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Jedi Masters
FOUND by Charlotte
in Brown County, Indiana
My husband and I went to a cabin in the woods for our anniversary. In the cabin were guestbooks where you could write about your experience there. We spent the first evening there reading through the books and found this page. Because it cracked us up so much, we stole the page as a keepsake. Now, I'm sharing it with you. My favorite line is the P.S.
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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...
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ewokwursts?!?
I'll take my ewokwurst with a little mustard.
my favorite is the "used force to exterminate" HA!
I like all the punctuation. Very nice. The last bullet point is my fave; he chose to leave and join Jedi Masters Anonymous. lol
This now closed coffee shop used to have journals lying around for guests to sign. An old bf & I would meet there and pen our love for eachother....and hilarious stories about others! I always wanted to steal those journals......
O.K. ... I guess I'll just be the first to say it... HOW INCREDIBLY SELFISH OF YOU TO TAKE THE PAGE OUT OF THE GUESTBOOK... Did it occur to you that others might enjoy it as well? I can't believe the arrogance of some people. The sad thing is you probably justify it some way ("our special weekend" or "they can't miss what they've never seen,") but I think you've stepped outside the bounds of common decency. In the future, maybe you might remember that the some other couple could be stuck in the cabin some rainy night and could use a little light hearted humor to keep their "special weekend" from being completely ruined.
Self involved cretins.
This should be on a site called Stolen.com not Found.com
Oh, the memories! My friends and I used to rent a cabin in Brown County in the summer. Though that was back in the late 1970's when Star Wars geekery, our agenda was different...except for the postscript.
OK Don Ho - I get your point, but a find (ok a steal) of this level of comic genius deserves a wider audience than the relatively small number of people who will a) stay in that room and b)actually read through the book.
The real crime here is that Charlotte's husband wasn't getting any marital action on that anniversary trip, or they wouldn't have been sitting around reading guestbooks!
You know, the people that submitted could anonymously return the page to the cabin's guestbook and I'm sure all would be forgiven.
Man this mad me laugh. Used "force" to exterminate...that is so magnificently nerdy.
I would personally use "Raid" wasp killer because I'm pretty sure a young Jedi's "force" doesn't have the 12-foot range that the spray can does.
You don't eat ewoks. That's the first step before killing an entire village of some other race, including women and children, because some of the adult men killed your mama.
Ewokwursts are the worst!!
Although I'm glad to see this entertaining document on my screen, my first thought upon finishing Charlotte's description was that it was rather uncool to remove it from its intended location. It doesn't quite seem to fit the "found" spirit of this website if people are going to steal the items to submit them here. Returning it to its original place in the cabin guest book would help realign Charlotte and her husband's karma in a more positive direction.
fuck karma
This is funny...and more for the goofy paper it's on.
I agree - leave it there - only a few can benefit. Take it- and share the laughter with the world.
(hey cokepoet! hope you are well!)
*coughs out the word "Geeks!"*
OMG. Are these "Minutes" from a JMA meeting??
Sweet Holy Moses.....I just don't know what to say.
(What was the writing on the last find? "Please Don't - U R Pathetic ?")
Yeah...that works for this one.
*channeling Yoda*
"Sharing the Jedi Secrets they are....only one way to rebalance the karma now there is...die they must."
Does anyone else find the obsession with star wars to be a little pathetic...? I just cannot see what is so great about it
As much as I adore the writing on this 'steal', I think that I love the little insignia so painstakingly drawn at the top of the page. It really makes it for me.
Ha! Everything else was anonymous but he had to state the ding bat that actually got drunk through all of this.
I agree that stuff like this deserves a bigger audience, so "share it with the universe".. but the person who submitted this really should have taken a pic of this "find", rather than taking the page out of someone else's book.
Could someone please print this out and slip a copy of it in a guestbook in a cabin in the woods of your choice? I'll just feel a whole lot better.
thanks.
Oh please take it back! Take a copy and go and return the original. It's pretty selfish of you to have stolen it even if you have shared it with us all.
Go back and sort it out.
