This is for a challenge at another site. We are given an old photo and challenged to make up a story about it:
JOURNALING: Parker Sheaffer and Branch Teller stood out in a crowd, no matter where the life-long friends went. Nicknamed "Mutt and Jeff" after the then-popular comic strip featuring a "tall, dim-witted racetrack character" and his short (4'8"), balding, insane-asylum pal "just Jeff," the pair met in grade school in the small California town of Occidental. There is no basis to the rumor that the pair were the actual inspiration for the comic, in spite of the "Jeff" character reportedly being based on Jacques "Jakie" Fehr, a tiny (4'8") irascible Swiss-born shopkeeper in the village of Occidental. Sheaffer's "growth spurt" didn't occur until well after "Jeff" was added to the strip in 1908.
Sheaffer was a writer. Teller worked in a bank. The pair lived together after college and there were rumors they were more than just "roomies." That ended shortly after their double wedding to actress/model twin sisters Bleu and Pinkie Shade. The Shade twins had been called "Mutt and Jeff" in their childhood as well. Pinkie towered over her sister from the time they reached their teens. They made their reputation posing as young girls in vintage costumes for trading card and greeting card companies.
Even tho Parker and Pinkie made the best physical match, it was the petit Bleu that stole his heart. And Branch was enamored of Pinkie from the moment he looked up into her beautiful hazel eyes. Thereafter, both couples were called "Mutt and Jeff".
CREDITS: VINTAGE IMAGES: from Graphics Fairy [I "photoshopped" the color image to make the girl in blue shorter than then one in pink]; KIT: "Pastel Primavera" - Kellie Mize; FONT: Comic Book
