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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 :::

Potato Face

I recently had to get my picture taken for a visitor's ID card. I'm keenly aware that I'm generally not very photogenic to begin with, but is this picture really as bad as I think it is?

I look either:
a) stoned
b) mentally challenged, or
c) made out of wet Play-Doh

I also seem to have what my friend Stacy would refer to as "Black Licorice Mouth". And there's something weird with the glare on my forehead that makes it look like I have a monobrow. Anyway, I have to wear it hanging on a badge around my neck every time I visit this place until I die. And apparently retakes are not an option. Plus, the image is conveniently stored in a database somewhere for easy retrieval, just in case you "accidentally" lose the badge somewhere and need a replacement. Believe me, I already inquired about it.

::: posted by dan at 11:11 AM :: [ link ] :: (20) comments

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JU=ust tape another picture over it! I did that and nobody noticed for 3 years

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Anonymous, at 1:37 AM

I cannot stop laughing! That picture is horrible!

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Brianne, at 2:08 AM

Kind of thinking you look like the same colour of orange you were when you were the Oompa Loompa. Seriously - compare them Dan.

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elizabeth, at 6:58 AM

You look like the guy that got arrested for huffing gold paint.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0721051gold1.html

Well maybe not exactly. But you don't look happy.

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Anonymous, at 7:37 AM

there's also an element of 'i'm-going-to-kick-your-ass' to the pic.

I'm a little scared.

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Anonymous, at 8:33 AM

Oooompa Looompa
Dippiddy Doooooo
That is one terrible
Picture of You

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n8 b, at 8:37 AM

someone's gassy!!

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Jay, at 9:37 AM

I think your very photogenic! just not in that picture. Remember Dan, Crack is WHACK!

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george86, at 10:41 AM

I think that you sould tape a tiny little picture of a bong right next to it. Then it will all make sense.

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ab, at 11:10 AM

If you split the picture in half, the top half just looks like a normal sleepy guy...but the second half looks like another larger picture was taped on, giving the whole thing a slightly distorted look...but you've got enough personality to make up for that picture.
Don't you?

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Elle Marie, at 11:57 AM

"Meh"

That's all this face says.

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Jen, at 12:08 PM

*snickers* Momma said if I couldn't say nuttin nice I should just point, laugh and walk away...no offense, I still love ya and everything...

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Darcy's Twin, at 12:50 PM

I think you look extra hot.
I did laugh for 20 minutes at the wet play doh connection though.

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Stacy, at 3:09 PM

d) all of the above. Plus, you do look kinda orange. Been hitting the tanning booths much lately?
I'm guessing "black licorice mouth" means you've got a front tooth missing? Sorry, really, so sorry. It isn't your best...but take comfort in the fact that no one really looks at the those ID badges (tee hee).

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lola, at 3:23 PM

the umpah-loompah thing first came to my mind too

Your post brings up another regional saying...ism...whatever;

you say monobrow, I say unibrow....

flip-flops or thongs?

Where I grew-up, we called them thongs. I just went to a beach-party themed rally for work and totally humiliated myself. I made a giant 'thong' out of cardboard and wore it to the party. Joke doesn't work when you call it a flip-flop. The joke was a flop, no one could figure it out. I had people thinking, "Dude, like why are you wearing a surf-board strapped to your crotch?"....oh well, had to be there

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Anonymous, at 4:51 PM

Oh so bad.

That's all I have to say.

Oh and you should kick the photographers ass.

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Colleen, at 6:33 PM

Oh, I don't think it is so bad. It makes you look a bit older than you are. Just imagine yourself wearing some of those really bizarre Elton John-style early 1970s oversized sunglasses, looking like that underneath them, and it will put a smile on your face.

It sure is a better picture of you than my current drivers license picture is of me!

I think you are better off hanging such a picture around your neck than some of the ones that have been taken of you on your recent bar-hopping escapades!

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Anonymous, at 6:37 PM

I like Oompa Loompas!

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jali, at 12:37 PM

I think that the photo shows what a warm, caring & helpful person you are - and on that basisi, any chance of modifying "Falling George" by replacing the head with Tony Blair's, and call it "Teflon Tony" for us in the UK?

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Anonymous, at 7:33 AM

Looks like someone had too much sodium the night before. Tell them no MSG at the Chinese take-out.

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PeaceBang, at 10:21 PM

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