Images of Interest

[datachicane]

I'm sure I'm not the only one with an archive of weird crap.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AMuxQ6Cw338/UqEiH1cYgvI/AAAAAAAAFSE/XCuIt6mCwoA/s800/original2.jpg

[datachicane]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Pk6u9IezCm4/Te8Q-6CqRuI/AAAAAAAADtw/s1K4P4BhUr8/s800/tumblr_llsvfvpT751qahzo3o1_500%255B1%255D.jpg

[datachicane]

In the building where I work. Don't mind if I do.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-EXWtuq7iUBc/UqY9K-2WWBI/AAAAAAAAFSg/d1c99Na4i4c/s640/IMG_0279.JPG

[datachicane]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-N3cO0e5qTpU/UqZdR0Q_z2I/AAAAAAAAFS4/TaLGjzffz7Q/s400/541473_10152368301743858_1334759244_n%255B1%255D.j pghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SAmfvZymxP4/UoKBGLwcOFI/AAAAAAAAFR0/npfr4BhZDv4/s400/slide_245969_1407861_free%255B1%255D.jpg

[datachicane]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-W3EDLPD9JNc/UjaYrJtNnzI/AAAAAAAAFQY/xTamSsmZIsM/s800/creepy.jpg

[Napoleon]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-W3EDLPD9JNc/UjaYrJtNnzI/AAAAAAAAFQY/xTamSsmZIsM/s800/creepy.jpg


Good God, that is going to disturb my sleep tonight.

[WickerBill]

581

[chop456]

:laugh:

[Elmo T]

581

I swear I stared at that for 5 minutes before I got it. :saywhat::gomer::rofl:

[datachicane]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-GFeVlzO0lTA/Ug23AC3DB2I/AAAAAAAAFNo/IfGNmElxiao/s800/e9acba8b20e0d789926d70ea1c6e79fc.600x.jpg

[NismoZ]

Well, then...you obviously have never met Morely McSmokey!

[Elmo T]

http://i43.tinypic.com/2hfjbjk.jpg

[datachicane]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-GfFr9Vb9rK8/UqoGc4rqzUI/AAAAAAAAFT8/TNouJwb6s74/s800/italian.jpg

[dando]

I'm telling, Elmo. :gomer: :p

[Elmo T]

http://i44.tinypic.com/34quskk.jpg

[Gnam]

http://fumaga.com/i/tesco-non-stick-fry-pan-irony-failure.jpg

[datachicane]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cdwWC3w8gWc/Ug25bIdr8uI/AAAAAAAAFN4/LOv6uwHomSk/s800/22972c05c22c21aa6cac3f9995105de0.600x.jpg

[Andrew Longman]

Data, crap like that just makes northern Yankees like me just smack our heads and wonder if that whole civil war thing was worth it. Sorry if I offend but I don't need one more person asking unsolicited and completely out of the blue (when I am in a red state) how my state could have "elected that man", as if I am somehow responsible or that it is polite conversation. Meanwhile their state lags behind the entire developed world in almost every category and they think that is just OK.

I meet stupid everywhere. No region has a monopoly but I swear sometimes I wonder if local water can up the dumb and proud gene.

Sorry bosses that I almost surely crossed the line. I am done now.i will try to find a relevant pic for the thread. And not a selfie. :gomer:

[cameraman]

Data, crap like that just makes northern Yankees like me just smack our heads and wonder if that whole civil war thing was worth it. Sorry if I offend but I don't need one more person asking unsolicited and completely out of the blue (when I am in a red state) how my state could have "elected that man", as if I am somehow responsible or that it is polite conversation. Meanwhile their state lags behind the entire developed world in almost every category and they think that is just OK.

I meet stupid everywhere. No region has a monopoly but I swear sometimes I wonder if local water can up the dumb and proud gene.

Sorry bosses that I almost surely crossed the line. I am done now.i will try to find a relevant pic for the thread. And not a selfie. :gomer:

Only problem with that photo is that you are looking at an AP story but headlines are typeset locally. As the photo's provenance is lost to the internet that headline could have come out of the Bangor Daily News for all that any of us know. Just saying'....

[datachicane]

Orangutan Strangling a Borneo Savage by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1895


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P_ftOUJlCPE/UqpNll9l-uI/AAAAAAAAFUM/EE1qIO0OnuQ/s800/DSCN4429%255B1%255D.JPG

[Andrew Longman]

Yeah but Mississippi literacy is and has long been about 16%. Maine (and Utah ;) ) is about 6-7%. That is why Mississippi literacy is a news item and Maine is not. And this is not a hard problem to solve if you actually want to solve it. That, not the typo, is what I am really bugged about.