Now whenever I find a journal with a missing page, I'll know all the good stuff is gone. How disappointing. Thanks for wrecking all those cabin stays for me...
At Jedi Masters Anonymous, does the Gold Leader also admit that he is powerless over extreme out-of-control geekitude? (Or just drunken C and K?) At least there were hikes to clear their minds a bit, not that it seemed to institute any sanity. Egads, to think they left this proudly in the guest book! Methinks they should be grateful some nice people removed it from record to save them the embarrassment and sent it to *Found* for proper shaming ridicule.
Why is it that a person who would never shoplift from a store (not even Walmart!) thinks it's OK to rip things out of someone else's book??? OK so you paid rent on the cabin but that doesn't give you free rein. You wouldn't steal a towel but you would descrate a book that's not your own.
I bet the "finder" is the sort of person that borrows books from friends and never returns them, or returns them damaged or covered with fingermarks, dogeared pages and coffee rings. I bet their shelves are full of books that belong to other people but were "so good I just couldn't let it go." And they've been banned from at least 3 public libraries for not returning books or paying the fines thereon. (Those books are also on their private shelves, not even in the back room, but proudly on display.)
I bet they underlined important passages in books they used at the university library, too.
And I bet that if anyone ever borrows a book from *them*, they get hounded until it's returned.
You should've just taken a picture. Ripping it out of the book is lame.
i agree, taking the page is cretinous and lame. take only pictures,.. leave only .. i guess, in this case, fingerprints. rules of the environment
I was enjoyng the note then I read about you taking it. You are really terrible to do that. What you did was stealing and it contributes to distrust in people. I guess you are more important that everyone else? Not everyone sees this website you self-interested fool. May your actions somehow haunt you. THINK ABOUT IT.
Apparently so many people now put 'Jedi' on census forms under 'Religion' that it is having to be officially recognised as a religion. I thought this was an urban myth, but Googling reveals it started in New Zealand and has happened in the UK, Canada and Australia. More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4157930
Meanwhile, go back to that cabin AT ONCE and put the page back where you found it! Please!!
Gold Leader=First the Worst...?
Well, I had the same initial reaction: bad, bad, bad people! Don't steal this cool stuff!
But then I thought to myself: "Have I ever stolen anything?"
Unforch, the answer is "Yes, I have. Quite a bit actually."
So instead of adding the label 'hypocrite' to 'thief'.... I'll just say the old "Let he who has never sinned cast the first... yada yada."
And also, as far as the note goes. I think this is a very cool person playing a joke. Not a nerdy person recounting a "real" weekend experience.
Funny find. Stealing it instead of taking a picture of it is uber-lame, though. What part of "Found" made you think "stolen" was the way to go?
Oh My---I thought I'd stumbled onto "STOLED" magazine this morning!Orinoco womble,I know someone who borrows books and sticks pubic hairs in between the pages before she returns them...ew.
Has anybody here seen "Wisconsin Death Trip"?
This is Pretty Curious. It's like across between Star Wars, A.A., and BBQ. Sounds fun! Count me in.
FINDER'S KEEPERS, LOSER'S WEEPERS.
Regardless of whether she took the page or not, she still found it. The page is better enjoyed on this site where everyone can enjoy it, not just an elite group of cabin goers.
I'll take playful and creative "geek"s ANY day over boring, bitter people who make fun of them!
who cares? she took it, it's over and done with. so lay off. if you came across something similiar to this or better, can you say you'd leave it be? or would you be tempted to take it? i would take it because it would be appreciated. the intent of the writer was for someone to see and enjoy it, but now, the whole world has enjoyed it.. or at least, those who visit this site. calm down folks, and take a deeeeeep breath.
you giys, how come nobody is making fun of the fact that one of the jedis took off? hahha. After a 2 day hike, I'd quit too.
Do you think these guys wear swimps on their shoes/ shirts/ shorts???
There are bigger things to criticize than a page of a book guys. Yes, it was wrong. She gets the point. Move on.
Is that C and K got drunk or get drunk?
