The List

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

Applesauce
Resonator
Hard drive
sock
penguin
alfalfa
jelly roll
RolexTM
bookshelf
gangrene
canoe
wheelbarrow
barracuda
pedestal
tube
androgynous
So there’s the list. I find it every few months when I clean my room, and it’s so puzzling that I never throw it out. My guess is that it’s between 3 and 5 years old. I have no idea what this list was for! At first glance it looks like a shopping list, but since I’ve never in my life desired either a resonator or gangrene, and not to mention it’s hard to buy androgynous, I don’t think that was the point.

Perhaps when I’ve lost my marbles some decades hence, the point of this list will be a crystal memory, but until then we can speculate. So, what do you think it is a list of/for?

2

There are some homonymic connections–jelly roll:RolexTM, wheelbarrow:barracuda, i.e., the ending of one word sounds like the beginning of the next. Perhaps a weird word puzzle?

3

Weird sex terminology?

4

lyrics for the next Billy Joel hit?

5

Hey, how about you bookshelf my gangrenous canoe, my little wheelbarrow?

6

Did you create this list or did you find it?..

7

Words you were going to combine in Googlewhack attempts?

8

Maybe that’s a list of your random words.

9

Create, I presume. I don’t remember making it, but I can’t think of another reason I would have printed it off.

10

Does Michael Stipe ever write lyrics in your room?

Sir Rhosis

11

No idea what it’s all about, but if you ever feel the need to run an impromptu scavenger hunt, you’re all set.

12

I’ll take “Potpourri” for $400, Alex.

13

Perhaps it is a list of word search or crossword puzzle clues?

14

It was your list for the “Think of Sixteen Things Whilst Stoned” game.

Actually, it does look like a series of prompted verbal responses to given stimuli. A weird version of Scattergories or a “personality test”?

15

Good job posting your password history to the Internet, dude. You are so fired.

16

Penguin?

17

Either words you like the sound of, or words you dislike.

18

<SLAPS Ethilrist with Wet Trout>

:dubious:

19

“Things I don’t want to be when I grow up.”

I mean, I wouldn’t ever want to be any of those things.

20

It sounds like something you would see posted on foundmagazine.com : “We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life. Anything goes…”