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Posted on 04/05/06 01:42:46 AM |
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raffy
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Good one,Pierre!Amazing how the lenses can completely change one's looks!Formidable! _________________ Dogs have masters;Cats have staff. |
Posted on 04/05/06 02:30:03 AM |
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Pierre
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Thanks! We, Canadians, stay up later then our europeans counter part Photoshoppers! Seems you're always logged-in 5 minutes after me! _________________ |
Posted on 04/05/06 02:43:37 AM |
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mr.pbody
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
dalton...where's ted williams!? also, eggbox looking like mr....ummmmmm...you know...that guy with angie... well played lad, well played! |
Posted on 04/05/06 5:27:59 PM |
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mguyer
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Excuse #3. As a dentist I could not help but wonder what Ted might look like some day were he to be neglectful of his teeth.  |
Posted on 04/05/06 11:16:43 PM |
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DaltonX
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
 excellent job Marty... you've taken him from the youngest to the oldest in one week lol.... love your baby eggboxes very clever work... well done mate! 
Some really good work this week.... been looking back through them.... dunno who fitzpas is.... but love your pic... really good job... welcome to the forum 
Good to see Neal posting again.... and the hair in your first one is great.... is it hand drawn? Another newbie with pixelcrazee..... welcome to the forum too... and with a great first entry as well.... great skin tones.... good work! Love your spinner Raffy.... well done!
and as for jwhite.... lmao!.... Tootsie! fantastic one mate!
Beautiful work from Bob.... I think you did Ted proud there
Great work all round this week from everyone! Thanks to Ted for being such a great sport and letting us mess with his dashing good looks lol 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TED! 
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Posted on 04/05/06 11:59:15 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
You're a fine figure of a man Ted so you are... I've just started my new Photoshop CS2 and I have also a number of books too--not just Steve's, but it will take me a while to "master" this craft., which is why I'm "rough" around the edges. Mike   |
Posted on 05/05/06 00:09:42 AM |
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pauline
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Ah sorry Ted. Not my best work. I've just got PSCS2 and I'm muddling my way around and trying to learn it. Would have liked to have spent more time with it this week but never got the chance before tonight.  _________________ Pauline |
Posted on 05/05/06 01:40:38 AM |
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Pierre
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
e-ay-e-Ay-hooooo! Good one Pauline! DaltonX is right, we have really great stuff this week! I wish Ted would post one... 
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Posted on 05/05/06 01:41:14 AM |
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raffy
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Thanks,Dalton!I just hope he doesn't suffer from vertigo! Good one,Pauline!Didn't know that Eggbox was a fellow colonial! (Forgot to say how coool yours is,Dalton!Good stuff!) _________________ Dogs have masters;Cats have staff. |
Posted on 05/05/06 05:24:53 AM |
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Eggbox
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Gee Wizz it's early but there again I suppose now I'm officially old today I won't need that much sleep! I was telling my dear old mum about your wonderful pictures and she dug out her most prized possession. The very first photo taken of me.  |
Posted on 05/05/06 06:33:17 AM |
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hi-liter
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
_________________ Drawing attention to what otherwise might be overlooked... emphasizing things that matter. |
Posted on 05/05/06 08:23:25 AM |
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Eggbox
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