I think I'll get that insignia tattooed on me. At first glance, I thought it was a crossed pair of scythes, reminiscent of the Grim Reaper. I bet Dark Jedi Anonymous has a cooler logo, but since they're anonymous, I can't seem to find them listed and find out.
Blowin in the Wind,
I can't imagine why your friend would have shared her curious habit with you!
Hahaa... when I first read the note, I thought it said the deserter went to join "Dork Jedi Anonymous..."
...in my line of work, people tell me secrets. scary secrets.
Does regiment 529 imply that there are at least 528 *other* regiments? Wow. I thought I was the only one who alligned my midichlorians(sp) in the woods.
Did it occur to anyone that only the guy who filled out the guest book thought of it as a "Jedi Excursion?"
No wonder one member left and two others got drunk.
Thanks for sharing, Charlotte. Feel free to ignore all the stick-up-the-ass whiners that are crying theft.
Oh... Dear god... I just looked at the date on the note and I think I know someone that went to this... :S They wore Jedi robes the whole time and fought with wooden "light sabers"... The world is nuts... They're MOVIES. Not REAL. You don't see anyone trying to put rings in volcanoes... why try to be a "jedi"...?
They may be just movies, but Jedi has a whole philosophy behind it. It actually is not very far from the truth. The Jedi principles are pretty philosophically accurate. Not to say I am a follower or anything, but there have been books written on the subject. I wouldn't be so quick to peg these guys as George Lucas Cult Dorks. The Star Wars Films do have much deeper meanings in them. i.e. "Clear our Minds of Impure Thoughts" as seen above. Haven't you seen Mallrats? Don't look just at the surface. You must look further. Do or Do Not, There is No Try.
2 day hike to clear impure thoughts? I am out!
Sheesh, OK I see this note as dry humor. Clever humor. Not geekiness. And even if it was geeky, IMHO being cool is so incredibly over rated that people who attempt it are truley the pathetic ones.
As for poor Charlotte I can picture her reading many of these replies in a state of stunned disappointment. She obviously didn't steal it to be selfish, I would say thoughtless is the worse anyone can condemn her for.....for those of you who seem to enjoy condemning that is. I think she enjoyed it and had an honest desire to delight us with it. And she got slammed in return.
That's what being selfish is, though; taking something without even pausing to think of the other person. Charlotte only thought of the type of enjoyment *she* could get out of this page, and the "accomplishment" of being the one to share it; in doing so, she deprived others of the joy of discovery, and the cabin owners of that page.
My family has a guest cabin, and we treasure every guestbook entry. If someone had selfishly, thoughtlessly, carelessly defaced it or stole part of it for this purpose rather than taking a picture, we would be livid. Thankfully, though we've had renters break the rules before (and wound up on the town's rental blacklist as a result, with them unable to get a cabin later - "Whyyy?" "Because you brought in a dog against the rules, and it had fleas." "Because you don't replace the hummingbird's sugar water with beer."), we haven't had anyone do anything this bad - we can always fumigate the cabin and replace bedding, so we haven't ever had a guest do this kind of permanent damage.
Maybe JMA is " Jedi Masters Association " . Many people take Star Wars way too far . I would've been hanging with C and K for sure !
It looks like my brothers writing
I'm delighted that Charlotte and her husband clipped this from the cabin's guest book and took it home to share with us. The outrage of this group over moral minutiae is embarrasssing.
Charlotte could easily have changed her story to make herself sound less culpable, but she came right out and admitted she stole it. Good lord, I hope I never feel compelled to tell you all that I stole a candy bar from Thrifty Mart when I was four years old. I'm not sure I could endure your collective disdain.
Here's a little nature story to distract you. In the late 1960s, one of the world's top specialized nature photographers was known for taking pictures of gorgeous, previously unknown and unclassified insects all over the world. His work was particularly well received in his native Japan. What wasn't as well known was that after photographing each specimen, he crushed it with his foot so no one else in the area could duplicate his work and compete with him. It was probably good that he didn't specialize in photographing puppies and kittens.
Why is it that the people who got drunk and stupid and probably puked all over are the ones considered 'normal' and the ones who spent time enjoying a work of fiction that spoke to them (and they *do* know it's fiction, believe me) are dorks/nerds/to be disdained? How many of you making fun are reading Harry Potter today?
