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Getting into Law School
FOUND by Mary Garboden
in Grand Rapids, Michigan
I was shelving books at the library where I worked. I opened one up called "How to Get Into Law School" and noticed a little note stuck right below the title on the title page. I was especially impressed that the person cared enough about the book to write the message on a Post-It rather than the page of the book! I would like to find this person and ask them to subtitle more books.
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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...
its totally over rated...
Thats a cool idea. Ive been meaning to start post-it note projects.
ps. good luck with exams, fellow adelaidian
aw, potatoe.
i would like to know the ratio of book finds to non-book finds. seems to me that so many of these come from books.
No doubt this was shelved next to 'How to Become President: If Dubya Could Do It, So Can You"
This would be funny if it didn't bring to mind our retarded sociopath pussy president.
i read the sequel - "potatoe, potato: how to choose an agricultural program"
DAN, DAN He's our man...
...if he can get into law school anyone can!
Book on the same shelf:
Sharp Shooting Techniques by VP Dick Cheney
Subtitle: How to shoot your friends and not get charged with attempted homicide.
It's been a long time since I have heard anyone take a good jab at good ole D.Q.
good one cotton!
This sounds like a fun. I think I'll go to the public library with a stack of post-it's and just start re-titling as many books as I can think of. Who's with me?
Sean S., I'm in. I just finshed a book about Salt (the condiment not the poster, no shit). I'm going to start with that one.
I'm in! That sounds like a brilliant idea!
Me too! Hey - wouldn't it be cool if the books we subtitle end up as someone else FOUND item?
"A million years of evolution and we get Danny Quayle." Danny Elfman
Hey! I read Salt! What's your suggestion for a subtitle? Salt: It's Delicious If You Don't Confuse It With Sugar.
a whole book about salt?? what would it have said.
Salt. It's salty. Formula = NaCl. It's in the sea. And your tears. Don't eat too much, cuz you'll get high blood pressure.
The end.
Honestly Mona, you would be suprised. Very interesting. It was called "Salt, A World History" by Mark Kurlansky.
Forgot to proof. Honestly Mona, you would be suprised. Very interesting. It was called "Salt, A World History"
I somehow doubt the validity that this is an actual Post-it note. Mainly becuase it's typed. But still, I will also subtitle books. Mainly self-help books. That's gonna be fun!
I have been guilty on writing cruel things on the insides of matchbooks at the bar. My favorite being "No wonder you go home alone".
Subtitle:
Salt: The Other White Rock
salt: it's what's for dinner
I'll search it out on Amazon, Pepper. I was being flippant (would you expect anything else).
ooh..there's a salacious twist to it...(that's funny. Salt. Salacious twist. Now i have to look up the definition of salacious... mmm lascivious) I learn something new every day. Lovely.
I totally want to get on the subtitling fun -- I can feel the ideas brewing in my head already! :)
Turbo, it actually isnt typed. it is handwritten..
is it a white post it note, then? i don't get it.
The word "salary" comes from the root "sal" meaning salt. Salt used to be used as payment, instead of money, because it was so valuable. After a hard week of killing the infidels and defending freedom, they would get given a sack of salt and a pat on the back. It must be pretty good stuff... I think I'll go eat a can...
O and I have started the subtitling here at SFA, so if any of you happpen to be in Nac, TX, start lookin' at good ol' Steen library. I think you will like what you find...
Bananas: I havent thought about that scary-ass show in years... you made me smile. Thanks :)
I get it now. I thought the whole thing was a post-it, not a copy or scan of the actual title page. Thanks for making me look like a bigger dumb-ass : )
Mona: If you look very closely you can see a difference in the whites. There is a faint white box around the written part. Yes, I believe it was written on a white post it and stuck to the page. The finder was nice enough to include the page of the book as a point of reference, otherwise it would not have the same meaning.
Is this supposed to be the find itself, or a transcription of the find? While it is possible to put a Post-It note through a printer, this looks like plain old 8.5" x 11" paper to me.
As a general rule, I'm not one of those purists about what constitutes a find, but if this is just a transcription by the finder, I think it's a stretch to call that a find. I could just as easily see some funny graffiti in an out-of-the-way alleyway, copy it down on my hand, photograph my hand, and sent the photo in as a find.
It kind of reminds me of the "find" from April 21:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/850
although I think that that one is more legit since it is an actual photograph of something which was found, but which would not be practical to mail to Found.
salt: enjoy the sodium chloRIDE
salt: it's cardiotastic
taken it with a grain of salt: the life and times of NaCl
seasons greetings: fun ways to make greeting cards out of household seasonings
thanks, Sean S.. I don't see the faint white box, but i believe that you see it. You're a pal.
I am bettng the image was cropped drastically. If you scanned the title
page of a book with a post-it note on it
at high contrast in B&W and cropped it around the words. It would look like this.
