December 10, 2007

Bob, the External Organ
FOUND by Alex Verhoeven in Carrboro, North Carolina
I found this on the floor next to the jukebox at my local speakeasy. I really do hope she's having a wonderful, and I bet Bob does too.
Rob in Los Angeles
But does he love her with any of his external organs?
+ December 10, 2007 12:20 AM +
skye in the pie
A wonderful...what?!
+ December 10, 2007 12:24 AM +
You put your ... in there
I think April is a Bobist, perhaps.
+ December 10, 2007 12:27 AM +
Clover in the middle of the frozen lawn
I saw my cousin April today for the first time in several years. I'm sorry, it just seems weird to see her name here.
+ December 10, 2007 12:37 AM +
Lynn in PA
It's on the back of a reciept!
+ December 10, 2007 12:40 AM +
Spider Gomez in Astoria, Oregon
I'm trying to determine if this was written to april by a guy, or if it was written by her mother who might have been angry at her for something earlier, and bob is her dad. But now that I look at it again i think it probably a guy, because they put the comma in the wrong place in "Dear, April"
+ December 10, 2007 12:48 AM +
Imke in the Netherlands
I'm thinking it was a guy, because it says I love you babe at the bottom, and I wonder how many moms call thir daughters babe.
+ December 10, 2007 01:10 AM +
Dirty Thinking in A Virgin Mind
I think Bob *is* his external organ.

Yep.. nothing manly like "Krull the Warrior King"... "Bob" it is.

I wonder why.
+ December 10, 2007 01:42 AM +
Dirty Thinking in A Virgin Mind
And the "I wonder why," was more rhetorical than anything.
I think I have a good idea.
+ December 10, 2007 01:45 AM +
Something Wicked this way comes
Bob-ble head.
Bob-ing for.. Bob?

Bob - (verb)- to move up and down repeatedly.
+ December 10, 2007 01:54 AM +
Jessica in on the other side of this screen.
i think the handwriting is a bit too girly for a guy.
so perhaps it's a friend, and bob is her dog?
or, her other friend?
maybe even her friends boyfriend/husband.
i don't know.
the possibilities are endless.
+ December 10, 2007 02:04 AM +
sarasara in THAT'S CREEPY!
I want for you to have a wonderful but please be good??

visceroemotional feelings:

-liver: (love you with) anger and emotion
-heart: love and fear of being hurt emotionally
-pericardium: (love you in the form of) protector of the heart
-lungs: (love you full of) grief
-kidneys: (love you) fear of death
-spleen: (love you) disappointment

the rest of the organs aren't covered in the book i'm reading... sorry.
+ December 10, 2007 02:04 AM +
shell in wrapping it up in kansas
I think it's a guy who had/has screwed up. He's putting "Bob" out there as a gimme/guilt scapegoat. I hope April knows what's up with this guy...cause he just might be sincere!
+ December 10, 2007 02:18 AM +
baby basil in the herb garden
My parents called all of their younger daughters "babe." They had a lot of kids and it was hard to get called the right name..."babe" (or "kiddo" for the boys) saved going down the list each time they wanted a kid's attention.

I still call my friend's daughters "babe", and they're in their teens. No one has ever objected to it.
+ December 10, 2007 04:17 AM +
D. in UK
"I want for you to have a wonderful TIME but please be good"

That's what I think.
+ December 10, 2007 04:42 AM +
Karen in NY
It's creepy to think that someone would actually say "I love you with all of my organs". Seriously??
+ December 10, 2007 05:01 AM +
Farmer in The Dell
I know Bob. He used to love April but, by the time this note was written, he says, he had fallen out of love with her.
+ December 10, 2007 05:11 AM +
Count in the ways
I love you with my large intestine!
+ December 10, 2007 06:34 AM +
CuriousKat in Cold Wisconsin
If the writer had an organ transplant would that person's organ love her as well?
+ December 10, 2007 07:02 AM +
OH in (io)
April is a 13 year old girl, who is beautiful. But a real troublemaker. This was written by her mom, Babe. Babe wants her to have a wonderful "day". Bob is the stepdad, who usually isn't crazy about April and all her shenanigans, but loves her regardless, to keep Babe happy.
+ December 10, 2007 07:22 AM +
Night in gale
Oh duh. Alex, I just got your joke. Hahaha! Great find!
+ December 10, 2007 07:42 AM +
Pepper in your nose
Local speakeasy! What year was this 1920 something?
+ December 10, 2007 07:54 AM +
Sue Bee in the bed
I'm having a wonderful just thinking about it.
+ December 10, 2007 07:56 AM +
Sleepy Bunny in the Field of UEA
This actually reminds me of something my ex would write... Every time I went out or did something for myself (sans him,) he would compose a note and slip it into my wallet or coat pocket for me to find later. I still have one: "Baby, I just want to say that I love you. Do you know how much you mean to me? Have fun tonight, be safe, and call me. Call me a lot so that I know you're ok. I love you and miss you and can't wait to hold you in my arms tonight. And Fido" (my cat) "misses you too. I love you with all my heart!"
Looking back I never really thought they were sweet... Just a reminder that somewhere out there, while I was trying to have fun and relax, was someone missing me and being miserable until I came home.
+ December 10, 2007 08:00 AM +
Crazy? in itial reaction
The "local speakeasy" location made me think it was written by a madam and Bob is a pimp. April is running off to escape a life of prostitution.

