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September 29, 2008 |
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Gin Soxs
FOUND by Audrey Cutler
in Chicago, Illinois
My boyfriend works at a rental car place and he has found everything left behind in cars, from iPods to this gem. He brings me the good finds and I generally post them on my fridge. This one seemed extra special, so we decided to send it in. It's drawn on plain white paper, and isn't crumpled at all, so I have a feeling it was left on purpose. We eventually realized that these were some kind of flesh-eating monster socks, but the initial thought of a dude eating some gin soaked socks made us laugh. Also important? Alex likes pie.
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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...
Man, I left a really cool skull belt buckle in a rental car back in May. (I tossed the belt because it was thrashed, kept the buckle.. then for-fudking-got it in the rental!)
Did your boyfriend find it?
What's the difference between a zoo and a deli?
One has a man eating tiger, the other has a man eating turkey and swiss on rye.
I lake pie tooooooo.
I'm as delighted as Nightingale was last night to discover that Found's back on ... what? daylight savings time? the fall schedule? It is good. Thanks fellas. (and gals.)
the sox look so friendly. isn't it just like a sock to be so duplicitous?
OK, who's the MASH fan? Baby Basil? Didn't Hawkeye use sweatsox to strain the hooch from his homemade still?
No, Nightingale, they used skivvies to strain the hooch. However Hawk did threaten Charles to wash his filthy sweat socks in Charles' Chateau Neuf du Pape and rinse them in his Earl Grey Tea, on the occasion of the "filth wars"--Hawk and BJ refused to shower until Charles stopped playing the French horn.
In the end the staff, headed by Margaret ran over it with a jeep because no one in camp could stand the three of them anymore.
Aw. Those man-eating sox don't look so bad. They're so cute. I bet if you just showed them some love, they would come around. I'll just pet one....Aaaaarrrgh! Help!!! They got my arm! ahh...........
@ Indy: I was thinking the same thing. I want to pet the socks. (use your 'talking to a puppy' voice) "Who's my cute little sock? You are! Yes you are!"
--Could be the last thing you EVER say.
In an elementary school poster contest, one little boy misspelled almost every word on his poster, which told you to "Say on ot durgs." It was awesome!
Reminded me of the Caterpillar scene in Něco z Alenky, a wonderful late 80s Czech surrealist version of Alice in Wonderland......
I too like pie.
and I can't help but now look at the socks on my feet with uncertainty...
are they keeping my feet warm, or swallowing me very slowly?
mmm...socks like man-pie.
(honey, honey are you getting shorter?? OH NO! you put the man-eating socks on again!)
Well, I could see these *man-eating* sox going out to a Pub, having a few Gins...then coming home to eat some of their wives' pie.
MMMMM-HMMMMMMM!!!!
"Man eating soxs" could explain all those single sox that come out of my dryer, or would explain all the missing ones.
Yes, those socks look deceptively friendly. I like meatloaf.
@darkshines: I lake Svankmajer's "Faust" better than his "Alice," but those socks are definitely Caterpillar-like.
I've never seen man eating socks, but I think I own a pair of cannibal socks. That would explain why for every four socks that go into the laundry only three come out.
This is a great picture! I can't comment any more because I have to leave for work.
As a kid I used to spend my summers at Lake Pie.
I love how little kids don't have all their words and endings and prefixes turned into symbols yet. [Here's a cool quiz y'all Foundians will love; check it out, it has a question that relates to the word/symbol thing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interac They work so damn hard to get all the letters in there that the order they're in doesn't really matter.
Oh, forgot about the url thing. Here: http://tinyurl.com/g6xs
Sorry 'bout that.
I lake pie too! And I lake Gin. And I lake sox.
Compare the cute little sideways smiley face soxs that Alex drew above with the sideways non-smiley face on the Hold Slip note written TO Alex back before the weekend on Friday 26 Sept.
Anybody want to guess whether today's Alex was chided for missing soxs by his mom who told him the only thing that would be holding him now that he had eaten them would be that blasted Hold Slip?
Or am I reaching too far for a connection?
Mhmmmmm i love pie too!!!!!!!!!!!
Pie
Pie
Me oh my
Nothing tastes sweet, wet, salty and dry
all at once o well it's pie
Apple!
Pumpkin!
Minced
an' wet bottom.
Come to your place everyday if you've got em'
Pie
Me o my
I love pie
My son's first sentence was (no joke):
I need pie.
