August 19, 2008

Consumer Ed Suicide
FOUND by Elliot Nevills in Oswego, Illinois
I found this in my consumer education book.
th in k
yikes.
+ August 19, 2008 12:09 AM +
baby basil in the herb garden
My dear boy, where did you leave your book that this could be put in it? I would find it most disturbing...a table saw stalker?

Do you deal with a table saw on a daily basis? I'd stay away from it for awhile if I were you.
+ August 19, 2008 03:21 AM +
mona lisa in the louvre
yowza. My hubby lost the tip of his ring finger to a table saw. Poor Bell.
+ August 19, 2008 05:20 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork
(cover) I love fingers (inside) I'm just not attracted to them.
+ August 19, 2008 05:26 AM +
Julie in Québec
Just looking at it hurts.
+ August 19, 2008 05:27 AM +
runn in g late
I wonder what minor tragedy is depicted on the back.. maybe Pete's toes before the axe, Pete's toes after the axe.
+ August 19, 2008 06:39 AM +
fooch in A Rabbit Hole
When I first saw the picture, I thought it was illustrating what a rat had done..you know, gnawing on someone's finger...yuck.

Nice smiley-face next to the hand
+ August 19, 2008 06:51 AM +
alan goes "pting" in Joe Strummer's workshop
I love fingers and I love finger sandwiches, but I don't like it when people give me the finger.

Mona - when your hubby lost his fingertip - did you stand by idly saying "I love fingers." like the woman in the picture?
+ August 19, 2008 07:01 AM +
mona lisa in the emergency room
Strangely enough, Alan, that's exactly what i did. I should have thought to mention that.

as it happened, i left emerg about 20 minutes before he got there, having stabbed my hand with a large knife, trying to cut open a butternut squash. I don't know why he had no sympathy for my two whole stitches. :-(


oh, and btw, hands are very hard to draw. Unless this is a tracing of a hand. It's hard to get the proportions and equal distances b/w fingers, etc etc. That's why cartoon people only have 4 digits.
+ August 19, 2008 07:08 AM +
Night in gale
(Alan, I love it when I get the finger.)
+ August 19, 2008 07:11 AM +
pardon me in did i just see nightingale say that?
and i get accused of dragging everyone into the gutter....
+ August 19, 2008 07:28 AM +
mlm in texas
Now that's a hell of a hangnail!
+ August 19, 2008 07:45 AM +
1funchickadee in the office
Apparantly, getting the tip of your finger cut off by a table saw also causes you to grow mass amounts of hair in it's place. Strange...
+ August 19, 2008 07:52 AM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
The finger labeled "after table saw" looks perfectly healthy to me. And is it just me, or does the object labeled "table saw" look exactly like a finger on a hand?

This person's labeling system is all fucked up.
+ August 19, 2008 07:54 AM +
The Gimp in the basement
Good thing it wasn't the hole finger. Hole is spelled correctly.
+ August 19, 2008 07:54 AM +
Correct in g the double take
@pardon me, no, no, she said she likes getting the finger, not getting fingered.

+ August 19, 2008 07:54 AM +
John
@Flargy: The labeling system is actual ok. The artist is saying that Bill uses a table saw which looks like a hand with a mutilated finger, and that said table saw had no effect on his fingers.
+ August 19, 2008 08:02 AM +
mona lisa in the table saw factory
thank you for clarifying, John. You're so clever.
+ August 19, 2008 08:06 AM +
alan goes "pting" in Joe Strummer's workshop
ummm....yeah...uh..night in gale?
I...uh...
Well, I guess it's just different for girls.
+ August 19, 2008 08:38 AM +
mlm in texas
It looks like some animal took a bite out of the finger instead of a table saw slicing it off! The artist really needs to work on his perspective. (heehee) And the woman looks like she has a little bitty mustache under nose. Either that, or two boogers have escaped.
+ August 19, 2008 08:59 AM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
Thanks, John. You must be some kind of pictocryptographer.
+ August 19, 2008 09:06 AM +
alan goes "pting" in Joe Strummer's workshop
Mona - the more I think about it - I'm concerned that we need to keep you away from sharp objects.
+ August 19, 2008 09:28 AM +
Lucky in Kentucky
I bet Bell was really pissed off about this accident, it totally screwed up her manicure.

On a side note, does anyone have any good seven syllable words? So far I've got antidiscrimination. 227
+ August 19, 2008 10:04 AM +
Lucky
Sorry. That 227 is the answer to the spam question of the day.
+ August 19, 2008 10:05 AM +
waiting in the drive thru
it actually looks like the drawing at the right is MUNCHING on a finger RIGHT NOW!
+ August 19, 2008 10:36 AM +
DeLonghi Model CT12
I think it's BILL, not bell. There's a dot above the I. It's just a stupid, loopy I that looks like an E.

unrealistically
impenetrability
apologetically
inaccessibility
ineligibility
libertarianism
compartmentalization
+ August 19, 2008 10:43 AM +
John
There you go, Lucky!
+ August 19, 2008 11:21 AM +
Farmer in In The Dell
I really like you...

