I love me some pictures. With the advent of text speak and the increasing popularity of abbreviations, a picture is now valued at about 1443 words. This makes them easy ways to add value to my blog with minimal effort. Google Images and a blatant disregard for online property rights makes the addition of these gems almost instantaneous. From time to time, however, I am thwarted by the difficulty of thinking of an image that could represent some of the abstract concepts I discuss.
A perfect example came up the other day when I wrote this blog and had to think of a graphic that would encapsulate people who are politically passionate about things they know nothing about. After a few minutes of pondering I typed in "misspelled protest sign" and let Google do it's work. After all, what could more perfectly personify this quality than a person who was worked up enough about an issue to make a sign and go to a protest, but not worked up enough to read anything at all about it?
I was amazed when Google returned the results. Rather than digging through page after page to find a gem I was offered an entire jeweler's chest at once. I was disappointed that I could only select one. After a few minutes of searching I settled on a picture of two people protesting "Youth in Asia", but I almost felt bad leaving some of the others out.
Now, I could simply encourage you to go to Google Images and enter the same query as I did, but why go to all that trouble when I can just offer you my top picks? So consider this to be one of my lazier blogs, but a few of these were too good not to share:
#1) From the "Truer Than You Know" Department:
Never expect much out of the "crayon on brown paper bag" protest sign guy. In their defense, crayon is not erasable. |
#2) From the "Robbing From Peter to Pay Peter" Department:
#3) From the "Speaking From Experience" Department:
#4) From the "Burned By Pulp One Too Many Times" Department:
...you tell 'em. |
#3) From the "Speaking From Experience" Department:
"Heck, I can teach 'em to gamble at home, but that plus and minus stuff? Forget it." |
#4) From the "Burned By Pulp One Too Many Times" Department:
I'm not sure if this includes "Sunny Delight" or not. I'll get back to you. |
#5) From the "We Can All Agree On This One" Department:
You have to wonder why none of these folks told her... |
#6) From the "Spot All The Grammatical Errors" Department:
In his defense, all of those are actually words. |
#7) From the "Reinforcing the Stereotype" Department:
Unfortunately, many pubic scholers have problems with this one, too. |
#8) From the "How Many People Could Possibly Have Been at This Protest?" Department:
Part of the great "Vista Rage" outbreak, probably. I know I've called my computer worse. |
#9) From the "Freedom Of Speach" Department
"And then tell me where you got it." |
And finally...
#10) From the "They Said to Keep it Simple" Department:
Making the world aware of synonyms, one march at a time. |
If this didn't satiate your hunger for stupidity don't worry; Google images has many more.
Aaron Davies
www.blognoscor.blogspot.com
Yes, I have seen several of these before, but # 8 and #10 were new to me. Excellent blog post.
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ReplyDeleteAwesome post, Mr. Davies. :)