Saturday, January 12, 2008

olan mills hilarity

i got an email forward last night (gracias! you know who you are!) containing some hilarious "olan mills" portraits with snarky captions, and instead of putting them all here, i'll just do a few and instead point you to another blog containing all the pics.

to be fair, some of the photo studios featured are NOT olan mills portraits, but that doesn't matter. because many actually are, and they all smack of the "olan mills" studio experience. [aside: "picture day" at school every fall was a horror for me. every single year i took a terrifically ugly photo, and then would BEG my mother to let me get re-takes. (which she only did like, once, when i had my eyes closed or something. never one to indulge my vanity, she would tread that shallow pool of trying to explain gently that i really did look like that, and/or "it isn't THAT bad, sylvia, honestly." i wish i had some of my own to put here; there were some gems, let me tell you).]

so here's a sampling of the hilarity (click on link above to see complete selection, and although i wish i could take credit for the zinger captions, alas, they're some mysterious other person's ...):












Just a typical day on the plantation. In a business suit. Y'know, for a budget meeting with the slaves.


















Bobbi isn't the first waitress to fall for her manager, but she and Dale both got fired from Shoney's.

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