Caption Contest!

[tfabris]

Caption contest! Apologies for the dim/blurry photo, taken with a cell phone camera in a dimly lit hallway at a stuff-on-the-wall restaurant in Ohio. Photo is of one of the aforementioned stuffs on the aforementioned wall.

Bonus points for anyone who can identify the object the man is pointing at the woman. Because Vixy, Mary and I would really like to know.

Also: Debbie Ohi con report 1 has the lyrics to the Barracuda parody that Jeff and Vixy sprung on her on Sunday night.

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[hms42]

The caption that comes to mind first is "Have some Madera, my dear".

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

Ah, so that some kind of a stamp-making machine? :)

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Ah, and he's holding the stamp perforator. If you know what I mean.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure he's handing her a kazoo to attach to her autoharp. I can't believe you've never heard the story of how the melodion was invented.

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

ROFL

[slantiness.livejournal.com]

I freaking have that instrumePr

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I think that infernal device he's pointing at her would be "a book". (He's using his index finger to mark his place.)

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

OH! The picture is so dark that all you see is the top edges of the pages and can't see the face of the book.

Note that I used a brightness filter on the picture before posting it, so now we can kinda see that if we look closely. In the restaurant, there was no way it would be obvious.

It looked like some kind of odd weaving implement or something.

[rollick.livejournal.com]

Huh. Now that you mention it, I see it too. I was seeing only the white part, and it looked for all the world like he was handing her a spliff, which I assumed was the joke here.

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

So in that case, the caption is... ?

[science-vixen.livejournal.com]

Really Dear, could you hurry?
I really need that page holder soon!

[braider.livejournal.com]

OHH! I totally missed the book covers.

So...any idea what the woman is doing? I almost think she might be combing wool, but given my misinterpretation of what the man was doing...

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I figure she's weaving on a narrow loom, since there seem to be strings hanging down with the ends wound on bobbins in her lap - dark brown/grey. (Or... they're dust bunnies or random folds of her dress? But it seems like a weird rig and narrow strands if she's carding wool.) But then what he's holding could be a shuttle, which apparently he finds hilarious.

[braider.livejournal.com]

But hanging down from her hand is something that looks like uncarded wool. Otherwise, I would have thought it was a loom, too. You can kind of see what could be warp threads - but you don't see the fabric coming off the back, either.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I figured that was a scratch on the painting, like the similar bright line on the beam behind them. And fabric could be horizontal or off-field, after that knobby thing.

Or she's whittling a big toy alligator and is about to punch him for poking her with his cigar. :)

[slantiness.livejournal.com]

Book or no book, I still don't understand what he's doing with his left arm...assuming that is his left arm.

And why does she look SO...sick of him%3Pr

[lavenderfae9.livejournal.com]

It looks to me like he's got his arms slightly crossed, and resting on the back of a chair. The looks on their faces tell me that he just said something that he thought was bloody clever, and she disagrees.

[prettyshrub.livejournal.com]

Clearly it's a Colonial Viper model, with the top tail fin missing.

The man is asking her to admire his handiwork, and she's sick of seeing these half-finished models he always makes.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

"Allow me to present my Auntie Macasser."