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[Ray West]

Images will be scored according to moderator's chuckle factor. Post on Mondays only, gmt or thereabouts. Maximum of two images per poster per week, but link to more, if you want. Be selective. If the joke needs explaining - well don't bother (save it for Friday)

Post in this thread, to keep opf pristine and pure.

Beast washes,

Raw

[Cem_Usakligil]

...come and get them here:

Free hugs:
http://www.usakligil.com/photo/fora/opf/hugs1.jpg

Cheers,

Cem

[Rachel Foster]

Ok, not a joke photo, but this one is high in "smile-ability" for me.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2273/2352541317_14e3f69cd9.jpg

[Cem_Usakligil]

Ok, not a joke photo, but this one is high in "smile-ability" for me.
...
Hi Rachel,

You are the professional in the field of psychology so please don't get me wrong when I say that there must be a difference between something you can smile at since it evokes warm feelings in you and the uncontrollable urge to laugh at something simply because it's funny. I was under the impression that the second category was the one we are aiming at here in this thread.

BTW, I have miserably failed at my first attemt as well. Ray rates it only 2/10 and you know what, he is actually right too (LOL).

Cheers,

Cem

[StuartRae]

For all those who have trodden somewhere they shouldn't. My friend Jerry who thought a piece of green grass was safe. Silly sod!! Oh how we laughed!!

http://www.lakelandphotography.net/OPF/034.jpg

Stuart

[Rachel Foster]

You are totally right, Cem, and I knowingly misused the thread. I was hoping it might make someone smile as it does me. (P.S., I'm a bit of a rebel, but I bet NO one ever noticed that.)

If no smile results, but only a de-railing does, please feel free to delete.

[Ray West]

A very poor beginning. I award 2/10 to Cem, and probably slightly less to Stuart. Rachel has to stand in the corner, until she promises to behave herself.

Plenty of room for improvement, must try harder.

[Cem_Usakligil]

A very poor beginning. I award 2/10 to Cem, and probably slightly less to Stuart. Rachel has to stand in the corner, until she promises to behave herself.

Plenty of room for improvement, must try harder.
Hi Ray,

Remember: the idea was to have fun and being reprimanded while trying to do so is kind of counterproductive. You, Sir, are a tough master! (LOL)


Cheers,

Cem

[Ray West]

Cem,

Rachel, at this moment, if it's usa wake-up time, is probably standing in a corner, trying to get her old man to take a photo of her, or something, so she can post next Monday. (I really, really, truly hope she hasn't got on her 'St. Trinian's outfit'.) You, being European, sort of have the edge here, since you almost have a chance of comprehending the Devonian sense of humour. In particular, I had mentioned to you, a year or so ago about the close ties of Holland and Devon, re wool and bricks, so, unfortunately for you, you are almost family. You are ahead at the moment, so stop complaining! Now Stuart, he's from Norfoilk or some such place. He stands no chance, but he's stubborn. Next week, maybe a few others may poke their head over the parapet, we'll wait and see.

[Rachel Foster]

Stand in a corner?


MAKE ME! I'm a dignified, mature woman. Sniff.

[Steven Lifson]

Here 'tis! Why wait till monday?

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x153/annieblues/smallpout.jpg

[Ray West]

Well Steven,

It's sort of given us a target to aim for next Monday, allegorically speaking, I s'pose.

Best wishes,
Ray

[Cem_Usakligil]

Here 'tis! Why wait till monday?

Bingo! A great retort and what a good capture of the body language BTW! I give it 10 out of 10. (LOL)

Cheers, Steven and welcome to OPF.

Cem

[Rachel Foster]

But...but...but...I wanna win!

[Rachel Foster]

I almost got a decent shot for Monday...but it disappeared before I could get it!

[Ray West]

Hi Rachel,

I'll give you a few clues, if you want to win.

