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July 16, 2008 |
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Things To Cut
FOUND by Jimi
in Urbana, Illinois
I found this cryptic list on the streets of Urbana about a year ago.
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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...
hair, mustache, beard, fingernails, paper dolls, bushes, the lawn, weeds..
The lost item..cut out making lists to remind yourself how full your life is and that you have to give pony rides up..how pretentious. Who needs Midol when you have Foundmagazine hahahaha
I have to agree with all the things on this list.
Except maybe he should have added his cowboy hat? Nobody needs to see that...
Oh, and is it just me or does 'weekend adventures' sound a little dirty? Some fun times on thet there cattle ranch, I'm guessing.
Never cut weekend adventures, get rid of god and the horses, but always have weekend adventures.
I'm with you Effie!
"Horseback riding" is redundant. "Riding" implies "horse" all by itself. Only the un-horsy don't know this.
Sounds like someone has too many extra activities. I've been there. Get spread too thin, say "yes" to too many people, and suddenly it's no fun anymore...your "fun" activities suddenly become hard work.
"Cru"--wine? As in "premier cru?" Maybe if they cut the cru they'll have more energy for riding and line dancing. Their head will certainly be clearer for Bible study.
This author will have no more fun if they cut *weekend adventures*...
What is *Cru??*- being *crude*?? To others or oneself?
*shrugs*
When I saw "cru" I thought of "crew" as in racing, but who knows.
I find the items among this list itself to be intriguing - especially how the writer [whose writing seems to denote female to me] seems more questioning about cutting somethings than others.
I think the wrong things are being second-guessed.
Crew, I bet. Rowing.
It's obvious the lister is sure about the first two items, less so about the next two. I wonder if bible study is double-underlined because the lister is doubly unsure, or if the lines simply serve as separators from the final iteem.
And why no bullet for weekend adventures? Is this just just a phrase the lister uses to wum up "all of the above"?
uhh..."item" and "sum up"
sheesh
LOL@ Farmer- You *cru-ck* me up!!!
i'm gonna cut footloose. Kick off my sunday shoes.
Holy shit, how many activities did he/she have in the first place if this is just the "to cut" list?!
I also thought it meant crew as in rowing.
Actually, "CRU" is one of the [many] student religious organizations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sounds to me like this student lister was being overwhelmed and starting to ponder what activities to ditch in order to make that last minute attempt to pass those classes.
But in my experience most students just stop going to stuff when it gets to be too much ... who makes a list? ("OOPS, I accidentally went line dancing again. I meant to quit that. I'd better write it down so I don't forget and go again next week.")
This is a college town. Cru could be an acronym. Christian Rugby Union, Cool Rich Upperclassmen...
Whoever, keep the Bib Studies, and dump the rest. Then you'll have time for the other things that aren't on the list.
Maybe it's a list of summer camp activities to cut from a program. Not enough kids sign up for these activities, or maybe they are understaffed/underfunded this summer...
maybe the C in the CRU acronym stands for Campers?
Cru is the new name for Campus Crusade for Christ.
He meant crew as in hair style... He wants a crew-cut.
I'm with Christina. Keep the Bible study. It will give you peace about losing everything else.
And weekend adventures don't have to be expensive. You can keep those.
Oh, whew! I thought this was gonna be another emo list.
drop the bible study.It'll make you feel less guilty about doing the things you enjoy.
I assumed that she had a controlling boyfriend who was whining that she had no time for him, but you are probably right Librarian; it's most likely a last ditch effort to make time to study before she flunks out.
I wonder what's left! Just work, taxes, and death?
With soaring gas prices and crumbling home values, one has to tighten up the belt a bit. Hard times have hit Urbana, just like they've hit Mobile, Fresno, Bozeman and Schenectady.
Me? I'm cutting out Sunday drives, break-dancing lessons, solo kayak trips and bird-watching club meetings. You?
If you cut out the Cru and the bible study, how can you shout at the devil?
Dedective, I think you hit the nail on the head ... this looks like a list of program/activities that must be cut (budget constraints, probably).
But I think that "Cru" is an abbreviation for something, not an acronym. Note that the writer already has a pentiant for over-capitalization ... I can't imagine she would have passed up the opportunity to capitalize all three letters in Cru. So there is another mystery for you to work on.
"Cru" I think could mean Campus Crusades for Christ. It's a Christian based religious group that are all over the country. It would make sense because right after "Cru" is bible study...and usually that stuff goes hand in hand!
