A discussion of why the children-playing-hockey scene on the back of the new five-dollar note doesn’t include some real-to-life details like hockey parents slugging each other in the background led to the following question:
What are some of the lesser-known Norman Rockwell paintings that for some reason never get published in greeting cards and coffee-table books?
I can think of some examples:
The Taunting The Enema Little Timmy Cthulhu’s Christmas Puppy The New Suppository Lunchtime Shakedown
“You gave me crabs!”
(a series of two-shots of people conveying the information, and the first person in the first picture is the last one in the last)
“Rosie-Ellen arrives at the Greyhound Station”
(and is being offered a job by a friendly, well-dressed, well-bejewelled man)
“Applying for the Divorce Papers”
“I’m not the father!”
“The Satanic Alliance”
(a shot of a hippie, a drug addict, a little old lady lesbian, Bill Clinton, a catholic, an evolution teacher, a government official, all in profile, facing the same way with eyes closed while the shadow of a man with horns is cast across them by a lake of fire)
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The Real Football Hero: A somewhat shady “doctor” (we’re not sure of what) gives a chalk talk about steroids to a roomful of high school football players.
Santa’s Different Gift: It’s a lovely little New England town on a winter’s night. The houses are wearing their coats of snow, the windows of the buildings and houses are brightly lit, and there are Christmas decorations everywhere. It’s time for the annual Santa Claus Parade, and all the townspeople are lying in pools of blood in the street, while Santa himself is standing in his sleigh, holding a smoking automatic weapon.
I have to stop trying to type with Band-Aids all over my hands.