Therefore the missing word is "life." "I want for you to have a wonderful life."

I hope that April was careful, because it's a dangerous.
+ December 10, 2007 08:07 AM +
Clover in the frosty lawn
CuriousKat, that's hilarious!
+ December 10, 2007 08:10 AM +
All of my in ternal organs
There's no missing word, it's just misspelled and poorly punctuated. It should say, "I want you to have a wonderful butt; please be good."
+ December 10, 2007 08:10 AM +
Sleepless in the Greyhound station
The "Dear, April" ruined this find for me.. though the rest of it isn't written so well either :P
Poor grammar and punctuation is so common these days, not only amongst adolescents, it's everywhere.. it's sad, really.
And I agree with Pepper.. "local speakeasy," as if they are still quite common.
+ December 10, 2007 08:14 AM +
Beth in a speakeasy
This note actually sounds like notes my Mom sends to me now that I live away from home. They are nice, and in no way creepy, so that's how I'm taking this one.

Perhaps April was going on a holiday with her friends, and her mom wanted her to have a wonderful TRIP, but to be safe. "I love you with all my internal organs" is an inside joke they have had together since April was a little girl and was told the heart is an internal organ. Bob is the cat (my Mom writes for our cat too) and he too sends his furry love. It is signed off with "I love you, Babe", because April is now too old to be called "sweetheart".
+ December 10, 2007 08:14 AM +
Clover
Sarasara, what book is that anyway? And what are the missing internal organs?

I never think about internal organs.

We have skin so that we don't have to be thinking about what's underneath it all the time.
+ December 10, 2007 08:15 AM +
tiki's mom in alexandria
So, listen, I love you with all my heart, but somehow that just doesn't seem strong enough. OK, with all my internal organs. Wait, still not compelling enough...how about all of my tendons? Metatarsals? Toe jam?

Yikes! Run, April, run!
+ December 10, 2007 08:16 AM +
Clover
I had to look up "speakeasy." It's where alcohol is sold illegally. I guess there could be a kiddie bar somewhere. But otherwise alcohol is legal just about everywhere.

Oh wait. I just remembered there is a "dry county" that I know of, in Arkansas. If people want booze, they have to bring it across the county line. Maybe there's a speakeasy there, for people who don't want to go so far. Maybe Carrboro is in a dry county.
+ December 10, 2007 08:21 AM +
Jeff in cc
I bet I know what BOB is.
+ December 10, 2007 08:28 AM +
Pepper in your nose
Clover, you had to look up speakeasy? I though you were the walking encyclopedia.
+ December 10, 2007 08:31 AM +
Clover
C'est pas moi qui est dictionaire, Pepper.
+ December 10, 2007 09:13 AM +
Chained in to my desk
A Bobist... That's classic. May Bob be with you all.
+ December 10, 2007 09:34 AM +
Alex in the speakeasy
It's actually simply a bar called "The Speakeasy." This county is anything but dry.
+ December 10, 2007 09:44 AM +
i've got one hand in my pocket
Oh my god, let's have a major meltdown freakout for twenty pages about how he forgot the word "life"!!!!!!!!! Sooooooo fascinating!!!!!!!!! What does it mean?????????? OBVIOUSLY it is a majorly important part of the note!!!!!!!!! Freudian slip, Freudian slip!!!!!!!!!! Maybe it means he doesn't want to live!!!!! Maybe it means he is murdering her!!!!!!! Oh, my LIFE!!!!!!!!!
+ December 10, 2007 10:03 AM +
Beatrice Port in ari
I think I vote for the 'Mom as author' idea, plus 'Bob as stepdad or longtime family pet'.

