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Happy Monkey
FOUND by Diane Hagen
in Southfield, Michigan
I was wiping down tables at the coffee shop and found this note on the window ledge nearby. There are a number of couples and blind dates that meet at our shop. I guess romance is not dead, just left behind sometimes.
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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 couldn't tell that was a monkey. It's mouth sorta looks like those sock monkey mouths. I would call that romantic though. Goofy maybe.....
Cute! I used to be a server and I loved finding little notes people left behind.
He has no private area.
I'm in bed too and noticed that as well.
His body kind of looks like a snowman.
hey pepper...can I get in bed with you???
That monkey looks like a bear with a tail.
it looks more like a freakish pig that can stand on his hind feet to me
i have a happy monkey...
but he only has one eye
Great find Very cute can't wait to see the kind of comments this gets later ;)
K in front of your computer,
I agree that he looks like a snowman. Kind of reminds me of the little snowmen and bears in that old computer game "skifree"
I think it looks like a zebra with tights on. or a folk singer trying to look smart.
Since a lot of the grammarians take the weekends off, the duty falls to us to point out the glaring grammatical error.
The note should read "The Happy Monkey and I say... HI."
Whew. I feel better.
I wonder what "me" looks like. Or if the happy monkey ever draws pictures of him/her, lining it with borders of kisses and hugs....
Hi, Happy Monkey! Hi! (waving)
And he *does* look like a teddy bear! (sad because I can't think "Terrie's Ovary" any more at your name!)
I always thought monkey was kinda code word for male genitals or at least spank the monkey means .... so i really dont see it as being cute or romantic..but definately creepy and perverted... also why the hell do i have to name the first president of US, im english i dont have a clue!
but if the monkey actually looked like a monkey im sure id feel differently about it
also why do i have to name the first president of the US, im english i dont have a clue!
Dammit! cuz of that stupid question its jumbled up my paragraph... and now i dont have to name the first president any more... iv been set up!
My monkey is happy, now.
Shell, I've been trying to figure out that spam protection too. The questions are so lame. An IQ of 40 could ace those questions, so if they are try to screen out idiots.....
I thought the "monkey" might be the about drugs because having a monkey on your back means you're addicted to heroin. The drugs make a person happy for awhile; hence the happy monkey.
Also, I'm a little stressed out about the spam protection questions becuase they are so math-oriented. I'm very bad a math. Also, I worry when it says something like, "what is two plus two?" Are you supposed to spell out "four" or will "4" be just as acceptable?
On the other hand, I prefer Found's questions over copying the letters/numbers from the psychedellic patterns on other spam protected sites.
Too bad I wasn't up at the time of the impostor 'hotmom' commenter.
I think the find has its mouth open and is yelling 'hi' and shaking his hands as if to say "look at me!" while dancing on a stage of x's and o's. You can see the hook about to take him off stage too. See it to the left? That's not a tail.
Sweet
THAT'S A TAIL!
Salt, that's a hook, like in the theater. He doing a hot dance, with a hot mouth, and hot hands waving "look at hot me!" waiting for the hot hook to pull him off the hot stage.
boring. and i hate the stupid xoxoxo at the bottom.
Skankie, you're creeping me out. I'm Tucker's mom and I think he posted that comment to mess with me, then you write "Skankie in Tucker's mom's brain" What gives?
i think it would be odd for someone to doodle an monkey with genitals.
that doesn't sound right, but you know what i mean.
What do you mean I.Q of 40? being english doesn't make me stupid, I dont care about the american presidents, I have no need to know them, I'm quite angry.
Also the person who posted this commented that the place has a lot of blind dates, if sI found this where i was meant to be meeting a date, I'd just leave, it wouldn't make a good ice breaker
Cute. Goofy, but cute.
Clover- I lol re: the spamprotector questions - I agree w/you too. I thought it was just me.
chrome toaster - Thanks! I feel better too.
I got a subliminally religiously themed Spam protection question. It says and I quote "Spell the word 'dog' backwards.
*Waves back at the monkey*
Hi!
I like how he has a bear head, on a monkey/snowman torso.
I especially like how the genitals aren't there. I think they were left out on purpose. If it was a blind date, perhaps the artist was waiting to see what the chemistry was like before 'drawing a conclusion.' ?
Salt I agree it's his tail. fun find
It should read Sappy Monkey instead of Happy Monkey because that's what it is - Sappy.
cute drawing! :)
NOW...what makes the grammar police so annoying *to me* is that they ONLY comment on the grammar & writing style of a given find, but never have anything else to say about any other aspect. other members here show a lot more imagination than these pedantic dullards. i challenge the next grammar cop to at least also have something to say about some other aspect of a given text find. a lot of the other participants here offer speculations about a given finds' back story, for instance. come on...that's not too hard, is it?