you 9.5 fingered freak
+ August 19, 2008 11:28 AM +
gorgon in minneapolis
You'll get my table saw when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
+ August 19, 2008 01:50 PM +
mona lisa in a place with no knives
Dear Alan. Are you blushing? Oh, by the way, thank you for your concern. It appears that my employer must have thought the same thing, as i now work in a maximum secure environment. There are no knives here, although i do have a pair of safety scissors in my drawer, which are probably contraband.(shhh)

you can always trust a deLonghi to come up with 7 syllable words.

and why do i always have to spell emordnilap?????? sheesh.
+ August 19, 2008 01:51 PM +
Pastor Z in fear
Lucky:
triskadekaphobia
+ August 19, 2008 01:52 PM +
Pastor Z in in print
also
autobiographical
+ August 19, 2008 01:53 PM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
Transubstantiational
Disestablismentarian
(No, crap. That's 8.)
Sigh.
+ August 19, 2008 02:21 PM +
keate in heat in wisconsin
I like lady fingers. I like chicken fingers. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do when I get the finger? I see people wave this one particular finger occasionally and I wonder what I'm supposed to do about that finger. Maybe it's wet and they're waving it around trying to dry it off? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
+ August 19, 2008 02:26 PM +
gorgon in minneapolis
Transubstantiation as a verb is bad enough. As an adjective it makes me want to cry.
+ August 19, 2008 02:26 PM +
Smallbear in the Cave
@Night I won't go there ("I love it when I get the finger.") I know how much you dislike my sexual indiscretions.:-0
+ August 19, 2008 02:28 PM +
No, that's me.
!
+ August 19, 2008 03:57 PM +
Lucky in Kentucky
Thank you all for the 7 syllable words.

Where I come from, unrealistically and apologetically have six syllables. But as stated above, I AM from Kentucky, and if anybody can mangle the English language, it's us. @DeLonghi, where are you from?
+ August 19, 2008 06:21 PM +
Clover, no longer in the yacht club
This is a really great find. Unusual. Thought-provoking. I like it.
+ August 19, 2008 06:31 PM +
Melanie
This looks like a super bad hamster bite. And gosh can they ever bite hard and draw tons of blood. They are evil and mean, yet darling and precious-looking. Can't judge a book by it's cover.
I know a Pastor Z. in Idaho.
+ August 19, 2008 06:43 PM +
Whiskey in The Jar
I wonder, if the artist took into consideration, the kerf of blade when showing the injured finger?
+ August 19, 2008 06:49 PM +
Clover in the rain
I'm pretty sure there is a heart on the back. Wonder what that means.
+ August 19, 2008 07:45 PM +
Sammy Davis Junior Jr
Huh. What does this remind me of?

A movie..every time one of the characters appeared, another body part was rotted or gone.

+ August 19, 2008 07:48 PM +
Archie Bunker in Syndication
did the artist actually draw the bone inside the mangled finger?

Clover, I think the heart on the back means that they LOVE FINGERS! YUMMM!
+ August 19, 2008 09:35 PM +
Pastor Z in the goodliest land under the cope of heaven
I've never been to Idaho, but I DO have an ex-wife named Melanie.
+ August 19, 2008 09:59 PM +
Schneh
autocannibalism!
unobservationally
anti-Freudianism?
pseudologogenesis!
+ August 19, 2008 10:29 PM +
Holly the Homemaker in Toronto

A gnawing rat did this...not a table saw.
+ August 19, 2008 11:05 PM +
Elliot Nevills in Oswego
The back was also hand related.
+ August 20, 2008 01:09 AM +
DeLonghi Model CT12
Hi, Elliot! Thanks for sharing your Find, and for checking in! So, does it appear that the artist is depicting events that happened to other peoples' hands, or that the artist is.. slightly obsessesd with these possibilities?

+ August 20, 2008 07:50 AM +
Elliot Nevills in Chicago
I dunno, Consumer Ed is one of those classes everyone has to take. Which means there are a few characters in every class.

BUT, I think it's someone else's hand she is describing.
+ August 20, 2008 07:59 AM +
Melanie
@ Pastor Z -
I've been to Idaho a handful of times, and my ex-husband is not named Pastor Z.
So...there's more than one Pastor Z in the world, evidently.
+ August 20, 2008 09:52 AM +
Amanda in Elburn
Elliot, is there perhaps a wood shop teacher named Bill who is deformed from a table saw injury and places extra importance of using it safely with the students? Because this could just be a note between girls that mocks the teacher's injury and lectures on table saw safety.
+ August 20, 2008 09:55 AM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
Whatever happened to the days when the 2 Finds of the Day were the back and Front of the same Find? I miss that. There have been a couple of finds lately that I would have liked to see from both sides. Sigh.
+ August 20, 2008 10:02 AM +
jumping in to the fray
Orinoco, didn't that only happen Once? (or maybe twice?) I'd like that, too.

7-syllable words: did anyone get autoeroticism?
+ August 20, 2008 12:01 PM +
John
@jumping: yes, I did once. Oops, I've said too much.
+ August 20, 2008 02:33 PM +
Night in gale
Join the club, John.
+ August 20, 2008 04:03 PM +

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