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To: sitetest; secret garden
I'm afraid that I don't get the dig about the photo.

Thank you for resolving that. I did not see that photo from home -- people forget that there are those of us who, for whatever reason, still use dialup (and mine only gets up to 26 kbps).

13 posted on 03/18/2005 7:34:26 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Iran Azadi || Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?)
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To: sionnsar

Dear sionnsar,

Well, if the arrangement of the photo was intentional, you really are missing a doozy. ;-)

The 35 primates are arranged, all dressed up in their bishop get-ups, in front of the altar of a church (I guess that's what it is).

In the front row, sitting, in the middle, is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sitting with him are another eight bishops. A row back, there are another nine or so bishops. All standing.

A row further back are another group of perhaps nine or 10 bishops. The distance from the first row is starting to get noticeable, as the images of the folks in the third row are clearly smaller than that of the first row.

Another row back, a smaller number of bishops, becoming increasingly indistinct.

Still one more row back, in a fifth row, there appear to be two or three bishops. Bishop Griswold is in this group, although I'm not sure that he is actually in the fifth row with the other two bishops, or all alone, set back just a little bit further in his very own, special sixth row. He doesn't appear to be as close to the front as the other fellow to his left. Also, he is higher up than the fellow to his left, who appears to me not to be such a short guy. I've never seen Bishop Griswold in person, but he doesn't appear to be quite as tall as the picture would make him out to be if he were, indeed, in the fifth row.

Anyway, fifth row with two other fellows, or all alone in the back, it appears that he is doing his level best to try to crane his neck over the top of the entire host of primates who are in front of him, so that some part of his little square head can get in the photo.

The look on his face is somewhat indistinct, as he is so far from the camera that it would have been better for him to take the shot with a telephoto lens, but my best guess is that it is the look of a younger sibling looking up at the older brother and the older brother's friends, hoping to be included in the activities of the "big boys."

To give you some idea of just how far back he is, in absolute size in the photo, his head is half the size of Archbishop Williams' head.


sitetest


14 posted on 03/18/2005 7:55:35 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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