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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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Lonelymum · 03/02/2006 20:06

How can you not find discarded lists? The one I found today was only one of three or four I could see lying on trolleys. perhaps I live in a particularly forgetful area?

popsycalindisguise · 03/02/2006 20:11

I lefy one in a troley today....

LIZS · 03/02/2006 20:14

Think I get to waitrose before the list brigade -never seen one there

alexsmum · 03/02/2006 20:17

this thread is fab! love the ky on the list-so important they couldn't forget to buy it!

bettythebuilder · 03/02/2006 21:54

I went shopping a couple of days ago, and half way round the supermarket lost my list. What was the first thing I did when I got home? Came on this thread to make sure that no-one had picked it up and posted all my foody foibles for all to see.

AggiePanther · 03/02/2006 23:16

green satin dental floss perhaps?

ain't ggogle grand

AggiePanther · 03/02/2006 23:17

sorry I meant google ...although I'm sure ggogle is grand too

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 03/02/2006 23:29

I'm back. Like the tactical bump at 6.48 Foxy. Sorry about what I dared to suggest about the cartoon of you.

Anyroad up, I've thought long and hard about Horny's (for 30 seconds at least) and reckon we're onto an Enigma variant, a Da Capo code if you will. Work with me on this, it's complex:
25+6 =31, right?
-20 = 11
-20= -9
x 3 = -18
x 4 (for) = -72
x 4 = -288.
Take the SCHWARTZ from the green Satin list (I'm coming onto that) which as any fule kno auf deutsch "black" bedeutet and you get to -288 Black the middle 8 is really "&" which looks like an 8
2&8 is a "state" in cockerney rhyming doobrey
Where's the black state? Bleedin obvious when you look at it in the cold light of a bottle and a half of New Zealand's finest and an evening of Channel 4 comedy. ANyway, someone get onto special branch, I'm orf up the wooden hill etc

I got 3 (yes three, read em and weep) lists today and they were all shite - bread, butter, milk of human kindness pap. I might stop now. Night.

jco · 03/02/2006 23:35

i once got a second hand video player that still had a porn video in!!!!

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 03/02/2006 23:37

In our local paper tonight there was a woman who bought a DVD of My Little Pony from Woolies (all sealed and kosher and all) and left her kids watching it only to pop in ten minutes later and see it was my little porny!!! The manufacturers apologised profusely, but WTF. Is it me?

jco · 03/02/2006 23:38

oh my god!! thats terrible

TwoIfBySea · 03/02/2006 23:52

Okay this thread is a bit long for me to catch up on so forgive if I repeat anyone but I don't collect them, I leave them.

And since this thread started I have began to write very interesting lists. Well if it is going to entertain someone.

Get your minds out the gutters, not that interesting. Well...

jco · 03/02/2006 23:55

i might start writing the most rediculously silly lists and leave them in trolleys for other's to find, might give them a giggle

cod · 04/02/2006 13:44

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Milge · 04/02/2006 15:06

I had a result in Waitrose this morning - a list! here goes:
Grean beans x 2
Cabbage
Sweetcorn
Eggs
Salad
Custard
port tenderloin(350g)
chestnut mush(rooms, i presume0
red onion
lt crem fraech
parslea
orange
leek
carrot
orange juice
cariander fresh
beef
brown bread
ham ( nothing about whether it should be nice or not, disappointingly)
potatoe
salmon
fruit
beans
champoo
black bag
Pity about some spelling, but you can tell it was a Waitrose shopping list

ssd · 04/02/2006 15:29

this thread's scary.

LIZS · 04/02/2006 15:33

shampoo or champagne, as it's Waitrose probably the latter !

cod · 04/02/2006 15:36

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cod · 04/02/2006 15:47

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Whizzz · 04/02/2006 15:52

Found one ! Waiting for DH in town & saw a note on the floor. Had to manoeuvre it with my foot to read (wasn't going to be seen scrabbling about on the floor!). It said

ELC
Shoes
Paper
Post O
Jan

cod · 04/02/2006 15:53

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hornbag · 04/02/2006 16:41

whizzz -half the fun is trying to get your hands on the list without looking mad!

Before my success this week I had a near miss when I found one by the plastic bags at the end of the checkout in Waitrose. It was a huge A4 sized one! I picked it up and was wondering how to get it in my bag or pocket discreetly when the checkout woman said "ooh give me that rubbish and I'll put it in the bin". I nearly (but thankfully stopped myself in time) screamed "No, I saw it first"

Whizzz · 04/02/2006 16:43

You can just imagine a shopping list fracas as 2 MNetters wrestle over a scrumpled scrap of paper in Tesco !