I think y'all are reading way too much into it...
And yes, a question about the first president is Americo-centric.
this find sucks.
there's nothing special about it.
The mouth reminds me of The Jungle Book and the xoxoxoxo makes it seem like it's not from a blind date but a very cheesy couple or maybe a parent or a grandparent.
DON'T LOOK NOW BUT I DON'T THINK THAT MONKEY IS WEARING ANY PANTS!!!
I DON'T USE EXCLAMATION POINTS AND THIS FIND ISN'T WORTH COMMENTING ON.
THAT'S A WICCAN MONKEY, HENCE, NO PANTS.
TO ALL YOU ASKING ABOUT THE SPAM PROTECTION, METHINKS IT'S SET UP TO PREVENT SPAM BOTS--WHICH CAN'T ANSWER QUESTIONS--FROM POSTING, SO DON'T GET YOUR PANTS IN A TWIST LIKE THAT MONKEY HAD OBVIOUSLY DONE.
People who have myspace accounts are pathetic . I did start one ( pathetic ) until I realized what retards people with myspace were . Yes , all however many million of em . ( This is such a stupid find I regress back to yesterday's comments . )
Salt, if you think posting on this find is pointless then why did you do it THREE TIMES?
I think the monkey is cute, it reminds me of things that my girlfriends and i would have drawn for eatch other in middle school,or even high school. The lack of a genital reagaian makes me believe even further that it was made by a fifth or sixth grader.
this "happy monkey" seems to look kind of sad to me, with oversized lips, like it had botox of something
I DO LOVE LISTS.
1. SAY IT AINT SO - WHY DID YOU MENTION MYSPACE AT ALL?
2. I MADE ONE AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE BEST THING TO EVER HIT MYSPACE IN THE FACE
3. MADE IN AMERICA - I DIDN'T.
4. IF YOU HAD NOTICE I SAID, "I DON'T USE EXCLAMATION POINTS" POINTS," YOU MIGHT INFER THAT THE FIRST COMMENT WAS NOT MINE AT ALL.. AND NEITHER WAS THE THIRD.
5. USE YOUR HEAD.
shell's 1st comment + the mechanisms forming a society!
I mentioned myspace because it was mentioned yesterday . It's my opinion . I know you have a fanclub here , but I wouldn't miss it if you took your showboating capitol chatter straight to myspace. Maybe you write caps because you're vision is fucked up from the apparent HOURS you spend on your computer each day .
IT'S SO, BELIEVE ME.
YES, YES, I'VE HEARD IT BEFORE. MAYBE THERE'S A REASON I HAVE A FAN CLUB AND YOU JUST HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET.
YOU'LL SEE THE LIGHT, MY SON, I ASSURE YOU. YOU SEE, I'M COOL AS THE PROVERBIAL CUCUMBER, AND YOU, CLEARLY, ARE NOT.
NOW I'M OFF TO SPEND HOURS MORE ON MYSPACE SO I CAN AFFORD NEW GLASSES.
Look, it's a happy sock monkey.
WHY WOULD I NEED TO SPEND HOURS ON MYSPACE TO GET MONEY FOR GLASSES?
Yes, it should be "I" and not "me" in this case, but I almost find it refreshing that someone is using "me," even if it is wrong. I say this because unfortunately, most of the so-called grammar police don't really understand that "I" is used as a subject and "me" is used as an object, and they have this unnatural fear of the word "me" because it was drilled into them as children that somehow "me" sounds ignorant and wrong.
Hence, we constantly get people making errors such as: "Make sure to get this report to Jen and I tomorrow" or "It was a great day for my husband and I" or "Will you be picking up Jeff and I or should we call a cab?" etc. Oh, how it grates on my ears! Rather than knowing the difference between subject and object, they just believe that one should never under any circumstances say "me" because it might make them sound uneducated. People will often caption photos with things such as "My dog and I" or "Suzie and I at the beach." So wrong! Would you ever caption a photo "I at the beach" or just "I"? No, because it would sound ridiculous. And to those of us who know that an object takes "me" and not "I," then "My dog and I at the beach" sounds as ridiculous as "I at the beach."
Then you have the folks who do know that "me" is correct, but are still afraid that the other ignorant people will think it is wrong, so they say "I" anyway to sound more "highbrow." Every time I hear "between you and I" it makes my blood boil.
And then you also have the folks who know that "me" is correct but are afraid of sounding ignorant so they substitute "myself" for "me" and it sounds equally as ridiculous as "I." "Myself" should only be reflexive - "I will give this to myself." But I see all the time - "Please make sure you give this to myself or Jeff tomorrow." Ack! Ack! Ack!
