Put Yourself in My Shoes

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http://macrochan.org/search.php?tags=Postal+worker+and+dog

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2009-09-09T04:08:47Z

SomethingAwful contest based upon a USPS poster

2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= active exploitable, photoshop, contest, funny, postal, service, USPS

Put Yourself in My Shoes <h2>About</h2> <p>“Put Yourself in My Shoes” is a meme consisting of parodies of a safety notice from the United States Postal Service. Most of the derivatives were created within a few days in 2004 on <a href=http://www.somethingawful.com>SomethingAwful.com</a> but the images went viral all over the web.</p> <h2>Origin</h2> <p>On May 20th, 2004, a Something Awful goon named Djarum <a href=http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1055923&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1>posted the following message</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>So yesterday I walk downstairs to get my mail, along with the tons of free magazines and bills I get this.</p> <p>Since when has the Postal Serivce been sending out such great little safety notices?</p> <p>Well of course the first thing that I thought of was to post it on here for everyone to partake in the fun.</p> <p>I start it when my first horrible attempt.</p> <p><img src="http://knowyourmeme.com/i/17388/original/kill.png?1252470704" alt="" /></p> <p>Hopefully someone can do justice to it.</p> <p><span class="caps">UPDATE</span></p> <p>eaglebtc was kind enough to help everyone out with the whole process. Here’s what he told me:</p> <blockquote> <p>quote:</p> I’ve got a multi-layer <span class="caps">PSD</span> and a <span class="caps">RAR</span> with all the fonts for the HelveticaNeue family. They are in OpenType format, which means anyone using Windows 2000 or XP can read them. Or they can download a free font reader. Contributors should grab the following archive: http://www.promotionsfd.com/test/usps-goldmine.rar It contains the layer-separated <span class="caps">PSD</span> template, plus the <span class="caps">USPS</span> logo (<span class="caps">EPS</span>, with emblem reversed) and the font pack necessary for the text. The <span class="caps">PSD</span> template has all layers separated by component: gray box, outline, dog & man, text, top box, etc. Its current size is 1600×1000, approximately. Becuase I made it larger, I redrew the “vector” objects so they would look better at this higher output resolution (150dpi). The text layers are in place, with the correct font selected. The user <strong>must</strong> have the fonts installed before they open the <span class="caps">PSD</span> or they will receive a warning. </blockquote> <p>Hope it helps!</p> </blockquote> <p>In the next ten pages, hundreds of derivatives were created. It soon became a contest.<br /> Results were archived on <a href=http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/safety-message-from.php?page=1>May 24th</a> and <a href=http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/safety-message-from.php?page=1>May 31st, 2004.</a></p> <h2>Those Are My Shoes</h2> <p>Of all of the diverse instances of this meme, the “Those are my shoes Give them back You are a dog” instance became the most popular of all.</p> <p><img src="http://knowyourmeme.com/i/17371/original/381px-Thosearemyshoes.jpg?1252469627" alt="" /></p> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&up__property=empty&up__search_terms=%22those+are+my+shoes%22%7C%22put+yourself+in+my+shoes%22%7C%22you+are+a+dog%22&up__location=empty&up__category=0&up__time_range=empty&up__compare_to_category=false&synd=ig&w=650&h=300&lang=en-US&title=Google+Insights+for+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script><h2><span class="caps">YTMND</span></h2> <ul> <li><a href=http://postal.ytmnd.com/>Postal</a></li> <li><a href=http://thosearemyshoesgivethemback.ytmnd.com/><span class="caps">THOSE</span> <span class="caps">ARE</span> MY <span class="caps">SHOES</span></a></li> <li><a href=http://dontevenfit.ytmnd.com/>They don’t even fit</a></li> </ul> <h2>On 4Chan</h2> <p>The “Put Yourself in My Shoes” meme never really caught on with 4chan, but “Those are my shoes. Give Them Back. You are a dog” spawned an anti-joke meme that is referred to on ED simply as <a href=http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Buzzkilling>Buzzkilling</a>.</p>

2009-10-28T05:15:42Z

882

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