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It's impossible to perform a genuine smile when you're on your own in a photo booth. Though passport photographs must feature an inert, almost suicidal expression, in other circumstances, smiles are not verboten. But trying to muster a smile when you're sitting in such a grim, pokey, dirty little box
is near impossible. The best I can manage is the type of the dead-eyed grimace seen only on psychopaths and accountants.
Music, though, can make people smile genuinely. Each Musical Photo Booth features a searchable list of feel-happy tunes, grouped by artist and by smile-level (from the "Almost Imperceptible Wry Smile" of Kraftwerk to the "Full Blown Idiot Grin" of Stevie Wonder). Simply enter your coins, select a track, listen and smile.
Externally fitted headphones allow the customer to continue listening to selected tracks while they wait for their photographs to develop.
Schadenfreude for DrCurry
http://www.isthisyou.co.uk/thumb.html
[calum, Oct 25 2002]
Reasons To Be Cheerful
http://www.letssing...eerful-zxslkpc.html
by Ian Drury and The Blockheads [calum, Oct 25 2002]
[link]
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Or your favourite comedian..push your smile to a contorted grin. |
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Or just post the previous person's photos - that should get a laugh. |
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lovely - Curry. I was thinking a joke booth, too. |
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//The best I can manage is the type of the dead-eyed grimace seen only on ... accountants.
Almost as frightening as a smiling lawyer... |
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Oh, Calum doesn't smile. He smirks. And sometimes sneers. And occasionaly scoffs. But he certainly doesn't smile. |
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A scoff is just a smirk turned upside down, Miss salachair. |
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That's a very good point, Madame Blismiss. But upside down or not, it's still schnidey. Tsk, that's lawyers for ya! |
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I thought it was a sneeze/cough combo!? |
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Great idea calum... 2 points however:
i) What if the wrong tune comes on - photos of quizzical people.
ii)I'll end up with photos of me doing Air-guitar if any rock music comes on. |
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Its not very nice in any case. |
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Thank you to both salachair and Jinbish for choosing to malign my "unconventionally ugly" face from their ivory towers of pulchritude. I will not lower myself to their elevated positions. |
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Originally, this was to be called the "Ian Drury Reasons To Be Cheerful Memorial Photo Me Booth" but I decided against this for two reasons:
a) Ten words is plenty too much too many for any idea title;
b) I am sure that there are curmudgeonly souls out there who find Drury's music objectionable, hence the variety of tunes and user selection of said tunes <looks pointedly at Jinbish>. |
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Pulchritude? May I have a definition por favor. If not, I am gonna assign it a meaning myself. I must. I need it. |
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"pulcher" is Latin for beautiful as far as I remember. "-itude" tends to be used to indicate large scale. So I'm guessing this means something like "very beautiful" or something. |
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pulchritude n. Great physical beauty and appeal. |
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That said, if someone were to call me very "Pulchy" it's good? |
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or if you wanted a sexy photo, a pheremone mister could be installed. i look stoned when i smile in photos, so i'd choose sexy over stoned any day... |
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pulchritudinous is the adjective, but i think pulchrous is more smoothly spoken, but who am i to argue with etymology? |
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thumbwax, I see that you have a photo strip there and the subject is photographed in various expressions. I also see/ hear that you have some music going in b#. What is it you're listening to? |
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Riddle solution: b# = flat sharp / be sharp. |
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I find that some illegal chemical compounds make me smile! |
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