'CUZ I'M ON A 'GLASSES FOR CLICKS' PROGRAM WITH MY ISP. THE MORE I CLICK, THE MORE POINTS I EARN FOR REDUCED-COST GLASSES AND, GET THIS, FASHION FOOTWEAR.
A LITTLE-KNOWN SERVICE. YOU SHOULD TRY IT. YOU MAY LIKE IT.
NOW MARCH ON, LITTLE christian SOLDIER. HUT....TWO...THREE....FOUR....DON'T CONVERT, AND YOU'RE A WHORE.
TWO THIRDS OF THAT REPLY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
Holden, Holden, Holden. Relax. A comment on the text of the find IS a comment on the find. I am not one of the Elite Grammarians, but like I said, most of them take weekends off, and I'd hate to destroy the delicate balance of the universe by allowing such an error to pass without mention. Sue me.
Clover, the spam questions that bug me are the ones that say what's "four times 4?" Why do they have to match words with numerals? Don't worry, though- if your response is incorrect, you just try again. I've tried responses like "6 teen" but it doesn't fly. I also like to try typing my response all in CAPS, with lots of PUNCTUATION, but that doesn't fly, either.
Say it ain't so... Just because you don't get it doesn't make everyone who does "pathetic". Well, ok, maybe it does. But so what. It's fun.
Nice guy arrives early for their date at the coffee shop. Seated at their favorite booth by the window, he orders a coffee. He pulls out a notepad and a pen from his jacket pocket and begins to doodle. Glancing out the window, he sees his lady striding up the block toward the coffee shop. He quickly scribbles a goofy message on his paper and holds it up to the window, tapping on the glass to attract her attention. She sees him and smiles and then she sees the note and laughs as she makes her way to the coffee shop door.
People get a little feisty when they post a boring find .
MS. OR MR. GALE IS PROJECTING HIS OR HER FANTASY.
YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER, FOR EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET IS REAL, INCLUDING ME.
I THINK YOU'RE CHROME TOASTER
This is a goofy little cartoon.
Somebody was obviously trying to break some ice on said blind date.
Um, I think we all KNOW what spam protection is for, but thanks for repeating it - yet again.
SPAM PROTECTION IS FOR ONE THING: PROTECTION AGAINST SPAM.
SNORE
I'M GOING TO MY LOCAL DIVE
This find made me roll my eyes. I'd sooner vomit than call it cute upon seeing it once more.
And "holding a green pen in a book" could not have said it better.
WELL SAID, SNOOZIE. ME TOO.
Lighten up, Becky. It would take a real jerk not to find this find even a little amusing.
The drawing probably got a laugh out of someone, which is probably more than you do for anyone.
Sounds like you'd make a kind and loving girlfriend. Ish!
Holding a Green Pen...
EXACTLY!!!
I swear you people would bitch if you were hung with a new rope. Does nothing satisfy you?
I'm going back to lurking here, 98% of the people here get on my nerves & really degrade this site these days.
It's a find.
You comment...on the find.
That's all there is. Or, at least all there should be.
The rest of this bores me to tears and wears me out.
Bye All. Be well.
I THINK WE SHOULD ALL PRETEND TO BE SALT, LIKE AT LEAST HALF OF THE SALTS ON HERE
THOUGH I WILL NEVER ACHIEVE HIS MAGNIFICENCE
I agree, i'm new here but i used to post a while back. I agree with Begg, I liked it when we would all just comment on the find, it would also be nice to establish a community, but if we can't get along we should leave well enough alone. I think the reason non of us can shut up is b/c we are all nosy and like to look thru other people's shit, it's fun but let's keep it fun for everyone.
Yeah , I like the comments like " This find reminds me of .. " , or "pantycrickets " . THAT'S getting a glimpse of people . What a letdown some of you posters are , making even a cool indie thing like FOUND all about you .( Salt , Mona , hotmom , fanclub ) Hotmoms are only hot when they don't know it, by the way .
You're right. What the fuck is with these "regular" assholes, anyway?
In the same vein, FUCK YOU SALT, HOTMOM AND ALL YOU OTHER REGULAR POSTERS. You SUCK and you've certainly taken the fun out of this forum.
If you're all so goddamn brilliant, why are you wasting your "talent" posting here? Huh, fuckers? You sound like a bunch of fuck-ups, with your artificial quirks (whoa! I type in ALL CAPS, wow, I must be really cool and unusual) and shitty comments. Fuck the lot of you.
Personally, I love this little note.
I wish there were more like this.
I am however really disappointed by all of the desperate comments on this picture.
Hitting on some random girl over the internet with the worst pick up lines ever heard will not get you laid.
