I realize I was supposed to have this up on Monday, but in my defense, I’ve had a very long and difficult week.
For one thing, I worked on Monday. The experience was so foreign that it bordered on traumatic. I’m only just now getting back on an even keel.
I also had an MRI on Tuesday that I had to be sedated for. The first time I tried to get it done, I had a panic attack that was so severe, I started screaming and had to be let out of the machine.
I have more funny stories, but I’m saving them for the book.
Okay, let’s get to the real reason we’re here.
Last week, I told you about a game called POODLE. It’s pretty easy, actually. You take this picture of a poodle, and you change it in Photoshop. And that’s kind of it.
Now, in a real game, you send your changed image to someone, and they change it and send it back. You keep doing this until you feel like the image is finished or your boss catches you, whichever comes first.
Because this kind of thing takes all fucking day, I was only able to get a volley going with one person, and I’ll get to our exchange in a bit. But first, let’s look at the images you sent me.
In looking them over, I realized that the submissions could be broken down into four categories.
1. NEW HEADS
From Karen:
From slotjaw:
From Johnny:
From Coopergreen:
2. NEW BODIES
From Bob :
From Fat Fairy:
3. THINGS ON/WITH POODLE
From Steven:
Extra points for incorporating the Liza toy I made last year
From Edgar:
From Roger:
4. POLITICAL POODLES
From John C:
Also from John C:
From Keith:
Also from Keith:
And finally, from my own John Foley:
* Extra points for including the ball
Now here ’s the volley I had going.
It started with this email from “Big Dog”:
April:
So one my pal of pals sends me this Britney-busted Poodle as the start of round one of the game.
Here’s my volley back.
You wanna go next? We’d be honored.
Well, of course I wanted to go next. So I sent him this:
Clearly I had no idea who I was dealing with, because it didn’t even slow him down. He responded almost immediately with this:
You’re it.
Something about that blimp just reminded me of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. So I sent this without comment.
Shortly thereafter, I received this email:
Okay, April; I see you’re serious about this. So here . . .
And he attached the file that ended the game.
Somehow or other, you just know when it’s POODLE.
34 responses so far ↓
1 Doug // Oct 4, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I just knew I shoulda gotten off my lazy ass and submitted an entry…sigh.
But then again, I have a good reason:
I got nuthin’.
2 katzinoire // Oct 4, 2007 at 3:00 pm
MRI’s suck! I get them for my lower spine and if not for the fact I could see the outside of the tube from hell by stretching my neck back-I would need to be sedated. Hope everything reads ok. Hugs! I REALLY need to get photoshop so Ican enter these things! Love the entries, thanks for a good laugh!
3 JohnnyBoy // Oct 4, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Excellent entries ! Youse guys should be proud !
Thanks for the laughs
4 naughty zoot // Oct 4, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Damn!
The Photo-shop chops you people have are endlessly impressive! Oh, and deviant…and sick..and twisted….which is why i can’t stop laughing at the Sen. Craig one!
5 JohnnyBoy // Oct 4, 2007 at 7:21 pm
oh, and so proper credit is due, I am not the “Bozo lost his nose” Johnny.
Love that one !
6 jim // Oct 4, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Ooh … you wacky Poodle ninjas!
Not unlike what I imagine MTV would look like ALL THE TIME if it used your audio for a play-list. But then that might distract folks from the sacramental ads.
I attribute my robust health to a strict regimen of cussin’ smokin’ drinkin’ … & health-care-avoidance. But heck, go for it - anything including sedative intake is highly commendable in this day & age, or so I blurt.
7 ibobunot // Oct 4, 2007 at 10:55 pm
That was fun.
8 steve // Oct 4, 2007 at 10:57 pm
I got extra points! John Foley’s was my favorite, but April! did you scan a Land O’Lakes box?
Oh and Big Dog, you ain’t right.
9 ibobunot // Oct 4, 2007 at 11:00 pm
This is my Poodle, for reals yo.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/146583411_6b83848bd4_o.jpg
10 Shannon // Oct 5, 2007 at 2:13 am
In the truck driver world “he’s a real toe-tapper” is not a complement anymore. sorry I be drunk. But I sleep with a truck driver. And he’s really hot and he corrects my grammar and spelling.
11 JohnnyBoy // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:33 am
All Your Base Are Belong To POODLE
12 JohnnyBoy // Oct 5, 2007 at 10:40 am
Testing :
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l232/kathic617/Dc298.jpg
13 Stretch // Oct 5, 2007 at 11:57 am
I ve played Poodle - usually “Spank the Poodle…”
14 pal Jacky // Oct 5, 2007 at 3:52 pm
I am not amused by the antics of deviants. Next week on the ’sarah silverman show’ she gets in trouble for licking her dog’s asshole. the promos for this are shown non stop during their four times a day rebroadcasting of ‘the daily show’. I’m sickened and so are my dogs.
