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Remember Us
FOUND by Meghan
in Maplewood, New Jersey
I found this picture torn in half while walking my dog. Its double sided. The back says, "so keep this to remember us jus like we will ___ you. -bb" (I can't read part of it).
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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...
I love this photo! Love gone bad? It looks like it was very romantic and intimate moment it's a shame they have lost their heads...
Those are two really different styles of jeans. Also there is a ghost heart off to the side. Strange.
Looks like one of those posed pictures they take at the prom... except these two were a little underdressed. Who knows.
Yes, two very different styles of jeans, and both horribly ill-fitting. the person on the right (I think that's the girl) appears to have a butt that goes to the middle of her thighs. Nice boots, though.
the jeans on the right scream 70's to me, but the jeans on the left look like 90's gangsta stuff.
Chrome, I can't guess the gender of the jean-wearers. I honestly cannot tell. It could go either way. Or both.
Wow. I at first thought two girls. Then I thought a girl and a ghetto-jersey guy. On a third inspection, I could see how the other could also be a guy with tight, ugly jeans. So I'm with Clover.
There used to be a store in our mall where you could come and take cheesy pictures just like this. It's no longer there. :)
Is that the bottom of a microphone stand?
Mabye it was Karaoke night... I guess the song doesn't remain the same
Poor BB...I guess whoever you gave the picture to, doesn't care to remember you anymore. I hope you (and whoever else made up the "us") got over it and forgot them, too. Anyone who would tear up a picture given by a friend deserves forgetting.
From one "bb" to another--the world is full of friends you haven't met yet. Hope you find a good one.
Jeans, Jeans, You're young and alive
come out of your half dream dream
and reun if you will
to the top of the hill
Come into my life, bonnie Jeans
'...just like we will always be together. Love you -- BB'
Or two girls larking about, sent to some boy -- '...just like we will remember you'.
Either way -- RIP (and R.I.P.) -- no more memories. Sad.
The heart in the background is weird. Almost like a studio setup for posing wedding pictures -- but would you get married in tatty blue jeans??
Has anyone noticed how strangely posed the 2 people are? One pair of feet is facing away from the camera--was the face looking away, or was the body twisted? (An uncomfortable pose to hold if so!) And the other, wearing a long dark top of some kind, seems only to have one leg! Where is the other--or is it a pirate's photo?
What is the shiny gold thing the person on the left is standing in front of? Looks like a picture frame. But a photo in a photo? The lighting is strange too if you look at the floor.
And then the embossed heart. Altogether an interesting artefact. I wish they had found the other half.
Talk about awkwardly posed kids....
Isn't this sagging style played out yet? A generation of young women with no appreciation for guys' cute levi-clad butts cuz they've never seen any. Pity.
I love, love, and thrice love this photo! The anonymity of it makes it better. I thought it was just a candid snap of two people, obviously close, having a moment. I, too, tried to figure out of it was a guy and a girl, and if so which is which, but couldn't make up my mind, which I think makes it even better.
Maybe whoever they gave the picture to only wanted to remember their faces, or felt something for one of them and did not want to face the closeness shared by these two. So many unanswered questions - this is a fan-freakin-tastic found!
Initially I thought the tall one in the tight jeans on the right was the guy, and I was going to comment on how tight his jeans were becuase the baggy-jeans on the left is such a small person. But maybe this Amazon in Boots likes tiny men. And it is true that either person could be either or both genders, which is interesting. The note is a mystery. I can't make sense of the missing word. Any guesses any one?
At first I thought the picture was on a sidewalk and the effect like the ghost heart had been post-produced in, but then looking again, I think Sasquach was on to something with Karaoke-- I think it is on some sort of stage. Mayve it was some sort of school dance, since it does look prom-like with them standing so close, but they are way underdressed to be at a nice function.
Obviously things were much better at the time then as opposed to now with the ambiguously-gendered couple.