-

Since we have all of these grammar police patrolling the area, I thought I would add my 2 cents: "C'est pas moi qui *suis* dictionnaire." This happens in English pretty often, too. *Attention!*
+ December 10, 2007 10:06 AM +
i've got one hand in my pocket
Wait, we haven't even really focused on who "Bob" is enough yet. This guy is probably leaving this girl for a man named Bob! He wants her to have a wonderful life (but not really, because he forgot the word "life") even though she has turned him gay. But he wants her to know his new butt buddy loves her, too. So don't feel bad!!!!!!!!!!!
+ December 10, 2007 10:06 AM +
brain problem situation in my head
It may be mundane, but, please let us know what is on the other side!!! A reciept? From where? What was purchased? Condoms for Bob?
+ December 10, 2007 10:07 AM +
i've got one hand in my pocket
Beatrice, that's because in English, it would be the same.

It's not me who is a dictionary.

"Suis" and "est" are both translated into "is" in English. One would not say "It is not I who am the dictionary."
+ December 10, 2007 10:09 AM +
JodaBabes in word and life.
There's a guy in my office who always puts the comma after "Dear" instead of after the addressee's name. I always thought that he was retarded, but now I suspect that he writes all of his letters at a speakeasy. That would explain a lot of other stuff about his personality though.

I'm with ALL OF MY... I try to have a wonderful butt everyday, but I must fail miserably because no one (least of all Bob) has ever loved me with ALL of their internal organs… only a reproductive system or two.

April must be a very special month.
+ December 10, 2007 10:10 AM +
i've got one hand in my pocket
In English:

Right: It is I who is going.

Wrong: It is I who am going.

Sorry, Beatrix.
+ December 10, 2007 10:13 AM +
Beatrice Port in ari
This may be childish of me, but let me stand up for myself a little bit, even if this ends up being wrong. When is "is" ever the correct conjugation for "to be" corresponding with "I"? Taking out the redundant words (It, is, who), we have "I is going" and "I am going", the latter clearly being more correct. Would you argue that "who" becomes the subject? I would strongly disagree, though that would be the most plausible argument for your end, in my opinion. I disagree because, though identifying the subject as "who" might justify the correct conjugation of "to be" as "is", if I were to ask you what the subject of the sentence is, almost inevitably the answer will be "I" and not "who".

Anyway, if that isn't enough, here are 2 websites that back me up, even if there might be some that back you up:

http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxitsmev

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/renton/930.htm

Sorry. I had to!
+ December 10, 2007 10:32 AM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
I bet he gave her the clap.
+ December 10, 2007 10:36 AM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
That's my answer for everything.
+ December 10, 2007 10:37 AM +
Martina in the city
Hmm, I was convinced Bob was a cat until Jeff's post.

Oh the fear of being cheated on. This relationship is doomed.
+ December 10, 2007 10:47 AM +
Lady Brandy in New Bedford, MA
Probably gave her alot more than the clap if he's rubbing his organs all over her, Turbo. His liver might have given her Hepatitis C.
+ December 10, 2007 10:49 AM +
Beatrice Port in ari
Addendum:

One unlikely possibility: I know this isn't what was meant, but one slightly possible
possibility would be if your sentence had been referring to some non-you entity, "Not-I", as the subject. That is, it is possible that the sentence was a positive statement about a (sort of) negative subject, as opposed to what it probably was (a negative sentence about "I").

That's probably getting too philosophical, and very possibly just wrong, but since this is being taken somewhat seriously, I figure... let's DO this!
+ December 10, 2007 10:58 AM +
Flargy in the loony bin
Whatever else may happen, April can breathe a little easier knowing that this guy loves her with his appendix. They'd better just hope it doesn't rupture. If it does, they may both be fucked (no pun intended).

Sleepless, how could a misplaced comma ruin such a goofball note for you? If anything, it should accentuate the weirdo vibe it gives off. (Not creepy, mind you. Just weird.)

Really, some people around here could stand to consider the possibility that a lot of these finds, if they were not grammatically (and punctuationally and spellingly) flawed, would lose some of the flavor that makes them so entertaining.

Wait, punctuationally and spellingly aren't real words? Shit! Does that mean I get a Found detention? Well, now that I think about it, that actually might not be so bad.
+ December 10, 2007 11:06 AM +
domino in the sunny caribbean
haha, this made me smile. how cute is that!
+ December 10, 2007 11:09 AM +
April in winter wonderland
Hah. This is cute. My name is April and I used to love a guy named Bob very much, but this isn't me. Just amuses me. Love you with all my internal organs is probably an inside joke between this guy and April. And Bob is his child? pet? Who knows. Still cute.
+ December 10, 2007 11:12 AM +
Mal in A Monday State of Mind
When we were kids my best friend and I wrote a completely weird screen-play set in a mental institution where all the inmates thought they were animals (except for a Genetically Non-Conforming Broccoli). Just for our own amusement (and because we both had a crush on a teacher named Bob) we created The Cult of the Bobwhites: A bunch of people dressed in identical white pants suites who ran around praying to the God of Bob. (“Bob Bob Bob Bob.”)
The “Bob loves you too” part of this find reminds me of that, and completely cracked me up.
Accept Bob’s love and be saved!
+ December 10, 2007 11:15 AM +
sarasara in thus begins the day
clover, it's from somatoemotional release; deciphering the language of life.