1) You've got to make me chuckle with the photo. i.e. something that is obviously funny, with no written explanation required.
2) Mondays only - if you post before then, I will see it, and the initial impact when I assess on Monday will be lost.
3) There are plenty of sort of 'visual impact cartoons' out there, but if I've seen it before, then I won't chuckle, since it will have lost the impact.
4) you may need to fake the images using photoshop, blue pencil, whatever, add bits/drawings from other images (your own)
5) If you want two images - you can have a 'before' and 'after'.
6) Because this is not as easy as you probably thought it would be, I will accept bribes.

Best wishes,

Ray

[Rachel Foster]

I'm on it, Ray! I did "sort of" get the shot but not quite the way I wanted. And you see it is NOT here. My plan is to arouse your curiosity by mentioning it but not showing it til MONDAY. (I'm applying "psychology." Unfortunately, I also know most of the time that usually fails miserably.)

And...the check is in the mail! HA!

[Rachel Foster]

This is probably ONLY funny to me...but it makes me laugh!

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x153/annieblues/truckontracks.jpg

[StuartRae]

Hi Rachel,

It made me laugh as well!! Thanks.

Here's mine, but as Ray has no sense of humour, I doubt that he'll find it funny.

http://www.lakelandphotography.net/OPF/spr04-0081-shark.jpg

Regards,

Stuart

[Dierk Haasis]

http://Foto.Write4U.de/Forum/Katzenjagd.JPG

[janet Smith]

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa318/JanGlenelg/IMG_0013001.jpg

[Arvid Holt]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/oldradioman/DSCN2104-dead-end.jpg

Hope I am not too late to enter

Arvid

[Nicolas Claris]

Hope I am not too late to enter

Arvid

Well, still Monday here!

Not mine but quite funny imo:

http://mnclaris.free.fr/forum/chocolat.jpg

Translation:
Rabbit on left: I have pain in the …!
Rabbit on right: What?

Sorry, couldn't resist :-)

[Rachel Foster]

Man, those are some funny photos! GIGGLING HERE!

[Cem_Usakligil]

Hi Rachel,

It made me laugh as well!! Thanks.

Here's mine, but as Ray has no sense of humour, I doubt that he'll find it funny.

http://www.lakelandphotography.net/OPF/spr04-0081-shark.jpg

Regards,

Stuart

(John Williams music plays in the background)
http://scoresheet.tripod.com/ScoringStage/Jaws/SharkMotif.JPG


Man! I don't know about Ray but this really is my favourite, kind of like the Far Side cartoons (http://www.thefarside.com/) of the greatest cartoonist of all times, Gary Larson.

But no worries for our man, George, after all. From what I can see, he just happens to carry his reserve oxygen tank in his packpack (LOL).

ROTFLMAO.


Cheers,

Cem

[Cem_Usakligil]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/oldradioman/DSCN2104-dead-end.jpg

Hope I am not too late to enter

Arvid
Not at all, Arvid. Welcome to OPF, what a great entrance you've made (LOL).
Settle down and enjoy yourself. While at that, make sure that you drop by the "introduce yourself" forum later ;-).

Cheers,

Cem

[Arvid Holt]

Thanks Cem, I'll do that.

[StuartRae]

Hi Cem,

.............greatest cartoonist of all times, Gary Larson.

He's my hero as well. I used to have a desk top calendar with a Larson for every day of the year.

This isn't a competition entry

My all time favourite is this one - a birthday card from my daughter.

http://www.lakelandphotography.net/OPF/anteater.jpg

Regards,

Stuart

[Ray West]

I don't know why I suggested this, well it was probably Rachel's fault.

I did not log in on Monday, to try and get the 'instant hit', so to speak. And I grudgingly have to admit that they all made me smile. Did any of 'em make me chuckle, how to score?

Well, the photo of Rachel in the corner, at the time, probably worth an 8, but it wasn't Monday, and it needed knowledge of what went before.

Rachel's second shot, the railway crossing, if only a bit earlier, would have been worth a 6. I like the 'walk your bike'. I thought things with wheels, you push, - things with legs you walk. (in the UK, it would be 'cyclists dismount'.) Worth a 5 for that image - for me it's two for the price of one.

