Attack of the 50 Foot Baby!



We will be flying to Washington DC in about 10 days. With their amazing swelling heads, who knows how big the babies might be by then...

OK, ok... As hopefully everyone has realized by now, the previous post was entirely bogus. Look at the date, April 1st. April Fool's Day. I had planned on leaving it up and uncommented, but a vocal minority has demanded some sort of retraction. So, no the babies are completely fine and will not have to go to a special school where all the doorways have been widened to accomodate their huge heads.



Here are the original pictures, unaltered by Photoshop. To give the impression that this could actually be happening, I only altered this first photo of Rylie a very small amount, increasing the head size by about 15%. Considering the perspective of the photo it is very hard to tell that anything is wrong... unless you stare at it. As a side note, the onesie Rylie is wearing is a pro-Pluto-Planet outfit, showing a spaceship going from Earth to Pluto and on the back it says that Pluto is definitively a planet. Of course, to cover my bases, I made a second outfit that says the exact opposite.



My next photo was this St. Patrick's Day photo, where I increased Kayla's head size by about 25%. The photo is farther back, so again you might not intially think anything was wrong. Also note that I made no alteration to Rylie whatsoever. She was so far back in the photo I didn't bother. However, if you had carefully compared this photo --




-- To this photo of Rylie, it would have been clear I was up to shennanagins. This time I increased the head size by 40%, a size increase so ludicrous that I figured the typical reader who might have been sucked in by the serious tone in my prose, should have immediately clued in that something was not kosher.



This next photo is equally ridiculous, but I did do some tricky Photoshop manuevers to keep the dog's head the same size creating a more baffling piece of "evidence". I actually created a dog head layer and then slid in the head from the next picture below, between the dog head and the orginal photo.





There are several other inside jokes in the piece, the number one being the name of the mysterious swollen head disease (which is "not as rare as you would think"): Cranial Panis Mica. Panis Mica is latin for Bread Crumbs, hence the use of yeast as the disease. I would have used the latin for Muffin Crumbs if such a translation had really been possible, which refers to what I thought was in my head as a small child. It endlessly amused my father to ask me what was in my head in front of guests. Semolina is not brain matter, but a food stuff. It is a type of wheat.

Tasmania and Uzbekistan are just silly place names (nowhere near each other), but India refers to poor Milly, who had the misfortune to be in a photo on my computer than had a baby in the right position to give the Anubis head to. Milly had recently returned from a big trip there. Why I wanted to give an Anubis head to a baby, I do not know. I guess it just sounded funny.



For anyone who was even remotely fooled by the previous post, let this be a lesson to not believe everything one reads on the internet. Photos are easily doctored and emotions easily manipulated. Especially in blogs, which are notoriously silly. Extra especially near April's Fools.