Founders Keepers
Saturday, January 10th, 2009I saw this sign on the door of the rec center where Johnson had his first basketball game/sermon (another post perhaps) this morning. I contemplated making it a word of the moment entry,
Founder (n): Somebody what finded somethin’.
but the lack of punctuation (except for the inexplicable string of exclamation points at the end) and poor grammar make it almost impossible to determine the author’s intended meaning with any real confidence. Here are just a few of the possibilities:
- The author is stating that they lost their dog reward to the founder of the city of Fuquay-Varina (the city where the sign was posted), assumingly in some game of chance. What a “dog reward” is and what act was worthy of such a reward are unclear.
- The author is seeking help in locating a lost dog. Once the dog is returned, a reward will be given to the founder of the Baptist church (the owners of the rec center where the sign was posted). No compensation for the person who actually locates the dog is mentioned, but perhaps a dog reward would be in order.
- The author wishes to bestow upon one of the founders of our nation the reward of a lost dog. It is not clear which founding father is to be the beneficiary of said reward, but I think George Washington is the most likely candidate because he cannot tell a lie and would return the dog to it’s rightful owners immediately.
- A lost dog is offering a reward to anyone with experience running a foundry. Why the dog holds founders in such high esteem is uncertain, as is where it picked up it’s rudimentary word processing skills, but it certainly explains the poor english.
I could go on and on but I have to go look for a lost dog. I hear there’s a reward for the person who founds it!!!!! Maybe I should call Bob.



