I took a pic of my best friend, and photoshopped her head onto a nude pic of a particularly well endowed pre-op transsexual. Did a damn fine job too, if I do say so myself. I mean the colors, sizing, pose, facial expression - everything about this thing is easily as good or better than anything ever on the cover of The National Enquirer.
I printed out a few 4x6 glossies on my sweet photo printer and I’m laughing my ass off already. My GF thinks it’s hilarious too.
Now I’m trying to think of the best way to “get her” with this. It would be funny enough just to walk into her bar (she’s a bartender) and show it to her (and everybody else), but I’m hoping for something a little more worthy of my excellent photoshop skilz, even if it’s just a little background joke to go along with it and a surprise punchline unveiling of the pic.
Now, we have an excellent history of playing practical jokes on each other, and she has a great sense of humor, so I’m not really worried about hurting or offending her, but I don’t want the pic to get away and end up in the wrong hands or on the 'net either.
Any comments or ideas, oh creative fellow practical joker dopers?
Good idea, Ethilrist. And, to set it up properly, since you have the time, offer to take pictures of her. Or to arrange to have someone take pictures of her. Really set it up big-time, so she thinks you’re doing a formal portrait or something, telling her you’re doing it as a Christmas present (and therefore, it can’t really be a surprise).
As long as you’re sure she’ll understand and appreciate the joke, then go for it.
Heh - frame it - that’s pretty cool. There’s no way in hell I can wait until Christmas though. She did have a birthday a few weeks ago, so I could frame it and wrap it up as a belated birthday present.
I’m really looking for some kind of story to go with it. I may just frame it and wrap it, and say something along the lines of, “I saw this at Target yesterday, and I just knew you had to have it.”
On a night your friend is tending bar, be there, at the bar. It’d help if you’re there for awhile before the next step.
The Mark
Give a copy of the picture to someone you can trust, that the mark doesn’t know. Or at least, someone that she doesn’t know you know.
The Accomplice
Have the accomplice enter the bar, sit somewhere other than right next to you, and begin exclaiming (in a subdued manner, if such a thing is possible) over the picture in hand, visibly (to the mark, anyway) comparing it to the mark. This bit is a little shady, depending on how crowded the bar is, how busy the mark is that night, and so on.
The Hook
When the mark eventually succumbs to curiousity, have the accomplice show her the picture, and ask some (probably offensively worded) question along the lines of, “Do you still look like this? I mean, you’re still pre-op, right? 'Cause I’ve got this thing for chicks with dicks…”
The Sinker
Attempt not to wet pants during the laughter and explanation that follow.
The Payoff
essvee- That’s classic but I’m afraid someone might just snatch it and accept it as fact (and give it to her boyfriend and send it to her parents and her college and make copies and tape them to telephone poles and post it all over the 'net and procure an ad in the Chicago Reader :eek: )… (hmmmmm but maybe if I can just keep a close eye on the ladies room…)
Skeezix- Hilarious! She knows most of my friends - all of them who live in the city proper - and my suburbanite friends aren’t very good liar/actors. But damn I’ll have to give this one some more thought… I think I might have at least one good suburbanite friend who might could pull it off with a straight face…
I’m thinking maybe I should rig up a dufflebag-cam to catch her reaction. I might have to force a few shots down her before I let the bomb drop in order to elicit her Ultimate Response™. She has an affinity toward placing a forefinger over the end of the soda gun and soaking people from 20 feet, which I will undoubtedly deserve.
I love it! Thanks for all the responses so far, and please keep 'em coming (again).
I’d be real careful with this one. It’s very hard to get rid of rumors that “you were once a man”. It may seem very funny to you and yours, but you could permanently harm her reputation with anyone who hasn’t actually seen her giving birth.
Tape it to a milk carton with a caption below, something like “do you know this wo/man? Call 555-lost”, or, “Help my darling son/daughter become who s/he wants to be–donate now for his/her operation!”
Then put the milk into the bar refrigerator when she’s not looking. Next time she has to make a white Russian, voila! Better yet, YOU go order a mixed drink that has milk as an ingredient.
I considered KellyM’s assertion, and decided to err on the side of caution, so we brought only one copy of the “photo”. We would let Rhonda decide whether or not it would be passed around.
We went to her bar last night for Monday Night Football. She was bartending alone, wearing her much coveted “SuperCunt” tank-top. We took stools near the middle of the bar, and ordered drinks. I smiled, nonchalantly handed to her the framed and nicely wrapped “present”, and in a slightly sing-song voice, I told her that “I have a present for youuuu!”.
She was pretty busy for about an hour, and we feigned disinterest until things died down enough for her to open it.
She asked, “Is this safe to open in public?”. She’s a wise soul.
“Of course! When I saw it I just thought of you and knew you’d love it.”
So she opens the gift, her face brightens, and immediately she rushes over to a group of particularly drunk old men and hands over the picture. Wild laughter ensues. My GF and I let out a sigh of relief.
By the end of the night, every single person in the bar had seen it, each in turn laughing harder than the previous, and finally she placed it prominently standing next to the cash register. My face is still sore from grinning so hard.
She now plans to inconspicuously place the picture in her apartment, and wait for her boyfriend to notice it.
