I was thinking a similar thing until I looked at the “wall” behind them. Apparently it was either done by hand or there is a photoshop filter that removes perspective too.
OH! I GET IT! This is one of those magnetic pictures where you draw their noses with little metal filings! What a totes adorable idea for a save the date card!!
According to dictionary.com, it’s either platypuses or platypi. Autocorrect seems to like platypuses. Says it went from Greek to Neo-Latin. I think there’s a similar thing with octopus not being octopi, but octopi has just become accepted. Ah, just looked it up, and it’s the EXACT same thing. Greek to Neo-Latin. Endings can be -puses or -pi. I think -puses may be more correct.
No, he’s right – the plural is platypodes, or would be, if “platypus” was an actual Greek word and not just an English construct borrowed from Greek. In English the plural is platypuses – platypi is for the self-consciously ironic (a.k.a. hipsters).
I vote for not being that guy in favor of being the guy who knows what someone meant anyway, and would rather just have a good time drinking with everyone else at the BYOB online Regretsy party.
*hic* (not the Latin kind).
As a large-nosed person myself, I half blame them for agreeing to be photographed from that angle. I can’t explain where the perspective went but the noses may have been left blank out of politeness, or fear. If you suck at drawing portraits then schnozes like that are a minefield.
Alas, like the erasered penises in a pornographic manga, the absence just emphasizes what we all know is there.
Anything made in Japan for salarymen to read unabashedly on the train. There are prudish laws about drawing penises and penetration so sometimes you’ll see this graphic picture of two or more people doing the most acrobatic things, and right in the middle there is a fuzzy-edged blank spot, sometimes with a girl’s hand wrapped lovingly around it.
They say tentacle porn was developed to circumvent this rule, but that’s a lie – they were drawing sea monsters poking women long before manga was a thing, much less bizarrely specific manga censorship.
Sometimes you can’t avoid it – there’s even naughty schoolgirl mini-story inserts in some ordinary mangas. If you didn’t know that, you’d just be reading along, turn the page, and bam! Eight pages of porn for no reason.
Even funnier, there’s no rule, in any store, against just standing there and reading the books and magazines without buying. So every bookstore and magazine rack is cluttered with cheap bastards browsing before and after work or school. A female foreigner drifting from aisle to aisle in a bookstore can accidentally empty out the porn section before she’s even looked at enough books to realize she’s in the porn section.
Made to order? You mean, you don’t already have in stock pictures of my husband and I that you can butcher? You need to rethink this “custom” process, bubs.
This is the wall-art equivalent of letting a relative’s crappy band play at the reception but without the excuse of saying “Ya gotta support family, it only sucked for one evening and we were all drunk anyway.”
This is why wedding portrait photographers don’t take you to Kinko’s and have you put your faces on a copy machine. Thus we get the second example of Goth Girl With Giant Frizzies (Hearts) Guy With Lawn Chair Bib.
August 9, 2012 at 9:56 am
The title led me to believe this would be either a really interesting porn or tabloid story.
Damn.
August 10, 2012 at 4:58 pm
I was expecting Perry aka Agent P but to know avail
but then again a platypus doesnt do much
August 9, 2012 at 9:57 am
Custom painting = the worst looking photoshop filter I could find.
August 9, 2012 at 10:00 am
I was thinking a similar thing until I looked at the “wall” behind them. Apparently it was either done by hand or there is a photoshop filter that removes perspective too.
August 9, 2012 at 11:06 am
Or just put paper up to the monitor and traced the original….which I do sometimes when I wish I could draw.
August 13, 2012 at 3:35 pm
If they’d traced it they would have a done a better job!
August 9, 2012 at 9:58 am
August 9, 2012 at 10:00 am
LOVE!!!! PERRY!!!!
August 9, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Doobee doobee doo wa Agent P!
August 9, 2012 at 1:13 pm
you called?
August 9, 2012 at 10:12 pm
I love you… let’s have semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammals of mystery together.
August 9, 2012 at 10:00 am
It looks like he’s marrying himself in a wig. The photo itself is freaking me out way more than the crude drawing.
I can’t stop seeing it. Are they twins separated at birth? Cloning gone awry? Alternate timeline wedding? Doctor Who episode? Jerry Springer Episode?
August 9, 2012 at 10:08 am
Oh…oh fuck you. Now I see it too. Fffffuck.
