In the midst of boxing up our things as we prepare to move into a new place after 3+ years, my girlfriend made an odd discovery last night. At the bottom of an Ikea flower pot that held spare keys, tape, nails and other random things, a little scrap of paper was sitting there:
Now, that is my handwriting, there is no mistaking it. But…why? Why at some point in time was it necessary to scrawl “dogballs”, oh, I’m sorry, that’s a capital D, “Dogballs” on a piece of paper smaller than my thumb. What did it achieve? Did it make someone laugh? I was, and still am, bewildered, and my only regret is that it didn’t accidentally get left behind for any future renters to discover and wonder about.
23 responses so far ↓
1 SEISMIC on Feb 21, 2008 at 9:50 am
Wow man-I just don’t know!! Is taht park of your Christmas wish list or something??
2 Onil on Feb 21, 2008 at 9:52 am
I think it’s time for official Rifftrax Dogballs t-shirts.
3 Erik on Feb 21, 2008 at 9:54 am
I think it was an flash of inspiration for a new comedy starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn.
Also, Onil, I like the way you think.
4 SEISMIC on Feb 21, 2008 at 9:56 am
I 3rd that! Rifftrax dogballs shirt-if you don’t make it I will! = P
5 Rob T Firefly on Feb 21, 2008 at 10:03 am
Perhaps it’s an overly stylized lowercase “n.”
“nogballs” ring any bells with you?
6 Bill Corbett on Feb 21, 2008 at 10:07 am
Perhaps it was just a reminder to yourself, assuming that you guys had a male pooch at the time, who needed (* shudder! *) “fixing?”
7 Jacobi on Feb 21, 2008 at 10:12 am
It looks to me like it’s part of a hand-written receipt. Did you by chance order some dogballs a few years ago and forget? If so, and you didn’t refrigerate them, try sniffing around in closets. Rotten dogballs are sure to leave a stench.
8 SEISMIC on Feb 21, 2008 at 10:15 am
oh yeah-cause if your egg nog still has it’s balls it might need some fixing!!
9 doggans on Feb 21, 2008 at 11:19 am
A new ad campaign for DisembAudio’s Kickbutt Energy Dogballs?
10 ShutterBun on Feb 21, 2008 at 11:38 am
Hmmm…could be a snippet of a golf scorecard? (Dogballs apparently being slang for an “8″)
11 Finchstalker on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Maybe you wanted a Neuticles key chain to go with the spare keys. (It’s an actual product: Neuticles makes… er… implants for neutered dogs, and they also sell said implants as key chains, for some reason.)
12 Mr. Slick on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Wait! You have a girlfriend? Hmmm I guess Mike lied.
13 SEISMIC on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:19 pm
For real huh?!?!?! Hmm-one more thing to add to MY christmas wish list!!
14 Finchstalker on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Oh, and in my defense, I only know this because CuteOverload.com (of all places) posted about it. I don’t intentionally look for dog balls to hang my keys from!
15 SEISMIC on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:38 pm
You say that like its a bad thing!! I DO look for dogballs o hang my keys from!!!
16 gammer on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I can see it now…when you first wrote ‘dogballs’ on the scrap paper, you were probably drunk and you were giggling to your girlfriend saying: “I’m gonna put this in the bottom of this here flower pot, so in a few years I’ll find it and get a ‘brain aneurysm’ trying to figure out why I wrote it!”
17 Lord-z on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Maybe you tried to be more cockney, but misunderstood the phrase Dogsbollocks, which means something good. Or maybe you had to buy some Dodgeballs, but couldn’t spell it.
18 Rob T Firefly on Feb 21, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I’m-a get me a pair of those for my trailer-hitch.
19 Kevin Murphy on Feb 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Great name for a band.
-kwm
20 gammer on Feb 21, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I’ve always wanted to start a band called the “Low Flying Turkey Buzzards”…after I saw this on a warning side at the side of the road when travelling through the lower US.
Funny thing is, I’ve never been in a band and I don’t know how to play any insturments.
However, my Uncle was a roadie…so
21 Inspector Dim on Feb 21, 2008 at 7:57 pm
That’d make for a great party game; go to a friend’s house and scribble strange obscenities on little bits of paper, then hide them in strategic places all around his flat. Then see if he’ll ever invite you to another party again!
22 Fran in the Pan on Feb 22, 2008 at 10:37 am
Maybe you prophesying Jonathan Papelbon’s dog chewing up the baseball from the final out of the 2007 world series?
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3163105
23 marty on Mar 30, 2008 at 7:01 am
Maybe it’s a password for a safe somewhere that has your deepest top secret files of the unknown.
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