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June 18, 2008 |
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Empty Love
FOUND by Kathleen
in Keene, New Hampshire
This love note was left on the bar at a place I used to bartend. I should note it was empty inside.
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This is probably from the Sheriff of Lovin'
so was the note left for the bartender?
No LOVE in that 'LOVE note'!!
I'm thinking it was left for the bartender, too.
Well, except for the wink!
I love you, my sweet 'lil pucker-eye.
@FARMER- You make me laugh...and that's great!
Is this the same Kathleen of Icky Guy?
@ Kathleen in Keene, NH ... isn't it "used to tend bar" rather than "used to bartend"?
@just wondering, good catch. One would think it was the same Kathleen, who apparently makes her living in the service industries. Restaurants and bars are probably a gold mine for Found-able things. Perhaps she saved up several and sent them in all at once?
What was empty inside? The note or the bar?
As far as love notes go, this one seems fairly empty.
It was very sweet of this note's author to reach out to someone who clearly has sustained a serious eye injury - probably the result of a barroom dart game gone awry.
This eye patch is for you.
Looks like Mr. Smiley got his...no no I mean in a bad way...no I mean like he got beat up. I'm on the wrong side of the tracks this morning!
that darn Kathleen.. what is it with her? She has good finds. Must be the 'service' industry, indeed, that makes for good finds. I'm so freaking jealous.
that is all.
@ empty in side ... Hulloa! I'm glad you've been studying your telephone use protocol rules.
[veiled reference to recent sale of the Hartford, CT 1878 first phone book ever] (look it up)
@Librarian
Hulloa....
I am glad...
that you...
understand...
That is all.
(i hope that was slow and distinct enough... too funny, Librarian.
Thanks, Mr Librarian -- I googled it!
'New Haven's first phone book, published by the Connecticut District Telephone Co. in 1878, offered some tips: Speak slowly and distinctly, greet the person on the other line with "Hulloa!" and end the conversation with "That is All!"'
As for the Find, I think it's sweet just the way it is. No further information required.
I'm going to start saying "Hulloa" all the time now.
As soon as I figure out how to pronounce it.
Looks like he might have pink eye.
I wish someone would leave me a squinty eyed love note... or maybe not.
Funny, I always thought Librarian was a Ms.
Dunno why, but I just did. Musta missed a memo somewhere.
Hulloa!
I'm thinking the smiley face was supposed to appear to be winking until one opens the note to find it empty and realizes that it was the Stink Eye after all.
That is all.
@ Carla Sue- I have always assumed Librarian is a Ms, too. Hmm...
ok, hands up, who's imagining the Librarian as one of those sexy porn-star librarians, with the tight skirt and undone blouse, high heels and geeky glasses, hair up in a bun, that she lets down to bom chicka bom bom music?
@Carla Sue, and Rebel, [and mona lisa and the rest of you, too] ... just because Jonathan says I'm "Mr." you're going to go with that?
nope. I think you're a she. Always have, always will. I, for one, think Jonathan's wrong. (no disrespect meant, Jonathan)
Yes, this is the same Kathleen as Icky Guy.
Over the years I worked in this particular place, I found about 3 or 4 submissions that I did end up sending to found all at once. My best submission ever, however, from a place I worked at before this one, has never showed up here. It was a super crazy stalker note on a takeout menu:
http://kathleen.typepad.com/unsettled/2004/09/
Though I have done more than my fair share of work in the service industry (which *is* awesome for found items), this fall I'll be matriculating at law school.
@Librarian - you are probably right.
Oops, that wasn't the full link.
http://kathleen.typepad.com/unsettled/2004/09/
Geesh, apparently it cuts it off. Sorry for the triple post. If your interested, when you go to the above page, score to Sept 10, 2004.
It *is* stalkerishly good, though.
Where's the grammar police today? No punctuation? A capital letter in the middle of a sentence and the word is not a person, place or thing? That's a *frowny* face on the top of their paper for who
ever wrote this note! :(
(Or so says my 2nd grade teacher, as she rolls over in her grave.)
p.s. Don't know if my 2nd grade teacher is actually dead or not but seeing as 2nd grade was a verrrrry looooong time ago for me she just might be.
@ Kathleen ... say it with me "tinyurl.com tinyurl.ocm tinyurl.com" [freonz or someone had me do that a few days ago when a url I was sending got cut off ... it's free (as in beer) and it works!]
and "tend bar" vs. "bartend" really makes me no never mind because I'm still trying to figure out why lawyers have to take tests and apply just to be admitted to a bar whereas the rest of us can simply walk on in.
This find immediately made me sing the words to a Bob Marley song.. "this is a love note to you-hoo-hoo.. baby don't worry, 'bout a thing..."
Now pay attention, class... librarian has dropped several hints along the way as to ("people have sex, words have gender") ms. or mr...
but further I shall not elaborate.
I hate smiley-faces. I've even ripped shrubs out of my yard because they had little yellow flowers that reminded me of smiley-faces.
Perpetual cheerfulness is annoying and a lil' creepy.
@ Librarian - thanks for the laugh and the tip!
http://tinyurl.com/4carz5
Librarian's always been a guy to me.
So - yo Librarian - what say we grab us a couple brewskis and head out to the nearest sporting event where we can slap each other on the back and say things like "wench" and "fart."
"...why lawyers have to take tests and apply just to be admitted to a bar whereas the rest of us can simply walk on in."