some of the non-highlighted organs... oh you know, brain, stomach. I have info on those somewhere, can find out for you if you'd like.
+ December 10, 2007 11:19 AM +
Shalyn in finals week
My high school anatomy teacher, (who was notably weird, but really nice at the same time) told us that since the liver is our largest internal organ it would make more sense to say, "I love you with all my liver."
It was a common joke for a while, it eventually became "I love you with all of Melissa's liver," or "I love you with my pancreas, but not my lungs."

*ha ha ha* nothing better than anatomy jokes.
+ December 10, 2007 11:25 AM +
Carla Sue in Terre Haute, playing on the computer and not doing laundry like she should
I'm pretty sure I've never had someone tell me they loved me with their internal organs. I think I would have remembered that one...I hope April appreciates what she's got there.
+ December 10, 2007 11:29 AM +
Anna in Maryland
I'd like to think that if someone loves you with their internal organs, you know it's a true, lifelong love.

As for the French...

etre is conjugated as:
je suis
tu est
il est
nous sommes
vous etes
ils sont

And really, it should be:

Ce n'est pas moi qui est une dictionaire.
+ December 10, 2007 11:29 AM +
Anna in Maryland
Should have been tu es. Gr.
+ December 10, 2007 11:31 AM +
75 degrees in December
I don't fit in at The Speakeasy, but I'm right at home at The Cradle or He's Not.
+ December 10, 2007 11:36 AM +
Flargy in Nueva Haven
I forgot to mention: For the folks talking about "Bobists" and "Bobism," do Google searches for "Bob Dobbs" and "Church of the Subgenius" (unless you're already familiar with it, of course).
+ December 10, 2007 11:55 AM +
CuriousKat in Cold Wisconsin
Will there be a French lesson again tomorrow?

Thanks, Clover. You're not my mother are you?
+ December 10, 2007 12:06 PM +
Pepper in your eggs
Turbo, I bet he gives her the clap while on pills and booze. One hand, you keep giving it to Beatrice. All you nut jobs, I said encyclopedia, not dictionary.
+ December 10, 2007 12:13 PM +
TJ in fits
Sorry, I just have to write. Just as grating as wrong punctuation are people who are telling other people how to say something in another language and then get it wrong!
Dictionaire is masculine, hence:
"Ce n'est pas moi qui est un dictionaire." or better yet:
"Je ne suis pas un dictionaire."

PS. I agree with sleepy bunny. The letter is meant to produce guilt..."oh, honey, have a good time, but not a TOO good time. Love you."
+ December 10, 2007 12:58 PM +
Pepper in your anus
Big whoop all of you. GET A LIFE!
+ December 10, 2007 01:02 PM +
mona lisa in the louvre
beatrice is even more annoying, grammarily, puncuationally and spellingly, than i am.

I think the note is cute. I always write "have a happy"

and my father always told me to be good. Once he sent me a postcard, from overseas, and that's all it said.

and he just called me 'girl'.
+ December 10, 2007 01:14 PM +
Night in gale
Flargy, I skipped most of the comments for now, but had to say to you: no detention today, Sir, go to the head of the class!
8-)
+ December 10, 2007 01:42 PM +
i've got one hand in my pocket
Beatrice asks: "When is 'is' ever the correct conjugation for 'to be' corresponding with 'I'?"

Well, right there in the website that you provide a link to, it states that "It is I" is correct rather than "It is me."

So, that would answer your question, Beatrice.

In the phrase "It is I," very clearly "is" is being paired with "I."

Would you contend that one should say, "It am I?"

Really?

That would be quite ridiculous.

Right:
Who is giving the presentation?
It is I.

Wrong:
Who is giving the presentation?
It am I.

