Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: Heradel on March 19, 2009, 02:50:56 PM
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/20/science/earth/19tonga-650.jpg) (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/19/science/AP-AS-Tonga-Volcano.html?hp)
This is a thread for those things that don't quite seem real, but are. Like monkey butlers, weird underseas creatures, or Cthulhu kittens. Make sure to include a link back to something authoritative.
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OMFG it's Sin from Final Fantasy 10! :o
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And here's my contribution:
(http://scrapetv.com/News/Images/fat%20guy%20eating%20giant%20hamburger.jpg)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/bigburger.asp
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The True Love Waits performance I have on my iPod seems too good to be true
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I think the transparent head fish qualifies:
(http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/images/primary/090223-01-fish-transparent-head-barreleye-pictures_big.jpg)
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I think the transparent head fish qualifies:
(http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/images/primary/090223-01-fish-transparent-head-barreleye-pictures_big.jpg)
Curiously enough, somebody on another board (who I'm pretty sure doesn't listen to George Hrab) posted that a couple of days after the Geologic Podcast featured it as "Interesting Fauna".
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The Burgess Shale Fossils (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_shale_type_fauna) and others from that period - 505 million years old - contain creatures that are most outlandish, many having no modern descendants. Many with wierd symmetries.
Hallucigenia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucigenia)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/Dwaggie67/Dinosaurs/OMB%20Pics/Hallucigenia.jpg)
Anomalocaris
(http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/Paleontology/Paleozoology/EarlyPaleozoic/anomrecon.jpg)
Marrella
(http://www.pc.gc.ca/apprendre-learn/prof/sub/burgess/images/bs-sb20.jpg)
Opabinia
(http://www.phleschbubble.com/album/images/EP_opabinia.jpg)
Pambdelurion
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Pambdelurion_whittingtoni.JPG)
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I present to you, Flammable Water (or, a sign something has gone so wrong that one should be on the lookout for hellhounds):
(http://llnw.image.cbslocal.com/19/2009/03/20/320x240/faucet.jpg) (http://www.forteantimes.com/latest/breaking-news/1633/daily_roundup_of_the_worlds_weird_news.html)
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Look at the very center for ten seconds. Then look someplace else.
http://storage.ted.com/images/wonker.swf
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...suddenly I feel an urge to kill a head of state.
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Look at the very center for ten seconds. Then look someplace else.
http://www.spiegl.org/humor/wonker.swf
Okay ... and?
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Arg. The original site I grabbed the flash off took it down, put in a replacement.
I find it works best with textured surfaces or blocks of text.
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This one probably doesn't exist, but if it did it would be very cool: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/china-reports-dolphins-foiled-pirate-attack/?hp
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Cyberdyne created HAL (http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=22037). Srsly.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT KIND OF GEEKASTIC POWERS YOU'RE MEDDLING WITH?!?!
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Cyberdyne created HAL (http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=22037). Srsly.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT KIND OF GEEKASTIC POWERS YOU'RE MEDDLING WITH?!?!
This does not bode well… :o
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Cyberdyne created HAL (http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=22037). Srsly.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT KIND OF GEEKASTIC POWERS YOU'RE MEDDLING WITH?!?!
This does not bode well… :o
Warning: HAL not for use in Dissembling processes.
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and from that article i learned this! http://www.aptera.com
i did not know this existed, and i officially want one.
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and from that article i learned this! http://www.aptera.com
i did not know this existed, and i officially want one.
Nah. All that "gas mileage" crap is just a passing fad.
I want a 1938 Phantom Corsair.
(http://www.undercoverclassiccars.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/1938-phantom-corsair.jpg)
(http://www.velocetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/am-3-_9_38phantomcorsair.jpg)
recent video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z8HtjTgkqw
1938 movie scenes, where it had the fictional name of the "Flying Wombat" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpUHvXIXFQY
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I want a 1938 Phantom Corsair.
Whitewall tires are sooooooooooo passé :P
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I want a 1938 Phantom Corsair.
Whitewall tires are sooooooooooo/b] passé :P
But I'm sure the bulletproof shielding and the optional grappling hook more than make up for it
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I want a 1938 Phantom Corsair.
Whitewall tires are sooooooooooo/b] passé :P
But I'm sure the bulletproof shielding and the optional grappling hook more than make up for it
Well, I hear tell it's much better than the type of security system your vehicle employs:
(http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/5d/images.art.com/images/-/Llama-in-a-Car--C10274266.jpeg)
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You mock the llama because you've never tasted his wrath...
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You mock the llama because you've never tasted his wrath...
(http://www.delillama.com/images/1The_Deli_Llama_copy.gif)
I've sampled what the Deli Llama has to offer, thankyouverymuch. :P
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You mock the llama because you've never tasted his wrath...
(http://www.delillama.com/images/1The_Deli_Llama_copy.gif)
I've sampled what the Deli Llama has to offer, thankyouverymuch. :P
let me point out- FUNNY but not real can't be real shan't be real!!
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You mock the llama because you've never tasted his wrath...
(http://www.delillama.com/images/1The_Deli_Llama_copy.gif)
I've sampled what the Deli Llama has to offer, thankyouverymuch. :P
let me point out- FUNNY but not real can't be real shan't be real!!
SO MOTE IT BE! (http://image52.webshots.com/52/2/25/99/2458225990045721055klOylO_ph.jpg)
Actually, I was initially going to use a different picture (http://barrygoldberg.net/miscellaneous/deli_llama.jpg), but I have a suspicion that Anarq prefers a perkier llama with better grooming habits.