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Monkey Business
FOUND by Steve Anderson
in Cannon Beach, Oregon
I found this note while taking in the beauty of the scenery from high up on a cliff. It may not seem like much, but it must have meant a lot to the person who wrote it. Seems like it was intended for a daily diary entry. I particularly like the 'Monkey Business' image with the monkey eating a banana ghosted into the background of the note.
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Oh, it's the dreaded triangle of girl bitchery. The writer should beware: it is only a matter of minutes until Danielle is spilling to Olivia. Guess who they'll be talking about?
Monkey Business
For some reason, I never realised The Youngsters of Today also write 'LOL' in a non-computer context. Those crazy kids - what will they get up to next?
ROFLMAO at my own ignorance…
a budding paul theroux
obiviously a texting addict... wondering why paper just doesn't work the same..
I can't be the only one upset at internet jargon is being used in acctual writting...can I?
Call me old fashion but when I when I see lol I always think it means "lots of love."
Silly Rabbit! Olivia is the name of a children's book. Olivia is a P.I.G.
but she's a fab dancer!
I'm sorry to say that in the peak of my AIM usage in college (I'm 23 now), I actually said the letters LOL out loud once during a conversation with my roommate. So sad.....
once in a while, I'll say something like lol in a conversation, but ONLY as a joke...because I do know people who will use it in conversation.
This is cute. I wonder if the kids plan was to continue his play-by-play for the entire trip. .......
Forgive me for the observation. But even using something as a joke in a conversation, is still using it in conversation. lol . Sarcasm doesn't translate well, other people don't catch it well. Especially in print, but even in the spoken word. Some people would say its the lowest form of humour.
I write down ALL of my monkey business on my 'monkey business notepad' too.
LOL!
*It may not seem like much, but it must have meant a lot to the person who wrote it.*
Hmmm.. must not have meant much to them since they wadded it up and threw it away. I love the Monkey Business note pad, though.
i don't get lol. why don't you just...lol. do you also describe other reactions? ds=deep sigh. re=roll eyes. fb=flip bird.
Stepler, I am sure there will be a 12 step group forming any minute now for people such as yourselves. There is help out there.
Good to see the kids still talk about Olivia Newton-John.
i am trying to learn geek-speak. a kid in my class (professional school, mind you) made fun of me for about 10 minutes for pronouncing "pwned" as pawned when i saw it on his screen. i said, "what the hell does 'pawned' mean?" never knew it was going to be such a hilarious slip of the tongue...
p.s. i am 100% behind O rly. i am disheartened with how the english language is beginning to erode away with stupid shorthand crap. thanks internet and text messaging!
p.p.s. as Dostoyevsky eloquently said: sarcasm is "the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
Kelsey, try www.UrbanDictionary.com. It's somewhat of a guide for the hopelessly un-hip and/or old (two groups where I belong.)
I have so many great memories of being at camp every summer of my childhood. It is true though, there is a lot of "talking" that goes on behind the backs of every girl in every cabin and let me tell you, it doesn't go away among the camp staff either! Oh well, it never ruined my camp experience.
Make that "behind the BACK of every girl".
Thanks, Kelsey. I knew it was someone famous, and way more well spoken than I, who said something about sarcasm.
I love me my Foundmagazine.com. And I wouldn't want to second guess the fine editors who bring these daily treats to us. But every now and again, there is a submission like this: it's okay. It's mildly amusing. But why would TPTB chose this over this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deluxxedition/328
which I submitted long ago?
Sure, I want my moment of Found glory. But seriously, mine's funnier. And I long to see the comments on it.
Okay, I just had to get that off my chest.
Meanwhile, why does everyone assume that what they're saying about Olivia is bad? Maybe they're talking about what an awesome BFF she is.
Deluxx, I agree your find is much better. They must get millions of finds a day. I sent one (a good one) into found a year ago and I've yet to see it posted. Has this happened to anyone else? Matza Ball and Peanutiest? I gotta use those.
Deluxx, I'm with you on this find. It's a bit ho-hum, while yours, on the other hand, is great! I'm going to tell my whole family they're the "peanutist" because that term is surely a way of expressing love and admiration.
*i am disheartened with how the english language is beginning to erode away with stupid shorthand crap*
Kelsey, you do not capitalize your 'I's or the first letter after a period. May I gently point out that this is also a internet-produced shorthand that is eroding the english language?
Oo, does pointing that out make me "pwn" you?
Who am I kidding? I'm not cool enough for using these new-fangled internet words. (obligatory smiley face inserted here).
Dear Diary,
I just had a piece of toast for breakfast. It was good.
-ab, lol
tj
itawy. kiath. isltaoctswtmipoti. fts. lol.
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I hate it when they talk about Olivia.