Double ??'s by Cru and Bible study indicate a high level of uncertainty - you better keep them.
So I say drop the rest and start taking more weekday adventures to the cheese bank.
Unfortunatley, the writer lost this list during his/her one last crew voyage. Which smudged the ink and caused him to forget what else he needed to cut.
A true sign of poor econmic times, when one's weekend adventures must be eliminated.
p.s. - Spam questions involve too much math and need to be added to the cut list.
As each item on the list has been struck through, does that mean the writer decided not to cut anything? Or that each item was successfully cut?
*the cheese
Cruella DeVil. Cut.
Oh, and Orinoco, "riding" does not always indicate horsies. It could be Hogs (as in Harleys), Greyhounds (buses) ("Thanks for ridin' the Dog, Lady!") or.. um.. partners. (yeeeeHawww!)
I thought the same thing as detective (my thought came over a mean bean java monster, though) Summer Camp was just too darn scheduled and BUSY! Cut some activities.. cut singin' 'round the campfire and the duct tape wallets and slings classes.
I'm not sure what "cru" is, but i think really its between that and Bible study. those are the one's she's questioning the most. I'd also like to know what kind of "weekend adventures" she goes on. The kind where babies are made?
I'm just a little surprised that "wrist" wasnt on the list.
Never, never, never cut weekend adventures!
obviously "motley cru"
It's definitely a religious org. like many have mentioned. And it's Cru, not CRU because it's short for "Crusade" as in for Christ, it's not an acronym. Here's a link to one http://sites.google.com/a/umncru.com/umn-cru/Home/W
Not an acolyte, just sayin'.
Cutting out things designed for spiritual growth probably means one of two things:
1. he is questioning his faith (can sometimes be a good thing)
2. he thinks he has it all figured out and doesn't need to learn more (recipe for disaster)
There's that TH combo as a single letter again. I think I'll start doing that.
Any other two letter combos we could combine into a single character?
Don't tell my achy breaky heart that yer gonna cut line dancing! I just don't think he'd understand.
Eggs1234, I find it utterly fascinating that at one time or another, I've lived in three of the four random cities you've chosen to mention. Fascinating.
I have line danced in three of the four random cities.
LOL @Alan, Beldar and Twilight!
@Turbo-You can shout at the devil from the sta-a-age! Wasn't there a younger girl who used to post here who was a HUGE fan of the Crue? Or maybe it was GNR. Your comment got me thinking about her.
I agree with most of these posts: Never cut weekend adventures.
Me? With the price of gas, more time spent exploring on my bike and on the trails and staying out of the fast lane.
As there isn't a bullet for weekend adventures, maybe we should assume it is actually with bible study, ie "bible study weekend adventures". So maybe she will still attend regular bible study, but those God bashers go a bit mental on their weekend adventures, they burn witches, and cut little boys balls off and all sorts. She'll stay home and study on those weekends.
I think we are looking at this all wrong, I think this is a list to cut with the authors new Crocodile Dundee knife. Maybe this is a cry for help, mass murder in the works.
@ Steinbrenner ... I've randomly danced in three of the four lines in cities.
If this is a list of things to cut due to budget constraints, I wonder what would be left. Bible study doesn't cost anything does it? It makes sense that Cru means Campus Crusade for Christ, considering the context.
It looks like this was a list of possible cuts to a program of some kind, probably a youth religious program in conjunction with a church or the university. The lines through the items means that they were discussed and then everyone decided not to make the cuts. So everything was kept and the fun continues!
I wish school budget discussions would end up that way.
... you guys talking about Cru (Campus Crusade) makes me think of YFC (Youth for Christ) rallies.. when I was in 8th grade I didn't go to church, but my best friend was in YFC and I'd go with her to the big rallies they held in Portland on Friday nights. They took the kids over there in an old school bus. We brought our 8th grade boyfriends, who were not members of that church either. The rallies were held in a big old theater and we'd sit way up in the top row of the balcony and kiss! One time we didn't even go in. We stayed in the bus and made out with our boyfriends. We were afraid we'd get caught, but no one noticed that we didn't go in and we didn't get in trouble. Then my friend's mom found a love note she had written to her boyfriend. My friend had beautiful glossy honey-colored hair, long and straight, with long bangs that covered her eyebrows. Her mom took scissors to those beautiful long bangs, cutting them off at the root, like a crew cut. She wanted to make her daughter ugly so the boys wouldn't like her. It took three months for those bangs to grow back. It didn't make her ugly. After middle school she and I drifted apart, having little in common apart from our youthful boy-craziness. She continued to devote her life to Christ, and after college she married a cute boy from our high school who became a born-again Christian and they had a couple of kids. She's probably an evangelical to this day.
oh man.. I thought I was spiraling away from the find, but I find I'm not! Her mom CUT those bangs like a CREW CUT.