August 9, 2012 at 10:30 am
I vote alternate timeline wedding.
…Oh wait, it wasn’t a poll?
August 9, 2012 at 10:36 am
Also, there’s something going on, she has another listing for custom drawing and the couple there share the same peculiar chin.
August 9, 2012 at 10:01 am
She made a cute couple look like Barbra Streisand got engaged to Nick Lachey.
August 9, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Don’t talk bad about Babs like that. She can turn into a mecha.
August 9, 2012 at 10:05 am
Etsy needs to start posting a “how delusional is this person?” poll or something.
August 9, 2012 at 10:07 am
I don’t think they have the bandwidth.
August 9, 2012 at 5:39 pm
NASA doesn’t even have that kind of bandwidth.
August 9, 2012 at 10:06 am
It’s a shame they both caught leprosy like that.
August 9, 2012 at 10:12 am
Two families are becoming one today, so please do not pick a side, pick a skin disease.
August 9, 2012 at 10:17 am
No don’t, the doctor says not to pick at it.
August 9, 2012 at 10:20 am
Oh geez! He is such a scab!
August 11, 2012 at 3:20 pm
I’d say that one family is becoming even smaller. Those poor children, with that hereditary duck-face and poor camera angle syndrome…
August 9, 2012 at 10:10 am
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August 9, 2012 at 10:12 am
I would have said they were a pair of Spoonbills.
August 9, 2012 at 10:14 am
Actually they are dodos for having this done to their picture.
August 9, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Dodos knew better to go extinct before Etsy’s very existence.
August 9, 2012 at 10:14 am
Maybe a more appropriate title would have been
We both married platypi
August 9, 2012 at 10:14 am
This, yeah, I LOVE it, I wonder if they’d do a whole family portrait… I just need to see my entire family immortalized as platypi. SPECTACULAR.
August 9, 2012 at 10:18 am
OH! I GET IT! This is one of those magnetic pictures where you draw their noses with little metal filings! What a totes adorable idea for a save the date card!!
August 9, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I would love a card like that. I would keep it forever and ever.
August 9, 2012 at 10:19 am
I’m so sorry… I don’t want to be this guy… The plural of platypus is Platypodes. It’s Greek not Latin.
So sorry.
August 9, 2012 at 10:26 am
According to dictionary.com, it’s either platypuses or platypi. Autocorrect seems to like platypuses. Says it went from Greek to Neo-Latin. I think there’s a similar thing with octopus not being octopi, but octopi has just become accepted. Ah, just looked it up, and it’s the EXACT same thing. Greek to Neo-Latin. Endings can be -puses or -pi. I think -puses may be more correct.
August 9, 2012 at 10:47 am
I’m afraid I call them octopodes too, lol.
August 9, 2012 at 11:43 am
So… instead of cacti, cactodes?
*ducks*
August 9, 2012 at 12:05 pm
This sounds like a load of anodes.
August 9, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Please. This is anodi in greek. (Shit you not.)
August 9, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Not ani?
August 9, 2012 at 12:55 pm
I’m not talkin’ electronics here…
August 9, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Aaaah, ani…
August 9, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Platypussies?
August 13, 2012 at 3:49 pm
No, he’s right – the plural is platypodes, or would be, if “platypus” was an actual Greek word and not just an English construct borrowed from Greek. In English the plural is platypuses – platypi is for the self-consciously ironic (a.k.a. hipsters).
August 13, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Still not as annoying as people who pluralize anonymous as anonymi.
August 9, 2012 at 10:38 am
Given your name,, I think that we can give you a pass for platequitte
August 9, 2012 at 10:44 am
I vote for not being that guy in favor of being the guy who knows what someone meant anyway, and would rather just have a good time drinking with everyone else at the BYOB online Regretsy party.
*hic* (not the Latin kind).
August 9, 2012 at 10:19 am
Oh man, their kids are so screwed in the nose department. Also, I highly suspect their relationship is incestual.
August 9, 2012 at 10:35 am
Wait ’til her eggs hatch. Poor babies.
August 9, 2012 at 10:20 am
As a large-nosed person myself, I half blame them for agreeing to be photographed from that angle. I can’t explain where the perspective went but the noses may have been left blank out of politeness, or fear. If you suck at drawing portraits then schnozes like that are a minefield.
Alas, like the erasered penises in a pornographic manga, the absence just emphasizes what we all know is there.