(My other son's first sentence: "My shoe's in the water." But that's beside the point.)
Actually, aren't you supposed to DRINK gin?
I lake PiE.
but I Warship Satin.
When people peer into the window of my cubicle during intermissions when I'm trying to have a quiet snack, I feel like putting up a sign --
DANGER!
MAN EATING BANANA.
I went to a restaurant this weekend that is famous for the pies it has. I had "cherry-cheese enchilada" pie, which was a tortilla wrapped around cheese cake filling and topped with cherry sauce. YUM! (It's very close to lunchtime...)
Those sox are very cute, too.
Clarification: as someone who has worked with literary manuscripts from time to time, I can say that this Find is clearly the long lost handwritten cover page to Alex Ilakepie's early suspense novel "The Man Eat Gin Soxs."
Mr. Ilakepie's early years as a professional beachcomber on Maui -- where he would often find and re-sell castaway clothing -- led him to use a lot of clothing imagery in his work.
Director Ang Lee has optioned Ilakepie's "The Man Eat Gin Soxs" as a sequel for his own 1994 film "Eat Drink Man Woman".
Alex Ilakepie appears perennially on critics' lists of Nobel Prize "Gosh if the nomination form had just had one more blank space, I'd have written him in" lists.
I can't help but wonder what Maddox would say...
http://tinyurl.com/akjf8
http://tinyurl.com/9g6ys
"Boys and girls and music.
Why do they need gin?"
Who can name the movie?
It's a Wonderful Life. Google=life (wait... that was a few days ago...)
I can, I can.
hmm Alan.. not the first time you've posted that very quote at Foundmagazine.
I'd suggest that they "need" gin so the boys can make the girls more pliable? (sounds like a party to me!)
Only in Chicago would a child mis-spell socks as "sox."
I took a picture of our fire house's sign yesterday for an "Only in Chicagoland" moment. It reads: "Never hide from fire it will find you GO CUBS!"
@ GEEK:
Speaking of grade-school poster disasters, after SADD did a day-long awareness training at a school where I worked, student posters were created and displayed. I noticed the principal standing in the hall outside one classroom, staring at a poster that showed matini glasses with a slash through them and a similarly slashed automobile, bearing the sage (and extrememly safety-conscious) advice "DON'T DRINK OR DRIVE."
I love this find!!!!!
I dont know about "Man Eatgin Soxs", BUT I have heard of a sock eating man lol you should check out this article Hilarious with a capital H lol
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/10/man-eats-s
MMMMM Lake Pie . . .
Socks are, and always have been, hanger larvae...you put two socks in the dryer and only one comes out...then you see a new hanger in the closet...it's strange, but true.
My daughter calls socks "toe bags." Isn't that cute?
I hate socks. They make me feel very panicky if I have to put them on. I can handle shoes okay and all, but socks, uh-nuh. Kind of like some strange foot claustrophobia. Anyone else?
Now these socks? I can see how they could be okay. I might be tempted to touch them even. It would surely be the death of me, though.
They look like knee socks, too.
I don't much like socks either, brain, or shoes for that matter. But these ones are too darn cute. Plus they eat men, so they're useful too. And pie... sheesh, say no more Alex.
yeah, so those socks look way too smiley to be man eaters....on a side note i think i like pumpkin pie the best...
Socks are evil!
@Christina Only in Chicago or Boston would a child misspell Sox!:)
The Man eat gin sox.
The Man ate sox soaked in Gin.
The sox ate the gin soaked Man?
The Gin bottle eats sox wearing Man?
The pie eating Man drinks Gin while wearing Sox?
The Man jumps in Lake Pie while wearing Gin colored Sox?
I want your SOX.
I used to have a cat named Sox and her sister named Fancy. Together we had Fancy Sox. They never got into gin.
Though, I do have a massive collection of socks. All different kinds. The ones you can't see in pumps, to thigh hi neapolitan stripe socks. I am half tempted to take some white knee hi socks and add these faces to them.
It would surely be amazing.
And totally not surprised it is from Chicago, haha.
These must be some crazy Mexican chupacabra man eatgin sox all wacked on cervezas and takillya--pie is Spanish for foot.
@ Brain Problem: I hear you! I can't wear socks either, due to the claustrophobic thing...same with mittens...feel like I am suffocating. It tends to be a problem in the winter...
LOL Terrie Chupacabra actually means goat sucker
Hey Schneh-- not likely you'll come back to see this, but thanks for that link.. very interesting little quiz.