What an eggciting and wonderful week I have had building up to my 65th birthday today and thank you all for your great pictures. Nicole and I have had so many laughs with your ideas and portrayals of my youth and I hope all those who have just peeked into the forum have also laughed along with us. Later I will show you the reality. Steve has suggested that my Friday Challenge for this week is to comment on your submissions! Thank you Tom for your opening Birthday Greeting. I flushed with joy. mguyer opened the week with a surprisingly accurate portrayal of me in my birthday suit but the colouring was too accurate for wartime Britain and was toned down in Take 2. Marty’s Toothless Ted has some prescience as all schoolchildren in the UK during and after the war had daily doses of milk and large spoonfuls of Virol, a thick, really sweet malt extract. Very good for energy – very bad for teeth! Kenney’s well worn photo worked for me. It evoked memories of pictures taken on my dad’s old Kodak Six-20 folding camera which I still have. Chubby cheeks and an overgrown crewcut was certainly a style I worked at but never quite achieved. The tie is wearing well as I still have it in my wardrobe. A change of tie as a ‘teddy’ boy in the second image also brings back memories of the sixties mods and rockers and their long sideburns. I did have sideburns but that was as far as I went with the fashion. We had very little money at home so ‘non-essential’ clothing was out! Apart from a seven mile cross country run each week whilst at school I haven’t participated in any other sport. It is interesting to see from Steve Mac what I could have looked like if I had. The chubby cheeks are still there! Tom’s picture captures an image of the constant warnings I had from my parents if I were ever to stray from the straight and narrow. The only sheriff I knew of at the time would have been in those wonderful black and white ‘B’ pictures at the cinema and I met my first real Sheriff (non professionally) in Naples, Florida two years ago. I really laughed at Pierre's picture. The simple addition of a French beret, le bonbon and the chubby cheek (singular) and an almost smile. Brilliant! An aged wrinkly egg who had laser eye surgery is Pierre’s second offer at which I really laughed out loud! Quite wonderful. PS. Talking of France Pierre did you receive my PM? No alcohol, no swearing, no singing, no eating, no petting up the back...... NO WAY!!! Thanks fitzpas for your advice and thoughts but I’m retired now any anything goes (usually the waistline and the memory). I LOVE the tie. If it is real I’d love to buy one. If it isn’t it is beautifully conceived and created. I guess the bus in the background is a reference to my old age bus pass? I did grow a beard once but not as sporty as that one but if I looked as good as that I think I might have another go! When Steve and I discussed this challenge I did offer my family name as a possible inspiration and Whaler accepted it completely. A brilliantly executed and subtle peek into a box filled with my relatives. The first of the family mug shots in the second entry reveals a long lost cousin Pullet who became an 80’s rock star. It is odd that when faced with an imagined portrayal of a particular age reality creeps in. Neal’s image shows me at 39 and yes, the grey hair was creeping in then and yes I was feeling very unsettled and apprehensive for the future and it shows. The second very funny take is quite .. well .. not me at all. Anyway my old mum would have gone mad at the idea. Thank you Pixelcrazee and welcome to the forum. By this time I needed a change of shirt and tie but blue eyes.. green shirt?? OK. The tie is really well done. mr.pbody’s Teddy the Masked Eggvenger was inspired. I hired such an outfit and tried it out but the hat made me sound like Daft Ada and the star things in the front really chafed so the Eggvenger’s days were sadly numbered. Love the nearly dressed angel. A bronzed Egg on a New Zealand beach sounds perfect. Vibeke has me in a kaleidoscope of colour which is so different to the colour range I was used to. Darks ..blues and greys… The drink looks good but there isn’t a lot of it! My first reaction to the picture was seeing my brother, who I’ve not seen for ten years, looking out at me! That’s weird! Also weird is Vibeke’s second picture . It’s the blue eyes (really - they’re not too blue), the dark hair, the lithe body.. the attraction factor … all it needs is the glasses and it’s …uncanny! I like raffy’s image of me looking out of the Rousseau jungle like a (much older than me) David Attenborough. I’ve never been to a jungle nor yet had a tabby take my picture so it’s all new for me. The spinner is wonderful, thank you. The Xara3d6 is a great programme. Do you use Xara Xtreme? A very good option to Illustrator at a fraction of the price. What a contrast to Vibeke’s world of comfort and warmth is Dalton’s world. The crystallised world of icicles would not do for me at all. I hate the cold and will do all I can to avoid it especially now at my age! I must say I don’t look old enough to be cryonised. A few more wrinkles and a long beard might have been more appropriate. Anyway, can you freeze eggs? I love Tedminator, Daltons second entry . A huge contrast to the cuddly teddy bear that is writing this. Beautifully constructed and visualised. And thanks for the poster . more later. And .. your ‘last one honest ’. Had you or I been out to the pub when this picture was taken. I do look astonishingly rough and unshaven. No, it was you at the pub because I don’t wear jewellery. I fell about at seeing Tootsie by jwhite. What an idea. What a wig! Though to misquote a phrase ‘Does my head look big in this?’ Love it! BUT did you read in another part of this forum that jwhite wanted to know how to change my colour? And did you read Bob’s explanation of how to do it and how I would look? As Pierre wrote ‘This is outrageous’. And it was also really funny. I fell about .. again. I never did say ‘Camera, lights, action!’ nor did I have a director’s chair with my name on but Dek_101 has captured the 35 year love of my life of making documentaries in film and on video. It is a great montage. OK so Neil Diamond did look a little like me at one time and so did Hank Marvin and Rolf Harris in their time. Thanks Dek, the memories came back again. Young and, yes Bob, you can say handsome. I was younger once and did look a little like that. I would have been late twenties, a recently married fresh faced youth about to become a dad! Isn’t it amazing that just writing all this floods the memory bank! Err…Sixty five going on madness is michael sinclair’s wonderful interpretation of a ‘beefed up’ egg. Not being a fitness fan my daily exercise is usually confined to the fluttering of my eyelids as I wake and then later walking to the car! It’s a great image to dream of .. the tousled blond hair the bulging bi’s, tri’s and pecs but would it be more attractive to the opposite sex than Vibeke’s lithe egg? Hmmm. Difficult. A sadly more accurate portrayal of a portly egg is painted by pauline. I like the wide open spaces that the colonies would offer but it does seem a long way from the fence to the big house! But the idea of the riches that can be had as seen by the bucket of golden eggs could be very seductive. Ah! I’ve just remembered Nicole spent two years in Canada and said it can get very cold in the winter! A really big thank you to all of you for your contributions and good wishes. It has been so much fun which I hope is shared amongst you. Thank you, too, Steve for thinking of the idea in the first place. It has been a great week and certainly one to remember. Nicole has suggested we arrange a celebration in the summer so would it be possible to e-mail me your images, the largest you have created, so that we might print them out for a great display? tedeggs@enterprise.net |
Posted on 05/05/06 08:27:26 AM |
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Eggbox
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Well here’s me for real in the old days. When I was one, five, nineteen and thirty something.  |
Posted on 05/05/06 08:29:30 AM |
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Eggbox
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
The later years: the 1980’s to present, working on a railway film set. My son and I in St John Ambulance, a voluntary first aid charity, when we drove rapid response ambulances for the London Ambulance Service and finally with Nicole my lovely partner on holiday in France. 
My family has had so much fun with the name of Eggs. My sister Angela married Mr Garlick. My brother married Miss Salmon and Nicole’s name is Rolls! When I bought my first house at No 3 we had Mr & Mrs Parrott in No 1 and Mr & Mrs Bird in No 5. When he was born I wanted to call my son Hammond but that caused so much grief he was finally named Christopher Eggs. To quote the last lines of a poem my 93 year white haired old mum wrote about our name… What’s in a name some people say if you say it with some tact But with a name like Eggs I think we’ve got it cracked. What a great week! Ted |
Posted on 05/05/06 08:46:37 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Fantastic entries, everyone. I think Ted's comments say it all this week, so I'll leave it at that. Happy birthday, Ted.  |
Posted on 05/05/06 09:39:33 AM |
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stefan
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Hi Ted, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Unfortunately I couldn't make this one this week. Have a lovely day. Stefan. |
Posted on 05/05/06 1:14:48 PM |
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pauline
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Well that was fun and you are such a good sport Ted. Yes it can get cold in Canada, but I love it here and love living in the country. I am NOT, however, on a farm. No thank you. We are surrounded by farm country though and this one is not far from us. I thought after I should have used a picture with a few cows in it for you! Have a good one! _________________ Pauline |
Posted on 05/05/06 1:29:37 PM |
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raffy
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Happy Birthday,Ted! And thanks for the kind comments!Yes,I do use Xara Xtreme,along with PSE 4 and Xara 3d6(With a soupcon of PS7).I find you can "mix and match" the 4 programs-make up an image in one,and take it into the others for fun and games. I hope this isn't an obvious question,but what is the story behind your surname?It would be most egg-cellent to know,and probably an egg-citing one,too. _________________ Dogs have masters;Cats have staff. |
Posted on 05/05/06 1:43:41 PM |
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Born2Run
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
I thought you died in a plane crash in 1959!!!!!   _________________ We made a promise we swore we'd always remember, No retreat no surrender |
Posted on 05/05/06 1:53:02 PM |
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mguyer
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Re: Contest 94: Happy birthday, Eggbox!
Happy Birthday Ted...and welcome back. |
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