I have to agree with above posters. All the stupid piddly little rants and repeated raves about how much smarter you are than the previous poster are fucking annoying. Quit it. I know, I just posted not about the Find. Thanks. You made me do it.
wow you guys have a massive case of pms;
it cracks me up
I really love this site, but these idiot posters are driving me nuts. Salt, hotmom, etc. what the fuck is wrong with you, you egotistical twats?
The other posters are right. The wannabe pundits really degrade the entire bulletin board. Guess I'll just stick to the finds and ignore the posting section with salt and all the other hot morons.
Thank you, fucking losers, for fucking up a great site.
I think I'm more amused by the comments and conversations that happen to go on around here then by the finds...do you guys all know eachother or what? :) have a happy monkey day! (private parts not included)
'nuff said
OMG, holding a green pen, I am so guilty of what you said:
"Then you have the folks who do know that "me" is correct, but are still afraid that the other ignorant people will think it is wrong...with things such as 'My dog and I' or 'Suzie and I at the beach.'"
The worst part is I know better! But I thought I was the only one in the whole world who knew the rule! When I heard English teacher friends say that it should always be "I," I started to doubt myself and perpetrated the error.
I will no longer be guilty of this offense and from now on, I will do what I know is right (gramatically at least.)
And by the way, I hope the Found moderators are on duty because the last few posts are pointlessly nasty.
I'm off to MySpace... I must make corrections to all the I/me errors on my photo captions.
Curious, I have ovary. Does that count? :)
hey tuckers mom...you is the creepy one sister. You and hotmommy are trippin me out man.
I agree..I'd like to fight you.
Personally, I find the attack of the SALT clones hilarious. (I know, I shouldn't encourage this type of behavior... but it's cracking me up.) I really really want to think that that "chrome toaster" thing was a Battlestar Galactica reference.
Anyway... I was feeling really down when I first saw this find last night, and it cheered me up. Maybe someone drew it for a friend that was feeling down, to cheer them up. Kind of a "hey, I'm here, I care about you, and this monkey is happy, even though he's got no crotch! You can be happy, too!".
DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT ME, LITTLE LADY. I DONE CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF.
AFTER ALL, IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY, SO I MUST BE REALLY COOL FOR EVERYONE WANTING TO BE LIKE ME.
THOSE WHO KNOW ME, KNOW ME
KEEP ON
Going back to the Find (remember the Find?? that's it up at the top of the page there), my first thought was that it looked very Japanese to me. They do like their little animals, robots, dolls, cartoon characters, whatever, and manage to be twee without being sickly about it (sorry if that sounds condescending or racist -- not meant to be). I like Nightingale’s explanation too, though I would assume a Japanese girl not a chap. However, I’m troubled by the fact that to me it looks like a pig, not a monkey.
what does it mean, "manage to be twee"? i've never heard that before.
The find is a little strange, I also thought someone was trying to cheer up a friend that was feeling down, it doesn't really seem like something you'd give someone on a blind date...and if it was given on a blind date, I imagine the recipient sort of wryly smiling and faking appreciation, and leaving it at the booth, then never returning calls from the artist...
Oh sorry, Pixi – I guess ‘twee’ is a bit of an old-fashioned UK-ism (the sort of word my parents would use). Answers.com [‘obscure words’] says ‘Brit.: affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute or quaint’. The sort of thing that makes you go ‘Aaaahh – sweeeeet’. I meant that Japanese people (generally) can get away with it because they are genuinely and honestly ‘twee’ without any ulterior motive or post-modern irony. If you see what I mean.
I love the comments. I could care less about the find. Keep up the attacks, it is fun!
I dont know if its funny or sad on how many of you have to take a silly pic and kick at it til you feel superior. Makes it pretty clear why nobody makes these silly pictures for people like you. Else you'd not be so quick to trash "Happy Monkeys". Sure hope someone pisses on your cornflakes to justify your being so pissy
hee hee, old Sesme street used to have a song about the letter m:
Me and my M, met a Moose with a Monkey on his back, and the Monkey poured Molasses aaaalll ooover the Moose!
It made me very confused when I got older, trying to keep up with what the hell grown-ups meant by "he has a monkey on his back."
I suspect this happy monkey may have just dumped some molasses.
(sung slightly off-key, sorry)
Spider-pig! Spider-Pig! Does whatever a Spider-Pig does! Can he swing from a web, no he can't he's a piggggggg!
Wait... it's supposed to be a monkey? But "Spider-Monkey" doesn't sound as bizarre!
poo.
This creeps me out. Nothing more to say.
To the people who said he has no genitals. Ummm who draws genitals on their animals ... ever?!? Unless they're a freak?
Okay, never mind. I just answered my own question. I think it's safe to assume that all of the regular Found commenters are freaks. hahaha!
WOW! My algebra teachers name is Diane Hagen... How weird
Oh Happy Monkey, How I love thee.
And these comments.. Hoooo Boy!