Are people who post picture threads the digital equivalent of prop comics?

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I mean, the potential is there!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cmfnow.com/images/products/aaron/carrot%20top.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

what about people who post lots of pictures to non-picture threads? what does that make them?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.comedyjuggler.net/images/hongK.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yer asking for a shitload of carrot top and gallagher pictures.

hahaha X-post- see!!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://freespace.virgin.net/n.asher/threads.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.clockmonkey.com/mt-blog/archives/images/gallagher.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

that was an x-post

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

If pictures are worth a thousand words, than people who post pics all the time are like Proust or something, but, you know, more dumbassy.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

google image seach is one of the top reasons for ilx's demise, dontchaknow?

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Fritz and Gareth has posted some great pictures and great picture threads. Not what I would consider prop comic-like at all.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.parfum-indigo.com/i/marketing/proust.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Best thread question in ages.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually wasn't even suggesting it as an insult, although I realize that since the phrase "prop comic" calls to mind Gallagher and Carrot Top, it comes across that way. I was just thinking about how Google images provides a new arsenal for people to make humorous allusions on ILX. Notwithstanding the fact that there are plenty of picture threads on here that are random, tiresome, and/or offensive, there are times when I want to make a reference to something and find that an image would do the job better -- it's somehow more sly, distancing. The image says "nuff said." It can also be very clever. Since there is no verbal explanation, the viewer has to pick up on what the image might mean in the context of the thread: it's an added layer of meaning.

― jaymc-luhan (jaymc), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

for some reason a google search for 'prop comic' brought this up

http://assall.de/movie-prop/fun/fun_24.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Notwithstanding the fact that there are plenty of picture threads on here that are random, tiresome, and/or offensive

and plenty of non- picture threads too. comes with the territory, i'm afeared.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://maskedreviewer.com/images/siegfried/oRipTaylor.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What actually is a prop comic? In the UK, we only know about Carrot Top and Gallagher when they're disparagingly referred to on The Simpsons or King of the Hill or whatever. Is it a comedian that uses props? Do explain.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Timmy Mallet!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Tommy Cooper?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Timmy Mallet = "Prop cunt".

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Prop Comic" is short for "proper comic" i.e. - one who performs comedy in the proper fashion... which is, obviously, smashing watermelons or pretending to phone someone on an oversized fish. Now THAT's comedy...!

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I only started posting pics about a month ago. I enjoy it alot. the right pic at the right time is amusing, though sometimes maybe I only amuse myself. still.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

There are good prop comics too. Andy Kaufmann, and in the UK there was Tommy Cooper, and there's Nina Conti. Jimmy Carr has some props in his act as well. Jason Byrne used to use a lot of props, but he seems to have stopped that now. Which is a shame because I always liked his giant arms.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Except for the watermelon thing at the end, Gallagher wasn't really a prop comic, was he? The shitty specials they used to rerun on Comedy Central were mostly very very bland observational humor, lulling one into a mildly amused stupor, and then BLAMMO! YER COVERED WITH WATERMELON GUTS!!! Therefore, Gallagher = situationist, absurdist performance art. This also explains the moustache.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

You gotta respect the work, the labor, that goes into being a prop comic.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the watermelons and hammer are props tho

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's where the expression "give props to" comes from.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I did a search for Gasllgher Comic - because I wanted to post a picture of Gallagher's brother, who franchised his act .. but all I got was this:
http://thm-ar1r2.search.vip.scd.yahoo.com/image/371467344

Ha!

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Gasllgher = Gallagher

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Gasllgher = Thor's sister.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the most bizarre moments of my tech journalism career was walking into a meeting room at the Consumer Electronics Show for a cellular phone launch, standing there for a few seconds watching the presentation, and suddenly realizing that the man who walked in just after me who looked like Gallagher...was Gallagher.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Did he...smash anything?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Gallagher be watchin' cell phone presentations.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG .. search for Gallagher Watermelon yeilds:
http://www.computertimes.com/sep03Image70.jpg
(Gallagher smashing a watermelon all over IBM execs at COMDEX Fall '93)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Gallagher didn't smash anything at the presentation apart from the bounds of good taste. His pants were louder than the P.A. system.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

HE'Z WACKY!

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The full story of Gallagher at Comdex ..
http://www.computertimes.com/sep03GallagherIBM.htm

...it contains the word "ironical".

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

If I was the kind of comic who smashed watermelons, I'd dress really low-key. I think that would be funnier.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why you're not the comedy superstar that is Gallagher.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thedose.com/rudyletters/graphics/gallagher.gif

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chuckscomics.com/pics/stat/dc/ww-prop.jpg

no wait, that's comic props.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't there a prop comic named the Amazing Jonathan? Am I making that up?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

If he's the dude I'm thinking of, he's a magician/comic.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, that explains the props, then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

He's the Amazing Johnathan. And in a how-to book on comedy I recently read, he says (approx) "Props are the new thing! Nobody wants to see some guy up there just talking. If you wanna make it, you need props."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

And ventriloquists are hil-fucking-arious. "No, YOU'RE the dummy, dummy!"

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"In the UK, we only know about Carrot Top and Gallagher when they're disparagingly referred to on The Simpsons or King of the Hill or whatever"

Consider yourself blessed then.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Gallagher vs Gallgher 2

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.streetdrugs.org/Images/POOPERS.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.abobo.com/story/media/gallagher-title-small.gif

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What are your feelings on prop dancers?

http://radfilms.com/lifestyles_one_legged_man_album.JPG

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.cellinifinegifts.com/artesaniaimages/ar_largetigercub.jpg

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://tinypic.com/5acn7

― :| (....), Friday, 17 September 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Posting pictures is fun. Simple as that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 September 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Last night I was reading this thread and thinking that Nabisco's Curb Your Enthusiasm rejoinder seemed sort of forced, but it occurred to me just now that if he had just posted a picture of Larry David, I would have found it a lot more amusing. I like the slyness of making jokes with images; it's sort of like an "okay, all I'm gonna say: [IMG]." Rewards the reader for being able to make the connection, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/01/19/sports/19skate.650.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp has been pretty spotty lately.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://blogs.gr/images/blogs_gr/aficionado/453/o_sad%20clown.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Huk-L! I thought your pic up top of the WW comic props was hilarious. Just the PIC that this thread needed. LOL

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.t-nation.com/forum_images/728550.1124408292144.carrot_top2-thumb.jpg

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 26 January 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

I do so wish he'd turned to drugs and alcohol instead.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I was reading this thread and thinking that Nabisco's Curb Your Enthusiasm rejoinder seemed sort of forced, but it occurred to me just now that if he had just posted a picture of Larry David, I would have found it a lot more amusing. I like the slyness of making jokes with images; it's sort of like an "okay, all I'm gonna say: [IMG]." Rewards the reader for being able to make the connection, too

I know what you mean, I was most intrigued by Gear's broken link in that thread, made me feel I'd been shortchanged a zing.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 26 January 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad I can make that observation here, I don't want that thing bumped again plz.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 26 January 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

gallagher is a conservative fuckhead

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

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