Ok I said I was done and I am.

[cameraman]

Orangutan Strangling a Borneo Savage by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1895


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P_ftOUJlCPE/UqpNll9l-uI/AAAAAAAAFUM/EE1qIO0OnuQ/s800/DSCN4429%255B1%255D.JPG

Now your assignment is to compare and contrast that work with Frémiet's 1887 work "Gorille enlevant une Femme"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/EmmanuelFremietGorilleEnlevantUneFemme.jpg/580px-EmmanuelFremietGorilleEnlevantUneFemme.jpg
From a different angle.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-fmJhDbuynFo/TXPFhUXHHtI/AAAAAAAABw0/NHiLT7le1NE/s1600/gorilla%255B1%255D.jpg

[Gnam]

Is that genesis for King Kong and "Take your stinkin' paws off me you damn dirty ape!"?

[WickerBill]

Data, crap like that just makes northern Yankees like me just smack our heads and wonder if that whole civil war thing was worth it.

Where did this come from? A funny headline elicits social commentary?

[Dvdb]

Dude liked apes...........

[Opposite Lock]

582

583

584

585

(taxidermy chess set; partial)




watch the little Pawn on the left - I call him "Bitey".

[datachicane]

:rofl:

[nrc]

Yeah but Mississippi literacy is and has long been about 16%. Maine (and Utah ;) ) is about 6-7%. That is why Mississippi literacy is a news item and Maine is not.

Sounds like you mean illiteracy.

[KLang]

Sounds like you mean illiteracy.

:D Mistake made by someone insulting the intelligence of an entire region of the country.

[indyfan31]

Sounds like you mean illiteracy. Good grief, I hope so! :eek:

[cameraman]

Maybe. A 6% literacy rate sounds about right for the Utah I see shopping at the malls...

[G.]

Sounds like you mean illiteracy.

Beautiful!

[datachicane]

I saw these in a grocery store in rural Western Kansas.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cChuiUemaV8/Uq92nVzTeBI/AAAAAAAAFUs/nlraDcQta1w/s800/20-potatoes%255B1%255D.jpg

[datachicane]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jF66rc6pVPc/Uq6U8eWvlmI/AAAAAAAAFUc/zSa4vVExomI/s800/15-Odd-and-Weird-Tattoos-002%255B1%255D.jpg

[chop456]

:laugh:

[Andrew Longman]

http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2011/05/frenchtown_teen_sports_tattoo.html

Yeah I know him.

[gjc2]

Sounds like you mean illiteracy.


http://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/index.aspx

Here’s a link to a federal government site which shows literacy rates by state and county. The statistics are ten years old. As pointed out in a footnote, the reason some of the people who scored below the minimum standard was a language barrier.

[emjaya]

http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2011/05/frenchtown_teen_sports_tattoo.html

Yeah I know him.


Future son-in-law? :gomer:

[Andrew Longman]

Future son-in-law? :gomer:hey this dad dude abides too. My daughter could do worse :gomer:

Actually I've known him and his family since I think he was in kindergarten and he's a solid kid. But my daughter has a way cooler boyfriend. And I am sure I can kick his ass for a few more years.

[Gnam]

...But my daughter has a way cooler boyfriend.
Does ranking potential teenage suitors qualify as internet bullying, or maybe just an awesome humble brag? :D


No offense to the awesome Longman family, who are awesome. :)

[WickerBill]

591

[KLang]

591


:rofl:

Gotta bet a lawsuit will be on the way.

[RaceGrrl]

Thieves/assailants should "fall" like that more often. :thumbup: Oorah!

[datachicane]

:rofl:

Gotta bet a lawsuit will be on the way.

Well, a mythical lawsuit anyway.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/stabbedmarine.asp

[WickerBill]

Well, a mythical lawsuit anyway.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/stabbedmarine.asp

Aww, boo.

[datachicane]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iBBGGfiB5ZI/UrKd4yOJDCI/AAAAAAAAFVY/H1vIBDA-54k/s800/hilarious-street-signs-18%255B1%255D.jpeg

[SteveH]

bwhahahahaha :laugh:

Seldom does a picture like this make me laugh out loud, this one did. :thumbup:

[datachicane]

What, you mean this stuff is manufactured? :rofl:


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ENa8YUyuN4U/UrdLIScgDQI/AAAAAAAAFWQ/IoUB3hyIktE/s800/image.jpg

[indyfan31]

. . . nevermind . . .