Elle,
When we had school dances in middle school no one really dressed up because we thought we were "too cool" to get dressed up for a school dance. The only time we got dressed up for a dance was for prom or a sorority dance. This was back in the early 80's but I would imagine it only getting worse by now.
You're right. That's what I was kind of driving at or trying to communicate, but you described it better than I.
:)
The fact that you can't see the person on the right side's feet makes this especially bizarre. If there was a big ol' size 13 jutting out, you could assume this was a guy with really low-riding jeans and a very long shirt. As it is, he (assumption here) seems tiny. The person on the right does seem to be female--or that is one large-assed guy!
Oops! That damn left and right is alwasy such a pain for me...I meant the reverse! Person on left's feet not being visible, that is...
Love on the rocks. Ain't no surprise.
Okay, the one of the left is definately a girl in long, wide-bottomed jeans. The one on the right is definately a guy, in tight 70's jeans. This pic looks like it was taken in late 70 or early 80. I remember that time period as that was when I was in school.
I think it's funny that younger people think the one on the left is a girl because of the tight jeans. Guys really did wear jeans like that back then!
Also, interesting how the pic was torn. If you were angry at someone, I would think you would tear it vertically and through away the half with his or her face in it. This person, however, tore horizontally and threw away the bottom half with their feet in it.
That is assuming, of course, that they kept the top half.
Looks like a kicker and a gang member. A love that could never be.
SASQUATCH- You came up with a great tune, please don't ruin it...I think The Song DOES Remain The same, it's just the people who don't. No hard feelings!
NIGHT IN GALE- You said it best!!! A guy in tight, blue Levi's with a wicked butt...WOWZEERRZZ!! Gals just don't know what they're missin'!!
NADINE- I grew up in the 70's and 80's as well. Ain't nuttin' better then a 'but'ter in the tightest LEVI's possible! Like they were painted on the guys body...HAHA!!!
I really adore this find, too!
Hmmm... The background looks like some crappy thing that would be set up at a high school dance. Maybe they're doing one of those awkward high school dance poses?
This seems to me like more the late 90's or 2000's. The person on the left kinda looks like one of those kids who wears gigantic shirts and gigantic pants hanging off their ass 'cuz they want to be "gangsta" or whatever the hell they call that stereotype these days. And the person on the left kinda looks like one of the girls that hangs around those guys (note the boots).
Speculation aside, they are indeed two poorly dressed people.
I think the poorly dressed folk tore the picture and gave it to someone. I think the missing word is "so keep this to remember us jus like we will remember you". Wild night perhaps?
"So keep this to remember us just like we will remember you". I bet that is what it says on the back. This couple (I'm presuming it's a couple because of the intimacy of the legs) are going away and are leaving a friend behind. So sad. But a great find.
I think the one on the left is a boy, and the one on the right is a girl.
Looks like a sadie hawkins dance pic to me...
if it was karaoke night and that is a microphone stand, then it's possible that they are doing a duet. the one on the right is a cowboy (or girl?) singing country with a gangsta chick (dude) doing some rapping.
then the missing words would be "be singing for"..."jus like we will [be singing for] you..."
at first i thought the silver pole-looking thing was a cane or the leg of a walker. hard telling
Lets remember this is Jersey folks. The one on the left is a boy and the one on the right the girl.
NADINE - What is the explanation for the long shirt if the person on the left is indeed a girl wearing wide bottomed pants?
Could be a middle school dance-- A girl on right much taller than a boy on the left...
I just broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years. This is officially the only found that's ever made me cry.
I sound like an idiot in this post. Excuse me while I go sob into my Harold Bloom.
Somebody Not: A long hippie shirt - in fact, these shirts are pretty popular right now.
Without a doubt, the figure on the right is a guy. That is not a female physique.
