While I'm Away
Even if I the gods of Mars have aligned to allow me brief access at work, it does not matter. I've been on a vacation for a week. Any idea what my desk looks like today?
I do have something for you to do while I'm hard at work, though.
Caption either of these two pictures taken in Alabama at CommandmentPallooza.
I've been having fun imagining just what that soul-enriched, commandment loving man in the first picture is saying.
Fake prizes awarded later. Have fun, entertain me while I slay the file monster residing on my desk.
Comments
"Hey Cooter, pull mah fanger!"
Posted by: dave | August 28, 2003 10:22 AM
picture 2
Sobbing over the fallen body of his brother Cooter, Cletus says "I TOLD ya never ta pull ol' EarlWayne's fanger, but you was never much for listnin', was ya?"
Posted by: dave | August 28, 2003 10:29 AM
Picture 1: "Find me some french fries so I can feed my florid face."
Posted by: McGehee | August 28, 2003 10:32 AM
Top
"Move that monument, and God will strike you dead."
Bottom
Man on ground: "Why, God, why didn't you strike them dead?"
Posted by: Morpheus | August 28, 2003 10:33 AM
Picture 1:
"Ugh...ugh...one more push and that turd'll come right out..."
Posted by: Rachel | August 28, 2003 10:34 AM
Picture 2: Tragically, the Alabama CPR course left out one small detail, such as that it's best administered to the victim's chest.
Posted by: McGehee | August 28, 2003 10:34 AM
PICTURE 2:
"Uh, let's back up a step.... First, let's make sure the victim is face up before starting CPR"
Posted by: JFH | August 28, 2003 10:35 AM
Dang, MCGehee beat me by 30 secs.
Posted by: JFH | August 28, 2003 10:36 AM
"And I'm telling you Goddard was never HALF as important to the French New Wave as Truffaut was!"
Posted by: Steve | August 28, 2003 10:37 AM
Picture 1: "I can topple this thing with one push of my finger. Don't mess with... uh... Alabama."
Picture 2: "Dan, I did warn you about being shot from the back. And the cameraman gave you fair warning too... they're a vicious bunch them meeja-hoors"
Posted by: D | August 28, 2003 10:37 AM
PIC One
Mumbled while lips glued shut "You can't take away my freedom of speech!"
PIC Two
"Damn. These Fundamentalists do talk out of their asses!"
Posted by: Big Bri | August 28, 2003 10:40 AM
F-f-father forgive me for what I'm about to...
Aw, hell! #)(*$#(&*&%$%)$)(#_$_~!!!
Posted by: Mark Alger | August 28, 2003 10:51 AM
Picture One:
Fuck it! Why am I the only one not wearing a fucking hat?!! Look, even that guy's wearing one!
Picture Two:
This massage would be a might more fulfilling if you was wearing a wife beater like me.
Posted by: Ryan | August 28, 2003 10:57 AM
better yet, Ryan:
"Ay! That shit aint funny! Yew better gimme back mah John Deere hat raht now, yew muterfuckerrr! Don't make me whoop yo ass, boy!"
Posted by: dave | August 28, 2003 11:31 AM
#1: "You young kinds don't know doodly squat. When I was a tot, all that was trees and farmland, not these gawt-damned strip malls."
#2: AP Photowire: Billy Jo Raymond Bryant, age 34, uses a battery powered compressor to reinflate Jim "Pete" Hutchins, 25, who was squashed by the 2 ton monument to the Ten Commandments as he attempted to prevent it's removal from the Montgomery Alabama Courhouse.
Posted by: Jason | August 28, 2003 11:32 AM
Pic1:
"Ah aam thu Greatest..."
Pic2:
"Jeezus, Denny? When I told you where to stick your monument, I was only feching kidding, okay?"
Posted by: Hoodie Craw | August 28, 2003 12:23 PM
Pic 2:
"It's OK, I'm sure Indymedia will call you an 'enemy' too. They just got to Michele first, is all."
Posted by: Thlayli | August 28, 2003 01:01 PM
#1: Actually, here's what he's really saying.
#2: Poor Chester's first clumsy foray into the world of hot gay sex was forever ruined when he couldn't figure out that his partner's balls weren't located on his left shoulder blade.
