File this image of Lilly and Betty under the phrase "A picture is worth a thousand words." A phrase that I thought was from an old Kodak ad -- but when I went in search of a fun link to the vintage print ad I almost remembered -- nope. Instead, I give you confabulation. Indeed I do. Confabulation: psychological term for the process of creating fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memory. Unlike a lie, confabulation is usually done without intention. Often involves autobiographical details. Seen frequently in patients with alcoholism, aneurism, and/or Alzheimer's. But enough about that.
Write me a caption for Betty and Lilly as a comment below, and there's a prize in it for at least one participant! Past prizes have included: Lunch at Yummy House, a copy of Stewart O'Nan's wonderful Emily, Alone, homemade soap. That doesn't mean someone isn't going to win the jar of Flarp! this time, but isn't that just like the world, all full of happy uncertainty?
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Ensign RumsDown!
12/18/2013 01:58:21 am
Double Dog Dare You to write a caption
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Amy
12/18/2013 02:01:08 am
Ensign RumsDown (spoken with a note of panic)
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Ensign RumsDown!
12/18/2013 02:05:22 am
Lily: "Can we go to Ensign RumsDown!'s house? That guy next to me is kind of creepy...always staring at me."
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Amy
12/18/2013 05:25:14 am
(giggling)
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Dawn Narramore
12/18/2013 04:59:02 am
This guy is such a stiff... I miss Bart.
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Amy
12/18/2013 05:24:00 am
I totally mis-read this.
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Lois
12/18/2013 07:05:18 am
My date is plastered!
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Amy
12/18/2013 01:57:03 pm
Nice, Lois!
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Lois
12/18/2013 07:26:36 am
Oh, sorry, Betty? Let me try again-
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Amy
12/18/2013 01:59:35 pm
Not that Lilly and Betty aren't on a date...
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John C
12/18/2013 11:31:58 am
Betty stared stone-faced at the photographer, petrified that the flash of the camera had interrupted Lilly's beauty sleep.
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Amy
12/18/2013 02:02:16 pm
John C
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bob
12/18/2013 01:31:42 pm
Lilly, Is that Medusa over yonder.
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Amy
12/18/2013 02:03:52 pm
Bob --
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Dawn Narramire
12/18/2013 02:42:18 pm
Mirror, mirror on the wall...who's the pretty, pretty prettiest bulldog of them all.
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Amy
12/19/2013 01:27:48 am
Nice!
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Amy
2/9/2014 07:25:28 am
Oh, I can't decide.
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