It's been a pretty frustrating day in Cubicle World, and I don't really want to get too much into it. But suffice to say, towards the end of the day I was becoming slightly unraveled and desperate for either a tall cool drink of the boozy variety or a warm towel laced with ether.
My job requires me to browse and hunt through stock photography quite often – either for one of the numerous blogs my company runs or for book covers, brochures, whatever. In this case, it was for one of the blogs for a post detailing a compliance/benefits story about a person injured while bowling. The editor's request was simple enough: a photo of a man bowling. Fine.
But then, one of the first photos to come up in my search was, well....this.
And that was it. I couldn't stop giggling and snorting uncontrollably. I mean, seriously. Look at that image. What stock photographer thought that was a good pose? What photographer says to their model, "Hey! Crouch down, pretend you're surfing, hold the ball between your legs, and make a face as if to say, 'Behold! I have a gigantic, mutant, hot pink testicle!'"
So of course I included the photo in the selection of possible photographs for the editor, mainly to amuse myself. Here's the brilliant thing: HE CHOSE IT. I had said in the initial email that it was a ridiculous image, and he agreed, but said he liked it because he thought it looked like the guy was about to fall over. Personally, I think said editor got just as much juvenile humor out of the image and wanted to use it.
My job requires me to browse and hunt through stock photography quite often – either for one of the numerous blogs my company runs or for book covers, brochures, whatever. In this case, it was for one of the blogs for a post detailing a compliance/benefits story about a person injured while bowling. The editor's request was simple enough: a photo of a man bowling. Fine.
But then, one of the first photos to come up in my search was, well....this.
And that was it. I couldn't stop giggling and snorting uncontrollably. I mean, seriously. Look at that image. What stock photographer thought that was a good pose? What photographer says to their model, "Hey! Crouch down, pretend you're surfing, hold the ball between your legs, and make a face as if to say, 'Behold! I have a gigantic, mutant, hot pink testicle!'"
So of course I included the photo in the selection of possible photographs for the editor, mainly to amuse myself. Here's the brilliant thing: HE CHOSE IT. I had said in the initial email that it was a ridiculous image, and he agreed, but said he liked it because he thought it looked like the guy was about to fall over. Personally, I think said editor got just as much juvenile humor out of the image and wanted to use it.
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That reminds me of a class in college. It came time to name my paper, and so I wrote a parody of those "Clever Phrase: Explanation" titles.
I thought it was a parody. My professor loved it. I told her it was a joke. It just didn't go well.
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