Posted by: Chris | August 28, 2003 01:16 PM
Meanwhile, in a related story, just next door to Alabama, the two candidates for the position of Mississippi State Governor are engaged in an orgy of "Ten Commandments Statue Loving" to attract the (very large) conservative christian vote in the upcoming November Gubernatorial race.
incumbent Governor, Ronnie Musgrove (a Democrat who looks like he should be a republican - some smarmy upban accountant or PR reptile) has promised to have the statue on display in the State Capitol for a week. To counter this, hopeful Haley Barbour (a republican who looks like he shoudl be a democrat - the plumber or a/c maintenance man, complete with ass cleavage) wants to get the statue and place it in the Mississippi Governor's mansion.
God save me from religious fundamentalists.
The ten commandments are not a christian thing - they are part of the jewish religion.
Posted by: Ken | August 28, 2003 01:41 PM
Picture 1: "No really. I think that is Jennifer Anniston."
Picture 2: "Just hold still. I'll have this bee stinger out of your ass in no time."
Posted by: Jeremy | August 28, 2003 02:00 PM
...critics say it was the low budget that killed the E.T. sequel.
In photo #1, we see Ken Barnett portraying a non-convincing E.T., re-creating the famous pose from the first movie. Even Steven Spielberg, shown in the back with the blue hat, seems to realize this production will be going straight to the bargain-bin video racks.
In photo #2, we see a behind-the-scenes shot of the new movie's end, when E.T. has gone back home yet again. Sadly, Henry Thomas (seen here face down), reprising his role as Elliot, just doesn't seem to have the same charm as when he was a young kid.
This is a good example of why some movies should never have sequels....
Posted by: ScottC | August 28, 2003 02:04 PM
#1: Ken Barnett seems to forget here, that while he has a finger pointed at the workers removing the monument, he has three pointed back at himself....
#2: "Don't you see?!? It's all beginning to happen! First, they take the monument away, then the Dow Jones Industrial Average dips exactly 6.66 points - tell me that's just coincidence - And it's just going to get worse from there!"
Posted by: ScottC | August 28, 2003 02:13 PM
Picture #1: An aged Neo points defiantly at an encroaching throng of hat-wearing Agent Smiths.
Picture #2: On the opening day of redneck season, Hank Fredericks bagged a 232 lb. Alabama drawler. The kill, the 3rd biggest in state history, will be stuffed and hung over Fredericks' mantel.
Posted by: Ryan | August 28, 2003 02:32 PM
The locals are trying to go on with their lives as normally as they can. Meanwhile, these pictures show that outside agitators come in to fight the decisions of the U.S. government because they percieve a threat to the purity and superiority of their religion.
This is not an easy time for Iraq, er...uh...I mean, Alabama.
Posted by: ScottC | August 28, 2003 03:05 PM
Pic 2:
Bless us, O Lord,
For these, your gifts,
Which we are about to receive
From the bounty
of Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
Posted by: Faith | August 28, 2003 03:32 PM
Picture 1.
My mom told me that if I kept making this face it would stick. I guess she was right.
Pic 2.
YOU KILLED KENNY!!!
YOU BASTARDS!!!
Posted by: freako | August 28, 2003 04:31 PM
I think the site itself said it best~
"Stamp out god-haters.
Gimme a dollar."
Posted by: Bsti | August 28, 2003 05:08 PM
Picture 1:
"I didn't get a 'harrumph' outta that guy."
Picture 2:
"I told you that a screaming tantrum didn't work, Bubba. Don't you watch Texas politics?"
Posted by: margi | August 28, 2003 07:59 PM
Photo 1:
"...an' then Samuel L. Jackson goes, 'An' you will KNOW mah name is THE LORD when ah lay mah vengeance upon thee!'"
Photo 2"
"Don't turn around, that cameraman's looking at your ass. DON'T make eye contact, maybe he'll go away."
Posted by: edward ocean | August 28, 2003 11:58 PM
I think Edward wins for Pic 1!!!!
Posted by: Faith | August 29, 2003 02:00 AM
Hey, does anyone have a high quality picture of the monument they could send me? Thanks.
Posted by: Shane | September 10, 2003 10:12 PM