Wednesday, July 28, 2010

DID IT JUST GET AWKWARD IN HERE?


I remember when I was a kid I’d always play at my friend Billy Fessner's house. It was the obvious choice. He had the bigger basement. Plus he owned way more Star War® figures than I did (including the Millennium Falcon). My only problems with his house were these 2 things:
  • The odor (smelled like maple syrup & NyQuil mixed w/ cat poo)
  • The big ass freaky family portrait above their mantle.

I guess the latter needs a bit more explanation. It was one of those classic 70s Sears® portraits. You know the ones with a stone-faced family dressed to the 5s, set against a weird, blue-ish globular background. They all looked possessed and it freaked the crap out of me. For years that horrific image has scarred my brain. And I promised, nay, swore to myself that if I was ever blessed with a family I would never, ever force them to create what I felt was the worst portrait ever. As you can see by the above image I most definitely was wrong. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg at Awkwardfamilyphotos.com. A site that collects oodles of these types of bizarre beauties. Organized in such whimsical categories as old people, Saturday Night Special, and pregnancy. They also have an awkward pet site. Plus AFP even has a store where you can add your favorite awkwardness on a mug or tshirt, or collect 'em all in a handsome bound coffee table book (for only 10ish bucks). Here's just a smidge of the F'd-up-ness waiting for you.



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16 comments:

  1. IAN.IS.RIGHT. Ok so the creepy one for me on here is the Mary and Joseph with the dog. Eewww!!!!!!!

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  2. I have that site bookmarked and like it on FB so I get an update with each new photo. Them and Cake wrecks are my blogging laughter drugs..

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  3. great story, the mary and joseph one is so freakish. who would do that?

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  4. You should check out http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/. Slightly less awkward, but still creepy...

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  5. I check out this site every other day.
    It is amazing.

    I am thinking of submitting some photos to the pet site b/c with all my pets and my canwhore tendancies there are some pretty awful photos floating around.

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  6. ROFLMAO!!!

    I totally dig the nudist wannabes......and that Star Trek get-up...whoa!!! COOL!! LOL!

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  7. That is insane! I am obsessed with this site. It is amazing what people think looks good!

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  8. OMG what are people thinking! I LOVE IT!

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  9. I got an email with a bunch of these in it, and about pee'd myself!!

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  10. That Boston Terrier Jesus was so funny!!!

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  11. those are sooo freakin hilarious!!!! i totally forgot about this website!!! ha!!!!!!!!!

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  12. OH MY WORD! WHAT were they THINKING? LoL

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