It's St. Valentine's day at a gay bar in a down-market part of town. Thus the under-dressing, and the cheap stage set, complete with spray-painted hearts. These guys can pose THAT close together, (I think the gangsta-style one's left shoe is just peeking out between the other one's shoes...just a glimmer), and get their photo taken and even inscribe it, in the toxically homophobic culture of poor/working class Jersey, because the gay bar scene IS their world. I think it's contemporary, not 1970's, as the bell-bottoms didn't droop like that, they fanned out at the bottom.
this is not the 70's or 80's, the jeans on the right are way too low rise for that. Our pockets were way high up on our butts, not down the thighs like that. It's recent, 90's. 00's. that sort of thing.
nadine, according to my offspring, you wear those long hippie shirts with skinny jeans, or leggings, not with baggy-ass pants like those. (a friend of my offspring likes to move the hyphen over in phrases like that, making it baggy ass-pants, instead. throws a whole different spin on things, dont it?)
i have seen these kind of pictures way too many times. when i was in jr. high and early high school everyone went to this photography place in our mall called star shots, you pose with a cheesy background, and then they kind of blur the picture and have weird lighting to give you this "movie star" effect. which basically means they make it bright and blur it enough to hide your zits. the close are common style among gangster types. the guys just wearing excessively large jeans with an even bigger t-shirt, and the girl is wearing the tight jeans. she's probably wearing a black t-shirt as well, to do the whole matching thing. they probably handed these pictures out to all their friends. i have a little collection of pictures people had given me. thank god i never went there myself! if you're looking for a time reference i graduated in 05, so i'd guess this was taken sometime after the new millenium
Tight jeans is a girl... she's just got no a$$. Baggy jeans is a guy. You can't tell if he's short or not, because those jeans can ride really low, and the shirt can be extra long. For all we know, his dingly-dangly may be up next to her elbows. And it might be sizeable, because his foot is cut out of the frame of the photo.
Is it just me or does the leg on the far right appear to be bent all wrong. It looks painful to stand like that. I think this is a dance held at a gay and lesbian teen center and this is two guys.
I initially thought tight jeans was a guy. But after looking a while, I now realize that baggy jeans is the guy and tight jeans is the girl. I actually think that baggy jeans isn't as short as we think he is. I live outside of Detroit and see a lot of urban wear, and the shirts often go way down and can appear this way, and it would make them look shorter, but they are just very long. His hips are probably at the same level as the girl's are.
Looks like one of those pictures you take at the mall.....
This picture reminded me of school dances in the 80's too! I remember the combination of innocence and passion in those slow dances. Ahh...I can hear "Lost in Love" by Air Supply playing now!
I have to agree that this picture is much newer than that! This might be a "Star Shots" photo, but there are TONS of photo editing software programs out there. My kids are always adding stars, hearts, captions, etc... to the photos they print on their computers.
Why is everybody making such an issue about the quality of their clothes? They're young, and it’s pretty clear that what was important to them was being together, not how they looked, or what they were wearing. Wish life was as simple now, as it was when I was their age!
this is a high school couple..half of the ones at my school look like this (from the middle down, anyway). it's a dumb style, but very recognizable. looks like a mall photo, with the heart and whatnot.
from what i recall about being young.. what you look like is the most important thing. I dont see people talking about the 'quality' of their clothes, but more about the style.
Mona, way to call it! This is definitely a recent picture (not from the 70's). There is no way a girl would wear the outfit on the left; your offspring are right. And your offspring's friends have good taste in webcomics: the hyphen-moving is from xckd.com, my personal favorite.
http://xkcd.com/37/
This is totally A M.O.R.P or Sadies Hawkins picture!! I had M.O.R.P back in High School it was the opposite of Prom the girls ask the guys and they wear matching shirts.
*thinks back to good ol high school days* Ahhh lol Good times!
LOL!! I love that website cassisu!!! Thanks for sharing :D
Those boots on the right are pretty darn awesome.
Oh, and Night in gale, I can definitely appreciate cute Levi-clad butts. ;)
i'll check out that comic when i get home, cassisu, my work internet blocks me from stuff like that. Sigh. (like i dont find enough ways to procrastinate)
Oh yeah, nightingale, i meant to comment about Levi clad-butts. sigh... at what age to guys go from wearing jeans to show off their butts, to wearing their pants under or over their bellies? Their butts seem to disappear.