I am just wishing they had perserved the canary color.
Yes! Will there be punch and pie? I'm not going if there's not punch and pie.
Alai: I think were going to combine both of those into: Amber's Kool-aid Pie.
Ah, the joys of sodium chloride...Sodium by itself is Na, so when we saw a particularly nice pair of buttocks go by in the hall, my friends and I used to look at each other and murmur, "Sodium!" Na...Nice *sss....
Golly things are salacious in the herb garden today! but Mona started it...
Dear Sean S.
Going through books with post-its is a GREAT IDEA. While you're at it, please write a brief review you've read and stick it on the first page of the first chapter. I borrowed a library book (and should have submitted a "Found") where several people had stopped midway and written notes as to why.
Essentially, what is noted in the book is that getting into law school is something that dummies can easily accomplish, and that then all the political leaders that attended a school of law are then potentially those that may well be the dummies. If we have dummies in our law system who move to be dummies in our political system, where does that lead our nations in terms of right and wrong? We have dummies earning acquittals and such for criminals, and if a jury believes the dummy, and then vote in favour of the defence, we then may all be dummies and there is no point to a justice system or even an ethics system.
Sean S. - Even better! And I love your idea of retitling w/ post-it notes. Good call.
Reader - the notes written the book were as to why what?
I was thinking "Salt, the new pepper" HA.
SFA, Stephen F. Austin college in Natchitoches, Texas. Well, here in Texas it's called Nach-a-no-where.
well, if i have to be blamed for something, it may as well be bringing salaciousness and lasciviousness to the world.... Or to Found, anyway.
If I Did It by O.J Simpson
Subtitle: A victory dance in written form to you idiots who thought I was innocent!
The wind in the trees
Crisp frost on the wind
I was out huntin' quayle
When a bush blew in
UtahChicks - exactly. What an idiot though! Did he really think that he'd get away with that? One too many blows to the head, if you ask me.(Or one too few)
I am soooo going to buy me some sticky notes and hit the library!!! lol :P
quiet day on the Found Ranch, wouldn't you say?
Mona, sure is, what up with that. They must have gotten jobs.
Speaking of Salt. What happened to him. Is he dead?
You have no idea how hard it is to wrangle in boneless chickens.
I am sure he is still out there somewhere watching and waiting.
I was thinking the same thing. What happened to SALT?
I'm a little bit concerned. Notice I said a litte bit.
I am confused though, Is Pepper the same person as Sand in your Craw?
JOB?? What is that? lol jk. I actually post when I am bored at work. That and since the comment a few days back I'm mellowed a little :P
there are actually many differnet colors for post it notes these days - the ones on my desk currently are purple and orange - yes, the team colors of the Phoenix Suns - and the standard pale yellow....and as to Reader's comments - i believe the notes were written as to why they stopped reading where they did...it must have been a really lousy book...
Sean, He could be, I've thought the same thing. He could be any new poster. He could be UtahChick.
I'm confused too.
You found me out Pepper!! How dare you! :P lol
UtahChick, I like that you never take anything personally.
I found a self-help book which had tons of highlighting and underlining and notes written by someone who kept trying to reassure themselves that they could live a normal life. Too bad I can't submit a whole book.
I think from now on I might go by UltraChick (thanks to Pep) lol :P
dang, Doobie.. that was probably mine.. did I leave it behind after the breakup...?
I found a book in the parking lot at work titled something like " How can you accomplish anything when you can't find your keys? " I should have sent it to FOUND , but I lost it.
I shudder at the thought of the wave of lame finds our "post-it retitling brigade" will produce. <shudder>
The trick is not GETTING INTO law school, it is survivng it once you're here. I'm ready to bash my fricking brains out with my Con Law book this semester
haha.. they should make one that says.. how to get out of law school
UtahChick that's funny you say that, because when typing in a post I always type UltraChick then have to correct it.
Now THIS is what I call a find! Hilarious!
Flargy, it's called scanning.
Baby basil said: ‘my friends and I used to look at each other and murmur, "Sodium!" Na...Nice *sss....’
Love it! A friend (female) and I have a code for serendipitous kallipygiosity: ‘FTB’ – standing for ‘Follow That Bum’ (that’s ‘bum’ in the English sense of ‘posterior’, not US = ‘vagrant’).
(kallipygous = Greek for ‘having a beautiful bottom’, by the way)
Longer ago, if I was with my (then) partner and we saw a particularly nice *ss, I would just hold out the back of my hand for her to slap without a word needing to be spoken.
Seems as if a lot of Americans have been following bums lately, Jonathan. New political slogan: FTB!
"I like your style, I like your class, but most of all, I like your.....
shoes"
our little code was "Nice shoes!"
Clove:
not to be confused with Follow That Bush. Har har.
xx