+ December 10, 2007 01:50 PM +
Panties in a twist
Look what you started Mona.
+ December 10, 2007 02:02 PM +
mona lisa in the louvre
i didnt start anything... i just got here, for gosh sakes. You can't pin this one on me, panties. (are they your own panties, or someone else's you've twisted up.)
+ December 10, 2007 02:05 PM +
Pepper in your anus
Don't make me have to come over there.
+ December 10, 2007 02:07 PM +
.............. in ..........
...oh really..............
+ December 10, 2007 02:08 PM +
the important stuff in the really really important place
where is the receipt from? i think that knowing that will give us real insight into the nature of the note writer's true feelings. Receipt from a dollar store.... not so much. Receipt from a major jewellry store... ooh baby.
+ December 10, 2007 02:11 PM +
Sue Bee in the hive
I agree Mona, Beatrice is more annoying. However, Pepper's got her beat.
+ December 10, 2007 02:12 PM +
mona lisa in the louvre
have to agree with you there, Sue Bee. Pepper's in a class of his/her own.

+ December 10, 2007 02:19 PM +
nerdfight in the comment section!
I want to know what's on back too. Alexxx.. are you still here? Found guys? Somebody.
+ December 10, 2007 02:21 PM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
Geez, look what this started. All day I've been singing "Lost April"....

Lost April, where did you go?
Like winter snow I saw you vanish.
Lost April, so soft and warm
A memory not even time can banish.
But April had numbered days,
And when they passed, love couldn't last
I lost love, and you--and April, too.

And Nat "King" Cole sang it way better than I...
Am I the only person who still uses the 60's slang expression "have a happy"? You never say a happy *what*--just let the other person fill whatever in.

Maybe that's why the writer wants April to have a wonderful.

But yes, that thing about the "internal organs" is either an in-joke or just plain odd.

+ December 10, 2007 02:36 PM +
Flargy in the front of the class per Nightingale's instruction

On the topic of conjugation, but unrelated to the find:

I've always thought it was ridiculous that "aren't I ___?" is correct, because it would never be correct to say "are I not___?" or "I are ___."

Stay tuned for other things that piss me off.
+ December 10, 2007 02:45 PM +
Cabbage Treet in New Zealand
In New Zealand, Mona, it is "Eats roots and leaves" - a clever double entendre referring to the nocturnal habits of our native bird (the Kiwi) and the nocturnal habits of our male population. Down here, a root is a shag, a bonk, a horizontal rumba, a ... oh well, I'll say it ... a fuck. As in "Phwoarh, she's a bit of all right, I'd give her a root." or "Do you fancy a root?". You can see why we are in reverse population!!! That said, I don't like this note - it seems like an uber-control-freakish way to keep his lady under his thumb and that internal organs stuff - well, maybe I'll just stick with an honest root.
+ December 10, 2007 03:08 PM +
Judy H. in WA
I'll chime in on the grammar discussion--the subject of "It is I" or "It is not I" is 'it', not 'I. 'It' therefore needs 'is', not 'am'.
+ December 10, 2007 03:30 PM +
Withnail in I
"Eats, Shoots, Leaves" could be a double entendre also... Or maybe my mind has just been sullied by 8 hours under florescent lighting.
Either way, the author of this find needs to take a course in Writing A More Effective Love Note: Less Is More. (Unless you're Shakespeare.)
+ December 10, 2007 03:48 PM +
English major in University
The sentence "I love you with all of my internal organs and Bob loves you too" irritates me. Why didn't the writer just say "Bob and I love you." It would have been less annoying to read. It would have been quicker to write. AND it would have not given the impression that Bob and the internal organs, though not the same, have something in common. The way the note was written leads me to suspect that BOB is a pet name for an organ on the outside of the body. An eye is an organ. An ear is an organ. A penis is an organ. Maybe the writer wanted to illicit April's strong emotions for his/her penis (yes that's correct)... and they call it something common like Bob, so that April often has reminders of what will happen when she and the writer come together...
+ December 10, 2007 05:38 PM +
vill in .
Yeah I don't know what guy in his right mind would name his penis Bob. Bobbed things are short and nubby.
+ December 10, 2007 08:10 PM +
Beatrice
Y'all are soooooo mean...

And since I'm feeling picked on, TJ, let me point out that even if I (very hypocritically, for sure) got the gender of "dictionnaire" wrong, you, in chewing me out, spelled it wrong. Thrice. It has two Ns.

Grammar war truce? Or do we still want to argue and throw around mean ad hominems? 'Cause I can start doing that, too.

Y'know what, no. Even though I still think I'm right and could prove it (the "It is I" argument doesn't hold, by the way)... I think the best answer is probably Pinker's, who, like most linguists, is puzzled when people argue too much about the particularities of grammar, since the goal of language is simply to convey meaning, and if it achieves that, then it is functionally 'correct'. So let's all just shut up about the grammar now, what do you say? And let's please stop being mean to each other. It's not nice to call people annoying. My statements were definitely annoying, though, I admit it.

