Dee Dee in Virginia says her five-year-old daughter, Lilly, presented her with this card after Kindergarten last week.
“At first it seems like the usual ‘I love mommy’ card,” Dee Dee says, “but the back clearly addresses her irritation with the neighboring copycat whose use of hearts, stars, and flowers were infringing on my daughter’s copyrighted design. (Coming soon to a overpriced handbag near you!)
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#1
Clarissa
And she was careful enough to put little hearts on the message adressed to te copycat. You know, to bring together the whole art piece.
We need more kids like Lilly.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:24 am rating: 16
#2
BlackMarketBeagle
Why does Lilly know how to write in cursive already?
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:27 am rating: 5
#3
MAMARILLA2
Lilly is clearly a rising star in the Kindergarten world..She has set herself as one to be followed and copied because she has the best in ideas and fashion…I can see her future as captain of the Cheerleader/Soshes when she gets to High School.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:33 am rating: 4
#4
Gustav J Gustav
Maybe this message is printed on the back of real greeting cards and she was looking at one.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:34 am rating: 2
#5
Bob Loblaw
I agree, I’m calling bullshit on this as well.
I have nine year old who cant write as well as this.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:35 am rating: 1
#6
thrall38
Another tiny budding lawyer… ready to apply hearts before she cuts yours out.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:36 am rating: 23
#7
HeatherFeather
As the mother of a First Grader, they started learning cursive in Kindergarten at the particular school my children attend. So I really don’t doubt the authenticity. My son is 7 and has great handwriting, my 12 year old daughter still writes like chicken scratch-they go to the same school so go figure.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:47 am rating: 4
#8
blue eyes
I’ve never heard of a kindergarten class learning cursive. I’d think it was to the children’s own detriment to learn so young.
Her mom probably taught her just her name in cursive, but the artwork is screaming 5 year old.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:59 am rating: 1
#9
Bunnee
Stops copies me! (5 internet bonus points to the person who knows this reference!)
Sep 22, 2009 at 10:10 am rating: 3
#10
Shelley
My thought was that she probably has an older brother or sister (who is at least in third grade) that taught her to write her name in cursive.
Sep 22, 2009 at 10:17 am rating: 1
#11
KV
I believe in Lilly!
Sep 22, 2009 at 10:52 am rating: 6
#12
T imo®
Hoooray for Lilly! Oh that little copycatting bitch will get her comeuppance when lilly gets her “Grover’s voodoo kit”™ in the mail.
Sep 22, 2009 at 11:06 am rating: 6
#13
GhostWriter
Lilly’s rant may cause her classmates to think twice about copying her “creations,” however, nothing here is original.
That “Tiny-Blue-Heart-Grows-Into-A-Big-Red-Heart-And-Shatters-The-Magnifying-Glass” design has been seen annually, in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” since 1966.
*yawn*
Sep 22, 2009 at 11:12 am rating: 6
#14
Meesh
It looks like this card is actually a keeper, unlike the rest of the crap they bring home from school, which I like to spit on and then throw directly into the trash.
Sep 22, 2009 at 11:41 am rating: 6
#15
Stream of bat's piss
I wouldnt fuck with Lilly. I bet she’s packing a piece.
Sep 22, 2009 at 11:51 am rating: 1
#16
Geek Goddess
The truth is, Lilly is the copycat. The child who created the oh-so-original heart-laden card cleverly wrote “DO NOT COPY Me” in pencil, and watched the unfortunate Lilly copy the line out in
purple prosefelt pen. She then proceeded to erase hers, with a smug look on her face. Lilly sensed a problem, and tried to retrieve the whole situation by dressing it up with washed out looking yellow hearts.Sep 22, 2009 at 1:20 pm rating: 8
#17
Helen
Has anyone noticed that the smiling flower is actually sticking its tongue out?
It’s the ultimate in passive-aggressive. And so young too.
GO LILY.
Sep 22, 2009 at 1:57 pm rating: 7
#18
Stream of bat's piss
Anyone else find the illustration kind of ‘vaginal’?
