# The passport picture thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038 "2003-10-07T12:31:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/1 "2003-10-07T12:31:33Z")
I need to renew my passport this year, so I took a picture in one of those booths this morning. Passport pictures are weird, to me atleast, I don’t really recognize myself. It’s like hearing a recording off your own voice. So this is [me](http://blink.dagbladet.no/user/files/d/da/danzig/4x_ella.jpg), times four. I have no idea why I’m acting like I don’t know where the camera is. Maybe you have a passport picture buried beneath junk in one of your drawers, or stamped to your fridge, and feel like sharing you too? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/2 "2003-10-07T12:50:27Z")
No, no pix – just wanted to say I envy people who look good (or at least not like they just escaped from a facility for the criminally insane) in photo IDs. And – BTW – I’d like to remind you that I’ve got first dibs if you decide to embark upon a career as a gigolo. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/3 "2003-10-07T12:59:39Z")
**twixter** , you really are on the prowl. You should join the crowd in the [virtual hot tub](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=215754). Help yourself to a drink from the cooler. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/4 "2003-10-07T13:05:16Z")
And **Hüsker Düde** , I’m one of those who _never_ looks good in mug shots. That is, “not good” in a terribly boring sort of a way without so much as a surprised expression or one of those great transitional faces. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/5 "2003-10-07T13:30:10Z")
“on the prowl” – nah, I’m just reminding **Husker Dude** of a an agreement we reached a couple of months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/6 "2003-10-07T13:37:10Z")
Remember the wise words of Sellars & Yetman in “1066 and all That” to the effect that a passport photo will allow you to pass just about anywhere totally unrecognised. Celyn - who once worked in the Passport Office and enjoyed finding out that lots of people’s pics are nearly as bad as mine.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/7 "2003-10-07T13:38:54Z")
Mine looks like I haven’t slept for days and I am willing to kill the person who finds the drugs stashed in my luggage… ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passport-picture-thread/206038/8 "2003-10-07T14:30:22Z")
A brief career as a gigolo might not be entirely unthinkable this month **twickster** , coca cola and ramen noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner can’t be healthy. Is good though. You know… if anyone feels like posting his or her mug shots taken in jail, then hey, by all means go for it.