Peace.
+ December 10, 2007 08:15 PM +
Maybe he's in sane
Maybe like someone said earlier.. it's not really his penis's nickname.. it's what he likes her to do to it.

So maybe this should be on DirtyFound.
+ December 10, 2007 08:16 PM +
Arriv in g Fashionably Late.
Punctuationally and spellingly are my two new favorite words. In the spirit of creepy and judgenmental, they should henceforth be used often and used well on this comment board, and everywhere else possible on the world wide web.

It seems to me that there was some movie or television show some time ago, and the dad would tell his kid “I love your guts”.. (like some people say “I hate your guts..”) And even though I can’t remember where I heard it, it still grosses me out every time I think of it. (which I do, more than is normal or healthy.) I love your guts with all my internal organs.

I steer clear of that pesky phrase, “aren’t I?” for just the reasons Flargy cited. I much prefer to say “am I not?!” because it sounds like something some cheesy Disney cartoon dude would say, in a kind of booming voice.

All I can make out on the receipt is an entry for “new price.. dry goods $27.99”
A subtotal of what looks like 55.98 (there must have been two quantity of the dry goods entry?)

Then maybe 7.000% tax (though the word does not look like tax. It almost looks like it says rock. Makes no sense.)
And a total of $59.90

At the bottom (under the barcode) it says “Thank you for shopping at…... recht’s (there’s a crinkle in the paper, making the first part of that word illegible, but maybe someone from around those there parts can shed some light.)
+ December 10, 2007 08:17 PM +
Beatrice
Oh, sorry TJ, you weren't dogging me. I never mentioned the gender of dictionnaire. My bad!
+ December 10, 2007 08:20 PM +
chopstix in chow mein
It looks like a lot of people failed to notice that the Finder actually titled the Find "Bob, the External Organ"

Even the Finder surmised that Bob is another name for Krull the Conqueror (or, of course, Princess Sophia.)


+ December 10, 2007 08:26 PM +
melanie in washington
This is an unintelligent guy who is completely insecure about the fact that his girlfriend/wife is going out without him to have some fun with her friends. I find it sadly pathetic. And Bob is totally his penis. There's nothing worse than a clingy, insecure man.
+ December 10, 2007 08:26 PM +
Just me aga
warrior king. Krull the Warrior King. Forgot to edit. Don't hurt me.
+ December 10, 2007 08:27 PM +
Clover, just arrived home from French class
Flargy, I'm gonna make a guess about "aren't I?" I wonder, is this one of the last remnants of the subjuctive form in English? Because it is correct to say, "I wish I were..." not "I wish I was." Because you're supposed to use the subjunctive: were. Maybe someone else who knows more about English grammar can help with this!
+ December 10, 2007 08:38 PM +
DANOSAURUS in the ground as a fossel fuel
Melanie, I'm not sure if you understand true love.

This is something my boyfriend would have wrote to me a few years back when I used to drink. He'd ask me to be careful and use good judgment...

Also, I think it's cute that he says he loves her with all his internal organs... It's like an extention of his heart, because he loves her with more than just his heart. It's an amazing feeling, I have to tell you.
+ December 11, 2007 12:52 AM +
Danielle in her dorm room for one more day!
I named my boyfriend's penis "Dinglehopper" which is much better than "Bob" in my opinion.

For those who caught the Disney reference, it was the movie we watched on our first date.
+ December 11, 2007 12:54 AM +
surelybeth in limbo
Actually, I do think a mother wrote this. Bob is her second husband, and she said "babe" because it's short for "baby." Just look at her L's. Definitely woman handwriting.
+ December 11, 2007 12:55 AM +
your stupidity is astound in g me...
... I know a lot of men who write "like women" and a lot of women who chicken scratch "like men"...

why must handwriting be identified with a particular gender?
+ December 11, 2007 01:06 AM +
mona lisa in the louvre
just an observation. The way people interpret this note, is coloured by their feelings about current or past relationships.

just sayin
+ December 11, 2007 04:30 AM +
Jonathan in unfashionably even later
(wrote this yesterday but Found swallowed it en route)

‘love you with all of my heart’ written on the back of a receipt? Hmmm.

When Clover wrote ‘C’est pas moi’ she was obviously using colloquial French. Surely no French person dans la rue would say ‘ce n’est pas moi qui suis’ – even though the French (and Germans) are much better at getting their own grammar right than we are?

Having said which, in my line of work I have to get these things right (or someone will notice it and tell me off), and they do come up quite frequently.

‘It’s you who ARE doing that’

but

‘I’m not the one who IS doing that’ (since the subject of the verb is ‘the one’, not ‘I’ – so Beatrice/Addendum, you were right).