[Gnam]

this is an ad for those yahoos that like to mess with Japanese whalers.

http://s27.postimg.org/kn2tbgnub/1681380_slide_seashepherd_1_600x320.jpg

[WickerBill]

I got a label maker today. The wife's dog wasn't as impressed as I was.

601

[Tifosi24]

I got a label maker today. The wife's dog wasn't as impressed as I was.

601

If that blanket is from Kohl's, then my dog is currently laying on the same one. I also have a label maker, but he might bite my hand off if I try to put a label on him.

[G.]

I got a label maker today. The wife's dog wasn't as impressed as I was.

601
For a laugh, get some dark paper and make little eyebrows for her dog. It's a lot funnier than it sounds.

[Elmo T]

Anyone we know?,,,,


This meticulously crafted 777-replica is made of manila folders (http://io9.com/this-meticulously-crafted-777-replica-is-made-of-manila-1504096998?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow)

[SteveH]

No,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, too talented

[nrc]

602

[nrc]

602

Reality is so much less funny.

http://wafflesatnoon.com/2014/01/19/general-arse-biscuites/

[cameraman]

Now this is how you do a controlled burn:laugh:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfWWbnwCcAA_uI3.jpg:large

BLM land in southeast Utah today.

[cameraman]

I liked this one

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfar5WpIUAAE2DJ.jpg:large

[cameraman]

We had a bonfire tonight in the form of a 61 unit, 64,000 sq ft. apartment structure under construction. Very little sheetrock was in place it was just a giant pile of lumber and it behaved as you might expect.

9ezdT_yDBFM

An interesting little factoid, there was no power or heaters of any kind on the site and it has been raining all weekend. Things that make you go hmmmm.

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Cynops/bonfire3.jpg

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Cynops/bonfire2.jpg

The internet is amazing. Here is the building today before the fire...

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgFaivUCQAAedOF.jpg:large

[Gnam]

An interesting little factoid, there was no power or heaters of any kind on the site and it has been raining all weekend. Things that make you go hmmmm.

Drone strike? ;)

[chop456]

Squatters? Unhappy neighbors/NIMBY's? Spontaneously combusting rats?

[Andrew Longman]

Squatters? Unhappy neighbors/NIMBY's? Spontaneously combusting rats?

Or a balloon payment due. Or a housing market a little more depressed than the business plan required.

[cameraman]

Or crazy 20-something wannabe fireman looking for glory and arrested at the scene.:saywhat:
Not charged yet but under arrest.

[Napoleon]

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Angela Merkel did Nazi this one coming (http://gawker.com/angela-merkel-did-nazi-this-one-coming-1530500601)

[Elmo T]

It was a long day and I am easily amused. And I know enough engineers to think this is a :rofl:

http://i62.tinypic.com/oh0pbt.jpg

[nrc]

It was a long day and I am easily amused. And I know enough engineers to think this is a :rofl:

http://i62.tinypic.com/oh0pbt.jpg

As always, it depends on who's doing the hugging. For most, the A-frame hug is still the preferred option.

[TravelGal]

620 I'm sharing this "image of interest" with OC because I consider you all part of my family. I call it "Zero to 100." The newest member of the family (6 weeks old) with TravelMom (birthday next Tuesday) Let the festivities begin!

[Dvdb]

:thumbup:

[G.]

very cool! :cool:

[SteveH]

How wonderful :thumbup:

[nrc]

Excellent. :thumbup:

[RaceGrrl]

Great picture!

[Kiwifan]

I see where you get your good looks from! :)

Congrats to all. :thumbup:

[Anteater]

Awesome photo, TravelGal! :)

[Tifosi24]

I love it!

[chop456]

Cool. :thumbup:

[Elmo T]

Got a few spare pennies?

Come 11-12 July, more than 100 vehicles, among them vintage SCUD missile launchers and amphibious tanks, are set to be auctioned in California. (http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140228-your-own-private-arsenal)

Nice slide show of the hardware up for sale.

[Gnam]

Got a few spare pennies?

Come 11-12 July, more than 100 vehicles, among them vintage SCUD missile launchers and amphibious tanks, are set to be auctioned in California. (http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140228-your-own-private-arsenal)

Nice slide show of the hardware up for sale.
Had a chance to tour the collection. Sad to see they are parting it out. At one point, they were trying to open a museum. Although, I doubt his family had the same level of interest. ;)

I remember a story about the SCUD missile launcher. The tour guide said when it showed up on the Oakland docks, the custom guys freaked out and impounded it. Littlefield tried to explain that the weapon was inert and he was allowed to own it, but they wouldn't listen. He said, "Fine. Call me when you get tired of pushing it around your impound lot, and I'll come get it." A year later they called, "Please remove your rocket." :D

The funny part was the collection was in the heart of Portola Valley, which is where all the titans of Silicon Valley live. But, since he bought his property years before Silicon Valley even existed, the neighbors couldn't complain when he'd run his tanks and make a racket.

