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November 23, 2003 |
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Not a Cookie
FOUND by Chris Wegscheid
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
I found this on the floor of my office, but I don't know where it came from. We don't have any Barbs, and we rarely have cookies. I did have a box of concrete samples in my office earlier in the day, some of which, I suppose, were vaguely cookie-shaped.
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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...
What?What?What? went on with this misleading & apparently painful faux cookie switcheroo? This is my Favorite Find, every time it comes to mind I laugh. I actually had a dream that this Find was on a tee shirt!
one of my favorites. just completely awesome.
i really enjoy this find. i actually had to "lol" when i saw it.
LOL. Great find!
If unrelated to the concrete samples makes you wonder what it was in reference to after all and how it got on her desk anyway
Perhaps Barb isn't a person but the cause of the pain.
"Ouch. Barb! Thought it was a cookie." Just simply a misplacement of punctuation.
Don't eat barbs no matter how tasty.
LOL. Reminds me of trying to eat a ceramic donut my aunt had sitting on a table once.
When my sister was in preschool, she made bars of soap that looked all fancy-like. Dad and I each took a big bite, thinking they were cookies.
This made me laugh. Made me think of someone who isn't good at baking. They attempted to make cookies that turned out to be a bit too hard and the person to tried them was being a smart aleck.
What on earth could be so melicious as to deprive a person of their cookie?? Madness!
I'm sorry.
OMG This is awesome!!!
hahahah, im more amused by everyones comments on this than i am on the picture. althought it is still really funny. what I wanna know though, how do so many people accidentaly eat things thinking theyre a cookie? i usually look at something before i take a bite
Concrete samples?!!?! ROFL!!!!
lmfao that was funny as hell!
LOL..once when I was little.. at my grandpa's wedding.. they had fancy butter.. that looked like cookies..Need I continue?
My mother in law's name is Barbara....Barb for short....and I can picture someone at her work putting this note on her desk. I have never seen her make cookies though. This really made me laugh!
When I was a kid my mother had a little plastic fake soda cracker on her keychain. I don't know why or where she got it, but it was very realistic looking. One day my brothers and I were playing out in our massive front lawn and I found a soda cracker laying in the grass. My brothers bet me $5 it was mom's keychain and to prove it I had to bite it. It was a stale old soda cracker afterall. It's okay, I got my $5.
LOL this cracks me up. I imagined that it was from it was a note from someone's home that made it into their office. I hope Barb doesn't let the author of this note go for such a dumb mistake!
Just recently,mybest friend recieved a present thatshe thought was a huge bar of homemade white chocolate from her co`-worker, and she bit it, and it was soap.
I read this note and all the comments and laughed till tears streamed down my face!
I have two stories of misidentified food follies:
When I was about two years old, I was in my high chair, watching my mom cooking what looked like a marshmallow in a pan on the stove. Excited, I began yelling, "Mahmemmo! Mahmemmo!" which was how I pronounced "marshmallow" at the time. No matter how many times my mother tried to tell me it wasn't a marshmallow in the pan, I carried on with my demands for a bite of the mahmemmo. Apparently, my insistence became so annoying that she decided to let me see for myself what it was (or wasn't). From that day forward, I've hated seafood - especially scallops.
Fast-forward to fifth grade. The science room at my school was in a separate building from our regular classroom. One day, walking back to our room after science class, one of my classmates was kind enough to offer me a handful of Nerds. Loving candy as much as any fifth grader, I enthusiastically accepted his offer. I learned two things that day. First, no matter how great the temptation, you should never, under any circumstances, eat fish tank rocks. Second, you should never, under any circumstances, accept candy from Jason Dombroski.
One of my favorite finds I've ever seen on this site. I laughed out loud so many times about this. Reminds me, too, of a David Sedaris story that I can't remember the name of now. Anyway, cute that guy took the time to write a note, and I hope it made Barb smile when she read it.
This find actually upsets me.
The first time I saw it I laughed a nice little laugh, but as I come across it today I notice that the handwritting is unsettlingly like my grandfather's who died two Easters ago.
I guess everytime I miss him I can come look at this and imagine he wrote it since it is funny.
This find actually upsets me.
The first time I saw it I laughed a nice little laugh, but as I come across it today I notice that the handwritting is unsettlingly like my grandfather's who died two Easters ago.
I guess everytime I miss him I can come look at this and imagine he wrote it since it is funny.
