"The Terrorists have won the toss and have elected to receive!" B-52 photo: Who created this?

BIN-LADEN WINS COIN TOSS!! ELECTS TO RECIEVE!! [Free Republic] ^ | 09/27/2001 | Bob McCown, RaceBannon, ASA Vet, archy, and various others via e-mail

[RonDog]

Have you seen THIS photograph? Do you know WHO created it??

posted by ASA Vet on 9/28/2001

On Friday, September 28, nationally syndicated conservative talk host Hugh Hewitt described this photo on his radio show, citing FreeRepublic as his source, and giving credit to the post by ASA Vet in particular.

Since then, Hugh's webmistress, Lynne (the WebXena) has reported HUNDREDS of requests for a link to this photo, and has posted a link to a DIFFERENT FR THREAD, with an image posted by FReeper archy, on www.HughHewitt.com.

An earlier thread with this image was started by RaceBannon on 9/27/2001 at 12:30:59 PDT.

1 - Is there an EARLIER post of this image anywhere on Free Republic?

2 - Does anyone know who "Bob McCown" is?
(MOST images posted seem to have the name "Bob McCown" printed in the lower right-hand corner.)

3 - Who is the REAL creator of this masterpiece? (And, can you PROVE it?)

Thank you.

[Aerial]

I received an email the other day with a picture of an F117 Stealth with words "written" across the bottom of the plane that said, "If you can read this, you're F*$cked"......

Hey...I got that same email.

[RonDog]

Sorry, WIlady - I missed the "Warm and Fuzzy" link to this same image way back on your post 17.

Good stuff, Randy!

[xinga]

What is that beat-up old building in the back? It is on Barksdale AFB somewhere, right?

It says "Barksdale" behind the tail right? Who says we're "beat-up"? The military has been using WWII buildings since, well, WWII.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Do you know how to post it? LiberteeBell and I would be your new friends if you would..... :)

[Aerial]

Here's what I got. Hope I don't get banned for posting it. Putting it up by request...please forgive the bad language on the plane.

[Aerial]

Did you get the email with the stealth bomber too?

[StriperSniper]

No, someone here at FreeRepublic posted a link to it. I just copied the pic and not the URL. I don't think you will get banned but it may be removed. We need someone to change it to F***ed so it can stay. I wish I knew how to do it myself.

[RonDog]

See also post 30 in this thread, for a link to the same image.

[RonDog]

Hey, LBGA - You said that you fixed the spelling of "recieved" in the earlier version of the B-52 photo.

Can you help here?

[RonDog]

Did you hear the "blond joke" about the blond secretary who used up a whole bottle of White-Out trying to fix just ONE mistake?

She got the stuff ALL OVER her computer's screen.

JUST KIDDING, ladies!

[Fearless Flyers]

Who ever created this image is a Patriot and I thank him. I have to wonder if we aren't creating a target for terrorist unintentionally by trying to find this man. I might be uncomfortable if I saw information about myself being put together in one place as I am seeing here.

[Aerial]

Is this better?

[StriperSniper]

Bravo!

LetsRoll!!!

[LBGA]

Hey RonDog! Nice to see you! I can't help any more than to show the pic that was posted on 9/25 that I saved. I always send pics of current events and editorial comment to my son, so I saved it when it was first posted, I think by Teacup.

Here is the one that showed up on RaceBannon's thread on 9/27 (also shown at the top of this thread):

Here is the one that was created on 9/25 and posted:

Here is my correction of that 9/25 pic. I only corrected it because I didn't want my son to "i" comes before "e" EVEN after "c." ;-)

Notice on the 9/25 pic the sig in the lower right corner is blurry, but apparently says "Bob." In the one you posted, it looks to me like the sig was corrected because the background is different, but it probably is the same "Bob."

I could tell that the one you posted was not the one I corrected and posted to RaceBannon's thread when his didn't show up because the "e" is in front of the tail on mine and the "d" is in front of the tail on the one you posted here.

I first saw the original pic without the text on Yahoo Photos the day before it was posted here. It was a file photo, one of many of our war planes and ships which I looked through when trying to find a pic for the "Warm and Fuzzy" thread. Obviously, someone else saw those pics on Yahoo and was super creative.

[RonDog]

Wow. Thanks, LBGA!

Your NEXT mission, should you choose to accept it, is to:

1 - Fix the OTHER great image that is circulating via the Internet, "If you can read this..."
We need someone to "WhiteOut" part of the F-word, so that is suitable for posting on this FAMILY forum.
(There is a link to it at post 30 of this thread, but it is difficult for me to post HTML from this old machine. You can click on To 30 that THIS REPLY has immediately following it, then click on the "OSAMA" link that you find there to go directly to the offending version of that image.)

[RonDog]

Part 2 - How, exactly, does a relative "newbie" learn to "doctor" images, so that more of us can create these wonderful pictures?

What (cheap and easy) software do you recommend for beginners?

(ANYONE can chime in here with their advice. Thank you!)

[RonDog]

Not "OSAMA" - the link on post 30 says, "Look up, Bin-Laden"

[lowbridge]

Part 2 - How, exactly, does a relative "newbie" learn to "doctor" images, so that more of us can create these wonderful pictures?

There is only one way for the newbie to learn: Just get the proper software for it and experiment. push buttons, find out what they do. That's how I started. And I learned as I went along.

What (cheap and easy) software do you recommend for beginners?

I have Photoshop 5.0 and Paint Shop Pro 6.0 They are not cheap but they ARE easy. Photoshop costs somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 bucks. I bought my photoshop and paintshop off of a Yahoo auction for 30 bucks. (Backup copies) Plus, because they were back up copies, they didn't come with the instructions (You can buy books on the how to's of photoshop and paint shop pro).

The photoshop software came with only four lessons in PDF format on what one can do with the software, so using those few lessons, I taught myself how to use the photoshop. And what the lessons didn't tell me (which was alot), I had to discover on my own. I just didn't want to go through the added expense of books on photoshop or paintshop pro (there are many).

I myself prefer photoshop over paint shop pro. The photoshop can do much more than paintshop. Photoshop has many more tools and is quite easier to work with than paint shop.

However, the reason why I bought paintshop was for the animation software that came with it so that I can add animation to my images.