June 02, 2006
We received some responses to our request for slang terms for people who look better in pictures than they do in real life. I'm gonna throw 'em out there and let America decide.
From Miguel:
peopel who look better in pictures have what we out here in hipsterville call "the angles"
personal liggity of the website that rules them all is the "the space" because lets face it
it's the inetrnet on crack.
Miguel has also submitted more new slang terms just by using them and assuming I know what they mean. "Personal liggity." As opposed to the communal liggity which no hippie in this co-op ever uses.
From Holly:
This is what I'm thinking...maybe it's not the best or most creative thing but I'm trying, and that's what counts, right? For a person who looks better in a pic than in real life you should call a Mona Lisa (or a derivative thereof). My reasoning is everyone is drawn to the Mona Lisa and her enigmatic smile, but u know Bitch was ugly in real life. Think about it... "Hey look at this girl's pic on MySpace!" "Yeah, she looks good, but I bet she's a Mona Lisa."
I never knew people automatically assumed the Mona Lisa was a bitch. I mean, I always thought the couple in American Gothic looked like they were hiding something and the residents of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks diner are clearly a child-raping cabal, but the Mona Lisa? A bitch? Based on what?
From Jeremy:
How about 'fauxtogenic'? Well, it made me laugh.
This one wins the brevity award, certainly, and I like it on paper, but if you were saying it, you'd have to emphasize faux to make it clear you weren't saying "photogenic," and that would be drawing attention to the fact that you were saying "faux" in an English conversation. And at that point you might be two steps towards being a douchefactor.
UPDATED: Eckman and Dom seem to like "fauxtogenic." But we have all been playing Guitar Hero for six hours so we are not the best judge of constructive uses of time, much less new slang.
Thanks for playing, y'all. The polls are still open at derrickcomedy at gmail dot com.
Posted by DC at June 2, 2006 12:45 AM