But, the small solace is she talks about them too - horribly.
ps
fbtawcdmpp
lol
www.netlingo.com is also handy for decyphering alphabet soup conversations. dyts,f?
look! its a monkey...
i'm sure that it has some evil plan of some sort to take out on these poor people...
O rly - I am probably more upset that you can't spell actually.
Freon, what are you getting at, asking me if I talk smart? Or do you want to know if I take suggestions? Or maybe you're asking, "Do you train snorklelers?"
Please clarify.
ty
-f
AKA don't you think do
damn it, I meant
AKA don't you think so
typo
I remember being a kid and writing letters the first day of a trip. Letters that never got mailed.
Monkey Mail. For Monkey Business. LOL
This kid is trying out a diary. She saw her older brother's friend (or friend's older brother) writing in one and asked what he was doing and he, annoyed, said:
"I'm writing in my diary."
"what's that mean?"
"it's a book where i write stuff down"
"what kind of stuff?"
"what i'm thinking, what i've been doing."
"why?"
"because i want to, now piss off"
And then she felt left out and less-than cool and so now she's like: "i'm gonna keep a diary" and she gets her monkey business notepad and starts writing and then suddenly realizes: "what in the fuck is the point of writing down what i'm thinking or doing? how lame. that dude was some kinda loser. Fuck this shit. i'm gonna go play and talk to my friends now."
cuz little kids got foul mouths in their heads, y'know.
and guys, you with the good finds, maybe they're saving em for the magazine.
Man, I had a pad of super cute monkey paper once... it goes all to quickly! I miss my monkey!
A Kitten - You committed one of my written pet peeves, typing (or writing) "to" where it should have been "too."
That's dishearteningly common, I'm afraid. I even saw it on the side of a business truck the other day. It was a haul-away-your-junk-for-cheap business. And at the bottom, it said "No job to small." Woah really is me.
Flargy, Kate nailed it: dyts = don't you think so
Dave,
Before you wax superior about the difference between "to" and "too," maybe you should try "woe is me" instead of "woah is me." Not only did you get the phrase wrong, you also spelled "whoa" wrong.
I generally don't mention spelling and/or grammar mistakes, even the ones that annoy me, but when someone gets up on a high horse while his own English leaves a lot to be desired, I've just gotta chime in.
spelling and grammar mistakes abound. Usually, i just laugh to myself, and make comments to my very tired family members. One time, when a drug store advertised the perfume "Poisson", tho, i had to ask if the perfume really smelled like fish.
Last week, our revolving 'company information' screen saver told me to be 'vigilent' about something. I found that particularly humorous. Maybe the poster could have used that advice, when doing his/her spell check.
And then, the Beef Barely soup, on Mondays.
An honest question to those who really have a challenge with spelling. Would you rather remain ignorant, or should i point these things out? I need to know.
Misplaced apostrophe's get me. (said with tongue firmly planted in cheek.)
We need to figure out how to get Flargy his own Trusty Translator.
Dave, I once saw those same words tatooed on a prostitute's ass.
Al, is beef barely soup made with mystery meat?
Al, so Monday's soup is only vegetables in beef broth?
I'm not spelling challenged, but I can't type worth a darn. I'm a huntin' pecker.
I think you should continue to point things out so that the ignorant can move to the "stupid" level.
or there's barely enough meat in it to call it beef. Not sure, i need to know if the 'chef' would take offence to my pointing out his/her spelling mistake, first, before i ask. Hence, my honest question to spelling challenged people.
Another thing people get wrong ALL THE TIME:
"If I was stronger"
instead of
"If I were stronger"
ignorant was not meant as an insult, but in the actual definition of the word, meaning 'unaware'. A challenge with spelling is not a measure of one's intelligence, nor is the ability to spell.
I know. I was joking. I'm always joking. I forgot to say "LOL"
8-)
The one that gets me is when a person says "I feel badly" instead of "I feel bad". Unless they really do have a problem groping well.
I also LOVE puns! It'll take a bigger man than you to touch my "huntin' pecker" line. No offense, Al. LMAO kwim? heheh
you are a funny gal, unworthy... i dont know if there is a big enough man to handle you. I know its not me, tho. Maybe SALT.
dammit unworthy, I was getting there! You just didn't give me ehough time to say...
In my experience, almost all peckers are huntin'. :)
just call me e.e. cummings... or don't. sometimes he capitalized too. i just like the look of lowercase letters more. less blocky. more sensual... hmmm
Salt is way too big for me. I'm definitely Unworthy. How do you think I got that name? LOL! But you sure got some mojo working for you, Mr. Simon. I'm gonna keep my eye on you...
