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.
-- calum, Oct 21 2002

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]

Or your favourite comedian..push your smile to a contorted grin.
-- skinflaps, Oct 21 2002


Ravel?
-- hollajam, Oct 21 2002


No thanks just eaten.
-- skinflaps, Oct 22 2002


Or just post the previous person's photos - that should get a laugh.
-- DrCurry, Oct 22 2002


lovely - Curry. I was thinking a joke booth, too.
-- po, Oct 22 2002


//The best I can manage is the type of the dead-eyed grimace seen only on ... accountants.

Almost as frightening as a smiling lawyer...
-- namaste, Oct 22 2002


Oh, Calum doesn't smile. He smirks. And sometimes sneers. And occasionaly scoffs. But he certainly doesn't smile.
-- salachair, Oct 22 2002


A scoff is just a smirk turned upside down, Miss salachair.
-- blissmiss, Oct 22 2002


That's a very good point, Madame Blismiss. But upside down or not, it's still schnidey. Tsk, that's lawyers for ya!
-- salachair, Oct 22 2002


I thought it was a sneeze/cough combo!?

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.
-- Jinbish, Oct 22 2002


Isn't that a snough?
-- namaste, Oct 22 2002


Its not very nice in any case.
-- Jinbish, Oct 22 2002


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.

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>.
-- calum, Oct 22 2002


Pulchritude? May I have a definition por favor. If not, I am gonna assign it a meaning myself. I must. I need it.
-- blissmiss, Oct 22 2002


"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.
-- namaste, Oct 22 2002


namaste is right:

pulchritude n. Great physical beauty and appeal.
-- calum, Oct 22 2002


That said, if someone were to call me very "Pulchy" it's good?
-- blissmiss, Oct 22 2002


Only if they're Latin.
-- calum, Oct 22 2002


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-- thumbwax, Oct 23 2002


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...

pulchritudinous is the adjective, but i think pulchrous is more smoothly spoken, but who am i to argue with etymology?
-- goostas, Oct 23 2002


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?
-- hollajam, Oct 23 2002


Riddle solution: b# = flat sharp / be sharp.
-- thumbwax, Oct 23 2002


I find that some illegal chemical compounds make me smile!
-- Mayfly, Oct 25 2002



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