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Quote: Mikey J @ November 20 2008, 12:35 AM GMT

Yeah, I love those range of cards too.

I always thought they were old archived photos in the public domain.

Which brings me onto the next question:

Did you submit the old pic with your gag or do they just match it up with a pic.

I always thought the writer would see that pic and think up a gag.

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I have hundreds and hundreds of images they provide me with for that particular range and then I'll search for funny ones for whatever occasion we're doing that week - birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Xmas or whatever.

To be honest though that range is only one of about many that I write for and it only comes around once every 6 months to top up.

Quote: Griff @ November 20 2008, 12:39 AM GMT

OK, I stand corrected. I like the fact that they're real pictures. Thanks Lee.

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Get in! You owe me a penny, loooooooser!!!!!!!!!!

Er....

[coughs]

...It's okay, I'll give it to charity.

Quote: Griff @ November 20 2008, 12:39 AM GMT

OK, I stand corrected. I like the fact that they're real pictures. Thanks Lee.

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They wouldn't be as funny in my opinion if they were staged. And if they were staged it'd be all to easy for the actors to be really wacky and stupid which would ruin the whole "putting naughty words to an old fashioned photo" vibe.

Yay! I've sold some jokes

Quote: Nigel Kelly @ November 20 2008, 3:49 PM GMT

Yay! I've sold some jokes

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*looks forward to Christmas Crackers*

He sent me an email this afternoon saying that I have sold and to remind him on Monday and he'll tell me which ones, didn't specify a number but its plural. He said that he was putting 2-3 of mine in every week at the minute. I've sent him about 80 over the past 2 and a half weeks.

My first income from writing comedy, its a good feeling.

Quote: Nil Putters @ November 20 2008, 3:57 PM GMT

*looks forward to Christmas Crackers*

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A bit seasonal though the cracker writing business

Yayyy. Well done.

So you're saying you kept sending them in and after 2 and a half weeks, you got contact from him?

I just thought ooh I'll send all the one liners I wrote for a 4laughs contest.

Exept they're date, rubbish and usually both.

Sucks to be me.

Have they not bought any of yours yet sooty?

They bought I think about 50 todate.

But I wanted to skive.

I was gonna say!

Hey if people stop butting in on my action I'm going to buy an airbooklite

And then sit on it.

Then cry.

I submitted 8 on Wednesday afternoon and got a reply that night saying good, but not good enough. Maybe it's easier for them to reply if they're all shit.

If we win the war on terror.

Can we declare war on embarrassment?

The credit crunch affected my icecream van.

He only sells 9s now

What's lethal and drinks Stella.

The Binja Ninja

5.My local police officer can whistle 500 songs on command.

He's an iplod.

7.My girl said I didn't see her hidden value.

So I sold one of her kidneys.

These were my first 5 sold to 118 118, hope this gives a clue.

I think quantity rather than quality will get the sales or as Sootyj described to me 'being consistently average.' I would love to be able to write one liners a la Emo Philips/Steven Wright but it takes ages.