Perhaps this is not as lilly – white as it all seems
Sep 22, 2009 at 2:06 pm rating: 1
#19
scooby jenkins
Cursive? I always called it “Joined up writing”!
Sep 22, 2009 at 2:06 pm rating: 1
#20
shwonline
Tomommy, tomommy
I love ya, tomommy
But please do not copy me…
Sep 22, 2009 at 2:39 pm rating: 1
#21
aaa
I have to say, I feel Lilly’s pain. I’m taking a Ceramics class right now and the person who sits across from me leeches ideas off of everyone around her. Granted, there aren’t grades in kindergarten (Or are there now? I can’t tell anymore with people treating preschool and kindergarten like the most important AP classes in the world these days.), but it really sucks when lazy people get good grades off of your mental effort, you know?
Sep 22, 2009 at 3:20 pm rating: 1
#22
aaa
P.S.
Takashi Murakami is pretty damn awesome.
Sep 22, 2009 at 3:24 pm rating: 0
#23
jc
In the grade school I attended we were only allowed to write in cursive, learning to spell your name in kindergarten was encouraged. I don’t see what the big deal is, people don’t expect much from their children these days I guess.
Sep 22, 2009 at 5:01 pm rating: 2
#24
T.U.M.
F. Not enough flying pink peniseses.
Sep 22, 2009 at 5:06 pm rating: 1
#25
oi
Why there is so much fuss about cursive writing?
Looks like coming from who can’t write cursive.
Whatever you say it looks prettier than those gangly, ants running on pages hand writings.
Sep 22, 2009 at 5:11 pm rating: 3
#26
mamason
Lilly decided to make the card the night before when she overheard her mother talking on the phone to a Dr. from Gen-Labs about cloning our charming little Lilly. “DO NOT COPY ME” seemed a bit harsh and abrupt so Lilly decided on the hearts and flower to help soften mom up a bit although one can’t help but notice the tongue sticking out of the flower’s mouth. As precocious as Lilly is, she’s still only 5 and petulance will win out on occassion.
Sep 22, 2009 at 6:30 pm rating: 8
#27
TheOldSchool
Something about this note troubled me, so I put out a few feelers.
Damn it. I was right. Again.
I hate having to write these words. Lily didn’t make the card. Dee Dee did. Apparently it’s a deperate suburban housewife thing. “My kid loves me so much she made me this.”
Ironically, the “Do Not Copy Me” was being directed at li’l Lil.
Dee Dee is in custody. The tv reporters are still interviewing neighbor moms. Lilly will be living with Daddy until Mommy comes back from her “vacation.”
Sad.
Sep 22, 2009 at 8:50 pm rating: 5
#28
Canthz_B
This a very rare find. Multiple Personality Disorder doesn’t usually become apparent this early in life.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:01 pm rating: 2
#29
leftfoot
Man.. there must be something wrong with the public school system if kids are already copying each other during art time.
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:37 pm rating: 2
#30
Monica
Hilarious!
Sep 23, 2009 at 1:56 pm rating: 0
#31
April
Man, I am 27 and my handwriting is not much better than Lillys, especially the cursive. My guess is the mother taught her how to just do her name in cursive because the little girl asked. We learned cursive in third grade and I still loathe it. Such a useless waste of time. Some schools have stopped teaching it and teach typing instead. I am all for that.
I remember my little girlfriends being all about the “stop copying me” bull back in elementary school. Sometimes it was over stuff like “you are eating your lunch like me…Stop copying me!”.
Sep 24, 2009 at 5:33 am rating: 0
#32
Suzy
I also noticed the smiley face/flower with the ball gag. What the heck?!
Sep 28, 2009 at 1:01 pm rating: 0
#33
Renagade676
Honestly, if I was a teacher and had a student of any determinate age copying students around her, I’d have her sit by herself or with other copycats until she learned her lesson.
Oct 1, 2009 at 10:30 am rating: 0
#34
gobnait
doesn’t look like a child’s printing or cursive.
Oct 1, 2009 at 4:48 pm rating: 0
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