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Mysterious 1870s Wis. photo sparks jokes
Associated Press ^
| January 5, 2007
| Robert Imrie
Posted on 01/05/2007 6:52:48 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: iceskater
It's an old photograph, but do you think it has much artistic merit? OTOH, I'm starting to think that some of the alterations made by freepers improved the composition ;-)
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posted on
01/05/2007 12:48:42 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: SpringheelJack
The horse was the prototype of the Yugo.
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posted on
01/05/2007 12:54:10 PM PST
by
xarmydog
To: MediaMole
83
posted on
01/06/2007 1:58:36 AM PST
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
To: SpringheelJack
Looks like a demoncrat taking a rest from beating a dead horse.
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posted on
01/06/2007 2:48:37 AM PST
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
To: fontman
Mention my name in Sheboygan!
LOL! Bob & Ray rule!
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posted on
01/06/2007 2:54:45 AM PST
by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
To: FrPR; iceskater; SpringheelJack; Sam Cree; Republicanprofessor; Joe 6-pack
Family tradition and oral lore is offered to help you folks clear up the "mystery" about this photo. That dapper gentleman is my Great-Great Uncle Twice Removed, Ole, He was always known as a snappy dresser.
The horse died after accidentally ingesting some left-over lutefisk at a St. Olaf's Day Celebration out there in Minnesota. Unfortunately, there was no antidote readily available, the akvavit having been consumed some hours earlier.
Uncle Ole was snapped while waiting for a taxi, and making sure no one stole the horse shoes. There were rumors of a Swedish plot, but there's no use flogging that particular ....
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posted on
01/07/2007 9:35:26 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
( Republicans could use an attack dog right about now.)
To: Kenny Bunk
Someone gave me a lutefisk lure for Christmas.
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posted on
01/07/2007 10:14:31 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: Sam Cree
Using lutefisk as bait is violation of every known Fish and Game Law in this country.
It is irresistible to every known species of fish, but causes lasting environmental damage. And please, don't leave it around where some horse might get a hold of it.
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posted on
01/08/2007 8:43:00 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
( Republicans could use an attack dog right about now.)
To: FrPR
The picture you mention was used as a frame filler behind an original Winslow Homer now hanging in the home of that other old Eli, John F. Kerry.
simply have a fellow bonesman ask Teresa for it and stop mucking about.
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posted on
01/08/2007 8:47:57 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
( Republicans could use an attack dog right about now.)
To: InvisibleChurch
But the original exposure times were sooooooooooooo long that they often used wire braces (behind their heads and shoulders) to keep from moving.
It's really hard to keep smiling for that long, and when you could only afford 1 photograph - Why waste it on a "corny" picture?
Also - the long exposure times were why Civil War pic's were a almost always of the dead. No problem getting the killed to pose, and the dead were behind the lines after the battle, so shooting a dead soldier (again) would not expose the photographer to bullets
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posted on
01/08/2007 8:57:45 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: uglybiker; lowbridge
A couple of questions, lowbridge:
1) Where is he in the Dallas cheerleader picture?
2) I have dialup, so I wasn't able to browse -- is there a photo of TG walking with Stalin and other folks, and they keep disappearing?
lowbridge, from a fan of your work... WT.
BTW, you owe me a keyboard for posting those Nigerian emails. We'll talk.
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posted on
01/11/2007 2:34:12 AM PST
by
Watery Tart
(And some here think it ONLY stands for RoadKillBeeberAssociation!)
To: Watery Tart
1) Where is he in the Dallas cheerleader picture? Third row from the top, second from the right.
2) I have dialup, so I wasn't able to browse -- is there a photo of TG walking with Stalin and other folks, and they keep disappearing?
Not on my site.
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posted on
01/11/2007 7:00:08 AM PST
by
lowbridge
("I wonder if he's in touch with the critics out there, like Matt Damon, the actor" -Chris Matthews)
To: P8riot
My neighbor's mare died while birthing a foal (and thefoal died too). My husband had to help him dismantle the side of the stall and then remove the exterior door of the adjoining stall and then haul the mare out into the open in much the same way you describe. (The vet had already taken the foal to his establishment in an attempt to save him.) It was an all day job. I don't remember it smelling, however. It was still cool (Wisconsin) and the horses had not been dead long.
I just remember that my neighbor (a man) was sobbing at the loss of his brood mare and her beautiful foal.
To: SpringheelJack
Excuse me, but do you happen to have any gray poop on?
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posted on
01/11/2007 6:26:15 PM PST
by
XEHRpa
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