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May 11, 2007 |
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Thurs To Do List
FOUND by Ivy Cooper
in Edwardsville, Illinois
I found this to do list on a Friday on the campus of Southern Illinois University (I teach art history there). I love how detailed this list is.
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find some girls... thats on my to do list also. zim zala bim bam ba zala do zala dim!
is that an arrow after "girls" ?
as in: i'm writing my to do list blah blah blah; i look up and think, wow, that's something i've gotta add. and star!
please oh please let it be an arrow and this note's awesomeness level just jumped up a coupla notches.
He doesn't need a list. He should study with a girl in his class who has money.
At least he has his priorities straight, somewhat. Pay that ticket and go to class. Although finding girls is still more important than studying.
It's funny, too, how the only thing he seems to have done is his chores. Makes you wonder.
hey! i was looking for this...
He was just going to use the girls to help him study for the test.....
I like how he (she?- probably not) prioritizes using the star system and that 'find some girls' is right up there with 'study for test'. Additionally, why doesn't 'figure out how to pay ticket' have a number of its own? Or does he plan on figuring out how to pay the ticket while in class?
I always find some girls before I study for my test.
Whaaaaaaaat? Found at a university? That note looks like a sixth grader wrote it.
I wonder if it's in order by priority. Because I'm pretty sure he's not going to want to study for the test after he brings home "girls". And why plural? Greedy Greedy
I know I'm supposed to be doing something but I can't read my handwriting .
"ticket?"
Is it a 'concert ticket?' A 'parking ticket?'
Why is "study for test" last?
You won't get quality girls if you fails your tests.
Is that an awesome caricature (a teacher, maybe)in the left margin or am I more stoned than usual? If I'm like the 1000th person to notice this at 9:07 est there were 10 comments.
#1 Indicates that he is going to ticket-paying class to figure out how to pay it.
#2 Is written in the second person. Maybe it was somebody else who wrote the list for him? Not likely given the next entry.
#3, 4 Perhaps it's a biology test?
Sad that 'study for test' is last...maybe if studying were at the top of the list - the note wouldn't look like a 3yr old wrote it.
Looks like this guy was out to pimp some babes just like me and the Toms. Seems the Toms know the best place to get girls is in "da powda room". So maybe this guy should start there first.
You always get a girl to "study" with you for a test. Maybe do a lil oral presentation to help you remember certain events. ;)
Wow that's gettin' dirty even for me, but probably not for the Toms...
on MY to-do list, i have:
-train breasts to produce chocolate milk
-catch and tame Man Beast
-grow tail
i like adding to other people's lists. if i'd been sitting by this guy as he wrote, i probably would've added "find girls," but i may also have added, "find cost of gender reassignment."
At least he doesn't have to shave his arms and pits.......
Ok folks, my 18 year old son has horrible handwriting, even though he is graduating with honors and getting ready to head off to college in the fall. At least the spelling police should be pretty happy with this, despite the abbreviated "fig".
Based on the fact that this note writer has crossed through "go to class" and "come home & do your chores", I think he is well on his way to a productive day. He'll fig out how to pay that ticket eventually.
Yo! An' when ya got dem tatas workin' wit dat choc'lat stuff, den we'z wanna kno'wheah ya'll iz. Cuz we could get inta sum'a dat oral action. An' if alla da gurlz'd grow tails it'd be so much betta' ta catch'em wit.
I think the squiggles on the left are the writer's attempt to get his worthless pen to work......glad he finally got it going. I agree, it does look like "go to class" and "come home & do chores" are crossed through. I wonder if he remembered to "find some girls" and "study for test" without the list that he mistakenly tossed out while emptying the garbage.
I think it is a 7 after "find some girls".
As in: Find 7 girls...
i also enjoy that studying for that test has taken a backseat to finding some girls.
because, come on, girls or a test?
easily girls.
we're so much harder to study for.
butttttt he did remember to do his chores first. what a good kid.
Haha, when I first read this I sw "Find some girls 7". As if the person wants 7 girls, specifically! Ohhh, man... well this made my day :)!
Thanks Ricky Nelson, for that Tool insert. It took me a while to remember why I knew that beautiful phrase... oh, and why are college kids still doing "chores"? I hope his parents at least upped his allowance to cover the weed he's smokin'.
m- I'm confused about why an arrow after "find some girls" would be so spectaculary. Please throw me a hint!
If I'm making a list and I make an arrow like that one, it means flip the list over, because this item is continued on the back. :/
Why do you all assume it's a "he" that's looking for girls?
..maybe the girls are for a scavanger hunt..or some cult mission.. hmmm virgin sacrafices anyone?
is that an arrow after girl?
Mickey B,
Apologies for my cryptic words. An arrow would be great because it would show spontaneity in list making. As s/he was writing this list, "some girls" may have walked by, to the right, in the direction of the arrow, and our listmaker perhaps thought of other (specific) items to be added. Not just find "some," girls, but rather find "those" girls . . . maybe? Anyway, that image, of the writer being inspired, even when writing a list, sorta tickled me.
Sigh, I had the excuse of wee morning hours for previous ineptitude. And now, I'm not much better off.
It never even occurred to me that the arrow could indicate turning the paper over. Seems woefully obvious now.
I like how s/he decided to abbreviate figure even though it has the same amount of letters as ticket.
I graduated from the Master's program at this same university in December and this looks nothing like the to-do lists I wrote. Mine included things like, "Call to complain about the increase in tuition for off-campus students who don't use rec center but have to pay for it anyway."
SIUE is notorious for their parking tickets, so I like to think that's what the note-writer is referring to here.
It's a question mark after 3) Find some girls.
If you look at number 4) Study for test, you can see his exclamation mark is really badly done, so it's safe to assume that he means "Find some girls?"
Peter(looking for apparitions in tortilla shells).. I see the caricature, too!
Does anyone else see the kinda 70s-looking guy with the curlicue nose facing to the left?
Peter(looking for apparitions in tortilla shells).. I see the caricature, too!
Does anyone else see the kinda 70s-looking guy with the curlicue nose facing to the left?
here's my idea of the mental process here:
writes- "go to class"
thinks- wait, no, fuck class! i need my seven girls, stat! Besides, i'll just get another parking ticket, oh! that reminds me...
crosses out "got to class" writes- "pay ticket"
thinks- now about those girls... oh, wait they'll never blow me if my house is such a mess.
writes- do chores, rest of list.
see?
see. yeah,
he's actually in need of a girl who is smart enough to help him study, yet dumb enough to pay for his ticket and comply to do his chores.
simple, really.
(it made me laugh how there's a star next to find girls, but not next to do chores... clearly, he has his priorities...)
I go to SIU, and this list pretty much matches everyone else's list of priorities too...and i'm guessing that ticket is a drinking ticket, because that's typical SIU for you.
I go to SIU, and this list pretty much matches everyone else's list of priorities too...and i'm guessing that ticket is a drinking ticket, because that's typical SIU for you.
I agree. If you were enrolled at SIUE and you never got a parking ticket then you never went to class, unless you lived on campus then you got a drinking ticket. The police there suck. Plus there's literally acres and acres of parking yet they jack up parking fees every year. Plus the parking is so far away they have a special shuttle for it. Strange.
I think it's a question mark after the girls. S/he's not so sure about his/her macking skills.
Pen not working too? Yeah it reeks of typical SIUE. I had a funny feeling it looked familure by the time i finished "go to class and pay ticket." Sho nuff!