@Librarian, if you'd partied with some of the law students I've partied with you'd understand.
@just dancing and singing etc, I'm the one with the bee in my bonnet on sex vs. gender, not Librarian. "Irregardless" also gets my knickers in a twist.
@Kathlee, groovy beans! Glad you made a tinyurl(.com) out of the post. Nothing like a good stalker note - as long as it's not addressed to you! Gadzooks, that one is as creepy as a Hitchcock movie! That wasn't FOR you was it? *shudder*
Librarian... which are you? are you forever going to leave us in the suspense and mystery section?
...or the transgender studies section?
@Kathleen wrote: "this fall I'll be matriculating at law school."
Be sure to wear one of those nursing bras!
Oh, Freonz, I know it's you, not librarian... that part of my post was in your honor.
Is Librarian's real name Pat?
getting this note was better than getting a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Happy face with Stink eye.
That is my kind of love note.
Listen...
Do you hear the eerie silence?
It's sort of like....a library.
Oh, I'm crap at reading handwriting and cant make out the stalker note, even enlarged. I want to know!!!
As for this one, maybe the writer had fancied the recipients friend for ages and was constantly getting them to pass on love letters for them, now he/she has realised the recipient is the true person for them and has written this.
Awww how sweet! She even loves him when he has that puckered up bitter beer face, and drew a picture of it :)
If you go <prev, <prev, <prev, <prev, <prev (etc.) and then go next>, next>, next>, next>, next> (etc.), extra finds appear that were skipped over when using only <prev. Hmmm. But you already knew this, right? Dudley is always the last to know.
I'm seriously freaked out by the American Apparel ad with the guy (?) in the tank top. Seriously.
In order to determine whether Librarian is a man or woman, there is only one question that needs to be asked:
In what sizes do pantyhose come in?
[this is from the famous person-computer Turing test. From Wikipedia: Turing described a simple party game which involves three players. Player A is a man, player B is a woman, and player C (who plays the role of the interrogator), who can be of either gender. In the imitation game, player C - the interrogator - is unable to see either player A or player B, and can only communicate with them through written notes. By asking questions of player A and player B, player C tries to determine which of the two is the man, and which of the two is the woman. Player A's role is to trick the interrogator into making the wrong decision, while player B attempts to assist the interrogator.
In Turing's version, he replace the role of player A for a computer. If the computer answered the same as a human, he had passed the "artificial intelligence test."]
Anyway, all this to say that one of the questions that the interrogator asked was the pantyhose question. It stumped the man and the computer, and voila, the woman was revealed.
@ Indy: WTF? I am a woman and don't even know the sizes of pantyhose. Is it the same as buying socks?
Librarian, what say you?
Librarian, I just assumed Jonathan was in the know about this, he seems like a wise man most of the time.
I have a tendency to develop a mental image of what the regulars look like. I won't go into who looks like the previous "icky man", but it keeps me entertained.
@Alan, that was you at the game the other night , drinking brewskis and yelling about that "fartin wench"? Wow.. small world.
There's roughly an 80% chance that "Librarian" is female. As of 2000, most credentialed librarians were white, female and between 45 and 54 years of age. In 2006, there were roughly 158,000 librarians in the United States, with a projected ten-year growth of only another 5,800 positions by 2016, according to the US Department of Labor. The existence of both entry-level and management positions in the field will depend heavily on the retirement of boomer librarians. To remain competitive in a difficult job market affected by decreased funding for libraries in general, it is likely that librarians will increasingly need to hold an academic masters or other advanced degree in addition to an MLS (or MLIS). I've already forgotten what this has to do with today's find. Oh yes, pantyhose.
Librarian's comment this morning on the "I shot the sherriff" Find said it all for me: "Is that a six-shooter in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?" Hahaha!
all the speculation and supposition is going to just scare Librarian off! Don't do that!! I LIKE Librarian!!
All I'm saying this morning is that I'm going to print out these comments and treasure them forever - or until I clean off my desk and throw away the printout accidentally.
and someone will Find it and ... well, send it to Found.
Oh Carla Sue, you're so sweet.
I kind of assumed Librarian was a Mr Librarian, since I used to be one.
You know, drab and dusty and awkward in social situations but bursting with useless bits of knowledge and thus somehow strangely sexy.
Perhaps.
@ LIBRARIAN- I've always presumed (been most certain) that you're a 'woman-librarian'. I guess the reasoning for this presumption is, my whole 38 years of living on this big, beautiful, green, earth, all the librarians in the schools I've attended, there was only 1, yes, 1, male-librarian. (I attended 6 different schools including the college I went to, plus, we moved quite abit as an adolescent, tween, and a teen!)
Also, the way you present your *posts* or *comments* on FOUND, meaning I really enjoy the way you write, what you write and know, the humour, the wisdom, etc...I could go on.
However, I know intelligent, male or female beings can write like that, so, now my feelings on this are a wee bit...distorted, like maybe I HAVE dimensia! (<--sp?)
I'm still and will always be a fan of yours! No matter the conclusion!!
Also, I apologize if I've offended or hurt anyone, in any kind of way, from what I wrote.
I'm hoping I haven't.
I think Librarian is a guy. I half wonder if it is someone I've worked with before but I don't think so. I used to work with male librarians...one of them was pretty weird...like curse at your computer all day because you lost at solitaire weird.
@Jonathan: Indeed!
Ooh...right back atcha.