Dumbest Idea for a Photo Project Ever

Jimm Lasser and Ray Gordon, Homer's Odyssey

There have been some nice viral pictures circulating on the Web lately. Two of my recent faves are McKayla Maroney and President Obama doing McKayla's "not impressed face" (a charming photograph, I think—by Pete Souza), and Samantha Busch freaking her mother out with a picture of herself falling into the Grand Canyon. You've probably already seen them both. Everybody has, I guess.

Prize for absolute worst idea for a photo project, though, has to go to Jimm Lasser and Ray Gordon for Namesake Motors. The pictures aren't good and the puns are awful...

...But then again, here I am linking to it. And I did laugh at Carolla's Corolla. Dumb. But funny.

Looking at viral pictures is like slowing down as you pass an accident—you can't help yourself.

By the way, the first and last photographs on that site show the real namesakes for those cars.

Mike

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Comments

[Tim Auger]

I like Pontiac's Pontiac.

Anyway the world needs a harmless giggle from time to time.

[bokeh]

The sample you showed is easily the weakest of the group, viewed as a whole they are entertaining.

[John Krumm]

I kind of like the Namesake motors idea. I used to have one of those Corollas too. They can't do anything with our Prius, I bet.

Thanks for the links, and no, I hadn't seen any of them (must not be as connected as I thought).

[Hugh]

Looks like fun to me. No need to be so snooty about it. More interesting than a lot of the po-faced faux intellectual stuff floating about.

[Al Patterson]

I do like puns, but boy, these were truly bad.

[Hugh in Winnipeg]

Good, bad or indifferent, they did it, and that's more than can be said for most of us.

[JohnW]

Awww ... where's your sense of humor?? Yeah the puns are awful but its so silly its actually funny. And the image quality is pretty good.

Barak and McKayla are the best though. Ain't it great to have a "President" with a real sense of humor!!!! Maybe Bill Clinton would have done this, but who else can you think of ...

[Steve]

Re: "...looking at viral pictures is like slowing down as you pass an accident—you can't help yourself."

Mike, I did resist. I have a warning device which, like the Robot from "Lost in Space" flays its arms about when inane internet content is near!

TTFN,
Steve

[Richard Newman]

Personally, I like and make puns. These aren't that bad. Remember:
The pun does not become a curse
Until it goes from bad to verse!

[Jayson Merryfield]

Puns aside (which appears to be the lowest of low-hanging fruit), the photography itself is uninspiring.

[Paris]

The Maroney-Obama picture is pretty cute. (and I mean that in the nicest possible way.)
As to the car pictures, its OK to laugh at stupid stuff. Laughs are hard enough to come by.

[Tom]

I'd like to nominate Brooks Jensen Interceptor.
A class act all round.