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money? drugs? a pet? a signed photo of Scott Baio? (note:if you say 'love' I will shoot you)

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

a girl I ~~dated~~ know found a ton of coke in the bathroom at Enid's, not once but twice!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I assume I don't get shot for saying Jen Nstop as long as I leave out the other word, right?

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

there is a turtle currently living in my sink named Olivia (or Octavian, still haven't figured that out), who does not "belong" to me. i can't claim that i found it though, since the slightly overweight lady allegedly named Alexandra who knocked on my door found it in the hall and gave it to me. wait, i don't know if this is a best thing.

― vic, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

THE LOVE OF JESUS

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

you're pushing it, martin.

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a really nice pro Nikon in the trunk of my car. I asked every single person I knew if they had left it there plus my roommate who borrowed my car a lot and no one claimed it. It made my year in photo class so much better.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i found an ABBA CD left in one of the uni computers the other day. its pretty good.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

you're pushing it, martin.

I did find a kick-ass pair of headphones in one of the language labs in college.

I still have those headphones, somewhere around here...

It's just, you said the "best" thing.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, i also found a totally brand new copy of Dr. Dre's 2001back in the fall of '99 at one one the computers in my university's library!

― vic, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

This is kinda reversed but...I lost my hat in public (Naperville Riverwalk for all you Chicago folx). It was actually my dad's Marine Corp hat, with his name in it. A couple of weeks later, I met this guy at the Riverwalk and he offered to smoke me and my friend up. So I'm sitting behind him in the car and I notice that his hat looks awfully familiar. I ask him where he got it and he said he found it in the parking lot. I look under the bill and yep, you guessed it, my dad's name is there. The shitty thing is that the guy wrote 'BLUNT' in huge letters across the front of it in perm marker. Retard. I had to transform all the letters into gobbleygook.

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i found a score (thats £20 to you non-mockneys) on the pavement once, i think i spent it on beer

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i once found a passport photo of myself on the way home from a night out, it was scary until I realised I'd just dropped it on the way out at which stage I stuck the memory in the dreary less popular "solved mysteries" file.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Lizards. At the last place I lived, there was this yellow lizard who lived in the tree just outside the office window. He'd hang out on the window while I was working (I named him Banana, cause he had brown spots), until a hurricane blew him away.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, best place for animals was the kind of cabin (a hotel hut thing) when I went to India. A gecko lived on the bedroom ceiling, a huge toad perched on the front room windowsill, and a little frog lived in the pool and would perch on your shoulder if you stood still in the pool. The only less nice bit was seeing a three-foot long lizard walk slowly through our garden a couple of times. I avoided that one.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I would say ILx, but really, when I think about it, I mean really think about it, I'd say ILx *found me.*

― Oprah (bnw), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

A $100 bill.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I once found a $100 dollar bill while shopping at H&M. It was right near this woman holding her wallet so I picked it up and asked if it was her's. She ripped it out of my hand and just glared at me. Bitch.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Once, I lost my keys. I found them hanging out my doorknob on the outside of the door. That was probably good.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Once? I've done that like 50X

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, wait, as cool as Banana was, I found a cat once. He was stuck in a tree, with a larger cat in the road (recently run over, presumably his mother), and after I got him down he followed me home (I named him Morpheus Cheeseburger).

(... I am NOT twee, dammit.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

My gf and were walking home from school one afternoon and kept finding $20 bills as we walked along - it was like a trail of spendable breadcrumbs! Unfortunately, we caught up with the tourist who was dropping them out of the hole in his pocket and our catholic guilt (we were in catholic school at the time) made us give them back. All total I think we had nearly $1000.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(tell it to the judge)

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, embrace your inner tweeness.