The one thing the tour guide kept reinforcing over and over was that being in a tank was a horrible way to spend a war. "You'd die a horrible death in this one. Oh! Being in this one was even worse!" :laugh:

[Gnam]

The family said "Tanks, but no tanks."

-from the internet

[Gnam]

As seen in the Bangkok engine district last month:

(the engine they're all sitting around is running) :D

http://s1.postimg.org/wlv9owi8f/20140227_V86_A2232.jpg

http://s9.postimg.org/bmilyd24f/20140227_V86_A2234.jpg

http://s28.postimg.org/7z8ekbq9p/20140227_V86_A2235.jpg

http://s29.postimg.org/leadzl4xj/20140227_V86_A2238.jpg

http://s28.postimg.org/j085337wd/20140227_V86_A2239.jpg

http://s12.postimg.org/6z5fkewkd/20140227_V86_A2243.jpg

[Andrew Longman]

I could offer a suggestion or two around inventory management systems. :)

[Gnam]

I was going to make a joke about it being the new Indycar Technology Center, but this shop doesn't have time for such nonsense.

[datachicane]

It's Portland, what did you expect? In Laurelhurst Park yesterday.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkpwYYtCIAA0Vt0.jpg:large

https://twitter.com/witz/status/453298276750467072/photo/1/large

[Gnam]

:laugh: You know it was the horse's idea.

[nrc]

Rock stars at home with their parents from Life magazine.

http://life.time.com/culture/clapton-zappa-elton-john-photos-of-rock-stars-with-their-parents/#1

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BllfamDCAAAfpkw.jpg

This caught my eye because the picture on the wall as used as the cover of Alice Cooper's first album.

[cameraman]

Rock stars at home with their parents from Life magazine.

edited cuz how much purple does one thread need..

Fixed the garbled links

[nrc]

Fixed the garbled links

You'd think I'd know how to operate this thing by now. Thanks, fixed it in the original.

[TravelGal]

You'd think I'd know how to operate this thing by now. Thanks, fixed it in the original.

Now I don't feel so bad. Give me another 10 years or so and I'll figure it out. Or maybe if I had 10 uninterrupted minutes, I could do it. :confused: :shakehead:

[Gnam]

http://s18.postimg.org/woetr1bq1/guyinjail.jpg

[cameraman]

In case you ever wondered what an osprey looked like 0.01 seconds before hitting the water...

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmP_q5eIEAAY6BW.png:large

To see the original photographer's work look here: You can click through for some more amazing shots.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelwulf/5147499621/in/photostream/

The twitter shot was from one of those photo pirating twitter feeds:irked:
You can see at the bottom right where they obscured his watermark:flaming:

[Gnam]

Death from above. very nice. :thumbup:

[Gnam]

http://petapixel.com/2013/07/13/photographer-gets-so-close-to-lava-that-his-shoes-and-tripod-catch-on-fire/

http://s17.postimg.org/a4n1snktr/Kawika_Singson1.jpg

[WickerBill]

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[chop456]

I see both, but yours is smaller.

:underhandrightovertheplate:

[WickerBill]

Haha. Yeah, the first one was definitely a broken link earlier this morning, which seems to have been fixed. D'oh.

[Gnam]

Big things:

http://s22.postimg.org/ll0tcp575/1o_HPPWd.jpg



The ship of all ships: The largest cargo transport ship in the world, the Blue Marlin of Dockwise, carries four pontoons and 18 hulls on its back from Nantong Port, China.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158305/Thats-load-ships-The-carrier-boat-hold-22-barges--oil-rig--back.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_21039_5-insanely-huge-things-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped.html

[cameraman]

Well it will never make that mistake again....

http://localtvkstu.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/lion-eats-goose-hogle-zoo.jpg?w=808

Seems a Canada goose made a fatal error in judgement at our local zoo.

Lunch is served

http://localtvkstu.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/lion-5.jpg?w=560

[stroker]

^^^^^^^^^^

Suicide by cat?

[TKGAngel]

Tracking the decay of Detroit using Google Street View maps from 2009, 2011 and 2013.

http://goobingdetroit.tumblr.com