Random Friday: Geek Verticals

Stumbling around the net, I ran into the “funny verticals” meme. These are typically a vertical strip of screenshots pulled from a movie or television with funny captions tacked on.

If you do an image search for “funny verticals”, you’ll see a whole slew of them. Be forewarned, there are some very crude and offensive ones.

For the lazy, here are a few representative ones I found to be funny. The first example is from the movie Inception:

blow-in-my-eyes

This is another one from Inception. There seems to be a lot using this specific sequence.

looking-for-asian-guy

And here’s one from the television show, LOST.

lost

On a lark, I thought it’d be funny to try and do a geek version of this meme. I chose two personalities in our community I figured would be very well known, Scott Hanselman and Scott Guthrie. This has absolutely nothing to do with Hanselman posting this photo on his blog because I’m not the vengeful type. Nosiree.

I’ll post my versions here as well as the raw image because I know you’ll do much better than me. I needed to keep it tame because I do enjoy my employer’s salary continuation plan.

job-search

Here’s another one using the same template.

Hawaii-Vertical

I tried changing this last one up a bit.

clone-vertical

It’s pretty challenging to do this with folks who are not television/movie celebrities because you have far fewer images to work from, so I did the best I could with what I could find.

If you think you can do a lot better, download the raw images and prove it! When you do, post a link in the comments so we can see it. Smile

What others have said

Requesting Gravatar... Nick Larsen Aug 12, 2011 2:22 AM
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Believe in the Great One! http://i.imgur.com/m6L6l.jpg
Requesting Gravatar... ctrlShiftBryan Aug 12, 2011 2:24 AM
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http://i.imgur.com/cHCRo.jpg
Requesting Gravatar... Justin Aug 12, 2011 2:30 AM
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Thanks Phil. I needed a good laugh to break up this boring Friday.
Requesting Gravatar... fLimmx Aug 12, 2011 2:41 AM
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This one is funny as well: www.sadanduseless.com/...
Requesting Gravatar... Daniel Aug 12, 2011 2:45 AM
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A couple of you had the same idea and beat me to the punch but here it is anyway http://i.imgur.com/WyNWO.jpg

Inspired by www.hanselman.com/...
Requesting Gravatar... rekna Aug 12, 2011 2:56 AM
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They might have been taking about this: http://imgur.com/K0sNA
Requesting Gravatar... Peter Aug 12, 2011 3:32 AM
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All hail the Gu :-) I was in that room and still cherish the polo shirt! It was taken at Kinepolis Brussels. See www.snowball.be/...

Thanks for this post Phil! Love your work.
Requesting Gravatar... Robbie Aug 12, 2011 3:58 AM
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short but sweet... http://bit.ly/nZ3VGl
Requesting Gravatar... Paperino Aug 12, 2011 4:48 AM
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You made me remember about these, very popular few months ago:
www.photobasement.com/...
Requesting Gravatar... Eric J. Smith Aug 12, 2011 5:39 AM
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LOL the one Bryan posted is hilarious! http://i.imgur.com/cHCRo.jpg
Requesting Gravatar... Alexander DiMauro Aug 12, 2011 5:53 AM
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Yes, I agree. I think Bryan is the winner!
Requesting Gravatar... Wally Dickman Aug 12, 2011 6:36 AM
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http://flic.kr/p/acoBCc
Requesting Gravatar... Fredy Aug 12, 2011 11:34 AM
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hahahaha, rekna wins
Requesting Gravatar... Fırat Esmer Aug 12, 2011 4:19 PM
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I like them. Cool!
Requesting Gravatar... pes 2012 patch Aug 13, 2011 4:22 PM
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its so funny guys.. LOL. i laugh one minutes after read this post
Requesting Gravatar... Jean-Yves Aug 13, 2011 10:04 PM
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We'll see about that!!!
Requesting Gravatar... Judah Gabriel Himango Aug 14, 2011 7:11 AM
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The one Bryan posted is epic: http://i.imgur.com/cHCRo.jpg

Laughed so hard at that. I hope Hanselman has seen it.
Requesting Gravatar... Martin D Aug 14, 2011 7:15 PM
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The iPhone app one might just be the funniest thing on the internet.
Requesting Gravatar... Martin A Aug 15, 2011 1:31 AM
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got inspired by catch me if you can: http://i.imgur.com/S6TX8.jpg
Requesting Gravatar... Bryan Aug 16, 2011 1:12 AM
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Bryan's made me laugh so hard I needed oxygen.
Requesting Gravatar... Mofoo Aug 16, 2011 2:48 AM
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http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7905/html5x.jpg
Requesting Gravatar... MisterJames Aug 16, 2011 3:52 AM
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Okay, here's one. Gettin' serious about
versioning.
Requesting Gravatar... Tom Aug 25, 2011 1:00 AM
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LOST - makes me LOL every time - thank you Phil
Requesting Gravatar... coden4fun Aug 25, 2011 3:07 AM
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http://i.imgur.com/vnu8d.jpg
Requesting Gravatar... Tugberk Aug 27, 2011 8:48 PM
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@Haacked sir, no offense to you :) I like what you do very much but scottHa always has something against you :) http://i.imgur.com/C81Dw.jpg
Requesting Gravatar... Wandtattoos Jan 15, 2012 9:30 PM
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We'll see about that.
Requesting Gravatar... Andrew Newey Feb 24, 2012 11:42 AM
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hahaha, love those Inception ones Phil!!

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