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm totally non-twee. I name found animals after food.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

food is sooooo twee

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I once found a cat on the rug outside my door, but he belonged to some people downstairs. Which never stopped him from every so often coming into my apartment, and giving me feline attitude (cattitude?) when he found no food dish in there.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom "found" some goats on the "Long Island Expressway" once. Or so she claims. I suspect she "bought" some goats on "a farm", but that's me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i found a tiny crimson rubber head in among some green plastic frogs on a market stall

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A neat metal ket with crystals inset into it – I found it in sixth grade and wanted it to be the key to the Secret Garden.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I also found a blue plastic crawdad among a pile of real, dead crawdads.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, I once found a $50 floating to the ground right behind two girls who'd just finished using the cash machine. So I picked it up and had this bizarre conversation with them that turned into me arguing with them that seriously, this had to be their money, as I'd just seen them withdraw cash from the ATM and then seen the bill flutter down from their vicinity. This was the dumbest argument ever -- three people trying to force a $50 bill on one another -- and the best I can figure out is that they thought I was trying to pull some sort of trick on them, like where I give them $50 and then suddenly abduct them or something. Anyway, I was broke and they were dumb, so I took the money and ate this gigantor bowl of bibim bap.

I'm sure I've found something more interesting, but nothing's springing to mind right now. Oh! Except this great pile of 60s religious pamphlets. They're all geared toward hippies and black people and drug users and other groups perceived as in need of saving in the 60s, and they have great titles like "The White Man's Religion?" and "Patriotism is for Squares?" (They're all question-and-answer like that, except for "Sex Addiction" and "Turned on to GOD.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/kennyg.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've found drugs lots of times: I used to live in this building where at least once a week I'd be walking up the stairs and find a gigantic blunt abandoned on the steps out of the lobby. I don't know if they just had weed to spare or if they never learned that smoking on the staircase consistently led to running off and leaving giant blunts behind. (Note: of course not, I just left them there.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a great camera in Heathrow airport when I was young. I could have kept it, or handed it in, but convinced myself it was a bomb and ran away as fast as I could.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

this pair of tiny purple barbie glasses, that now sits on mr.creepy skull bead

http://home.earthlink.net/~rjameshudson/skull.jpg

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

cool. I found a tiny skull bead which allowed my contemplative mini panda to do scenes from Hamlet.

http://www.mushrush.com/images/blog/alas.jpg

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A fiver, I was eight at the time so it constituted a fortune, I think I spent it all on football stickers

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I really wish I would find some money. Or a pile of Chick pahmplets like Nitsuh. Or a blunt.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

not love?

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

You could find a Blount and take him home and have him talk about stuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Found a used CD of Dennis De Young's "Desert Moon" for $5, and sold it on eBay for about $120*--maybe to someone just dying to hear his version of "Fire". God bless Dennis De Young. God bless Dennis De Young forever.

* Note: You can't do this nowadays, mind you. They reissued it, so the CD ain't worth shit anymore.

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin m, I love your mini panda and his tiny Yorick bead.

― estela, Thursday, 1 May 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I found this fake Hermes scarf on Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn... It looks pretty good on me!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I found my old clown nose! The elastic had died. I need to get new elastic for my clown nose.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

phil-two are you coming to Ally's birthday FAP?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 May 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a bag of pot in the middle of the sidewalk on my way to the grocery one summer morning. Just... found it there. I looked around for cameras before I picked it up.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Cleaning somebody's room after junior year, I found David Bowie's entire LP discography, missing their outer sleeves but otherwise in pristine condition.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

phil-two are you coming to Ally's birthday FAP?

umm, tracer.. im sort of in beijing now and wont be back in new york until oct/nov... send me regards though!

[btw, do/did you have a blog?]

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I once 'found' a pint sitting on a table in a nightclub but when I started to drink it the junkie girlfriend of its original owner attacked me and bit me on the face until I said calmly: 'Please let go, this is ridiculous'. Luckily she didn't break the skin. One month later my hairdresser grabbed me at a party, pulled me over to meet her and gushed: 'I really really want to take pictures of you two together, you're both so beautiful blah blah blah'. We just looked at each other with horror and didn't say anything. He never did get his photo ('rabid bitch, thieving lush').