If presented with the opportunity, I would indeed make fun of Harry-Potter "grown ups" who were acting like dorks.
I also have to agree with Desperate Cynic: "The outrage of this group over moral minutiae is embarrasssing."
I'm with Don Ho; wow, the magazine and site is "FOUND", not "SWIPED"; tsk tsk tsk
I definitely agree with the "disdain" crowd. STEALING this was selfish and wrong. Charlotte took it as a keepsake, not to share with a wider group of people (not that it makes any difference), and she took this from someone's home. It's disgusting.
Nice Steal!
Bacause at least C and K aren't spending their cabin time imagining that they're Jedi Masters ! That's why it seems more normal .
And I love this find , which I wouldn't have ever seen if Charlotte hadn't "stolen" it . Now she's an uncool terrible , disgusting selfish thief ? A damn tough crowd you are .
I'm going to agree that stealing stuff just isn't cool. A camera, either film or digital, could have obviated this whole problem.
Come on, guys! "It was stolen, but a lot more people could enjoy it this way" is a piss-poor excuse for theft. It wouldn't stand up in court, and it clearly doesn't stand up with the majority here.
I MUST be THE ONLY ONE here who thinks:
A- your are being WAY too hard on the 'finder' here - I frankly think they were doing the JMA a SERVICE...those minutes are probably top secret & shouldn't be left in a book like that or else they might fall into the wrong hands
B- you all act like you've NEVER stolen or taken anything in your whole lives that weren't yours - come on now...
C- taking a picture of a journal page is more dorky than just ripping it out?
Just picture that why don't ya? Then, it would be a blurry photo of something was funny, but oh- you really had to see it for yourself...kind of thing.
D- That the whole Star Wars obession groups are just one sandwich short of a picnic??
I hardly view this as stealing....a cabin in the woods has a connotation of 'help yourself' and wipe your feet folks...you know...no locks on the doors and no wifi.
I'm just embarassed for all of them at the JMA meeting.
I'm pretty sture I've seen this exact find (or at least a copy??) somewhere... This entry doesn't seem familiar to anyone else...? Maybe I'm just having a severe case of deja vu.
It never said anywhere that C and K didn't play along while drunk, just that they got drunk... If it's the C that I know goes to those meetings, he probably tried to prove that he was really Luke while chugging back beers. Not everyone realizes that it's fiction, some people make it a life long quest to become "jedi" in more than just the "I believe in the force" sense.
This is the second find this week that has mentioned the quote "Do or Don not, there is no Try." Maybe we are infiltrated by more members of the JMA than we realized......
"Steals" aren't as fun as "finds."
You "theft apologists" are missing the point. She should've simply taken a picture.
Ripping it out of the book ruins a cool thing.
Right on, Charlotte. I'm glad I got to see this hilarious find. Thank you. My favorite part is the 529, too. To think I could be near regiment #465 or #105!!
I'm in with the in crowd said:
Come on, guys! "It was stolen, but a lot more people could enjoy it this way" is a piss-poor excuse for theft. It wouldn't stand up in court, and it clearly doesn't stand up with the majority here.
would you take someone to court over a torn out page?! heh. good grief.
excellent find, i'd have ripped it out too. i put 'jedi' down as my religion in the census once, but then there were threats of fines the next time. fascists.
hahahahahaha
Wow, some of the people here are really touchy. It's not like it's ripping an important page out of a novel that you borrowed. They leave those books there for people to leave note that they were there, and almost nobody actually reads them. I bet if Charlotte hadn't used the word 'stole' herself, absolutely none of you would find any problem with it. By the looks of it, they forgot to take it out of the only source of paper they could find. ANYWAY, regarding the actual find, it's kind of fun to think about whether they actually are this pompous and self-important about their 'meetings' in real life or if they were laughing as they wrote it down.
Vladimir: you're still missing the point. She could've simply taken a picture of the page and left the journal intact.
And yes, people who visit shelters with these journals read them. Amusing annecdotes make for great reading. These are popular items in hiking shelters along the Appalachian trail, for example.
