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Lawnmower People, Part III
Submitted by Nate Kreuter on Mon, 2007-04-23 19:04
With the summer recreation season fast approaching I wanted to put the Lawnmower People to work this week with a public service announcement. If you golf, take stock:
In what is perhaps more of a testament to my simplicity than anything else, I have to admit that these goofy lawnmower people crack me up. I would like to point out though that not all visual texts make arguments. I find when teaching Visual Rhetoric units that students initially want to see ALL images as arguments, whereas images like these really depend on the accompanying text to make any warning/argument clear, at least in the case of more complex warnings. I would also like to point out that many of these images come courtesy of Capnwacky. |
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Haha. These remind me of this parody of the ready.gov pamphlet: http://home.carolina.rr.com/zerb/beready/
I agree that the humor largely depends upon the accompanying text. But it also relies on our foreknowledge of the images on which they're based.
What I mean is that the image of the stick figure flailing his arms in the air, running away from the wayward golfcart for dear life, is hilarious in part because we're accustomed to seeing the figure so unfeelingly crossing the street or, you know, just standing there in front of the men's bathroom.