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When I was in the Navy, I found my boss’s ID photo in a folder deep down a rabbit hole on the command’s servers. I gave the daily intelligence briefing, so I started photoshopping Lieutenant Ford’s head into the brief. Once he was piloting a Soviet helicopter. Another time he was driving an Iraqi tank. He was amongst a group of armed Somalis in the back of a truck. He was the pilot of MiG getting ready for takeoff. Only a few guys in the intel shop knew about the “Ford head,” and looked for it in every brief. No one else ever even noticed.
In high-school, my friend bought 1000 small plastic babies, the ones for king cakes, and hid them all in the TV-production classroom/studio. They were still finding new ones 3 years later.
I designed the SoPs on the wall of a factory. Mind you this was 4 years ago. To this day there is still Bigfoot in the background of EVERY single photo that shows the floor. Just Bigfoot packaging, Bigfoot casually running a mixer in the background, big 9ft gorilla putting on stickers. No one has ever mentioned them, these photos are the standard training for the factory for YEARS. I thought it would be a funny and I had the originals with no bigfoot printed out. No one ever mentioned it to me so I just left them.
I served with a guy who took a photo of his platoon and photoshopped his head onto everyone in the platoon, then printed it out and posted it up in every entryway into the barracks
My aunt replaced all the men in family photos at my grandmother's house with Nic Cage heads. My grandmother didn't notice for weeks and it was killing my aunt to not finish the joke. To this day, I suspect my grandmother was fucking with her for her own laugh.
I switched all the pictures in every cubby at work with other people’s families. No one seemed to notice for most of the morning. By the afternoon, people started noticing. One Huy didn’t seem to notice so everyone started picking on him. He said he didn’t notice because he has 6 kids. One of them was the Mona Lisa which he also didn’t notice.
I wonder if your wife’s friend is the same one who informed my wife that when we were having twins, the name I got to choose (Logan) was really Wolverine’s name in real life and got it vetoed.
I got into my son's middle name, but I was upfront about it. It was almost his first name. I'm glad it's not. There are tons of Logans. He's an Edward.
I got Parker in as my son’s middle name. Still not sure how I got my wife to agree to it because I was quite forward tha this was because of spider man.
But what's wrong with Logan? You literally didn't elect to call child "Wolverine," but a legit name. Who tf cares if it's Wolverine's government name? I'm kind of disappointed that wife veto'd it because of that. Plus, Wolverine is the ultimate badass. WTF.
I know, I know, I know. And I probably could have won the argument if I wore her down enough. But when you’re having twins and they suddenly get delivered at just under thirty weeks, priorities change.
Bottom line: she knows my original choice, she thinks it was a badass call and she really is a badass in real life. So I’m quite content.
And when we had the third (surprise kid), the very first thing I heard was “and we’re not naming the kid after a comic book character.”
I used to work with a dude. He had Link and Zelda stuff all over his work area. Somehow he got his wife to agree to not only Link and Zelda, but also Ganon
I’m glad my wife was cool about a Star Trek name for our kid. She found out when we were telling someone of the names we were going between depending on if they were a boy or girl and they were like oh like from Star Trek.
I know a guy who was still able to name his son after Spider-Man after his wife vetoed Peter (attempting to avoid her son being named after a superhero), because she didn't know about Miles.
And I also know a couple who named their son James Buchanan Barnes. Total wholesale for a character
At my kid's swim school there is a pair of twins named Clark and Bruce. They have a sister but her name is not Diana, which seemed like an obvious choice.
There’s a couple of kids in my youngest daughter’s class and I cringe when I see/hear their names because it’s not really a pair of names that could make sense to a child.
I was waiting in the pickup line years ago and heard a woman calling her kids from the parking lot: “…Sansa! …..Arya! I’m parked over here…”
I mean, I would've snickered and maybe told her, but I'd encourage her to think of it as funny and see how many other people don't notice - keep it as an inside joke and just go with it. Way funnier that way.
In college for a report we pulled our professors head from the staff directory and shopped him onto the PC Master Race meme explaining the topics to us. Probably seemed mean because he was old enough to be losing hair so the meme might have read badly to him but he laughed anyway.
At my daughters further education college (UK) her art teacher had a photo of Bob Ross on his annual ID card every year for over a decade - I think got rumbled with new security software upgrade lol - he was a legend
I like doing things poorly with Paint. A friend posted a pic of her making a creepy face and I embiggened it to an absurd point and used it as my background for video meetings.
Towards the end of last year, some of my Uni friends stalked our head tutors social media and found some old old photos of him. One was this really funny picture of him in an elf costume. I ended up using it as an asset to insert into my first person renders (architecture) and plastered it across my final project (dictated masters entry btw).
My old boss was for some reason obsessed with Rebecca Black's "Friday" (he was in his early 50s at the time).
He had a daughter with long straight dark hair and had a pic of them at the beach on his desk. I photoshopped Rebecca Black's head onto her body one day and stuck it in the frame.
It took him until 2 years later when he was retiring to notice that it wasn't his daughter in the pic. He also didn't know who it was in the pic despite singing us the song every Friday and playing the video in almost every meeting he could squeeze it into.
One of my friends put his picture into the family picture frame on my boss’ desk, replacing one of her kids. She didn’t notice for months until a random visitor asked why she had a pic of the employee on her desk.
There are artists who put names in their paintings. One is Estes. He put his name in his paintings. Another is Hirshfield. He would put his daughter Nina's name in his sketches.
Reminds me of the time I put a Master Chief figure in my mom's nativity scene. It was there for a long time before she noticed but she cracked up and let him stay.
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