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do you ever find left over notes in shopping torlleys or elsewhere? i

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 09:40

i am vaguely intrigued by these as identified in teh times
"Discarded notes are rubbish to most people, but not for worldwide subscribers to Found, which reprints them. The magazine?s publisher, Davy Rothbart, gets bundles sent to his office in Michigan. Laura Kwerel, a radio producer in Washington, was ?overwhelmed? after reading one issue. ?I realise now,? she says, ?that there is more humanity in a discarded grocery list than in a thousand-page novel.? Some people need to get out more. "
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SoupDragon · 28/01/2006 08:59

Clearly Bear's last list maker is, in fact, one of the 3 bears who is expecting to make lots of oatmeal porridge, burn it onto the pan which the dishwasher will be unable to remove sufficiently requiring the application of a brillo pad. Simple.

wilbur · 28/01/2006 09:21

Finally found one in a basket at Sainsburys on Thiursday but forgot to post it. So excited, here it is:

Milk x 2 - red not green
Scourer
Lemons
Grapes
Mag for B

I reckon B is in hosp and grapes and mag are for her. Do we think list writer is on diet, wanting skimmed milk not semi?

harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 09:28

this thread should get a grant from the Arts Council
cod-ly genius

Pruni · 28/01/2006 10:04

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BearintheBigBlueHouse · 28/01/2006 13:59

yesterday's other one (need to go to store later so may be more)

page of yellow 10cm sq notepad, older lady's handwriting, black felt narrow tip for first 5 items, blue narrow bic for last three (handwriting noticeably more tired and emotional for final three)

Chicken breast
2 Onions
Green pepper
1 Red chilli
Lunch (good call - you don't want any of that real food do you - go for something quick and packaged)
Gran wine (eh? - wine for Gran or the kind of wine that Grans like, Hock, Liebfraumilch etc - who knows)
Grapes
Brown Muscavado
Tomti (TBH I think this is tomatoes scrawled)

maybe like the full english in a can you can buy Lunch in a can - never seen it mind

hasta luego Listers

cod · 28/01/2006 16:17

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BearintheBigBlueHouse · 28/01/2006 16:45

do you feel dirty somehow? does she think less of you? would you care?

DW gave me a mouthful this morning about my involvement in this project - I quipped back about Harpsichord's Arts Council Grant - her witty riposte? "You sure it's not an Arse Council Grant?" As you can imagine diner a deux in this house is rip-roaring, we can barely sip our wine for ROFLing

seriously I think we do need to publish this to justify its inherent sordidness (would MN let us have copyright back dya think?) - look how much dosh Simon Hoggart's made out of his Christmas round robins compendiums(a)

cod · 28/01/2006 17:12

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cod · 28/01/2006 17:24

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SoupDragon · 28/01/2006 17:27

There are never any lists at out waitrose. I saw one promising trolley where the shopper had their list pinned to the clipboard thing but I lost track of them in the carpark and it was too cold to search all the trolley bays. Lots of interesting ones being held by dads/husbands doing the shopping but couldn't very well snatch them out of their hands...

cod · 28/01/2006 17:28

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Enid · 28/01/2006 17:33

think this thread is boring on the whole but have just made my mascara run at the posh/crap one

is just the kind of list I would make

cod · 28/01/2006 18:08

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Cabe · 29/01/2006 01:52

Enid - I love this thread!

Cod I'm shocked at your list denial!!! 'connoisseur' lol, reminded me of the tea shop appraisals my sis and I used to do years back - we dubbed ourselves Sconoisseurs

I wanted the one my sis had written for her dh... he came back from shopping without it though so it's somewhere in smelly burton

No lists at asda... and yes it was way too cold to drag the baby round the torlley parks to look for them!!!

Definitely think Arse Council Funding for this project... How much do you reckon for each submission?

dramaqueen72 · 29/01/2006 05:47

I love this thread, up at stupid o'clock with nonsleeping newborn its the BEST thing to read. sadly lists in trolleys just dont happen to me right now -online groceries shopper currently- but this is such a great thread I might drag entire family to supermarket just to source lists.

winnie · 29/01/2006 09:01

this thread is still hilarious and has reminded me I really must go to the supermarket today

codnotmud · 29/01/2006 09:51

lol at socnoissuers
tell us more abotu this arduaous job
was it like acorn antiques?

codnotmud · 29/01/2006 09:52

and yep list denial is like judas style betrayal before the cock crows

codnotmud · 29/01/2006 09:53

take a look att hat link att he start fo this thread
they have music ont heirs

we are really amaturs on this topic

hornbag · 29/01/2006 15:40

DP really into this thread and the quest for a list -he said he almost asked a shopper for the list they were clutching yesterday. Told him I think this would be against the rules . Desperate to contribute a list though so will keep searching

codnotmud · 29/01/2006 16:59

tell him he is pathetic horney

ther ar emillios of htem you juts have to rootle