The First Pancake
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Why does my passport and driver’s license picture always come out like the first pancake, messed tore beat *&^%$@ up!
There must be some sadistic handbook circulating that says make ‘em ugly. Let them stand there long enough before you take the picture and wait until they have to scratch or have an involuntary muscle spasm, whichever comes first. Take the picture!
I had my passport photo taken earlier this week and I look ghastly. My glasses are crooked, my hair is flattened on one side, only one side of my mouth smiled, I look like I had a stroke!
I can just imagine that there is some wall of fame for the ugliest passport or driver’s license photo at their company picnics. Top prize goes to the institution that submits the “I’m Not Too Sexy” photograph of the year. Now when people tell me I look so familiar, I just might start getting offended.
I wonder if it’s called a passport because they look at our photo and give us a pass into the country anyway. I didn’t feel or look like road kill when I went to have my picture taken. Sorry.
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In: Humor, Photos · Tagged with: Driver's License, Pancake, Passport, Photo, Picture
on June 20, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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my passport photo looks more like a mug shot than anything!!
meleah rebeccahs last blog post..I AM HOME
on June 20, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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Are you going to share the photo with us? lol
Once upon a time my driver’s license photo looked like I was a high priced call girl who just got done with a client. Or maybe just a street walker… I’m not sure. But my blouse was unbuttoned, my hair was a mess, and I had an extremely guilty look on my face. Even the DMV lady said I looked like I was “up to no good”.
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on June 20, 2008 at 4:19 pm
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So you can be funny too!
I like you even more now.
It MUST be some type of conspiracy. It’s just ridiculous.
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on June 20, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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The photograph on my current passport is sooooo bad, I seriously considered “losing” my passport so I can get a new photo taken. Really, it’s just sad. This was funny Natural, thank you.
Marelisas last blog post..The Elasticity of Time (Part 2)
on June 20, 2008 at 7:31 pm
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I think it’s a comspiracy..mine look terrible.. I look like Walter Mathau in Grumpy Old Men…:)))))))))))))))
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on June 20, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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We should be allowed to pose or have our good side taken when taking a DMV or Passport picture taken. Being the vain person that I am, when I renewed my passport, I had my picture taken 3 times until they got it right! LOL
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on June 20, 2008 at 10:31 pm
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Hey Natural!
I haven’t had my passport photo taken since my honeymoon, exactly 14 years ago, but the same rule applies to my driver’s licence and my health card. On my licence, I look like a Japanese prisoner of war and on the other, a thug.
Oh, and I have the exact same problem with pancakes. That’s a keen observation.
Kat
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on June 21, 2008 at 3:14 am
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Hi Natural,
And then, when we do show our I.D., people say “this doesn’t look like you” Duh! I wonder why…..
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on June 21, 2008 at 6:45 am
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My husband and I had our passport photos taken three different times because the girl taking them never got it right. We were so frustrated that, by the time she got it, we looked like two of America’s Ten Most Wanted.
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on June 21, 2008 at 9:17 am
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omg now you are scaring me with food What is next lol sandy happy weekend
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on June 21, 2008 at 9:50 am
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HA. I love the idea of comparing a passport photo to the dreaded first pancake. Some years ago, I got my driver’s license picture taken, and when the lady called my name to give it to me, she gave it a good look, SMIRKED, and handed it to me. WHAT???? It wasn’t even a bad picture!
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on June 21, 2008 at 9:50 am
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Oh! And I agree with Monique. You’ve got to share that passport photo. I’ll give you a pancake . . . ?
on June 21, 2008 at 9:01 pm
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meleah, we all can’t look bad. they just come out weird looking.
uh monique, uh no. lol. just think tore up from the floor up and that would be my pic.
thanks vered, i like to keep people laughing. it is a conspiracy.
marelisa, i thought about having it redone, but my passport before this one was tore up too. i don’t think the people who take the pictures are sober.
confused, lol. now i can see the comparison there.
chris, we should be allowed a photo shoot, not a few snap shots. i’m talking lighting, makeup,feather boa, the works.
poetikat, ROFL..oh my, that’s funny. i had pancakes on friday, the same day i mailed off my passport = this post. i’m better at not messing up the 1st pancake, but at least one gets destroyed.
barbara, i might have problems when i get to the border. i’ll make sure to throw myself under an 18 wheeler before i show my passport. that should duplicate it exactly.
kathy, lol. oh man, she was not getting it right on purpose and why do they let people with cataracts take the picture anyway…we’re already at a disadvantage. i want an Annie Leibovitz at every walgreens, CVS and any where passport photos are taken.
sorry about that sandy. it was either scare you with my passport photo or a pancake. lol
JD, i bet you hers looks like crap. they do it on purpose. my drivers license pic is not that bad, i do look like a runaway though. i can’t show the pic, my probation officer said i’m not allowed to frighten little children ever again. no can do. lol
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on June 22, 2008 at 6:20 am
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Don’t hate me, but my passport and driver’s license photos are both beautiful. It’s the regular photo-taking that finds me unattractive. Go figure…….
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on June 22, 2008 at 7:40 am
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Jacqueline, I do not hate you because you are beautiful. lol
They got 2 photos right out of 5,987,323,765 people. I would wear them around my neck like a charm. Good thing I don’t need to show mine but for 1/20th of a second every few months.
on June 22, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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Okay, my driver’s licence and health card photos actually turned out as very decent pictures this time around. A first! So good in fact, I’m trying to figure out if I can scan them and add to my very small folder entitled Huh, Who Knew I Was Photogenic? So, I can’t really share in your rant here, but your analogy to the first pancake cracked me up. The first pancake is always ‘messed tore beat *&^%$@ up’! No matter what I do, I can *never* get that first pancake to come out picture perfect.
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on June 23, 2008 at 7:09 am
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Cool Urban Panther, glad you’re pictures came out great. I’m convinced that something happens when that flash goes off.
The first pancake? Sometimes the flame or heat is too high, after we burn the first one, we get it right the next time. Go give it another try and email me a stack, with butter please.
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on June 25, 2008 at 11:54 am
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I know what you mean. Here in Louisiana there’s a faint, irridescent image of the state on our drivers’ licenses. In my case, part of that makes me look like I have a moustache. <:(
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