15 JohnnyBoy // Oct 5, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Yeah, I heard about that on Stern….where she was smelling Richard Christy’s balls. For those of you who are unfamiliar, he’s notorious for really poor hygiene.
Robin asked her and she said she doesn’t ACTUALLY do any licking.
She’s wearing thinner the more I see and hear her.
16 pal Jacky // Oct 5, 2007 at 7:35 pm
actually, sarah silverman is funnier in standup than on her show. Same with Chelsea handler, who I am madly in love with since the ‘girls behaving badly’(a candid camera clone) skit where she was drunk in bar, let herself get picked up, and when leaving with the guy she stands up to reveal she looks like she’s eight months pregnant. It didn’t matter to one sleazbag, now that’s comedy.
17 JohnnyBoy // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I think of Blue Velvet as a Musical Comedy, so what do I know?
18 Doug // Oct 6, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I worship Chelsea Handler…drool.
19 pal Jacky // Oct 7, 2007 at 11:15 am
here’s another german dog bit of knowledge. Their term for ‘lapdogs’ is ‘mopsen’. It is also slang for big tits. One thing to keep in mind, its usually reserved for older ‘matriarchal’ types(think fellini prostitutes) and not the siliconed injected Nip/tuck hooters of a Pam anderson type. Its sort of a term of respect.
20 pal Jacky // Oct 7, 2007 at 11:26 am
Desperate houswives sucks balls for lots of reasons. Now that they are apologizing to the fillapinesols for Teri Hatcher making an ethnic slur, when are they going to apologize to the rest of us for putting Teri Hatcher back on series television?
21 pal Jacky // Oct 7, 2007 at 11:27 am
What’s not to like about Chelsea Handler? Smart drunk blonds with big tits have always been my downfall. Someday, I’ll you guys about ‘a broken heart and a case of veneral warts’. It is a happy story.
22 Doug // Oct 7, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Here’s two from me…better late than never, I s’pose.
Chin-up, bucko!
April-related
23 steve // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:33 pm
holy crap, Doug, you used the ball, you gave Hil a lovely flip hairdo, and you included Fabio. April won’t have any extra points left to hand out now, overachiever.
24 Titan // Oct 8, 2007 at 2:02 am
Geez…. Holy crap, I’ve GOT to get Photoshop!
25 Shannon // Oct 8, 2007 at 8:26 pm
pal Jacky,
RE: Smart drunk blonds with big tits have always been my downfall. Someday, I’ll you guys about ‘a broken heart and a case of veneral warts’.
Did we date in the early 80s?
26 pal Jacky // Oct 8, 2007 at 9:14 pm
shannon,
Probably not, Actually, I lived with a lady from ‘81 to ”88. Like a dipshit, I was the faithful one. after that, I went through some awful choices. My roommate hated one in particulier because all she did all day was smoke pot in the livingroom whether I was home or not. When we came down with head and pubic lice,( a first for me she seemed to know all about it) we had a hard time ‘Rid’ding the apartment without him catching on. How did I let that one slip through my fingers? She left me for her coke dealer. She was too good for me, anyway.
27 jandu // Oct 8, 2007 at 10:20 pm
speaking of slipping through your fingers, does anyone know when Bree Walker’s birthday is?
28 Stretch // Oct 9, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Watch Mary-Kate Olson on “Weeds” as a born again Christaian whose mission is to sell people POT. …Because Jesus was annointed with cannabis oil…natch
The girl’s been in more motel rooms than the Gideion Bible
————–Phyllis Diller
29 JohnnyBoy // Oct 9, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Which one is she again?
30 jandu // Oct 9, 2007 at 9:42 pm
you know her, she’s the one with a big rubber Bob Sagget thumb-dildo sticking out of her lipsticked asshole
31 JohnnyBoy // Oct 10, 2007 at 6:56 am
oh, OK, I thought she was the other one
32 pal Jacky // Oct 10, 2007 at 7:44 pm
you mean the one who can put a remote control up her twat with the RF end hanging out and can Tivo 15 shows at once and channel surf at the same time without using her hands? It would just be easier if they were identical cousins like Samantha and and serena. Or even Patty and Kathy which of course, brings us to the field trip to Ms. Duke’s house to scream “i’m Neeley O’hara’ and ‘dolls, dolls… dolls”.
33 JohnnyBoy // Oct 10, 2007 at 8:55 pm
I always confuse them with Nelly Olsen from Little House on the Prairie
34 pal Jacky // Oct 12, 2007 at 7:12 pm
nelly olsen is the one who started out as third yam jammer , then graduated to jamming canned yams still in the can. Its pretty impressive. Of course, what anna wong does with Cabbages and Johanna Went does with pig’s heads make them much more erotic perfomance artists.
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