Friday, April 23, 2010

How Not To Get Any Work Done, part 832



He was beginning to regret terminating his psychotherapy. The white discs were back.

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No, I did not make up that funny caption. The creator of this hilarious website called Unhappy Hipsters gives his own delightfully snide captions to the --- well, if you like it, you like it, to each his own, but --- to the minimalist modern architecture photos found in several design magazines.

He also runs a caption contest on occasion (not, I don't think, at the moment), so you'll sometimes see duplicate postings of the same photo with various reader-supplied captions, but there are more new ones as you page back.

3 comments:

Sherwood Harrington said...

Having spent now way, way too much time on that link, I'm convinced of two things:

1) Mom should charge rent to the guy who's writing those captions, and

2) he's pretty much brilliant, but I can't figure out a way in which he can turn his talents into cash.

Ronnie said...

Ruth - thank you for this link, I think. Like Sherwood, I've spent far too much time on it. Who lives in those truly dead places...no one I want to know...

ronnie said...

I think this is the definition of both "painfully funny" and "internet timesink".

I live it when I find a new distraction on the innerwebs! This is the most arch site I've been directed to (thanks, Ruth) since "Things White People Like".

ronnie