Ok sorry I couldn't take the time to read all 40+ comments but I just had to put my 2 cents in:
I think it's 2 males, one kicker and one gangster as someone said, and I read the sentence like if half of this couple gave it to another person or persons (not the other half of the couple). As if saying, here is a picture of us, I hope you are as happy as we are. No?
Kicker... as in shit-kicker, implying those are Justin boots? Hmmmm, hadn't thought of it that way. Even if they were two sweet boys of the homosexual persuasion, would a gang-ish fellow hang with a cowboy? Interracial cowboy homo-kinda love, anyone?
Sorry if a repeat, I didn't read the comments yet, but... the one on the right needs to reach in and pull up them cheeks! They're falling. That's an unattractive look. Buttleg.
it looks like it was taken at an informal school dance, not a prom, but like the holiday dances at middle schools maybe. Kids never dress up for those and it would explain the werid lighting. The heart was probably photoshopped in to remind the person they were giving it to of what they felt. The one on the left looks like a guy to me, still undecided about the right. Why rip it though? Maybe they were kissing in the top half and didn't want people to know? Strange.
Or, like, get some new pants.
My mostly indefensible guess is that it's a guy on the right - you know, an updated Billy Joel's "engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans" - and a girl on the left, maybe doing Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall" with soft, oversized clothes (sweaters with sleeves that go past the fingertips, baggy pants, etc.). I think this photo is probably a good Rorschach test for age. Hahaha!
The thing behind them on the floor is a short lightstand for the photographer's background strobe, which in this case includes a gobo projecting the light-colored hearts and blobs on the background. A good photographer would use a flag to block the white spill on the floor and would make sure that the leg of his/her main lightstand wasn't showing in the lower right-hand corner of the shot. :-)
Definitely a more recent pic.
Whatever it is it's tacky. Mona, do you agree? Get lost Pepper.
OMG! I have those same jeans (on the right)!! I am wearing them right now!!!
Perhaps a simple parallel construction was intended; i.e., "so keep this to remember us jus like we will REMEMBER you. -bb" But if this were the case, wouldn't bb have written, "jus *as* we will remember you"? So I'm probably mistaken.
Martina, I’m so sorry. Brave of you to post. You need a hug, not all these people wittering on endlessly about jeans and styles and mixing up left and right...
Cassisu, someone on here must have mentioned xkcd once before and I’m hooked too! Brilliant.
Retro, thanks for the ‘star shot’ explanation, that makes a lot of sense. Sort of what I figured. Oh, Midlife explains it in more detail (comme toujours! Howdy and happy new year, pal).
At first I didn’t see that the person on the left was wearing a long dark baggy sweater – because of the low angle of the lighting, it looked as if the blackness was the shadow of the torn-off edge of the picture (if you see what I mean). Surreal effect.
The heart looks ‘real’, not photoshopped, though.
You could do a kind of Photoshop party game and try to add other people’s top halves on to these bottom halves – see what inappropriate celebrity pairings in tatty jeans you could come up with... (aha! FOUND Party Game #2)
From "The Gospel According to FOUND":
Fine ass babes. Found 417
Miss new booty. Found 792
Ultimate ass. Found 1090
Bitch-ass dyke. Found 790
Can't wait to squeeze your ass when you get home! Found 251
Maybe a pair of jeans? Found 304
and I thought *I* was a FOUND anorak!
brain problem, I agree with you and I'm getting a lil excited at the thought of a dingly-dangly near my elbow....
That booty don't stop.
American Apparel ought to snap this up for a new bluejeans ad campaign.
If I found this, I would have spent a lot of time searching the area for the other half. I wonder what the beginning of the note says? Wouldn't it be funny if the other half showed up as another Find of the Day submitted by someone else?
Rule number one Sue Bee, be nice. Right delete guys? That's what you said.
Nightingale: Loved your reference to awkwardly posed kids.