This is the best find on this website.
I like this one. I know of a lady named Barb so I can picture her with some sort of faux cookie and someone leaving a note about it for her.
LOL!! ONE OF MY FAVE!
This one is great, but man is Barb sadistic or what?
it's funny that the writer not only bit into something that wasn't food, but admitted it - in writing!
I really wonder what Barb had left out that the writer thought was a cookie...and what KIND of cookie did he think it was? What could be mistaken for a cookie, anyway? Hmm...so many questions to ponder.
This is one of my favorite finds ever.
this cracked me up!
maybe Barb decided to play a joke on someone by making non-edible cookies as a "treat" for her colleagues, perhaps the concrete samples mentioned by the author.
My mom once put a plastic apple in my lunch bag once, cause i never ate them. Then the day she had placed the apple, i thought i might eat it! so i bit into the plastic apple.
This find just reminded of it :)
hahahahaha, this gets me every time<3
hahahaa! I love all the mistaken cookie stories! I had a prof in grad school who purposely brought in inedible salty cookies, which he baked himself, and then would laugh hysterically as everyone dug in. He had a point, something about research, but I can't remember what it was. . . Becca, your mom sounds hilarious!
I made this one my desktop background.
Chris, it looks like someone in your workplace has a terrible sense of humor and doesn't know your correct name. I bet it's one of the VPs.
Best. Find. EVER.
Reminds me of a story in Oliver Sacks's autobiography ('Uncle Tungsten') where he says they were supposed to make cookies for the teacher and he couldn't get any flour so he made one with cement, and the teacher bit into it and broke a tooth. Ouch!
I was at camp one summer and a group of us were sitting around a fire, singing and relaxing. I thought it would be funny to try to feed my friend some grass. I pulled up a bunch of grass from where I was sitting, put it up to her face and she actually opened her mouth! She immediately spit it out. I guess it was dark enough that she didn't know what she was eating!
You devil, Barb.
This has been my favorite so far. I have been enthusiastically showing this to found magazine virgin friends, saying, "You get it? You get it? You know it was just found, right?". So far, I'm the only one who 'gets it'. :(
That T-shirt idea (dream) is hysterical, I second the vote!
This is so funny. I have a candle that apparently looks like a stack of American cheese . . . the day of my wedding my bridesmaids were over and one of them took a bite. You can still see the teeth marks :)
By the way, the David Sedaris story in his book called "Me Talk Pretty One Day", and is one of the funniest essays I have ever read.
this is most definitely my favorite "find" ev-er. it randomly pops into my head all the time, and always makes me guffaw aloud whilst alone - it never fails.
lmao---easily my favorite find ever! I have shown it to about 10 people already...seemingly none of them find it as hilarious as I do. Not to mention, I work with a Barb...and I have probably said this too her 50 times already this week holding various objects..pens, phones, staplers...I think she assumes I have lost my mind.
OUCH! Barb, I thought this was toilet paper!
All I can think is "what could look that much like a cookie that you would try to pick it up, only to be shocked that its not and left with an "ouchie"?"
To me...this find is perfect. I love it so much, it makes me smile every time I see it. It has all the mystery, humor, and charm that one desires in a find, what on earth did this person mistake for a cookie?
I would pay $20 plus shipping for this on a shirt. anyone selling?
I get giddy each time i read this note. My favorite comment so far was written by Vickie in Greensboro. I agree, Vickie - poor baking, but good humor.
This is my favorite one so far!! I just found this site today, and I can NOT get off of it!! I'm so glad I stuck around long enough to see this one.
My mother is Barb, and she would make inedible cookie like objects, of this you can be sure. AND her husband would try to eat them.. and leave a note. I can just see it.
This find reminds me of a cow-shaped bar of soap I bought my dad at an art festival long ago.
The next time I saw the soap, it had teeth marks in it. Turns out, my dad thought it was white chocolate.
This may be the funniest find that I've ever seen. I'll be walking down the street and all of a sudden I'll think "Ouch Barb, I thought this was a cookie!" and I'll start laughing. I probably look insane walking by myself and laughing, but damnit, it's too funny. I would've loved to watch this man (?) discover the thing he tried to bite is not only not a cookie, but that it is hard and inedible. The moment of realization must have been priceless. The tone of the note seems like he felt offended or slighted by Barb, which makes it funnier.