Baseball Bullies (from a 1971 educational placard)

"Remarkably the boys were correct, Billy did have dolls in his case."    A few years ago I purchased a number of these vintage teaching aids.  Each a prompt for children to discuss various scenarios they might encounter.  I imagine the teacher, with this 2' by 3' cardboard image in hand, beehive hairdoo piled high, surveying her class through catseye glasses. "Students how might the boy with the violin case be feeling?"  Well, as I have correctly deduced in this latest Camp Caption offering,  utter shame, as he transports his collection of dolls in what he had hoped would be the perfect innocuous container.  Poor kid.                                                                                                                                                          

Glazed Over Again (Image from a 1940's oil on artist board by Maine artist William T. Wray "Gorham's Corner Portland Maine"

"For two weeks Joseph Barrows had promised Mrs. Evans that he would reglaze the windows on her front porch.  When he turned onto Fore street to find her blue Plymouth heading his way an overwhelming feeling of guilt settled to his core.  He needed the money, she needed the work done.  A simple situation.   Instead his choice was whiskey and the company of false friends, and this was where complexity trumped simplicity."http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=6674&supst=enlarge

"Hot damn! I'm off to the Nam." (Photo from a 1968 Fort Bragg Army yearbook)

"Hot damn!  I'm off to the Nam."  And so Terry Donelly was successfully redirected. Six months ago he had only one desire, to play the clarinet.   Life was more serious now.  Holding something as ridiculous as an ebony whistle to his lips, became and would remain,  unfathomable.

 Company A, Ninth Battalion Second Brigade March 29, 1968.

Bee Hold A Wasp's A@@hole (From a vintage 40's Vogue Picture Disc)

"Hey back off.  I know what I'm doing!"  "Well then I guess you realize this is a wasp, not a bee, and there is no way THAT is going in a wasp's asshole."

Not On Point Anymore (1960's Polaroid)

"We spent a year on the point hoping to witness a sign, but no one came. The horizon grew darker with each passing day. Time to move inland."

Creepy Uncle Serves Up The Brew (1950's b&w photo)

 "Now Billy it's gonna burn your throat a bit but your tummy will feel warm as a hug from Momma."

"Mine is really stiff what about yours?  What? Oh God no I meant the dress."