For those who decorate with family photos

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

This guy slowly replaced the family pictures (that were framed) in his mother's house with pictures of Steve Buscemi. It took a while for his mother to even notice.

Hahahaha

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Sueb20

7 years ago

That's hilarious. When we went to a party at a close friend's house a few years ago, I replaced one of her framed pics with a pic of DH and me. It took her quite a while to notice!

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krmarchese
7 years ago
That is hysterical! I have MANY family pics in a gallery in my upstairs hallway - now I am thinking of including a pic of Kate & William or some other famous person & see if anyone notices!
msmeow
7 years ago
That's funny! I saw it on the internet yesterday. But, who is Steve Buscemi?

A church organist once told me he played the same introit every Sunday for a month, even though the bulletin listed different tunes, and no one said anything.

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Bunny
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
A church organist once told me he played the same introit every Sunday for a month, even though the bulletin listed different tunes, and no one said anything.

msmeow, hahaha. At my church, fingers would be pointed before the cross made it up the nave.

I do have a lot of family photos displayed, both in public and private rooms, but I don't think of them as decoration. Just faces I miss and like to see.
Bluebell66
7 years ago
But, who is Steve Buscemi?

Msmeow, Steve Buscemi is an actor.
terezosa / terriks
7 years ago
I think that replacing them with pictures of Rick Astley would be really funny.
User
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
That's funny. I enjoy seeing our photos daily and am wondering if I would have noticed right away. I may try something like this with my mom. Yep, I am. I'm going to replace the photos with cats.
aok27502
7 years ago
Ohh, I like it! My in-laws are traveling a lot, it would be fun to switch out all the photos in the hall while she's gone and see if she notices. I have hundreds of pictures floating around, we could put fake pictures on top of the real ones in the frames so it would be easy to fix.

tee hee!
maggiepatty
7 years ago
Great prank!
texanjana
7 years ago
Ha ha!
jakabedy
7 years ago
I love this. We did this to one of my work colleagues over the holidays. We found a young-man-in-the-military photo of our cabinet secretary and tucked it into one of the family photo frames on her desk. She caught it right away upon her return, but respected the effort.
aok27502
7 years ago
Our prank is taking shape. I proposed it to all DH's siblings, they love the idea. I am going to gather a bunch of pictures of my side of the family, people she won't recognize. We'll leave some of the pictures untouched, to make it harder to catch.

:)
msmeow
7 years ago
Too funny, Aok!

Some years ago we were on a cruise with another couple. Every night at dinner we mixed up who sat with who - sometimes we were with our spouses, sometimes the guys were on one side and the gals on the other, and sometimes we were with each other's spouses. Well, of course one of the times we were sitting with the other spouse was formal photo night. We were cracking up b/c the photographer had no idea we weren't sitting with the "right" person. We were so amused by it that we both bought copies of those photos!

I put the photo of me and my friend in a frame on my desk at work and he did the same. It was funny to see people do a double-take! They would admire the picture of me and DH then say...wait, that's not your DH!

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