This particular journal was defaced. Period.
I'm getting a kick out of the comments. Some of the posters wouldn't be so cavalier about this theft if the item had belonged to them. Ever been stolen from? It sucks. Theft's theft, regardless of the worth of the item or the justification given. Here's a quick way to check: Does it belong to you? No? Then leave it alone!
Given the comments here supporting the "finder", it's no wonder common courtesy is becoming more rare and precious by the minute.
Thank you, try in g to remember. Thank you for remembering since it does looks familiar. I do remember the topic of Jedi and "C and K got drunk" line. I don't remember where I had seen it before
Big Babies.
Dear Lost in Seattle, Perhaps you read it in a guestbook in a cabin in the woods somewhere.
Search on this page for "jedi":
http://whatsup.foundmagazine.com/?m=200610
Here's the <a href=http://whatsup.foundmagazine.com/?p=80>exac link</a>!
C and K? Carrie Fisher Kenny Baker?
Ok once more, with feeling:
It's a joke. Humor. You know, with the laughing and the kneeslapping? I believe the tipoff, for me, was the part where they mention using the force to exterminate insects...
Geez people. Get a clue. Someone was being clever and felt like writing something other than "Thanks, Nancy and I had a lovely time."
Hehe...I can very easily picture the boys who wrote this. Last fall in my daycare class, I had a couple of older homeschooled boys. Every day they came dressed head to toe in Star Wars garb. More than once I was asked to watch the light sabers as the jedis threw their robes over their shoulders and crossed the monkey bars.
I love this. So much. Especially the logo at the top. Very nice.
I agree that this is a joke, but the author(s) are definitly true nerds. Trust me. I may not be a Star Wars nerd, but fandom is fandom. I can see myself and my friends writing something like this, only about Harry Potter instead of Star Wars, if we were bored enough.
I don't care if they're "nerds" for writing this. I think this is hilarious and it made me laugh. I feel bad for people who think humor like this is just "lame" and "geeky". It means you have that much less laughter in your life.
Also, about Charlotte "stealing" it or whatever. What if she didn't have a camera? I, myself, am piss poor and have never owned a camera in my life other than the time I stole a disposable one in 8th grade. It's easy to say "Oh, you could've just taken a picture, you thieving wench!". How about, no, maybe she couldn't have just whipped out a camera and snapped a shot. I can't say if I would've done the same thing as Charlotte (maybe I would), but seriously, this isn't a great tragedy. I got a good laugh out of this and I can thank Charlotte for that.
I just love it when human robots call interesting people "pathetic" or are so bored and miserable with their own existence that they feel the need to put others down for their interests, hobbies, obsessions, etc. Nothing wrong with too much escapism. Live, love, laugh and be happy. Or just go jump in a frozen lake.
How sad to see that you thought only of yourselves and possible psuedo-celebrity by STEALING (yes, let's call it what it is) this page. Everything you do comes back to you times 3. I guess they don't teach manners or "look, but don't STEAL" in Indiana. YOU ARE A THIEF. If everyone who stayed there had your moral code, there would have been no book for you to enjoy. As to those of you who think this is funny, I'd not want you in MY home. I'd have to weigh you coming in and going out.
I have to say, my family has a cabin on a lake up north that we rent out regularly. We have guest books with log entries going back to 1936. They are one of the most cherished items of our cabin and detail the adventures of hundreds of visitors over the years. If someone ripped a page out of one of our guest books, I know the reaction would be the same disappointment and disgust that a lot of people here have been showing. Just ripping the page out because it was clever and she liked it was selfish and thoughtless. It wasn't her page to take, and if the folks who owned that cabin were like my family, it probably was missed and caused some sadness and consternation.
This is simply an issue of right and wrong. It wasn't hers to take, whether she found it funny or not. It belonged to the people who owned the cabin, and frankly still does. She ought to mail it back if she can't take it back on her next trip.
If she'd done it at our cabin, I'd be upset too, especially since our log book has things in it very similair in humor to that.
This makes me sad on so many levels.
My Karma ran over your Dogma.