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July 07, 2008 |
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Tropical Paradise/Parking Rage
FOUND by Anne
in Cambridge, Massachusetts
I picked this up on the street near Central Square. Nothing too special about the content of the note, but I like how it looks like the "dumb ass" is pooping into a magical Tahitian lagoon.
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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...
that is one saggy bottom ... at first I thought it was boobs.
I am both fascinated and creeped out by the visual mirror created between the rounded bottom, with its dark center extruding poop, and the rounded flower, with its dark center extruding the stamen.
What nice note paper for such a nasty, poopy note!
Can you really have someone else's car towed away just because you think they're parked too close to you?
And if the person who wrote the note was all that parked in, his/her car would still be there when the recipient got back and found this insulting note. That wouldn't be a pretty scene.
I thought that was the giant chalk hill figure of the Long Man of Wilmington (before I noticed the dribbles of poop).
Why don't people think about how the context of their note is affected by the presentation? No one can take this threat seriously on this paper. It just makes me want to have a margarita.
I thought at first it was addressed to Dear Ashley.
I love it. This should be a Hallmark card.
It was Found in Cambridge, so it was probably written to some self-absorbed Ivy League shithead who parked like he/she owned both the street and the sidewalk.
Flargy, can you draw that? You guys are cracking me up!
Hello officer?
Yeah - I need a car towed...
But they parked really close to me...
It's a BMW, and I'm sure he's a jerk...
Aughh - nevermind...
I thought it was a little stick person, arms raised and barfing. I couldn't figure out why it was between those narrow walls.
Ahahaha!! I agree with Flargy, too!
Pretty Ruby Red Hibiscus flower, tho'. Too bad the note is *shitty*.
It says it's blocked in. Not NEAR a car.
Thank God for Massholes. Everyone loves us.
(and thanks to Found for taking the extra "e" out of Massachusetts)
Pixi, how do you know that Found took out an extra 'e'? was it there before, and not there now? And where does the other 'e' go?
Alan, love your side of the conversation.
Just in case the dumb ass doesn't speak English, I better draw one. But how do I make it look dumb? Maybe have some poo shooting out of it, like, "You're so dumb, you can't even hold your poo in!" Yeah, that looks nice.
Wow. That's classy. I'll never understand what people are thinking when the go off on others for their alleged rudeness--while being rude.
I had to read the comments and then stare at it upside down to see the offending bum. [The ass, man, I'm talkin' about the ass.] I thought it was a stick figure man strung up in some sort of archaic torture device sticking out of the ocean. It looked like he'd been hanged and then impaled Vlad the Impaler style.
But no! Y'all had to see that nastay bootay.
I see it, Schneh. It's like he's sweating pretty heavy, from his armpits, when you look at it like that.
I had to leave a mean parking note the other day and it felt good. I had lots of material from this site.
I put mine on an actual Thank You note.
Hey Mona, I just got back from an ocean front vacation.
Pixi owned Found!
That was just an imaginary location, Pepper, i'm really hanging around in the Louvre, still.
when I first saw the picture I saw a stick figure that was tied to two poles. I still dont see the ass.
Lauren, I saw the sweaty stick figure when I first looked at it too.
Pixi
Just slightly off topic - but was I right about boy and girl horseshoe crabs?
Mona-- I remember seeing it as "Massachusettes" a few times. See "asleep at the soundboard". It just irks me for stupid reasons. Maybe because kids like to see how fast they can spell Mississippi but Massachusetts can be spelled with roughly the same rhythm...and it's interesting because it's less repetitive. Maybe because I'm a Masshole.
Alan--you were right--sorry for the lateness of my swoon. I once (naively) asked a touch-tank audience "How can you tell the difference between boy & girl horseshoe crabs" and got a very anatomically detailed answer about the difference between boys and girls from a 5 year old...so from then on I made sure to include "by their claws" in the question...the girls were always happy that the female horseshoe crabs were the biggest in the tank, but then a little miffed that females had to carry the male horseshoe crabs around for mating.
Sorry for the long post. Slogging through data is HELL and I miss my old job.
I guess I'll run away to visit some old goats or something like that.
At first in the drawing I "saw" that photo of a couple at the beach with their hands up so it looks like they're holding the setting sun between them.
Then I read the find.
I lead a very clean and sheltered life, I guess. At least these days.
LOL@ Basil!!
http://foundmagazine.com/find/791
I heart you!
What can I say about the Find that hasn't been said already? Nothing? oh. Okay. Sooooo...
LOL@ Basil again. (I thought the drawing was some sort of GoalPost Goddess or something..)
It would have been better without the name-calling or sketch. The harmless insults detract from the impact of the real threat of having one's car towed. As does the juvenile poop drawing. A tow threat is scary enough-- the fines, the inconvenience, the missing car... Yikes. Everyone thing else about this note just made me want to laugh, because 12-year-olds can't drive.
Thanks, Pixi. I understand your frustration, and I wouldn't call you a masswhole, tho i've known a couple of those as well.
Baby Basil, that's sweet. I love how i can see what you're seeing, once you describe it. I think i'll just see that, now, and disregard the nasty message. I wish i led a more clean and sheltered life.
I have to agree, cube girl. Sometimes there is more meaning when one uses restraint. (obviously, not a positive attribute that i possess.)
I'd be worried if my anus was in the middle of my sacrum. :/
...looks like hangman to me..
When I first saw it I thought it was a stick figure too. I saw the lush paradise and person tied between two poles and thought it was a threat to sacrifice the person to King Kong.
Thanks Pixi - I shall now take my horseshoe crab knowledge and park it on someone's bumper.
Flargy - the note was from Central Square, which is populated by far more folks with tropical notepaper and an overwhelming estimation of their own artistic skills than it is with Ivy leagers. They generally stick to Harvard and Kendall.
My first reaction was to compile a mental list of my neighbors who probably wrote this, but then I realized no one in Central has any right to criticize how someone else has parked, because none of us can freakin' drive.
I just love the combo. Great find. A friend of mine used to buy toilet paper with exotic flowers on it. Kinda reminds me of this.
Someone truly got the concept, did they not? Always start out with something nice - here, the first look at the "nice paper" and "dear" - then put in the criticism - "you cannot park for s***"- and then close with a pleasant finish - here it is the suggestion that the not so able driver nonetheless has a nice apple shaped behind (at least I would interpret the drawing that way). Something for the classroom.
I originally thought the arse was part of the original design on the paper, a stick man holding up two sticks.
It was only when I read the finders comment that I realised how naïve I was...
Oh, I just read, Lauren and Tori, I am not alone!
I tried and I can't see the happy stick figure people.
It also took me a moment to realize that it was actually a drawing of a bum. Furthermore, since it began with "Dear Asshole", I read "Dumbass" as the closing salutation. As in,
Dear Asshole,
blah blah $&#*%$ blah.
Love Dumbass.
That cracked me up thinking the writer had drawn a self-portrait at the bottom,incase Asshole knows more than one Dumbass.
I just got done laughing my head off. Next time I want to write a nasty note to someone (which would include a drawing, of course), I will make sure it is on my best writing paper.
Also, having read all the postings at the end of the day made this find even better.
You can absolutely have someone towed for being parked too close. If you can't get out of yr spot, that person's an asshole.
After all the finds I see from people's cars. I want to propose to Hallmark they have a "F*%$ You" cards for people's vehicles.
heheh that picture made me burst out laughing!
Hello. Is this thing on?
this is amusing...i like the poop dribbles. (my little sister who's obsessed with bodily functions would love this...i have to show her tomorrow...) however. the finder's commentary is even better.