Katie, let's enroll in the Evelyn Wood speed typing class together. lmao
p.s. yes, i totally got "pwned." i can take it, though! :) <-- super rad smiley face and arrow.
:-p 2 u , unworthy. roflmao omg
Did "pwned" originate from a typo or something? Wherever it came from, it's very high up on the list of idiotic internet terms that irritate the hell out of me.
lol, Unworthy, we can sit in the back of the class, giggle and pass notes back and forth. Badly typed notes, of course.
Thank you Freon for the netlingo link. I learned pwn=own and pwnt=owned. (Take note, Flargy.) From a gaming typo that has achieved cult status, apparently. I never heard it before, but think I'll make up a quiz for my kids. If they fail, no more W.o.W. Ha!
Badly typed, of course, but they'll be speedy! Katie, we are gonna get in SO MUCH trouble! Maybe Mr. Simon will teach that class. Or better yet, maybe Midlife Crisis will step into the classroom. I heard he gives A's to the girls in short skirts....<eg>
running to my closet looking for my shortest skirt!
Let's get analytical analytical ( its sounds better in my head since I'm singing it to the whole physical toon)
Anyways I really appreciate this found as it seems to be from summer so it's nice to get all nostalgic since school is now on. It also hints about the transition from summer to school.
About the "lol" , I believe the writer should be allowed to use this seeing as it is summer. I also believe this did mean something to the writer since they are obviously older based on the handwriting and the context. They had to dispose of it; they wouldn't want Olivia to have evidence of their "monkey business"
Not only was it important evidence but an emotional outcry from danielle's faces to which she can only reply "lol" to mask her sadness by laughing out loud when she's crying inside.
Want a bite of my banana?
Unworthy and Katie, you'll be held for detention after class.
I'm worried about this young lady. The note stops abruptly, and the naughty little monkey proclaims, 'back soon,' leading me to believe that she will come back and write more. What happened to the author and her pesky friend danielle? Did they fall off the cliff? Get abducted by older, male camp counselors? The world of Found will never know.
<Unworthy and Katie hanging their heads in shame, Unworthy steals a sideways glance at Katie, Katie busts out laughing>
Katie telepathically says "I don't think Mr. Simon appreciates our short skirts."
Unworthy replies telepathically "No shit, Sherlock. Man, I wish we'd got Mr. Crisis today...."
Can anyone read the word ABOVE the monkey's head? Is it "BLI-something-something-GS"?
This is all about academic achievement. If you recall from your semester on quantitative analysis for the social sciences, correlation is not causation. Girls in short pleated skirts just happen to be smarter.
Dr. Simon, I would be more than happy to supervise detention and offer two-on-one counseling to these naughty girls.
This note appears to be a case of hypergraphia interruptus.
Looks like I somehow managed to enter the parallel universe of Dirty Found...
Mid-Life, I have been trying to figure that out as well. I downloaded it and fucked with it until my eyes bled. Now, I want to hurt Steve Anderson with my bare hands.
Midlife, I'm wondering what's under Monkey Business. A trademark? For Prozac? Prilosec? Propecia? Protein? And is it just me, or does the scratched out part at the top look like Big FT? If so, the writer seems pretty familiar with Big Foot. Is this a regular rendevous point for them?
It has to say Bananas. It just has to.
Mr Crisis,
Could you please drive me home after detention? Katie's mom is mad at me for getting her in trouble again and she won't give me a ride...
Pretty please with sugar on top? I promise I'll be good....
Please don't make me ride home with Turbo. He scares me with those big hands and bleeding eyes.
Yes. Willow Creek in Humboldt County, California (about 30 minutes east of where I sit) is in fact the Sasquatch epicenter of the cryptozoological world.
It's a simple enough matter for them to hitchhike up the Oregon coast from here. Most stop off at the Salishan for a few rounds of golf before convening at Cannon Beach.
Mistakenly believed to be exclusively herbivores, Sasquatch actually prefer teenage campers and bananas.
You're in trouble because you wore your flannel pajamas to school again. Of course I'll take you home, but not until I've given you a good spanking. It will put a little blush in your cheeks.
Monkey... spanking... No.
I meant a rendevous point for the presumably teenage girl and the sasquatch. Perhaps she was scribbling a note to her beloved, got interupted by that intolerable tease danielle, scribbled out his name so that danielle would not see and stuffed it into her bag, and it later fell out when she and the big guy were rolling around on the ground.
And then he ate her.
I think it says, "Ebonics will be back soon."
Bad Cynic! No banana.
Actually it's pretty well written except for the obvious lack of punctuation and capitalization of proper names. I mean there are no spelling or grammatical errors. There is, however, an unexplained 'therefore' symbol between the period after 'lol' and the beginning of the next sentence. Are they talking about Olivia because Danielle is making faces at her? Does Olivia have some sort of disfiguration they find amusing?
oh Mr Crisis!...
