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Fiji
FOUND by Megan
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Whoever drew this and dropped it in the grocery store must not like Fiji.
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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...
This has got to be another inside joke sketch. Wonder the story behind it?
Somebody took a trip to Fiji and upon returning home told their friends about this weird local boy who always ate bacon through a gap in his weird, pointy teeth with a constant runny nose. The friends at home started laughing about Fiji and the local boy and kicked it up a notch so he became a loin cloth wearer that hunted for his beloved bacon w/ a spear! (and walked on 3 twig toes)
Damned tasteless apples!
SWEET drawing! This is why I come to Found.com!
I imagine there are psychologists who study why kids put in certain details but leave out others.
Example 1: this Fijian has 6-pack abs, but not many other accurate anatomical details.
Example 2: Fiji Boy has three toes on each sausage foot but no fingers to hold onto his bacon. What's up with that?
Other than the fact that bacon is awesome, why is he holding bacon?
Hey Chrome! Here he is again:
Bronzewood Ent.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/3636
Many years ago,I worked as interpreter at some international conferences attended by people from all over the world. There were several men from Fiji there, who were allowed to sit on the floor in front of the first row, as apparently they found chairs too uncomfortable to sit on for the hours and hours required. ("They're too high", one explained to me.)
The six-pack abs were very much in evidence, but they wore skirts, not loincloths. Long cotton skirts to their ankles, in small conservative calico prints, often white-on-grey.
They were clean in their habits, and had beautiful singing voices.
Sort of droopy-looking breasts if this is supposed to be a Fijian warrior guy 'bringing home the bacon.' (or maybe not ... I've never gotten to go to Fiji, so I don't know for sure)
And let's just not get into another vegetarian vs. meatatarian debate today. Can't we all just get along?
I would say that a 6-7 year old boy drew this picture, and then his mom and dad had fun later adding labels. I wonder what the top left-hand arrow was going to label.
Looks like his two front teeth are missing quite possibly to let his snot drip into his mouth much easier! haha
EW!
I just grossed myself out.
BACON!
bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon!
Ohhh I CAN'T READ! Just gimmee what's in that bag!! Oh boy oh boy oh boy nummy nummy nummy BAAACONNNN!!..
Noo.. snot bacon. It's Beggin' Strips. Dogs don't Know it's snot bacon.
for such a pot belly hangin above the loin cloth (well, what ELSE could it be?) He has a decent sixpack.
Ok, NOT a loin cloth. It is an upside down party hat.
This drawing is SWEEEEET!
It's like the artist got to the feet and just gave up. Those feet are so sad.
Aww..Librarian, you spoiled it all. I really wanted to comment on the fact that the bacon is probably made from soy.
Actually, I see occasion to add some duck tape here.
BRILLIANT FIND!!
How many of you knew that today is the start of Fiji Week?
(I didn't. I had to look it up.)
Fiji Week is the week leading up to 10 October which, as Oceania cognoscenti know, is Fiji Day, the national independence day of our bacon-eating friends on the islands.
[plus, it gives me a chance to use the word cognoscenti.]
@Geek--There doesn't need to be another reason to hold bacon. It is supremely awesome. I'm eating some right now! Bippity boppity bacon! (courtesy of Jim Gaffigan)
Ew. Snot. Ew.
I wonder if the FIJIANS have to spear their own pigs?
exactly WHAT is dangling below the bottom edge of that loin clothe (or is it?)?
Who knew it was the start of Fiji Week? FOUND MAGAZINE. That's who! (same kind and wonderful folk who remembered Bob on his B-day. How do I love thee, Found Folk? let me count the ways...)
I come here just to bask in the glow of Found Magazine's supreme awesomeness.
"there's someone for everyone, and this guy's love is...
http://foundmagazine.com/comments/2077
probably still lost in a shopping mall.
imagine the children, connecting. They'll be gorgeous.
When I copied and pasted the link that Connecting the Dots so kindly provided, I blew Dr. Pepper out of my nose. They make a wonderful couple!
Mona, it's just like Angelina's and Brad's (natural) kids. They can't help but be gorgeous!
@ Melanie in anticipation ... that vagrant arrow in the upper left corner is pointing to where the guy's ear used to be. My theory is that a wild hog bit off thie Fijian's ears while he was sleeping one night. Which made him cry (hence the nose leakage). So he up and speared said wild hog, and is living it up on the resultant bacon. But he still has no ears.
I think it's an old cautionary Fijian folk tale that get re-enacted in traditional dances every year during Fiji Week.
Methinks that whoever wrote "fiji" was not the same person who wrote everything else. It's in such a nice script.
@ Melanie... I can't wait to have kids just for that reason. Luckily, I'm a teacher, so I have other people's kids' drawings to make fun of. I love my job.
@ Librarian
Probably wouldn't be a man from Fiji bringing home the bacon, as it is (or was, and still is in some parts) a matriarchal culture.
Is it just me or does anybody else see a face on his chest/belly?
If, as implied, that massive triangle isn't a loin cloth, maybe the artist was being quite complementary towards Fijians.
Look. Another phallic find.
@Ironcladhero--Then you'll really enjoy this piece:
http://www.fuelbrothers.com/better/
That's not a loin cloth, it's Dunce Cap on the head of whoever's face is on Fuji boy's stomach.
Not Fuji, meant Fiji, of course. :)
Wow. A work of art? A racial depiction (kind of like drawing Jews with horns)?
Hmm..not finding this too funny.
Sammy, what the heck? You are WAYYYY to serious, which seems so unlike you.
Lighten up, old man.
Seriously?? This is why I stopped coming by here on a regular basis. This is just stupid.
disappointed? seriously? I think it's hilarious, and it's why I KEEP coming here on a regular basis. G'die, mite.
I don't see it as being a racist depiction. At all.
(hiccup)...you've got to be kidding
I used to chat online with a friend-of-a-friend from another state. She didn't want to send me her photo, so I asked her to have her Kindergarten students draw pictures of her instead. She sent me a scrapbook of what they drew, and it was hilarious. She was either a beautiful princess with a crown or a hideous beast with horns. (I met her later and turns out she was a lot closer to the beautiful princess than the beast)
I think there are two hands at work here, the bacon, snot and writing added later. That would make the loincloth comment make sense. The second person turning an innocent, but poorly executed drawing of a Fijian into something crude. Like putting fake mustaches and blacked out teeth on movie posters
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet, but aaahhhh! He has man boobs!
Doesn't anyone else remember the TV movie TRILOGY OF TERROR with Karen Black from the 70's
(I'm Old.)
This is obviously a drawing of the doll she received as a gift that comes to life and attacks her in her poorly lit apartment in one of the stories. Scary.
Funny, I don't remember bacon.