Dear Clover, subjunctives are few and far between in this day and age but I fear ‘aren’t I’ isn’t one of them. I presume ‘Am’n’t I’ is just too hard to say.
It really annoys me when people say ‘if only I was’ instead of subjunctive ‘were’ (and when they get ‘may’ and ‘might’ wrong). Not being sniffy or grammar-Nazi – just that wrong usage impoverishes the language.

Arriving Fashionably Late, thanks for deciphering the back! Someone had to do it.

Sarasara, that sounds like a great book.
+ December 11, 2007 05:29 AM +
Good decipher in g, Tardy kid
There's a Hecht's nearby here. But I don't think they sell any dried goods.
+ December 11, 2007 07:09 AM +
Clover in league with the francophones
This thought has been keeping me awake all night because I couldn't get through to say it last night.. with the upstream proxy problems at Port 80 and all.

I am just plain thrilled, yes thrilled, at all the struggle and unknotting of language here among us. And in French AND English! Impressive, it is. We are an educated bunch, are we not?.. cuz being educated doesn't mean already knowing everything. It means never getting over being curious. The more you learn, the more you want to know and the best classes are those where you take away more questions than you came in with.

That's what's so great about Found.. the questions we come away with (not to mention our struggle to answer some of them!) Not just grammar, either.

But grammar can be fun, and even more fun in mixed company.

Jonathan is correct about the "street French" -- I wrote it the way it would be said, the way it sounded right to me in speech, and I do know the difference, at least about dropping the "ne". I even debated putting the "ne" in or not, believing someone would probably complain about it, but in the end I swayed toward the spoken form. Also, the omission of "un" was intentional. I was using "dictionnaire" as the French use professions.. without the article. ("Je suis journaliste.") But I did mis-spell dictionnaire. That was a typo. Désolée.

BTW, it is interesting that the French language has the reputation of being so picky about correct usage. From my experience, it is the American professors who learned French in school who are most picky, and cruelly so, than the native French speakers. Whenever I have used native speakers as language resources, they usually shrug their shoulders, and diplomatically say that either way is correct. Believing, I suppose, that it's the communication that counts, like Beatrice said.

CuriousKat, perhaps I AM your mother.. what makes you ask? And yes, there will be a French lesson tomorrow! Wanna sit next to me? We can pass notes in class, written in French of course! with numerous errors, then drop them on the floor for someone to find and submit to Found!

Happy learning, everyone!
+ December 11, 2007 08:25 AM +
mona lisa in the louvre
oh Clover.. i just love you to bits.
+ December 11, 2007 08:48 AM +
Holly in the Spirit Of Christmas
I know 'BoB', too. However, by the time he'd written and gone to send this letter to 'April', he'd fallen in love with 'June'.
+ December 11, 2007 10:04 AM +
Flargy in a state of post-dental-cleaning bliss
English Major, you must be loads of fun at parties. Incidentally, it would greatly improve your chances of achieving your degree if you would take the time to learn the difference between "illicit" and "elicit." Though this find is somewhat illicit, there's no way this guy is going to illicit anything (any more than he would be able to hungry something or bad something, or green something). In short, illicit is an adjective, whereas elicit is a verb. And I never even went to college.

Clover and Jonathan, I'm sure that you are both correct in your belief that "aren't I" is correct based on that silly, archaic subjunctive rule of the English language. I just wish that a couple centuries ago, someone had instituted "amn't I' as the proper phrase. Then we would have heard it all our lives, and it wouldn't sound nearly as retarded as it does when you just say it out of the blue.
+ December 11, 2007 11:23 AM +
CreepyCounter in Creeptastic Land
2 creepies on a love note, zero creepies on a hate note (next).
+ December 11, 2007 12:27 PM +
Logan in Arizona
Look at the 'y'-s and 'g'-s. Generally guys don't loop their hanging bits like that. Regardless, whoever wrote this note was trying WAY too hard.
+ December 11, 2007 01:05 PM +
mona lisa in the louvre
guys don't loop their hanging bits... roflmao
+ December 11, 2007 02:12 PM +
a day late and a dollar short
"Dry Goods" are non-food products, like fabrics and clothing. (or other stuff that doesn't need refrigeration. (you know, in old Westerns, the Dry goods store was where everyone bought their boots, hats, material for making clothes, and black licorice or pickled eggs from the jars at the front counter.)

So I'm guessing the receipt was from Hecht's, and it was for a couple of shirts, or maybe pairs of jeans.