Stuart's, as a postcard, dropping through my letter box, would be great, but because it is preceded by a challenge re my humour, or lack of sense, do I say it's an 8 to prove him wrong, or a 2 to prove me right? No, if there was a bit more work re the ripples round the shark's head, and in spite of the explanation, I think 'Oi'll give it Foive'. (but I remember an early Guinness advert with the submarine in the duck pond).

Now Dierk's, made me smile, I can't quite decide where to place it. It depends if I'm a cat or a mouse, I guess. Not quite a chuckle, but in different circumstances, could well be, so I guess a 5 also.

Janet knows about dogs, and probably knows a bit more too. Very good, got a sort of grunt, must be worth a 7.

Now for Arvid, not too late to post for Monday.The time it arrived was 3.29pm and is more or less exactly what I was looking for. I am not sure if there is hidden humour in the added line of text. Worth a good 8.

Nicolas, having been away for a while, probably didn't realise it was meant to be photos or something he had taken, I can't remember if it has actually been mentioned, maybe we need a cleaner set of rules. But I think he did the translation, so should we let him play?? Well it did raise a smile, so I'll give him a 3.

Now, are we happy, or would you prefer a bit more definition, re rules, or do you think you will be able to post an image that makes me wipe the coffee and phlegm from my vdu?

Best wishes,

Ray

[James Newman]

Better late than never. Crazy Bear.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l319/jnewmanco1/crazybear.jpg

[Kathy Rappaport]

it's still Monday here on the West Coast...Actually it's Tuesday in Belguim. :-)

This is Daisy as a puppy on her kiddie slide. She had so much fun running up and down the slide.

http://chatkat.smugmug.com/photos/273169871_vXo66-S.jpg

[Rachel Foster]

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x153/annieblues/IMG_9678.jpg

[Dierk Haasis]

http://foto.write4u.de/Forum/Tree.JPG

[Rachel Foster]

No one else having fun today?

[charlotte thompson]

I took a pic of me after 4 margaritas- may be more scarey than funny-

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/luluwind/DSC_0630-1.jpg

[Rachel Foster]

Made me laugh!

[charlotte thompson]

Rachel

lol I cant believe I actually did that with my camera
ahhhhh that devil tequilla*

Charlotte

[Ray West]

No Chuckle from me this week, I'm sorry. Maybe I'm in a more miserable mood than normal. Put it down to the weather. Can't assign scores, either, hope that's OK

Rachel, I'd seen it before - last week. It's an old joke, for goodness sake. As a senior member you should be setting an example (well you are, but not in that way ;-)

Dierk, that is amusing, but puzzling. In particular since I do not understand the language. Now if it says, something like 'two rabbits walk into a bar.....' then it may be funny. Interesting, though, and good observation.

Charlotte. Well I guess*
after four margaritas, or more @-)
everything looks like that. It's not scary, though, but last, if you posterised it to some extreme, beyond the garden fence, and then some more, stretched the
jaundice beyond the temperament,
Assisted ably by some of your scribblings with the peculiar ./?:'* appendages attached
*
then you could post it in the art section.

Best wishes,

Ray (keeping my head down)

[Rachel Foster]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo, Monsieur Ray, you malign me!

Last week was a truck on the tracks! This week is children walking their bikes on the tracks in view of a sign saying 'Walk your bikes!"

I'm sorry, Monsieur Ray, but you failed miserably this week. We shall give you another chance next week.

An' I ain't no stinkin' senior member. I'm a NEOPHYTE!

[Dierk Haasis]

Dierk, that is amusing, but puzzling. In particular since I do not understand the language.

The language and what is written on the eaten paper doesn't matter at all - or I wouldn't have posted it here, since you specifically asked that jokes should not need explanations. [Note to myself: Don't go into a lecture on how and why humour, wit and jokes are always dependent upon knowledge, hence there are very few universal ones. There isn't even a lowest common denominator.]