I think that word *is* "BANANAS". And Aug. 17 in the upper left corner.
Too nerdy to get in trouble and stay after school, and too skinny for short skirts to make a difference... DS (deep sigh)
Sand, I think you're right. It's a prescription pad provided by Eli Lilly for children's Prozac.
Turbo, have you figured out the monkey's legs yet? I'm afraid to look too hard. Sometimes a banana is just a banana.
Cute find. I really want some "Monkey Business" notepaper. That could come in very handy for my mischief.)
There's a lot of monkey business going on in here today, but in all seriousness, if this is a rx pad for prozac, well, that's just creepy.
Dave,
Well, thank you for your comment. I wouldn't take it so personally. It is one of the many hazards of typing quickly at work. So it goes.
O.k. so I have been at work all day and I come home to this?!?
Didn't you understand that Olivia is a children's book....IT is so funny it makes me LOL!
Olivia is a pig see. and she dances see.
don't know nothing and ain't talking 'bout no monkey
I can't find anything about Eli Lilly specifically marketing prozac to kids. It is approved, but not yet marketed, I think. Could it be some sort of candy wrapper?
Unworthy, I can't believe you left me here to take care of Turbo and his bleeding eyes! I'm gonna get blood all over my skirt.
at the risk of being tarred and feathered and run out of FOUND town, i must object to people's decrying the so-called simplification and degradation of the english language.
language is an human creation that CHANGES to fit human needs. it always strikes me as strange to mourn the passing of The English Language. which english? whose english? do you miss Standard English circa 1492, African American English from 1988, what you heard growing up, what you struggled to learn to gain acceptance in academic communities? Please! the next time you shed tears for English, please specify which english you prefer stays and in what context it should remain.
and, i would like for everyone who is still in sixth-month black mourning for Standard English (SE) to consider george orwell's "Politics and the English Language"
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
for all its faults, LOL is concise, gives a clear picture, and is far from being dead.
mind you, i absolutely never write LOL but i WILL say it. it's only funny when it's oral.
also, i'm posting the link to the end of the world/le tired flash animation. i'm pretty sure that this was partly responsible for spreading the use of txt acronyms from txt to spoken word and back to (hand)written word.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/play/710
</rant>.
Missing: I wrote a paper on "Politics and the English Language" this afternoon!! How crazy is that?
I dislike when people say an in front of consonants and a in front of vowels, that really bothers me, is it that hard to memorize the letters a e i o u and put an "an" in front of them?
Also, the idea of a Sasquatch terrifies me but that word is so much fun to say!! (not so much to type however)
I haven't read the rest of the comments yet. But this reminds me of monkey pancakes.
do monkey pancakes have anything to do with donkey apples or cow chips?
Missing: A couple of decades or so ago regarding adoption of the 1979 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, a friend of mine who was an Episcopal priest told me of an elderly woman who came to him and asked if she could still say the Lord's Prayer the way it was written in the 1926 prayer book.
He said, "Yes, you can say the Lord's Prayer any way you would like." She replied, "I just want to say it the way Jesus said it." My friend said it was all he could do not to break into fake Aramaic.
go to ghostposter.com!
Aug 11
Bananas
back soon!
Monkey Business
Prozac
I feel like I'm in language heaven, surrounded by language angels. In heaven, the angels don't sing; they sit around on the clouds discussing language, grammar and spelling eternally. I will keep on being good, so I can go there when I die!
Miss in G, right on! RO bro! The Unfolding of Language is a great book, if you like this kind of stuff.
As for the rest of you in your short skirts and your teachers... I'm speechless.
Was I the only person who commented on the content of the find? Grammar and making sure youth understand it is important, but come on, guys! These comments weren't worth coming back to read.
Yes, Rebecca, you were the only person who commented on the content of the find.
Gosh, you guys have some good conversations, but by the time I get here there are 94 comments. Quite frankly, that's too much to read all at once. I want to be part of the conversation... how come I always get here too late?!
Careful Observer: If you wait twelve more minutes, you can be the first person to comment on tomorrow's FIND!
Rebecca, you are such a rule follower.
It says "gone bananas, back soon".
says in Oregon's right. It says "gone bananas, back soon."
In the lower left corner, it says "Pretzel", which is the brand name of merchandise with this particular monkey (and freinds). Then Bobby Jack came along, hit the big time with his micshievous monkey antics, and the Pretzel monkeys just.. kinda.. fell off a cliff.
I agree that this find is ho hum and uninspiring. I wonder how many submissions they get in an average day.
I meant to say SARA in Oregon is right... Sorry Sara.
That Curious George was so..... Curious!