I've noticed an increasing number of television news shows are encouraging viewers to send in their photos about news events. There are many methods of doing this and the one I remember is Flickr. I know I can be found on Flickr, showing no one is safe, I guess. Interesting site, Flickr. Someone told me that they found my favorite restaurant in the world, Three Chimneys, on Flickr. Very nice.
But you know, I didn't particularly enjoy my neighbors slide shows when I was a kid. Nor home movies. Yeah, some were funny, a few were interesting, most of them were boring unless you were into family dynamics or anthropology.
So I spent some time on Flickr being curious and I remembered Jackie Vernon's routines on The Ed Sullivan Show and elsewhere, particularly the routines where he'd be making believe he was talking you through a slide show of a vacation. There were no slides, he just had a clicker in his hand and he would talk as if you could see exactly what he was showing you.
Gosh, those were funny.
I wonder what Jackie Vernon would think about all the photo sharing services available now. Maybe he would pull a Woody Allen on them, taking a bunch of the images and doing a What's Up, Tiger Lilly?, adding comments that would crack you up.
Anybody know a site that does that? I mean, if I'm going to be looking at the vacation and family shots of people I don't know, I might as well laugh, right?
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