It looks like all the Hecht's Stores are being swallowed up by Macy's. Bummer.
+ December 11, 2007 03:07 PM +
Heather is in gaged
Actually, who being the subject, am would not be correct, Bea...who am right? How about not getting defensive when you call someone on their grammar, and they call you on yours. This is a forum on the internet. Who cares? You knew what they meant, and this is just for fun.
+ December 11, 2007 05:47 PM +
English Major in University
We all make mistakes as I am sure you are well aware, Flargy.
And, yes, I am fun at parties, but only if we are playing scrabble or bingo or doing something really exciting like sharpening pencils. I know the difference between 'illicit' and 'elicit'... thankyouverymuch. Illicit = unlawful. Elicit = evoke. I graduate in May, just so you know. And if I made anymore mistakes in this post or the above post, I am blaming it on dead week and FINALS. :(

Good day. :)
+ December 11, 2007 06:59 PM +
Xby Xlor in in Rat Infested San Diego
This reminds me when I was in 9th grade, in El Paso, peeking into the girl's locker room shower (had to crawl 175 feet though dusty air vent/trying not to make a sound. It usually took 90 minutes each way.) I'd pay a million dollars to see those sweaty (hot) MEXICAN GIRLS again with sweat dripping off their nu de bodz, (hee! hee!)..after Mr. Hoskits Track & Field class. You should have seen how much filth/dust I was covered with on those humid dayz. One time I even fainted and woke up seven hours later, AFTER THE SCHOOL WAS LOCKED UP TIGHT....I just slept there that night and ate 9 apples (the only food I could find)...had to make up some lie to explain why I was taking a shower at 6:50am. In the end I got the nerve up to ask out this hot Mex chick, she wasn't even 5 feet tall, we dated for 6 months until some brain from the science club stole her from me cause he had a white '87 300zx (Nissan).
+ December 11, 2007 08:36 PM +
co in cidence
I'm coming back to say that yesterday at work, a new client told me her husband's name is Bob Dick. That was so weird because I'd commented who would name their dick Bob?
+ December 12, 2007 07:18 AM +
doorbender in runescape
Bob is the Jagex cat, and you are lucky to find him.
+ December 12, 2007 07:28 AM +
stalker in the office hanging christmas lights
Actually, I used to work with a girl that was referred to in the lunch room as a "Dick Bob" due to her parking lot escapades. Maybe he named it Bob in hopes that someone would take a hint and provide that service to said member.
+ December 12, 2007 08:13 AM +
E in in between sleep and consciousness...
ALL of his internal organs...this includes but is not limited to the sleep, the liver, the kidneys, the list goes on and on...

I love you with my kidneys.
+ December 12, 2007 11:07 AM +
Nonny Moose in the Crab Shack drinking a beer
Why is it that whenever I see or hear the name April or Crystal (you have to pronounce it Crustuhl) I imagine someone like Joy on 'My Name is Earl'?
+ December 12, 2007 12:11 PM +
Martina in after effects of her English major
English Major,

Try to be less uptight, appreciate creatively worded sentences (not everything is an essay), and read some Gertrude Stein.

M
+ December 12, 2007 03:06 PM +
English Major Gett in g flamed.
Thanks for the critiques. I will take your advice into consideration.

I am pretty uptight. And for the most part, I didn't intend for my previous posts to sound so uptight. I just feel when writing (especially online), most people don't understand me... so I overcompensate for clarity's sake. I am too wordy.

What of Stein's work would you recommend first?

+ December 13, 2007 02:20 AM +
thumbelina in never never land
i can't wait to be loved with all of someone's internal organs.
+ December 13, 2007 10:03 AM +
Whit in Chapel Hill
Speakeasy = Tyler's!
+ December 13, 2007 05:13 PM +
Singing Second Soprano is driving me crazy in CantataLand
Has anyone considered that the Author is a non-native speaker? I want for you to have sounds like a mistake someone who speaks English as a second language might make. Also I believe, but can't swear to it, that
I love you with all my heart translates to "I love you with my liver" in Spanish. If not Spanish,I know it translates to that in some other language. BTW, any opinionms why the "s" is so far away from the "e" in the word "love"?
+ December 15, 2007 09:26 PM +
Camelia in Santa Clara County Calif
I just wanted to be clear about MY opinion... I don't think April's mom should be involving internal organs with loving her daughter.... (well, the internal organs were probably VERY involved in April's birth -- but I think that they should stay outta things after that!)
+ December 17, 2007 03:50 AM +
Googl in g the Finder
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Anyone who likes Gilliam movies, Robert Anton Wilson and Tom Robbins is A-OK in my world.
+ December 18, 2007 01:20 PM +

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