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March 31, 2009 |
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This Obviously Has Many Applications
FOUND by Richardo
in San Francisco, CA
Found at Safeway in the bottom of my grocery cart. I'm guessing the notes found at Whole Foods might be more reliable when it comes to general science, but who knows?
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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...
It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that birds have wings and we don't, does it? Nooo, that would be so ordinary and unpoetic-sounding!
This is essentially the "forget to hit the ground" method.
Hey, if it worked for Arthur...
I really like this.
BUT if you're flying and you're flying in the Safeway and Feliciano is fired, get out NOW! Because that is impossible for a Brasilion reasons!
I like to think there's someone out there making little uplifting notes and leaving them around the shops. cute
This obviously has many applications in our (possibly short)lives...
o by the time her mother arrived, she was just standing there in the kitchen. Her mother said, "I thought I told you not to do that." "No, Mom," the girl answered, "you didn't say not to, you said I couldn't. That's dif
i didnt learn that from science, i learned that from Wile E. Coyote.
oh, and btw... i dont think flying is 'impossible' for birds. They're all aerodynamic and everything.
Tell that to the ostrich. Tell it to the penguin. Tell it to the auk and the roc and the moa.
Dumbo, on the other hand, Dumbo could fly. I saw it happen at the movies once.
I take that back about the roc.
Although there is a school of thought that the roc (an invisible one) is behind Dumbo's flight.
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the...
Oh No!
*Splat*
ugh - passive-aggressive controlling language wrapped up in the guise of having your best interest at heart, delivered in a message so illogical, it's not worth the argument.
Just have faith!
Oh no...
'Cecil's fallen over!'
(If you don't know what I'm talking about you won't know what I'm talking about. It was a very old sick joke. Baby Basil probably remembers it)
Hey, and some saucers can fly.
Your mom can fly.
This find reads like one of Farmer's posts - except it begins and ends with complete words.
I personally think this is a stupid note.
"If we could supress what we know we might stand a chance" - is hippie rubbish nonsense. In what instance - in the entire timespan of human beings - has supression what we know ever advanced the anything for the good?
Also - what facts does this person have that what a bird is doing is impossible? That's what I think everytime a pigeon takes off ... I say wow that's impossible - and it managed to take shit on that guy's head while it was doing the impossible - so that is like 2 impossibles together. It's not like it's frickin' levitating with no movement involved at all.
How about - (those of us that are able) - we get up and walk across the room is just as impossible a feat?
Plus we did figure out how to fly - you just have to get inside another object - it's called an airplane.
@Lolita & Sammy - lol!
Supress what you know...that's called denial. Or stupid.
i once tried to suppress what i knew about walking, but all that happened was i fell down a lot.
I think I must suppress what I know about what it's like to work where I work.
I keep showing up every work day. Suppression must be the explanation. And I do keep getting paid, so there's a little of 'the good' in it.
Hiplainsdrifter, is that enough of a counter example for you?
I particularly love the final sentence, "give it some thought." Most definitely hippie stoner BS.
Stoner #1: "Dude, have you ever noticed that it's totally impossible to fly..."
Stoner #2: "No way dude, birds do it all the time."
Stoner #1: "Dude, you're right... that really blows my mind...:
Later that night Stoner #1 went home, got high and thought more about his earlier discussion. Realizing he'd come to something that would change the world he wrote out his retort to #2 and printed hundreds of copies to share his new insight with the rest of us... And now we know. Give it some thought!
Also, spam protection answer: 42. That's two Arthur Dent references buried subtly in one find! Perhaps Adams was on to something... Give it some thought!
I think I get what the note is supposed to say. If I suppress all the negative thoughts in my mind telling me something is impossible (ie. losing weight, finishing dissertation, talking to a cute guy), then nothing would prevent me from doing them. I am not "suppressing what I know," but "what I think I know."
Damn those evil voices in my head!
@ Librarian: Don't forget the kiwi and the emu!
Craig was actually getting a BIRD mixed up with a BEE. He was drunk at the time, and he remembered people were always saying one of those flying animals people use to talk about sex wasn't aerodynamically supposed to be able to fly. So he got to thinking... Maybe the bird can still fly just because it doesn't KNOW! Wait—that would totally revolutionize the world! Gotta write it down.
So is this saying if you supress the fact that you know you can't fly, you, therefore, can fly??? i'm so confused. This is too much thinking for today (sighs)
@feeling and farmer: thanks for my daily chuckle
duuuuuuude! I wish I was trippinnnnn'!
This find was written for "Farmer in The Dell." Quite possibly to him, in fact. I'd wager a handsome sum that he or she entertains any number of eccentric theories and frequently engages in ridiculous arguments with obvious nitwits.
does not
"see this is where your whole theory falls apart"
What was the original theory that this little snippet of bullshittery was supposed to counter?
http://foundmagazine.com/find/176
.. fancifully sail into the future to explore and bring back the gems...
I want to see a list of more applications.
Oh, lmao @ Farmer, ftw.
absolutely brilliant.
Who really knows that a bird doesn't know its flying? Jonathan Livingstone Seagull knows.
SO who wants to take the leap first?
There is no spoon.
i think dude #1 has read a bit too much richard bach recently. my favorite part is that he typed and printed it, to possibly gave it to dude #2 in person. it was that important.
This reminds me of that viral video, 'If Atheists Ruled the World'. It's actors reading dialogue taken from Christian fundamentalist discussion boards. Hilarious. Youtube it.