I saw this for the first time yesterday, and liked it so much that I almost bought it. I think that this instruction has - in one way or another - been given to almost every child in every country in the Western world. I know it would have applied to my provincial Surrey household.
I particularly like the knowing look on the face of Dad, juxtaposed to the manic expression of the girl. A picture is worth a thousand words, but the words might be encrypted.
Hello Tom:
ReplyDeleteIndeed! But what, we ask ourselves, is 'Normal'??
Judging by your Wikipedia entry, you would be the last people qualified to answer that question - no offence intended!
DeleteActually, I've just checked, and it seems I am slandering you. The only entry I can find is this:
DeleteHattat Aziz Efendi (1871–1934) (خطاط عزیز افندی) was an Ottoman calligrapher
Ah, Tom, not us!! Only three t's!! WE keep a very low profile(!!!) and, as far as we know, do not appear on Wikipedia. Certainly not put there by us!!
DeleteYes, but I know I have read something about you somewhere else - maybe you had it taken down...
DeleteGoogle the name and too much is revealed!! Now, running you to ground is proving very much more difficult!
DeleteI - unlike H.I. - don't even come up under my real name. Nice work, eh?
DeleteI don't recall ever being instructed thus.
ReplyDeleteThere are some lies you just cannot get away with, no matter how big.
DeleteHad a good night have you?
DeleteNot bad, thanks. Why do you ask?
DeleteYour comments have an edge to them that suggests this to me.
DeleteWhat happened to blue eyes?
DeleteI had to focus my words for a different thing yesterday, so you might have picked up on that.
DeleteOld blue-eyes has gone. If you didn't save him, then it's too late.
Hope it went satisfactorily whatever.
DeleteI don't save blog stuff.
Dad looks exhausted - being 'normal' is so tiring. Interesting thing: to me the text looks like a warning.
ReplyDeleteNot as exhausted as the rest of the family.
DeleteBizarre. I think they look anything but normal.
ReplyDeleteDo you?
DeleteBrilliant. I'd like a copy.....er........for a friend......where did you find it?
ReplyDeleteIn a retro shop in Bath, but why don't you just rip it off from here, like I did?
DeleteWill do....
DeletePerhaps everyone thinks their family is normal - it certainly is for them.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who grows up thinking their family is normal hasn't got a chance.
DeleteMum and Dad look like they drink Horlicks. Mum uses Colgate. Dad smokes St. Bruno. The twins, they just have to be twins, are just oh my god completely insane.
ReplyDeleteMy mum and dad looked the same when they were twenty five....but they drank gin
DeleteDad drinks, Mum takes amphetamines, Boy ties a rope round his neck and wanks, and Girl will eventually kill Dad for years of abuse.
DeleteSimples.
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DeleteH.I. loved her egg too - thanks again.
DeleteAnd the children grow up to realize there is not such thing as a normal family. Some laugh about it, some don't.
ReplyDeleteAnd some write whole books about it.
DeleteNever met a normal family, I always say normal is odd.
ReplyDeleteMerle..................
Very true - normal people can be spotted a mile off by wary children.
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