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We interrupt Engrish Week to bring you what is perhaps the saddest find ever:
Two cigarettes on the ground, and hastily discarded roses. In an arrangement of 3 red roses, each rose is supposed to stand for one of the words in "I Love You".
But she doesn't love him. :(
Found 8/29/06, 17th and Market
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Hooray, it's Engrish week at Found on the Ground!
I've been on a little auto-post vacation, but I'm currently taking new photographs of items that have actually been found on the ground. They'll be ready next week.
In the meantime, enjoy this adorable lunchbox! It comes with lots of mini containers inside, and also with Pretty Bear Magic.
"With Incredible Magic
Of The Pretty Bear, you Too Will Be
The Best Friendlike A Lot Of Many
People All Over The World
BEAR PLEASURABLE"
Found ??, gift from Mom
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Found 2005, South Broad and Reed
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A friend's mom asked us to go look through her childhood home before it was demolished. I found a beaded bracelet with her name on it, and this.
The bracelet was the one she wore home from the hospital after being born. She was very happy to get it back. But she couldn't figure out who this doll belonged to, so she said I could keep it.
Found 1999, St. Louis, MO
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An adult prom?? Creepy!
I love that one of the hosts is nicknamed "Butter".
7/06, 19th in Art Museum area
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I was about to throw away some old newspapers, when this fell out of one of them.
I gave it to the addressee (our recruiter), who told me it is a letter from a current job candidate.
Hooray for finding things at work!
Found 7/21/06, inside an old newspaper at work
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I find a card from the "Fireball Island" game, and it's the card that DOESN'T protect against fireballs. Figures.
I really like the picture though... INCOMING!!
What do you think, new Found on the Ground mascot?
Found ???, not Philadelphia but I can't remember where.
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Last Friday, court documents were strewn all over the street that Found On The Ground used to live on!! Complete with fun-filled arrest records!
Naturally, as a concerned citizen, I'm concerned.
But as FOTG, I want to know: Why now? Why couldn't it have been when I lived there?
What do teh expurts have to say:
1) " 'This is going to be a big issue because now there is going to be finger-pointing right at City Hall,' said Identity Theft Expert, John Featherman."
2) "According to CBS 3's Jim Osman, a city agency most likely put the documents in the trash and at some point during their transport they somehow fell off a truck. However, the documents should have been shredded."
Jim, John, thanks for that insightful reporting. Stay tuned for weather, where we will blindfold a member of the studio audience, have them stick their hand out a window, and guess whether it might rain.
Found August 18, 2006, CBS News
If you like Found on the Ground, you will love Marty Weil's Ephemera blog.
"...written and printed matter published with a short intended lifetime. Decks of the Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards are recent example of ephemera because they will probably lose their original purpose and interest in a relatively short time. The word derives from the Greek meaning of things lasting no more than a day." - Wikipedia
The items here on FOTG are united only in having blown across my path. But the objects on Ephemera are all illuminated by the understanding that Marty, an ephemera dealer, consultant, and researcher, brings to bear on them.
Most recently, Marty has featured:
· A hilarious vintage ad for Evans' Vacuum Cap that "Will Make Hair Grow"
· A war-time gum wrapper that he found in an old book and sold on eBay for $110!
· My favorite...1966 Book Store Register Receipt.
The recipt post is a perfect expression of why I love finding papers (although FOTG papers are usually written by crazy people, and have meanings known only to their creators):
"Is it a small inconsequential scrap or a poignant marker? In either case, it should have been wastepaper decades ago.
In a few days, it will be 40 years since this receipt was printed. Until I plucked it out of Blowing Clear this morning, the receipt served a 40-year sentence between the pages of Lincoln's novel. During those four decades, the world Mr. Johnson knew has changed dramatically. Like almost nothing else can, inconsequential scraps like this one serve to illuminate the subtle changes taking place in our society.
Of course, some people will only see an old register receipt."
Found July 2006
At my previous job, I walked out of work one day and found this little guy hanging out on the sidewalk. I moved him to the lawn, but not before a nice lady from another office took this picture.
I believe this to be a female easter tiger swallowtail butterfly; dark form.
Hmm... I may have to add a "Butterflies" category!
Found 5/21/04, Hanover, MD
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