Does it have to be Photoshopping? Is Paintshopping allowed?

I did this one in Corel Photopaint...

I was deleting the head of the guy on the right so I could put an elephant head on him without any bits of his original head sticking out. I had it half deleted, and thought it would be funny to do the gore thing. The cannibal beside him was an afterthought.

Here's an old one that some of the first wave of comic contestants will remember and another old one from my personal collection:

Are those famous people bottle, if so who are they? Excuse my lack of knowledge.

This isn't really Photo-shopped, in fact I think the crap little banner at the top was done in MS-Paint as it was originally a bmp file, but it doesn't need to go in Caption Mountain, so, here it is:

Who took that photo of you?

I don't know, can't you see that I was asleep?

I was going to photo-shop a packet of digestives onto that picture, but I couldn't be arsed.

I forgot all your birthdays. So here you go. Go order yourself something pretty. My credit limit is only $10,000, so don't go overboard. Everybody can spend a few hundred bucks.

And wirthling can not buy a RealDoll.

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And wirthling can not buy a RealDoll.

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gabe i hope thats not youre reel number be cause i just went to ammazon and boght a ton of shit with, im not kidding

Do you have a garden? Why do you need a ton of shit?

I used to work for a competing aircraft company, so...

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gabe i hope thats not youre reel number be cause i just went to ammazon and boght a ton of shit with, im not kidding

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Gabe I have a question, how did you change the numbers on a card and all (I'm guessing you're not really giving us $10 000)

If I was going to do it, I would erase a few numbers, and replace them with other numbers stolen from elsewhere on the card. Note that in the last four digits, the 4 and the 9 look like they are meant to be there, but the 7 and the 3 look slightly out of place. I am guessing that this is only two digits off being Gabe's real credit card number, leaving only 100 possible combinations. Well, make that 99, since the one shown is obviously not real.

oh boy

well intrigued by mr fuck's comment on how he has bought stuff on amazon i figured i would try this out for myself

i looked through the catalogue of the local ticket shop's current offerings and bought me one ticket of every gig that caught my attention even slightly

the total came to a mere £101.25 inc. special service delivery

i filled in the details and hit the big buy button

the following page turned up

my order form

well shit a bricck

i have just committed credit card fraud

ah pigfuck

well, i guess i best just sit back and wait infront of that letterbox

not back to the bristolticketshop.com to buy some for the lady that will accompany me whether she likes it or not

free gigs seem to be good for me recently

i will be coaching my way to london for a farewell gig to hell is for heroes who jet off to LA in the early hours of monday morning to record their album

I like your taste in music. Where in Bristol are you from? With a name like Skagg, I'd have to guess Southmead.

funnily enough i was born in southmead

how do you know that much about bris

ahh, that might explain it, as i remeber youre a person of welsh persuasion aintcha?

Take that back! I am on the right side of the Severn!

good.

on a more fuck im sweating note

bristol ticket shop just phoned my mobile (the number i gave them) and told me about how one of the tickets was postponed etc etc

that means they processing them now

is there any way i can do something to prevent me of having committed credit card fraud?

gabe, please tell me that is your credit card and youre gonna cancel it

either that or youve won the lottery or something

im really scared now

IVE COMMITTED CREDIT CARD FRAUD!

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is there any way i can do something to prevent me of having committed credit card fraud?

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will that take back the fact that ive actually used it?

I don't know. But it's probably your best shot.

Good lord. Don't get your panties in a bundle. That's really my card but I Photoshopped a bunch of the numbers and expiration date around. You didn't really think I'd post a picture of my credit card, did you?

To the best of my knowledge, credit card numbers are assigned based on some sort of algorithm. With 16 digits, there are way more possible numbers than there are cards, and they aren't handed out in sequence. So if you try to just make up a number, or use a real one with a few digits changed, it's not going to work.

Any online store worth it's salt would have credit card verification and the charge just wouldn't go through. I assume the place you tried to buy those tickets will send you an email in a day or two and say your credit card didn't work and they'll want another. Then you can tell them you changed your mind.

But I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. You know credit card commercials like American Express where they zoom in on a card to show you some famous person's name? I've written those numbers down and tried to use them. They don't work either.

So settle down. Don't have a spaz.

i was just worried at the fact that the order went through, they phoned to confirm AND we know it isnt yours

therefore so far as i can figure out some poor old stranger i dont know has been charged 100 quid for my tickets

and for all i know that could be a very angry poor old stranger when they look at their credit card bill

plus my address is registered under the account i use for that site normally to purchase tickets so if the angry person is even slightly motivated they wont have much trouble tracking it to me

hence the tad of worry

Did you not read the earlier post? Credit cards with made up numbers don't work. It doesn't belong to someone else. I know because I just went and tried it at a site that had real time credit card verification and it tanked.

So chill. Sooner or later they'll get back to you and say the card didn't work and you can tell them to forget it. No one is going to come beat your door down and arrest you.

You can always tell them that a friend was going to buy the tickets for you and he thought it would be funny to give you a made up credit card number. Which isn't too far off the case.

So please, stop freaking out.

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If I was going to do it, I would erase a few numbers, and replace them with other numbers stolen from elsewhere on the card. Note that in the last four digits, the 4 and the 9 look like they are meant to be there, but the 7 and the 3 look slightly out of place. I am guessing that this is only two digits off being Gabe's real credit card number, leaving only 100 possible combinations. Well, make that 99, since the one shown is obviously not real.

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Incidentally, most of the card is made up. The only numbers that are in the right place are the first four and xxx1 xx7x x49x. The expiration date is completely made up except for the first 0.

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When I say made up I mean numbers that aren't in the right places. I didn't hand make any of the numbers, if that's what you mean. They're just all moved around.

It's like a big game of Mastermind. If you're smart enough, maybe with the clues you have you could come up with the real number!

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There's a lake of stew, and of whiskey too, you can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe...

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http://justice.loyola.edu/~mcoffey/pr/tw/ccfraud.cpp.txt

Eventually I plan to write a new version of that. One that prints to stdout rather than to a file. So it could actually conceivably be run in our lifetimes.

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That wouldn't be much of an improvement, though, because you'd still either have to save or print it (thereby destroying several rainforests) in order to make any use of it.

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