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If that is the Lincolns I have a Van Gogh I'll sell you.

1 posted on 02/22/2004 6:14:05 PM PST by flying Elvis

To: flying Elvis

That's Dennis Kucinich and a date at one of those carnival "Civil War" photo booths.

2 posted on 02/22/2004 6:17:07 PM PST by martin_fierro

To: flying Elvis

It doesn't look like Abe, honest.

3 posted on 02/22/2004 6:19:01 PM PST by Consort

To: flying Elvis

4 posted on 02/22/2004 6:20:54 PM PST by squarebarb ('The stars put out their pale opinions, one by one...' Thomas Merton)

To: flying Elvis

How much for the Van Gogh?

5 posted on 02/22/2004 6:21:19 PM PST by woofie ( If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried)

To: flying Elvis

We need somebody to email him, "I have the exact same picture! In fact, it fell out of a cookbook I bought from a garage sale."

6 posted on 02/22/2004 6:21:24 PM PST by mabelkitty (If Kerry is so "electable", then why are Democrats afraid of Nader?)

To: flying Elvis

The man in the photo really kind of looks like Kirk Douglas?

7 posted on 02/22/2004 6:24:04 PM PST by freedom4ever

To: flying Elvis

Damn! I spent my last $50MM on that damn Beanie Baby collection! Double-damn!

9 posted on 02/22/2004 6:25:45 PM PST by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against John Kerry.)

To: flying Elvis

what's that they're holding?

10 posted on 02/22/2004 6:26:04 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)

To: flying Elvis

11 posted on 02/22/2004 6:26:26 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (Hey Botox Boy, why the long face?)

To: flying Elvis

A TOTAL OF TWO INDIVIDUALS HAVE EXAMINED THE ORIGINAL DAGUERREOTYPE SINCE IT’S DISCOVERY IN 1996. One was a representative of the National Portrait Gallery, and her literal two minute examination without the benefit of magnification at the Smithsonian in July 1998 resulted in the following statement;......” We all know what our family members, relatives, friends, and famous people look like, and this does not look like Abraham and Mary Lincoln.” And that was that.

The other individual who examined the original daguerreotype was Lloyd Ostendorf, who was generally recognized as the leading authority in the world on Lincoln photographs. At a meeting at his home in Dec. 1996, he spent all of ten seconds looking at a three inch by four inch mirrored image held at arms length without the benefit of magnification, before uttering his trademark reply.... “close, but no cigar.”

Denial from two Lincoln experts is definitive proof that the seller is the victim of a conspiracy.

Other than the fact that the faces are wrong and Mary seems to have dropped about 70 pounds from every other picture ever taken of her, IT JUST COULD BE THEM!

Caling Mulder and Scully. Someone has replaced the faces of Abe and Mary in this genuine photograph with these imposters.

12 posted on 02/22/2004 6:30:16 PM PST by Semi Civil Servant

To: flying Elvis

LOL--no bids to date on the $50,000,000.00 asking price.

13 posted on 02/22/2004 6:30:53 PM PST by NautiNurse (Missing Iraqi botulinum toxin? Look at John Kerry's face)

To: flying Elvis

Weren't those two in "Blazing Saddles"?

14 posted on 02/22/2004 6:32:08 PM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("Eeaaaghh!!!"-Mad How Dean)

To: flying Elvis

The date given would have been Lincoln's first inaugural. Anyone know if any photos were taken of the Abe and Mary that day? That would be the obvious thing to compare this to.

18 posted on 02/22/2004 6:39:27 PM PST by xp38

To: flying Elvis

The real Abe Lincoln.

19 posted on 02/22/2004 6:40:14 PM PST by South40 (My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)

To: flying Elvis

Robert Shaw, the captain in "Jaws"

35 posted on 02/22/2004 8:53:03 PM PST by John Beresford Tipton

To: flying Elvis

Is that a Timex digital watch on Mary's left wrist?

36 posted on 02/23/2004 11:50:54 AM PST by FoxInSocks

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