New Pass Card
We had to get our new work pass cards today, which meant a new photograph as well. Now, when your old picture is awful, you’ll happily surrender the obsolete card, but if you were particularly attached to the old photo, i.e. it’s as close to Christie Brinkley as you’ll ever look, it takes coaching and coaxing and sometimes threat of dismissal to pry it from your cold, dead lanyard. (Okay, fire me, but can I keep the pass card?)
Luckily, I’m attending an event this evening, so I had an excuse to dress up. I even wore a babooshka* on my way to work to protect my hair from the rain. Desperate times call for desperate measures! The good news is that my efforts paid off. I liked the old photo - taken in the summer when I had some colour and was wearing a pretty blouse - but the new picture is just as good. It’s a closer shot and my hair has some bounce. So now I only have to wait another three years before I can replace my horrible health card photo.
I’d love to hear about the photos you’re attached to - driver’s licence, library card, mug shot? Feel free to leave me a comment!
Carly? Is that you? Nah, it’s Christie. 
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* I just learned that “babooshka”, which means Russian head scarf, is now slang for “show us your boobs”. When did that happen?
November 21st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I thought a babooshka was a baby. “My little ‘babooshka.’” I think I’ll ask Santa for an international dictionary with every word in the world in it. Is there one already? No. But if he is as magical as our parents used to tell us, then he can make one in his shop.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:28 pm
At least you have a photo on your health card. I still have the old red and white health card, but I’ve lost part of the plastic. It still has the all important magnetic strip though, if it’s still important at all.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:32 pm
WHHAATTT???? LMAOROTGIS!!!!! Deciphered means “laughing my a** off rolling on the ground in stitches!!!” Carly, who told you that’s what “babooshka” means?? One guess…..You do the afternoon drive with him?? It figures. Bonehead….:)
Google it, and you’ll see it doesn’t mean “show us your boobs.”
And, as far as parting with one of my “photo cards” goes, it would be my ” ID card.” When you had to prove you were 19 to get into bars and drink yourself senseless!! I was eighteen, and one of the “best” photo’s I have ever had taken!! WOW!!! (..if I can toot my own horn…) lol!!
Cheers!
November 21st, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Who knows when babooshka became slang for “show us yer t…s”, probably about the same time that the word “phat” became a compliment. Both of which, if said to the wrong woman (such as I, not that I’m violent mind), could result in a slap
November 21st, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Babooshka- grandmother!
November 21st, 2007 at 9:19 pm
what? babushka means what???? I never heard that.
my best photo mug shot was my drivers licence. I’d gone to the hairdresser that day and had a particularly great cut… then the salon closed and I never found that hairdresser again… Mercedes? where did you go?
November 21st, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I am not photogenic at all, but there was one photo that was actually quite good of me - it was the photo I had done when I graduated from University - a long long time ago.
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:35 am
Hi Carly,
My work card photo turned out okay but my passport photo-what a nightmare!!
The photographer at Black’s took about 20-25 tries and still i looked like a deer caught in the headlights and with a crooked mouth like I was frowning! (acutally I was frowning because the photographer kept insisting that my picture still wasn’t “quite right”).
I went to the US on business a few months ago and was amazed that Customs accepted the photo no problem. They probably felt sorry for me and died laughing too.
Love your show!!
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Carly,
I’m not russian but as far as I know “babooshka” in russsian means old woman, grandmother…. not a head scarf.
Adam.
Carly’s note: It means both. And now apparently “show us your boobs”, too.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
I have to agree with Adam…”Babooshka” as far as I know means old women or grandmother…and you are by no means one!!
But, things change and it could mean “show us your boobs”??
I will have to contact the Russian Embassy and check with one of the Babooshka’s there?? He! He!
Carly’s note: It can be spelled “Babushka” or “Babooshka” and usually means old Russian woman or grandmother. It can also refer to the head scarf warn by said Russian ladies.
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Carly!!!!
Will you be giving out all the bonus codes for the PMHL on your blog today. Been listening at work all day but never wrote them. Help would be much appreciated
November 27th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
i once played a little game with a girl at pub night during college to compare driver’s licence photos; my reason was i was drunk and couldn’t remember her name! she thought mine was cute and gave me her number, as i recall. I still keep my “age of majority” as I had hair then…oh well.