Wow, Clover...that story almost made me want to cry.
Cru= Crusaders, like in the old days when they would ride around on HORSEBACK looking for heretics and cutting off heads during WEEKEND ADVENTURES.
Isn't there a college club like that?
I just looked at today's next find and at the top is an ad for Quicksilver clothes and the model with the long bangs looks very much like my 8th grade YFC friend back then.
@lybarian..
sometimes, I too, write down thoughts and just seeing them on paper helps me decide ya know?
I'm sure listers' parents are happy the list does not include..
crack smoking
5 way's
shizzle dizzle-in
Great story Clover - I'm sure your friend is living a happy life.
If only I had made it to 8th grade...
so her crazy mom cut her bangs super short..no big deal..
btw, did you say your friends' name was Carrie?
alan- what does pting mean?
Don't cut these things--combine them. Spend the weekend doing choreographed horseback riding while discussing Bible passages in front of a no doubt captivated crowd of Christian youth. I'd watch, if only for the dancing horse.
I'm not sure Steph - anyone want to hazard a guess?
@ CLOVER- Remarkable story, and the ending..."her mother CUT her bangs to look like a CREW CUT!!!"
Priceless, girl...just priceless!
When I asked what ya'll think *Cru* stands for, I knew FOUNDians would receive the most hilarious, and most obvious (or not!)answers!!
I love it here, it's like a 2nd home, ya know?
Oh, and whomever posted "CUT the CHEESE bank", another nose-sprayed monitor is in the FOUND graveyard!!!!
it's onomatopoeia, isn't it? Pting! it's the sound the cherry pit makes when it hits the metal waste bin.
I had high hopes for you Alan
Steph - consider yourself the member of a large group of people disheartened by my inability to live up to my potential.
I also hear the cherry pit in the metal rubbish bin blended with a slight sonar ping.
Or more accurately, that's what I hear when the voices in my head stop telling me to give up line dancing.
I like how the smear has a 3D effect
I thought it was a single guitar string, constantly going 'pting' in that poor dead bastard's head. At least that how I pictured it....
I thought it was the sound of a bright idea
if you are channeling joe.. maybe that is the sound he is refering to? hope so, I loathe the thought of puking in joe's head..
pting is the sound Joe's guitar string makes when it breaks from rockin' the casbah, No?
That's how I always understood it, and I'm gonna hold onto that. (although I did like the mention of a cherry in the other post.)
Alan, I thought maybe you were doing PT, or physical training, in Joe Strummer's head. He needs the exercise...
CUT THE CAKE
give me a little piece
let me lick up the cream....
I believe that all the interpretations of "pting" hold some validity - and together they make the whole pting experience.
I also just downloaded some of Joe's BBC radio shows from 2001 or 2002 - I miss the guy...
BUT I am not responsible for the entire lyrics to Rock the Casbah found on the other found. (what?)
i love the pting experience. its very ptingy, in a ptingish way.
Now I am totally confused. I don't know who ANYONE is.. but.. I DON'T CARE! I LOVE FOUND!! You guys ROCK! (That's the first time I ever heard all the lyrics to Rock the Casbah. Kinda eerie, isn't it, like foreshadowing.) I have a friend in Morocco and he went to a real Casbah.
Only 8 more days till Ancient Vivi's found birthday!
Aww Man, and here I thought it was a love note from you to me, Alan... *sniff* heartbroken. *sniff* dooomed.
Regardless of what actually makes the sound 'pting' it cannot be duplicated by a human voice without hand gestures for emphasis.
(Is 'hand gestures' redundant?)
Oh, I thought this might of been, "The First CUT Is The Deepest" by Rod Stewart firts recording or lyric go-over...
And, can anyone answer me this, Why is the first CUT always the deepest??
Holly, did you know that Cat Stevens wrote and recorded that song in 1967?
Keep the line dancing, but definitely get rid of that wretched bible study. Boot Scootin' Boogie baby!!!
Maybe she is making a movie, or a commercial and has to decide which scenes to cut because it is too long.
thank you, Turbo. THANK YOU.