Jonathan: I had to look up "anorak" as British slang. Else it's a hoody. Great FOUND party game idea! Wish we could post photos in our comments. Happy New Year!
Agent Ling: the fact that the booty don't stop ain't his/her fault - it's all in the jeans. Har-har. At least he/she has an ass.
Mona: disappearing butts are the curse of midlife. For some reason, men in their teens to mid-30s don't experience the pressure of tight jeans on their, um, things down there as pain. Then at some point tight pants make them ache all the time, and vanity gives way to comfort. TMI? Sorry, kids.
Lance: thanks for the American Apparel tie-in. Soft porn at its finest.
Orinico: the pose is kind of hot. I have fond memories of "stepping in" while slow dancing.
Martina: 4 years... I'm sorry for your loss.
Let's add up the clues, folks. Found in New Jersey, painted on jeans, mid-80's Frye boots. Verdict: Some teenage girl in a black P coat and baggy jeans won a backstage pass to a Bon Jovi concert, circa 1984.
I love this!!! Boy/Girl, Girl/Boy, Girl/Girl, Boy/Boy, who cares! What a great find. This is art I would hang on my wall, simply beautiful. I think sometimes we need to stop disecting and simply see beauty.
disecting is our way of appreciating the beauty. Should we just sit back and say... awww.. how pretty. no. didnt think so.
Midlife, you can never give me TMI. I love all your I.
Jonathan. I love the party game idea, that would be freaky/cool.
Nightingale, that would be cool if the other half showed up, but then i bet lots of people would say that this, and the other, were a sham find.
My pizza guy wears tight levis, but he has a sick looking mullet. It's sad, really.
Mona, no doubt that's what they'd say. What was I thinking?
And mine was wearing baggy khakis and a goofy cap. Nice smile and eye contact before he walked away, though.
Crisis, "stepping in" makes my elbow throb.
I'm telling you it's a sadie hawkins picture. I remember this one couple from highschool that was exactly like this he was baggy and "gangster" abd she was kinda slutty with the tight clothes and such and they stood kinda like this a lot. I remember one year they ironed on letters down the back of thier legs with each other's names so they stood awkwardly to show it off.
and the metal thingy is propablly a stool cuz some pictures have the couples in an awkward sitting pose also...
what is it about delivery guys that makes them so cute? or is just a woman over 30 thing?
I dont know what we called mullets way back when... business in front, fun in the back.
I don't know if it's an age thing or what, but a man bringing hot food to my door nearly makes me climax!
Chrome Toaster taught me that one recently, too, "business in front, party in the back." I told my teens that one and they died laughing, right after I showed them a pic of their father's mullet...permed, no less.
Since when does Mona say baggy ass pants and sick mullet? Or freaky/cool?
Amanda, OK, I looked up Sadie Hawkins Day at http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html but it doesn't say anything about certain clothing being involved. Is everyone supposed to dress up as hillbillies? Also, what's a M.O.R.P.? Thanks, -MC
As Rex Winsome once told me, Mona has many secrets. She consistently surprises and delights me. That's the real Mona posting. The "I Love Furr Burgers" Mona is a fraud.
The one on the right is female, looks at those thighs. She's wearing Timberland boots. The one on the left is male--most obviously, he's humping her leg.
those aren't frye boots, and they're not justin ropers, either. they're buck workboots (I won't hazard a guess at a brand name), these days worn more for fashion than function.
@ NIGHTINGALE- A permed mullet??!! Ahaha!!
Would love to see that!!
Desperate Cynic, I was going to suggest
http://foundmagazine.com/find/2462
But then I realized that no, it really doesn't go with the theme you presented.
I would have never guessed furr burger Mona was not real.
I permed the mullet of a pro wrestler back in 1989. Even then I knew it was wrong.
Actually, now that you mention it Jonathan, I DID get married in blue jeans! Bell-bottom jeans, and a burgundy pull-over sweater, with white angora collar. No fancy hat either, unfortunately. I was hopelessly clueless about tradition and fearlessly free-thinking.
