes it sound like it is some brand name of some sort: "All new super quick coffee vending, now it takes 'Notime' " Maybe this person is a Notime sales man heading to a new market?
I have...
petunias to water and marigolds to plant.
I have...no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him. - Lawrence James
An early song title by Cat Stevens, perhaps?
I have... A day off tomorrow :-)
Snuffles the pirate hedgehog is being a hufflebutt today and so says nothing but huff puff.
I love this Find it's bold and to the point and just feels fun.
I have - a lovely bunch of coconuts...
i have...a molting frog on my back.
Hey Hey, we're the Monkees! And People say we Monkee around...
found by Davy Jones. Aaaawwwww, he was always my favorite.
...here they are a standing in a row..
richmond find representttttt
I wonder which part of Cary street it was found!
I recently saw (well OK downloaded) the pilot episode of the Monkees and was soooo mortified. I was mad, Mad, MAD about Davy Jones when I was about 6. I see him now and he is all beaky nose, pageboy haircut notwithstanding. Handsome? Can you be that high? (He obviously wasn't--only about 5ft4.)
I have...a craving for miso soup.
.. big ones, small ones, some the size of your head...
Time is precious.
I have a deep dislike of my new boss.
That's too bad, because the city could probably use the time.
http://foundmagazine.com/find/604
Frogs can molt?
I have no time for supersonic jet monkeys.
I didn't know Richmond was considered a "big city"
"Living just enough, just enough for the city...."
Oh My, Danielle- I was just thinking about that Find this morning.. strange Find to just put in there randomly.
@Monkeywrench: No (on the Cat Stevens song title.)
Have a great day off tomorrow! 8-)
I have...a good buzz going.
(Sorry for not getting my thoughts synched.)
@Chrome: I always liked Mickey Dolenz best. I think The Monkees had a song called "No Time", but I can only think of the Guess Who number:
"No time for a summer friend
No time for the love you send
Seasons change and so did I
You need not wonder why."
@Lars: I have-notime to watch "Sex in the City."
I have - hazy memories that I wish were clearer.
Who was that friend of mine in 7th grade who LOVED Mickey Dolenz?
I have - no memory of her name. She was tall and awkward.
I have-an itch I can't scratch.
@ night: i preferred sjp in square pegs.
and thanks for all the song memories tonight!
I have no memory of that which we did just yesterday...maybe I'll remember something I'm going to do tomorrow instead.
I also have no time for molting frogs.
@Fool for the City:
"I ain't no country boy, I'm just a homesick man.
I'm gonna hit the grit just as fast as I can."
There are so many good tunes with "City" and "Time". I could go on and on, but I'll stop now. Night night, all.
Merci, Freonz.
Nighty-night, Nightie-gale! Sweet dreams!
Well gang – I came on here to share my giggle with y’all…
I sometimes play a (sort of scrabble/word-find) game on my ‘puter, “Bespelled”. I’m often amazed at how I can “try” a “word” (only ‘cause there’s just a few letters available) and the stoopid game accepts it! (there are perfectly good words, not naughty either, that it rejects!) –
So, tonite, I realized I was trying the 'word': “biggen”… ah, I LOVE foundmagazine (!)
[ref: http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/1241]
Oh –btw, the game didn’t accept it, and I didn’t even try the word “biggened”(!)
So -- my comments about this find are delayed 'cause my stoopid computer wanted to play "updates"..... but here are some comments:
@ clover - “They both look weird at this time in the morning.” [re: who’s vs. whose]
à well that’s ‘cause they both ARE weird! (but of course Freon’s correct)
@ darkshines & monaLi – The answer to that spam question is “LOTS”. (maybe the anti-grammar-police folks are retaliating with tricky math questions?)
@ Monkeywrench! Close to my reaction – I thought maybe it was a soulful line for a song-writing project
@ Night...Thank you!
TIME waits for no one.
Hey -- I fell asleep. So this next little note is Way-2-Late, but that's okay.
The instant I read this, I thought of Cary Street, in all its be-street musicianed coffee scented splendour. Cary Street isn't the big city, it's the City for people who aren't too fond of the city.
28*15 is easy... think about it this way:
28*15 = 30*15-2*15 = 30*15-30 = 15*3*10-30 = 45*10-30 = 450-30 = 420...
or just remember that 42 (and apparently multiples of 42) is the most common spam protection answer... Im surprised spam bots havent been taught that yet.
Hmm. Carytown is hardly the "big city", haha. Maybe downtown RVA, but that's not big, it's just grungy. :P
kira, you just exploded 42000 braincells. I hope you're happy, you math geek.
Who said Richmond was a big city, anyway!?
i live near cary st. is this in richmond, va?
-kim in the city.
notime? or NO TIME?
Hahaha