― estela, Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Face biting is classic.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a whole stack of paperback books on Liverpool Road when I lived in Islington. They were good books, as well!

Lately I've found nothing but teeth. Sigh.

― kate, Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a real great bobble hat on a train which even when I lost it out in London one night, managed to find its way back home to me. I’d worn it to this bar but when we went to leave, it had disappeared and even though I forced all my friends to tear the place apart looking for it we couldn’t find it. I was cranky all the way home. The next morning it was on the pavement just up from my house lying in the snow.

Many years ago, me and a friend ‘found’ a girl guide camping convention while we were out for a toke one night, on a hill in the Cotswolds. Our joy turned to despair when it emerged that in my excitement and hurry to break in to the nirvana we had uncovered, I’d locked my fucking keys in the car. We had to humbly enter the camp where a burly RAC man grudgingly accepted our story that we were not perverts or joyriders (only after calling up our parents) and agreed to help us break into the car. After two hours of jiggering about with a vast array of steel poles, ratchets, wires and pumps, and three million exclamations of "it’s not usually this hard" and "what kind of fucking car is this again?" our boy had the car open. I was like "thanks so much mate." All he could muster was a snarled "I’m not your mate." What a nice chap. Anyway, after all the drama our enthusiasm had waned somewhat, plus the RAC chap had started asking difficult questions, like what the hell we were doing up a hill at two in the morning anyway, so we drove home cursing a missed opportunity.

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 1 May 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

My wife and I found a pair of gold framed Ray-Bans at an outdoor pop concert in Denmark. Nobody round about claimed them when we asked whose they were and they all left before us so we got them.

― mms (mms), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

over the past 4 months i've found 3 hubcaps, in different places, at different times. okay, my dad found one of them.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

umm, tracer.. im sort of in beijing now and wont be back in new york until oct/nov... send me regards though!

i mean, send my regards.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a Gibson guitar once in a kids attic at a party in high school. It was completely covered in dust and had been sitting there for years. I asked the kids who it belonged to and he had no idea and told me to take it. Too bad I sold it a week later for pot money.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh! Once I was at the Six Flags amusement park near Chicago and was on the "Raging Bull" which is this incredibly tall & scary roller coaster. Anyhow, on one of the huge hills, this velvet pouch falls into the lap of my friend next to me. After the ride, we were so excited that it might be full of money but instead it was only a one-hitter and some pot. We turned it into lost & found.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Not one hour ago I found a copy of Vasari's 'Lives of the Artists' lying on the street in Berlin. An English copy! It was pouring with rain, and I was hurrying home on my bicycle and I stopped to pick up the must, damp book. As soon as I touched it, the sky became blue and the sun began to shine! I am not joking! It's very strange.

I took the book home, sat down at my kitchen table, and began to read.

'In the normal course of events many men and women are born with various remarkable qualities and talents; but occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, a single person is marvellously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace, and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, all his actions seem inspired, and indeed everything he does clearly comes from God rather than from human art. Everyone acknowledged that this was true of Leonardo da Vinci, an artist of outstanding physical beauty who displayed infinite grace in everything he did and who cultivated his genius so brilliantly that all problems he studied he solved with ease.'

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

For a moment there I thought Vasari was talking about Wayne Rooney.

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

so does he have anything useful, true, imaginative or even interesting to say abt da vinci later? [insert winky sign to alert one and all to kneejerk tweedledumness of this response]