Anybody knowing me - in person and for some time - or has had a look at my DVD-listing, is aware of the fact that my humour is wide-spread. As long as it is well done I laugh at a joke. For instance: Superbad is in, Dumb and Dumber is out; Twelfth Night is as funny to me as the porter scene from Macbeth. I love the gentle, romantic and dark comedy in La vita e bella as much as the sarcastic wit of To Be or Not to Be or the acerbic satire of Ace in the Hole and One, Two, Three.

Last week my entry was a frightened cat, frightened by a mouse.* A staple of easily accessible humour for decades on TV and in cinemas [though Tweety is not a mouse and I like those Warners much better than Tom and Jerry ]. This time it is a tree with a face eating up human artefacts; probably too sophisticated. Others have provided good and funny photos, too.

And you can't laugh.



PS: Next week prepare for a simple shot of a toilet. Worked in 1960, works today - if only in the US of A.






*Let's set aside that it is only this one photo from the series that makes this impression.

[charlotte thompson]

some of my scribble=ings

now that's funny!

Charlotte

[Rachel Foster]

Ok, folks, Ray is a tough audience. Let preparations for next week commence! I love a challenge.

[Barry Johnston]

Since Zimbabwe and it's elections have been so much in the news of late, I thought I would share this clip that was e-mailed to me. It typifies and sums up the situation there.

http://www.madamandeve.co.za/cartoons/me003933.gif

The above cartoon was originally published in the South African publication called 'The Weekly Mail' by Stephen Francis & Rico, and permission is being sort by the poster to link to it from his web site.

Barry

[Dierk Haasis]

http://Foto.Write4U.de/Forum/Birke.jpeg

[Ray West]

Ah, well, I almost missed these, I don't look on Mondays, then other posts came, and they slipped back to a previous page.

Barry, I think your tag line with the political situation the cartoon refers to, is so very apt. But, the whole situation for the folk there, is not funny. Sometimes assassination is too generous.

Dierk, we had a birch tree, once. The developer insisted on planting it, because the local authority said they had drawn it in the plans submitted for the housing development. It 'looked nice', for about two weeks every year, while the young leaves were shooting, then it covered everything with a sticky mess. It was 'unfortunate' that it mysteriously died, after it was pruned with a chain saw, about a foot above ground. I tried reviving it with a solution of copper sulphate, but somehow that seemed to make it worse.

Thanks for posting.

[Kathy Rappaport]

Hey Barry,

I am sorry but I don't get the political joke.

What I do see is that the comic strip has a copyright on it and it belongs to the author. Having had some of my own work used without permission, I am very sensitive to that - being Music, Art, Written Word, Photography or other original works.

[Ray West]

subsequent posts concerning copyright issues of the cartoon strip have been moved to here http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=46560#post46560

we are awaiting the response from the publisher

[Asher Kelman]

I have made the links for the cartoon directed to the publisher's own website where the images are stored with public access.

[StuartRae]

Well, it'll soon be Monday!!

Stealing the title of a Beatles song.

I got bored yesterday while I was doing a bit of cooking. Then, inspired by Colleen's comment about a slice on onion in the sky, I got the camera out.

http://www.lakelandphotography.net/OPF/planets-4.jpg

Regards,

Stuart

[Mike Shimwell]

Love it - even from a strict photojournalistic approach:)

[Cem_Usakligil]

Well, it'll soon be Monday!!

Stealing the title of a Beatles song.

I got bored yesterday while I was doing a bit of cooking. Then, inspired by Colleen's comment about a slice on onion in the sky, I got the camera out.

...
LOL, I love it too. But you've missed the "eye in the sky" to which Coleen has also referred (see: The Alan Parson's Project).....

Cheers,

(PS: this is too much fun for Mondays)

[Rachel Foster]

Ok, it's Monday somewhere......


http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x153/annieblues/opf/319-1.jpg

[Dierk Haasis]

(see: The Alan Parson's Project)

This hurts, The Beatles in the same thread with APP, really, badly hurts. Cringeing.

[Cem_Usakligil]

This hurts, The Beatles in the same thread with APP, really, badly hurts. Cringeing.
That's fusion art Dierk! LOL