Just a Face and a Caption: Absent Minded Professor

Not even terribly looking like the common image of the Absent-Minded Professor, besides the Labcoat of Science and Medicine.

Yep, doesn't look like the trope to me, either.

I definitely agree that if we're doing JAFAAC on this, it should at least look like the stereotype. Thinking of suggestions...

This will need a comic or manga panel, nothing else will really work IMO.

edited 10th Nov '14 4:15:00 AM by Memers

The current isn't great, but it does look like a professor and it does look like absent-mindedness.

So Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

? Would probably have to be flipped though.

edited 10th Nov '14 4:24:01 AM by Memers

I haven't a clue about who's on the current image, but I think it works just fine. Maybe not the most clear of images, but it gives the right idea.

She seems more like a workaholic.

edited 10th Nov '14 5:23:07 AM by AnotherDuck

Very weak Keep Until Better Image Suggested for me.

I knew it's always better to have a suggestion at hand when opening such a thread, but it was late and a quick Google search mostly showed pictures from the movie of the same name. Still, here are a few cartoons:
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[4]

I know the current image was chosen by a previous thread. Why can't I find it?

Are you being absent-minded? Yeeeeaaaaaaah!

The first of those seems the most illustrative, but it still doesn't strike me as being better than the current image.

Perhaps you were thinking of this thread? It's the only related thing I could find in the search.

Oh

I personally don't think it's too bad. I managed to get the general idea of the trope from looking at it.

same here.

I agree. It looks fine to me.

The current is bad. A guy in a labcoat looking pensive does not really imply absent-mindedness. Like it's been said before, let's try to find an image that at least actually looks a bit like the stereotype.

edited 29th Nov '14 6:55:43 PM by WackyPancake

Maybe this...?◊

^He's more of a Bungling Inventor.

I think the current image is great. The white coat and spectacles are a good visual cue, especially along with the frazzly hair, and he's visibly spacing out while holding a sandwich, which is great.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

edited 30th Nov '14 3:25:52 PM by SatoshiBakura

I vote Keep Until Better Image Suggested, too. He does kinda have that forgetful/absent-minded look on him.

I like 9.1; others don't really grab me. Current is still okay to me, he has a forgetful look on his face, so it's not actively harming the page, so it's not bad enough to pull without replacement.

Clock is set.

Clock is up with no progress; closing this.