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess this was about 5 years ago now? I was playing drums and samples and stuff with this jazzy-trip-hoppy little group out at this block of storage spaces where they rehearsed, and we had paused for a "smoke" break. I'm really bad about having strange urges to climb things (buildings, fences, large trucks, etc), and decided to climb up on top of the building we were rehearsing in; it was a very easy enough climb. From my sorta-high vantage point, I could see a little amplifier sitting in the middle of the street on the other side of the fence. At this moment it begins to rain. Hard. I start yelling, screaming "HEY WHO'S AMPLIFIER IS THAT!?!" cuz I knew that there were other groups that played music out there, and I wondered if it belonged to them. Then I yell "IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T GET THAT AMP OUT OF THE RAIN IT'LL BE RUINED!!!" Still nothing. Finally I'm like "FUCK YOU ALL, I'M TAKING IT!" I climbed the fence, grabbed the amp, brought it back over into our space, and voila! I had become the proud owner of a cheap little Fender guitar amp, which just happens to have great fuckin' tone. Shweet!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i wz gnna say it reads like a lame press release ("we are not worthy") so haha this link

but reverting to what might have been interesting abt what he said when he said it (1540s?), i guess it's the brilliant renaissance cheek of saying "there are men among us today who are as gods" (ie refusing to defer to the church in particular, or the classical or canonic past in general), which is the worn coin of advertorial now (our "great people" are "stars" = identical trope) but was close to actual real heresy then

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

actually this reminds me of an interesting idea that got buried in the great mark s vs momus squabble re garry wills: which wz momus's proposal that the catholic church when beleaguered in a protestant-puritan imperium is not disimilar to the art-boho zone when beleaguered in a philistine-capitalist imperium (or something like that)

anyway is the official art canon — which he seems to be very pro this week, standard pomo declarations notwithstanding — a kind of secular hagiography? and if it is, does this make it a reactionary or a subversive concept?

(ie does it replicate the values of an xtian hagiography by being a hagiography at all, or does it hurl them abt by replacing viz st dominic w.carravaggio?)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

your finds are all lame, I found a rifle when I was about 7 years old. It was burried in a sewage pit, yes we used to play in sewage pits when i were a lad.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a stack of Chick tracts in a caravan in the Hebrides once. "You're all going to burn in hell" is quite a popular idea out there.

Somewhere I have a human finger-bone I picked up on a beach on an uninhabited island in the Hebrides. I would have picked up a couple of leg bones that were there too, but they didn't fit in my backpack.

I also have some bits of vaguely medieval pottery (it could be anywhere between 500AD and 1500 and that's probably too precise), but that doesn't really count as "found". I was an archaeologist at the time, and nicked a couple of the potsherds I was digging up.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, that reminds me!

I, too, once found a gun! My brother and I were playing hide and seek in the basement of the house in Connecticut. All of a sudden I started screaming my head off because I'd seen a gun. My dad came running, convinced it was some little tiny handgun or something. But no, it was the hugest, most enourmous double-barrelled hunting shotgun I'd ever seen. Hidden behind the water heater. Only a child could have got into that space, it seemed quite dangerous.

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Once my friend and I uncovered his fathers stash of 70's hirsute women porn. We also found his mothers dildo.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

score

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

bingo.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Coincidentally, when I found my dad's porn stash it seemed to be mostly clean-shaven women.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, aren't you couching this question in Momusian terms? This duality, the apparent crucial importance of subversion? Even the parallel between artists and almost divine figures, unlike ordinary mortals? I'm not trying to scare/insult you or anything...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, god, two other great things I've found:

- My speakers, which are quite nice
- A videotape of my married friends having sex. But not "found" like I was actually looking for it! I was working on some stuff in their apartment, and one of them was like "oh, we rented My Own Private Idaho, if you haven't seen it you should watch it." So while they were gone, I noticed the rental case for the movie on top of the VCR, figured it was already in there, and pressed play. Whoah Nelly, Gus van Zandt did not direct THAT.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

how do YOU know he didn't? Huh?

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

martin i think it's a very momus-ish idea — which was anyway his not mine and which, yes, i've therefore tried to set out in an appropriately momus-ish fashion — but i certainly also think it's an interesting idea (the two things aren't mutually exclusive!!)

probbly this is not the thread to pursue it, though

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

A gigantic subwoofer.

Framed picture of a sad clown, painted on a racing form.

ancient, but working, laptop

more TVs than I can count

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 3 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, nabisco, your married friends? Not all your marriend friends, though, right?

