Say It With Pictures

This next assignment in my humor training is to come up with 10 images or symbols for specific words. It’s supposed to give me more colorful gags and better imagery to choose from when creating joke relationships. But if you’re looking for fun stories, skip the exercise and go directly to the links within the text below.

Words:
  • Red: cherry, sports car, Chinese flag, ruby, raspberry, blood, anger, embarrassed, bull fighter’s cape, clown nose, Clifford (the big red dog), fire truck

  • Blue: sky, water, crab blood, depressed, cobalt, cold, Ford truck, jeans, Patriots football team, cinema

  • Yellow: mellow, sun, Labrador retriever, corn chips, 24k gold, lemonade, blonde, squash, canary, brick road, coward

  • Green: garden, envy, Kermit the frog, hybrid car, U.S. paper money (Washingtons, Jacksons, Lincolns), naive, dragon, pickle, Ireland, Celtic

  • Purple: nurple (a.k.a. the titty twister), people eater, Prince, royalty, velvet, favorite girl color, the Count from Sesame Street, grape, violet, Barney the dinosaur

Ideas:
  • Short: little person, kid, infielder (shortstop), knee-high to a frog, brief, mushroom, impatient, pint-sized, runt, Smurf

  • Tall: basketball player, beanpole, sunflower, lie (tall tale), Sequoia tree, giant, ogre, head-in-the-clouds, mountain, Paul Bunyan

  • Muscular: horse, bull, bumpy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, steroids, beefy, veiny, no-neck, refrigerator, six-pack abs

  • Sensual: lips, kiss, linger, romance, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, afternoon delight, nape of the neck, groin (the unsexiest word ever), doing the dishes (taking out the garbage, rotating the tires, changing the oil, etc.)

  • Strong: stinky, father figure, car lift, shoulder to lean on, overbearing, bear, Limburger cheese, ox, iron bending, Hercules

  • Lucky: four-leaf clover, stars, leprechaun, seven, three-legged dog’s name, rabbit foot, dice, getting the last piece of cake, my boat just came in, monkey

  • Stingy: Scrooge, miser, lunch lady, boss, selfish, cheapskate, me me me, Tooth Fairy, hoarding, banker

  • Sexy: pool boy, Smoove B (from “The Onion”), soul singer, crooner, lover, chocolate, aphrodisiac, racy, tango, a rose in the wintertime

  • Shy: timid, deer, wary, quiet as a church-mouse, hush-hush eye-to-eye, just short of, bashful, scared, sweet, self-conscious

  • Arrogant: cocky, insecure, bossy, proud, Ron Burgundy from Will Ferrell’s “Anchorman” movie, over confident, unaware, Bush and Cheney, corporate America, drivers of BMWs/SUVs/Hummers/big pick-ups

Stereotype central.

For the backstory on this humor thing, see my previous post, I Can Learn To Be Funny?

Comments

Jenny said…
Getting the last piece of cake! I like that one.
August 14, 2008
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