[BP2]

The image BELOW was saved on my local hard drive from Scribd on Sun, 8-2-09 11:36 EST as a .pdf (150K) and converted it to a .jpg (263K) in Adobe Acrobat Pro at 11:41 EST. I trust its integrity.

It was otherwise uploaded UNALTERED to the host site from which you're viewing it now. I know it has NOT been changed by the Obots online. And if it is LATER altered somehow by an Obot, I still have backups.

[razbinn]

this must be a modified version as the number clearly shows 47O44...wasn’t the original number 47644???

[hoosiermama]

Check out the backgound...Don’t think they are identical.

[David]

I cannot make out the 0 in the number clearly enough to see whether it is an oh or a zero. Further, my memory, which may not be correct, is that there was a number in that place on the original certificate.

I further am skeptical about the initials for Lavender--was his name E F or K F ? Again, my memory on the original was K F. Both of those things may be wrong on your picture. Certainly the O is wrong on the earlier picture you posted; if we are looking at the same image, is it possible that even at 11:36 EST on Sunday, Scribd had been hacked?

There is a dissertation on this on one of the earlier threads or earlier on this one. I may try to look it up if I get a chance.

[Tennessee Nana]

Is 7698 the real McCoy of the possible BC that Orly has ???

[Natural Born 54]

Thank you for making that image available. I noticed the material in the background that has been referred to many times as "a spread" looks very much to me like upholstery material. It is thick and looks like it has some wool content.

(I hope I didn't miss something about this in this long thread. Admit I skipped one section of a couple 100 to try to catch up to the current ones.)

The punk'd images on the Washington Independence site show this item to be a large "throw" with fringed edging that is designed to cover a sofa. To me the material looks the same in 2 of those photos and different from your image in the other two. Don't know if these observations have any value. One of the photos there shows this "throw" to be enormous and sort of cheap looking. I had something like it in a different pattern which I used to dog-proof a couch. Had a nasty feel to it - looked soft but wasn't.

I did read one post (just remember the source of the post was someone who makes intelligent and reliable entries) that said the original Orly image did not have this striped red material in the background at all. Is that wrong?

If Orly's original does indeed have the throw as the background, I wonder how many man hours it took the minions to find a match to it. It would be really difficult to create it in an image program, I know. I used to create several humorous images or more a day for a conservative news site that required putting various elements from numerous photos into one and making them look natural. I could not have done the background of the number 2 photo in the punk'd article and I was pretty good at filling in backgrounds so that everything blended and looked natural.

If anybody ever needs a caricature of their favorite dem, let me know - large collection on one of my hard drives.