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 3 May 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

I found something quite cool today, well something I forgot that I had kept. It's an Ornette Coleman Trio souvenir brochure from the '60's! (two shillings and a sixpence). I remember my dad was going to throw it out about 12 years ago, and I decided to keep it in my wardrobe! The hipsters love OC, I wonder if it's worth anything?

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 31 January 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

OK. I've lived in my current flat for four years now, and I was vaguely aware that someone else's stuff was left in the hall cupboard (we never use it, cos its next to the pipes and has damp, so I never looked in there). Anyway, tonight I decided to get this stuff down after reading Found magazine.. and a whole accordion file full of stuff was up there!

Letters, bills, bank books, insurance policies... and not all for the same person, strangely.

Also a wrench. Very odd. I am most pleased!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 28 August 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

When we moved in our house we found someone's old wallets and IDs and old love letters in the crawl space.

My friend once found a diamond in the mustard bin at a restaurant. I imagine her dipping her hand in liquid mustard and pulling out a diamond, but actually I think it was a container of mustard packets. It was worth thousands of dollars. I think it helped her put a downpayment on the restaurant she now owns and operates.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

A Montblanc pen, which was somehow clipped to the back of my waistband after a party. i found it when i tried to sit down on the subway.

I am racking my braine trying to think of an artist today who might conceivably be thought of as the personal expression of God's bounty, and coming up very very short.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

A pound on the underground.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

A ten dollar bill on the grass outside the hospital.

An ornate wooden dug-out box, complete with one-hitter that pops up when you open it. I don't smoke the maryjana, but it's a neat box.

Quarters in the change boxes of arcade videogames and credits on pinball machines. Never gets old.

I once found HALF of a $100 bill in the garage of the house that my dad was renting. I wish, I wish, I wish that I had kept that. I could've spent the last 25 years thinking up new and exciting stories on how it got cut and wound up in there.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

50 bux

some bullets

bag of hash

jack chick tracts

― fcussen (Burger), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

At the same time?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Approximately half a human skeleton (including skull) in a towel cupboard
Ten dollars at Blockbuster

― rainy (rainy), Sunday, 29 August 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Beep, beep, beep!

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 30 August 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i once found a $100 note on the floor of the pub, all folded up really small. i felt a bit bad for about 5 minutes in the knowledge that it was probably someone's "emergency" money that they kept in the corner of their wallet or something. then i calculated approximately how many drinks it would buy and my guilty conscience evaporated!

― gem (trisk), Monday, 30 August 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I do salvaging, curbside & elsewhere, usually average $10-20 an hour & sometimes more. Most common find is large amounts of cans returnable for deposit money. Good things found this summer thrown out by people:

-900mhz compaq, 30gig HD, 128MG ram, 2 CDRW, with 15" monitor, perfect working condition.
-Working PII computer.
-Half dozen various monitors.
-engineering textbook sold for $120.
-more crates full of books, sold for over $2000.
-Brand new couch, plus another one with hide-a-bed in it
-Bookshelves, nice rolly desk chair, racks for tape collection, CD tower, many poster & picture frames, lots more small furnishings
-2 crates with 400 LP's- 70's & 80's rock- not too valuable, but cool

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Monday, 30 August 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

One night at my old apartment complex, I went downstairs to toss some trash in the dumpster. I opened in up and inside was a HUGE stack of promo LPs and 12" singles! Multiple copies of the following albums: Power In Numbers by Jurassic 5, Until the End of Time by 2Pac, the 8 Mile soundtrack, and a lot of Eminem and 2pac singles. I grabbed them and checked them out. they had obviously been unplayed and aside from a bit of goo on the surface of one of them, they were in perfect shape. So naturally I took them down to Amoeba that very night and got about 80 bucks in credit.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 30 August 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In a nice bit of serendipity, the morning after an Afghan Whigs show during which they played "Ex-Factor," I found on the street the CD booklet of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Neither my then-boyfriend or I were familiar with the lyrics, so this was much appreciated.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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