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Critic’s Corner: Glamour Shots

November 2, 2007

I haven’t done one of these in awhile- where I get to vent my inner snarky monologue.  I got the idea from an email I received showing JC Penney fashions from 1977.  This led me to google “class pictures”– then “senior portraits” (they’ll be next by the way)— then finally the Glamour Shot.

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Sue Ann just needed one good picture to hang in the doublewide to celebrate Bobby Joe’s parole.

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Tip #1: the trick of fuzzing out the edges of the picture doesn’t work for those girls who are “big boned”.  In this application, the effect is more akin to peeping at a fat tranny through a truckstop gloryhole.

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A wingback chair, a nice garland of pine… and Voila!  Nobody even NOTICES that schnoz!

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Not satisfied with just playing “Jethrine”, Max Baer prepares to audition for the Sally Field role in ”Not Without My Daughter”.

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Getting a male glamour shot is like getting circumcised as an adult– the second worst decision a man can make.  The worst, of course, is wearing that shirt.

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Oh Chandani!  In this picture you look like you could be a dancer… in the Lane Bryant production of “Showgirls”.

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Um, okay… Miss Sha’wantell?  Look over here… no, no… HERE.  Right here.  At the camera.  With both eyes.  Aw fuck it.

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Nothing says “Preoperative Transexual” like a good, bugle-beaded top. 

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Visit the new and improved Crack Den on 9th and Jackson:  where all of our hos are now photographed for easier dumpster identification!

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Betty, I just LOVE how you matched the earrings to your tooth!  It gives your face some much needed symmetry.

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You sure nailed that Shemale Thai Prostitute look.   Just like that tourist nailed your “blowup doll” mouth for 10 dollah.

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“And I am Telling You….” it aint working, honey.

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Moments later, Carly realizes that the massive amounts of intense foundation coverup that she used actually glued her face to her hand.

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Do you still hear the lambs, Clarisse?

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Damnit Roger!  If you ”rip ass” in my face one more fucking time…..

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“Thanks to dis peecture, I am able to earn enough money to sneak the rest of mi famillia across the border.  Muchas Gracias, Craigslist!”

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Introducing the new Covergirl “Cadaver” line– guaranteed to match ANY gang shooting victim’s skin tone.

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Unsatisfied with the performance of their first daughter, the Ramseys have now focused all their pageant hopes on their other daughter… Jon Benet II.

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She went from like, totally Geek… to um, totally Chic!

And as a bonus:

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Closed Captioning, for the beauty impaired.

23 comments to “Critic’s Corner: Glamour Shots”

  1. genius!


  2. ROFL.
    I actually worked at a Sears portrait studio for a few months right after high school. The Freaks we would get in that place!!


  3. I think the pre-op transsexual was on an episode of Designing Women–when the girls went to New Orleans and Suzanne didn’t believe he was actually a man.


  4. This is so cruel - and so funny. This is why I don’t let myself be photographed.


  5. i NEED to know these are all a joke. please.

    the red headed one with teased bangs, colored contacts…oh mother of christ.

    i have to link this shit. bless you for that


  6. jethrine’s my favorite.

    for a time in highschool i worked for an olan mills portrait studio. i was one of those shumucks that did tele-marketing and then sent a driver over to collect the money. what a horrid fuckin’ job.


  7. The transgender Peggy Bundy was my favorite…until I saw the Cover Girl “Cadaver” gal.

    Pure gold.

    Round 2 please…


  8. Oh please! I’m supposed to be working! Where did you FIND this shit!!!???? Is there a whole searchable archive out there somewhere????


  9. Oh your God! These are too hilarious!

    And you know these people showed all their friends these photos and were like, “Uh huh, I know I look good!”

    I totally agree with Glenn - this is the exact reason I don’t allow myself to be photographed.

    What were these people thinking?

    I have to link to this on my blog ASAP.

    Thanks for actually making my stomach hurt so much from laughing. (The fart one killed me!)


  10. Very nice, very nice indeed ;) Made me giggle like a nun on a tilt-a-whirl or something like that…


  11. CB
    You have raised snarky to a new level.


  12. Ok, “Do you still hear the lambs, Clarisse?” made me pee my pants!!!

    And for the record, my Senior picture was made JUST like the final picture in this series. I had a mullet. It wasn’t pretty.


  13. Oh Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!!! I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or have exposive diahrrea.

    For me its a tie between:
    “Damnit Roger! If you ”rip ass” in my face one more fucking time…..” and
    “She went from like, totally Geek… to um, totally Chic!”

    Please make this a monthly installment.

    Mark


  14. Holy Guacamole! These made me laugh so hard I began crying. Now my sides hurt. :)


  15. Confession time: I have a set of Glamour Shots that I had done for a Christmas present for my mom. My brother said it looked like the Employee of the Month photo. Prick.

    Anyway, it was back when I had RED HAIR . And no, you cannot see them.


  16. this just screams olan mills portrait studios!!! lol!!! genius!!


  17. I thought the last portrait was Natalie from “Facts of Life.” My stomach hurts from laughing!


  18. the shemale thai prostitute picture is actually Tammy Sue Baker, the daughter of Jim and Tammy Faye. at last, growing up Pentecostal pays off! :)


  19. You’re terrible Muriel.


  20. That was awesome!

    Isn’t Mrs. Wingback-Schnoz the slutty wife in Dirty Dancing?


  21. Well done! You must have to be an amazing bullshitter for that job. Seriously, Those sales people could sell ice to eskimos.


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  23. I was looking for your snarky post about how we shouldn’t rebuild new orleans and all because, apparently, in your infinite wisdom, we are a bunch of retards that live in a swamp so deserve what we get. Instead I came upon this and just laughed my ass off. Your forgiven even if you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about! (BTW, love your blog… ;)


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