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Multi-link Monday: Awkward family photos

Posted: Monday, June 08, 2009 6:00 AM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
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How about another Multi-link Monday? I offer up five fun, time-wasting links, and you should feel free to suggest others in the comments.

• I really can't be too mean about Awkward Family Photos, because I have more than a few of these stuffed in albums and old boxes myself. But I will say that my prom photo backdrops were never this weirdly elaborate. And I really want to know the rules of this board game.

• Just another June bride, smokin' like a chimney. These vintage wedding-themed cigarette ads are really a trip back in time. You can browse through more cigarette ads at the Stanford School of Medicine's collection, "Not a Cough in a Carload." (Via Metafilter.)

• Check out Runpee.com before you go out to a movie. It tells you the best spot to dash out to the bathroom so you won't miss anything vital. (Thanks, Courtney!)

• Just don't have time for a theater-length film? Movies in Frames plucks just four frames out of entire movies and manages to tell a surprisingly complete version of each film's story. Check out the one for "Midnight Cowboy."

• Have you seen "Han Solo, P.I." (video link)? Who knew the daring space smuggler had so much in common with the Hawaiian detective? (Thanks, Kurt!)

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Love the awkward family photos...suddenly our family photo where I still had my terrible overbite and thus resembled Bucky the Beaver doesn't seem so awful.
Oh and thank you for the link to Runpee...I was completely miserable 3/4 of the way through Angels and Demons.  Would have been nice to know where I could jump up and run.

Leslie, Albuquerque (Sent Monday, June 08, 2009 11:16 AM)

Those are great links. Here's a site similar to Awkward...it is all awkward wedding announcement photos. And yes, there is one where the groom to be has half of a mustache. Yes, you read that correctly. http://thecelebrationsgame.wordpress.com

Jo, Iowa (Sent Monday, July 06, 2009 12:06 PM)



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