I agree with a bunch of you guys that it's a contemporary photo because no one wore saggy jeans in the 1970s. Bell-bottoms and straight-leg stove pipe jeans, but not saggy baggy falling-off and tripping-over jeans. Also, in the 1970s the female pair of feet would have high heel sneakers or wooden stacked heels under the bell-bottom jeans. Even guys wore stacked heels.
Nightingale, it WOULD be funny if someone submitted the other half! I hope they do!
Poor baby, that's so funny!
Holly, I hope your throat feels better soon!
Jonathan, do you really think that's a real heart? I've never seen anything like that floating around in the real world. If I did it would scare me.
Clover, sometimes your comments just slay me! Hahaha! Thank you for being you and thanks for being a friend.
I have a theory on the torn photo. I used to work with someone who when a close friend moved away, he would tear a dollar in half and give half to the friend and then keep the other half, with the hope that the two halves would be joined again someday. Maybe the photo was kind of like that, torn in half with a note written on each half like a momento or one of those cheesy "Best Friends" necklaces. Although I'd have to call dibs on the half with faces.
Thanks Jonathon and MC2.
The baggy jeans on the dude with the long shirt and the tight almost "high rise" jeans on the girl along with the boots screams mid to late '90's to me. I graduated in '97 and those clothes are very similar to the stuff we would wear. It was also very popular to get "professional" pictures done with your boyfriend or girlfriend at the time. The hearts in the background look like a photo backdrop to me and the gold thing might be a light.
Thanks CLOVER! You ARE a sweetie! I'm sipping on hot, lemon an' honey tea, today.
Still, very raw, and swollen glands don't help either. :o(
@ MC3...M.O.R.P. is a PROM spelled backwards or everything is opposite than a 'regular' one. The gals ask the guys, the gals wear the guys clothes and guys wear the gals clothes.
Never been to one, but have met people who have.
Oh my God, Clover, am I losing my grip on reality? Well, I did put 'real' heart in quotes, meaning an actually existing three-dimensional object physically in the picture and not something added digitally afterwards... but maybe this is an awful warning. If the wind changes I may be stuck here in this virtual world for ever.
Aaaaarrrgggghhhh!!!!
PS -- I HAVE seen things like that floating around in the real world. Helium balloons usually.
Martina - I'm sorry you are 'goin' thru it'. Maybe, tho', it's one of them fabled "blessings in disguise"... Although I know it doesn't feel like it now!!
Sending good wishes & some moral support yr way...
There has to be a reason for that odd pose, which blocks the view of the boy's privates. Perhaps the girl is giving him a hand-job while their photo is being taken (that would explain why his pants are partly down around his ankles). God, I would love to see the expression on their faces. That's one for the yearbook!
I love this photo.
that's a Magic Foto picture.
i feel like that's the girl on the left and the guy on the right and they've swapped pants? maybe?
Denim couples freak me out.
its definately one of those cheesy pics you take at the mall and the hearts are a part of the background..i know cuz i have a pic of myself with that same background except its pink (I was in HS, thats my only sad explaination for it). Anywho, the girl is on the right I've seen many girls who stand like that (never any guys) and I can't quite figure out for the life of me WHY they do it or how its possible without being painful. She looks really short. But I didn't know girls still wore Timberland boots...hmm...I'm also not sure why the photographer didn't remove the chair from the background if the couple wasn't sitting on it..then again it also looks like its the stand to the table they usually have set up and the way the girl is turned, she could be leaning one arm on it...
I think both people in the photo are girls and this was taken at a valentines party at the local lesbian bar. They are dancing when the photographer yells for them to turn around so they can take the picture. That's why the pose looks awkward. And, knowing the lesbian community like I do, the giver of the photo started a "friendship" with the givee. Or the givee's girlfriend found the photo and was pist. Anyway, all sorts of DRAMA happened causing someone to tear up the picture. "and these are the gays of our live." Lol, gotta love it.