Thursday, January 27, 2022

Oliver Hardy And E.T.

Better than Michael Jackson and E.T.


A leftover photo from the family photo albums.  That poor version of E.T. in the background consisted of two pumpkins, clay, and a flannel shirt.  I entered it into a pumpkin "carving" contest at school.  I won a pretzel (honorable mention).




11 comments:

Lady M said...

Michael Jackson and ET - that is something. Congratulations on that big pretzel win.

Rot said...

Click on Jacko's image and you're in for a surprise ; ) (assuming you've never heard it).

And thanks! It was a soft pretzel to be exact...a treasured thing in these parts... Though it still sucked to not place.

Willow Cove said...

Ummm…So funny! Hey, a pretzel is nice.
But I would’ve wanted to throw it ( the last bite) at the judges and scream “Rigged!”

Rot said...

haha nice

Sara said...

I feel like ET is overstepping some boundaries with Michael in that photo.

Sara said...

Also how did you get ET’s eyes to “glow”? I know it’s the picture itself but what were they may of? Clay?

Rot said...

haha Michael doesn't seem to mind in the least. He was just very misunderstood is all.

Funny that you noticed the eyes. I recall being extremely annoying and demanding that I find the right paint to match the color of a pumpkin - in order to make the clay facial features match the skin of the pumpkin. And this led me to buy one of those weird multipack paint sets where you get like five colors. So I mistakenly purchase a fluorescent paint set due to seeing this bright wonderful orange color that I felt was the color of a pumpkin. It wasn't. So this was back in the days when parents made you live with your mistakes. So both the primate brow and mouth were painted with the fluorescent orange, and the two creepy eyes are painted with the fluorescent white. Not sure why I just added tiny black dots in the middle and not the trademark blue eyes. Probably since the strip of paints didn't come with blue.

And not sure if you noticed, but I drew E.T.'s "breasts" with a black marker and I remember being embarrassed and would constantly be adjusting the flannel shirt to cover them. haha

Sara said...

I didn’t notice ET’s tits, Rot, sorry lol.
So it’s really fluorescent paint? Crazy!

Haha what a story... and this whole time I was thinking you’d say it was just a random camera reflection.

Rot said...

haha
so awful

Holy Tarra said...

I'm so glad you clarified that it was a soft pretzel. I was trying to visualize them handing you one of the little dried up brown ones (I hate pretzels....but not the soft ones) and it not seeming like an insult. haha

Rot said...

haha
imagine!
I would have spit like a camel