August 9, 2012 at 10:29 am
Wait, what is this ‘pornographic manga” of which you speak?
Perhaps I am better not knowing…
August 9, 2012 at 10:44 am
Anything made in Japan for salarymen to read unabashedly on the train. There are prudish laws about drawing penises and penetration so sometimes you’ll see this graphic picture of two or more people doing the most acrobatic things, and right in the middle there is a fuzzy-edged blank spot, sometimes with a girl’s hand wrapped lovingly around it.
They say tentacle porn was developed to circumvent this rule, but that’s a lie – they were drawing sea monsters poking women long before manga was a thing, much less bizarrely specific manga censorship.
August 9, 2012 at 11:18 am
Wait, you can read porn unabashedly on the train in Japan? WTH am I still doing in N. America??
August 9, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Sometimes you can’t avoid it – there’s even naughty schoolgirl mini-story inserts in some ordinary mangas. If you didn’t know that, you’d just be reading along, turn the page, and bam! Eight pages of porn for no reason.
August 9, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Even funnier, there’s no rule, in any store, against just standing there and reading the books and magazines without buying. So every bookstore and magazine rack is cluttered with cheap bastards browsing before and after work or school. A female foreigner drifting from aisle to aisle in a bookstore can accidentally empty out the porn section before she’s even looked at enough books to realize she’s in the porn section.
August 10, 2012 at 11:12 am
That’s hilarious – the poor salarymen probably never have a good day in tourist season!
August 9, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Tako to ama… 200 year old tentacle porn FTW!
August 9, 2012 at 10:27 am
Their photographer should be fired. What an awful angle. It flatters NO ONE.
The portrait looks like the artist go to the noses and said, “I’ll come back and do this later.” And never did.
August 9, 2012 at 7:44 pm
I suspect this “portrait” shot was taken with a cell phone held in the female’s left paw.
August 9, 2012 at 10:28 am
I bet having only one nostril really cuts down on Kleenex expenditures.
August 9, 2012 at 10:29 am
Made to order? You mean, you don’t already have in stock pictures of my husband and I that you can butcher? You need to rethink this “custom” process, bubs.
August 9, 2012 at 11:02 am
August 9, 2012 at 11:46 am
Should have been Perry and Doctor Doofensmirch.
August 9, 2012 at 10:34 am
Leaving out body parts is her thing, like the artist that drew kids with big eyes.
In this one, she leaves out the chins, or most of them anyway.
August 9, 2012 at 10:37 am
Noses are partially absent as well.
To be fair though, I rather like her announcements. They’re a little crowded but I kind of like them.
August 9, 2012 at 10:37 am
It’s like they fell in love just as an atomic bomb went off.
August 9, 2012 at 12:05 pm
That’s actually the Photoshopped version of the photo she used to make the painting.
THIS is the actual painting:
August 9, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Is it just me, or do they both have the same goatees? (sp?)
August 9, 2012 at 5:51 pm
It’s…not just you.
On the bright side, these two do have noses!
August 9, 2012 at 10:34 am
Their noses are awful, but what’s really freaking me out is her lack of eyebrows
August 9, 2012 at 10:37 am
Ok, I spoke too soon. The whole thing is freaking me out.
August 9, 2012 at 10:51 am
Never mind her, his forehead expand immensely. It’s like he can hammer vintage nails into barnwood with that forehead of his
August 9, 2012 at 10:52 am
Hey,now…. There’s nothing wrong with platypi.
August 9, 2012 at 11:04 am
This is the wall-art equivalent of letting a relative’s crappy band play at the reception but without the excuse of saying “Ya gotta support family, it only sucked for one evening and we were all drunk anyway.”
August 9, 2012 at 1:01 pm
This is why wedding portrait photographers don’t take you to Kinko’s and have you put your faces on a copy machine. Thus we get the second example of Goth Girl With Giant Frizzies (Hearts) Guy With Lawn Chair Bib.
August 9, 2012 at 1:13 pm
This is the perfect wedding gift to be given by anyone who hates either one of them! Particularly ex’s!
August 9, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Did no one else notice the painting is signed “AH”?
This suggests that anyone who sees this terrifying thing should scream.
August 9, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Brain has frozen at ‘love nose/knows something something something’…. HELLLPPP…
August 10, 2012 at 5:53 am
I thought platypuses were supposed to be cute.