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Mulch Ennui

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02-17-2006 07:43

Cuz shes a woman...

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Sally Rosebud

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02-17-2006 07:46

http://www.wreckedexotics.com

for several pictures of what happens when men drive

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Ordinal Malaprop

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02-17-2006 07:53

I would have thought being dead made a bit more difference.

Reitsuki Kojima

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02-17-2006 07:53

I dunno, a few things about that picture seem odd to me.

For one, there doesn't appear to be any damage to the boat itself... If the car was moving fast enough to bridge that distance with that amount of drop, I would think there would be more damage, both to the car and the boat.

For another, note that the teather is slack... That weight distribution should put downward pressure on one side of the boat, causing the boat to drift away from the pier... resulting in a tensed rope, not a slack one.

A few spots have peculiar blurs... note the grey-white blur on the bottom of the door frame, for example.

I'm thinking fake?

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Gabe Lippmann

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02-17-2006 07:53

Why dogs don't drive...

http://www.dogsinthenews.com/issues/0212/articles/021222a.htm

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Joy Honey

Not just another dumass

Join date: 17 Jun 2005

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02-17-2006 08:13

From: Reitsuki Kojima

I dunno, a few things about that picture seem odd to me.

For one, there doesn't appear to be any damage to the boat itself... If the car was moving fast enough to bridge that distance with that amount of drop, I would think there would be more damage, both to the car and the boat.

For another, note that the teather is slack... That weight distribution should put downward pressure on one side of the boat, causing the boat to drift away from the pier... resulting in a tensed rope, not a slack one.

A few spots have peculiar blurs... note the grey-white blur on the bottom of the door frame, for example.

I'm thinking fake?

It looks real to me - like the car was stopped with its front wheels on the boat, the boat started to slowly drift out, car was not in park (could be a manual transmission and was not in gear either), car drifted with the boat, coming to rest on its bumpers. But, I could be wrong, don't have my glasses on, either

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Euterpe Roo

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02-17-2006 08:41

From: Mulch Ennui

Cuz shes a woman...

Then, shouldn't she be driving this?

http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/art/car.jpg

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Zuzu Fassbinder

Little Miss No Tomorrow

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02-17-2006 08:44

From: Euterpe Roo

Then, shouldn't she be driving this?

http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/art/car.jpg

Did the guys on American Chopper build that?

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ZsuZsanna Raven

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02-17-2006 08:49

From: Reitsuki Kojima

I dunno, a few things about that picture seem odd to me.

For one, there doesn't appear to be any damage to the boat itself... If the car was moving fast enough to bridge that distance with that amount of drop, I would think there would be more damage, both to the car and the boat.

For another, note that the teather is slack... That weight distribution should put downward pressure on one side of the boat, causing the boat to drift away from the pier... resulting in a tensed rope, not a slack one.

A few spots have peculiar blurs... note the grey-white blur on the bottom of the door frame, for example.

I'm thinking fake?

That and she's pretty dry...unless she tp'd over to the dock.

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Burke Prefect

Cafe Owner, Superhero

Join date: 29 Oct 2004

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02-17-2006 08:58

Dude, where's my car?
Dude, you wedged it between the boat and the dock.
Man, I guess I should have fixed the parking brake.

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Cybin Monde

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fake or real?

02-17-2006 09:04

then again.. check out the window that the front of the car is up against, you can see the blinds inside the boat are pushed according to the position of the car's nose.. and there's no glass in it, possibly due to shattering?

the shadows look to match up between the boat, car, woman and the rest of the picture.

i see the little blur, but it looks like it's either something moving or a slight smudge/spot of water on the lens.. or possibly on the window (or whatever it is) that the picture is taken from. (see? look in the top corners.. is that the edges of a port-hole? a lens cover? hmm..)

and it's possible that the boat isn't out further because the car is acting as an anchor keeping it from floating out further.

sure.. she's dry, but she may have crawled out and over the car to dry land. or maybe she isn't the driver? just having a friend take a picture to show friends back home?

whatever the specifcs, i'd say it's real.. i'm just not sure how such an odd thing happened.

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Gabe Lippmann

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02-17-2006 09:09

From: Cybin Monde

that the picture is taken from. (see? look in the top corners.. is that the edges of a port-hole? a lens cover? hmm..)

That is odd looking. Certainly not a porthole from that angle, I would think.

I thought the rope might not even be tied to anything, but it is seriously easy to move a boat and the impact of the car....idk....i don't care, it looks funny.

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Joy Honey

Not just another dumass

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02-17-2006 09:11

DAMMIT MULCH!!! I can't alt+zoom on the picture to verify if it's real or not

Seriously, where'd you come across this pic?

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Siobhan OFlynn

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02-17-2006 12:40

This is what happens when you let Floridians drive

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Mulch Ennui

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02-17-2006 15:13

From: Joy Honey

DAMMIT MULCH!!! I can't alt+zoom on the picture to verify if it's real or not

Seriously, where'd you come across this pic?

just google image search "woman driver"

rofl!!!

now who in the world stole Neehais motercycle?

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Juro Kothari

Like a dog on a bone

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02-17-2006 19:43

From: Sally Rosebud

http://www.wreckedexotics.com

for several pictures of what happens when men drive

That site makes me cry. All those nice, expensive cars. *sniff*

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Joy Honey

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02-17-2006 19:44

From: Mulch Ennui

just google image search "woman driver"

rofl!!!

now who in the world stole Neehais motercycle?

LMAO

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Euterpe Roo

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02-17-2006 20:03

From: Mulch Ennui

just google image search "woman driver"

rofl!!!

now who in the world stole Neehais motercycle?

"Feels like a pump, drives like a sneaker"

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Garoad Kuroda

Prophet of Muppetry

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02-18-2006 18:54

They didn't drive the thing into that position obviously. I've always thought it happened exactly how Joy explained it. It rolled, hit the boat, the boat started floating out further... and use your imagination from there.

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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!

Why Can't Helen Keller Drive a Car?
Mulch Ennui 15 Minutes are Over Join date: 22 May 2005 Posts: 2,607	02-17-2006 07:43 Cuz shes a woman... _____________________ I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. http://forums.secondcitizen.com/
Sally Rosebud the girl next door Join date: 3 May 2005 Posts: 2,505	02-17-2006 07:46 http://www.wreckedexotics.com for several pictures of what happens when men drive _____________________ "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" ~Ernest Hemingway
Ordinal Malaprop really very ordinary Join date: 9 Sep 2005 Posts: 4,607	02-17-2006 07:53 I would have thought being dead made a bit more difference.
Reitsuki Kojima Witchhunter Join date: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 5,328	02-17-2006 07:53 I dunno, a few things about that picture seem odd to me. For one, there doesn't appear to be any damage to the boat itself... If the car was moving fast enough to bridge that distance with that amount of drop, I would think there would be more damage, both to the car and the boat. For another, note that the teather is slack... That weight distribution should put downward pressure on one side of the boat, causing the boat to drift away from the pier... resulting in a tensed rope, not a slack one. A few spots have peculiar blurs... note the grey-white blur on the bottom of the door frame, for example. I'm thinking fake? _____________________ I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
Gabe Lippmann "Phone's ringing, Dude." Join date: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 4,219	02-17-2006 07:53 Why dogs don't drive... http://www.dogsinthenews.com/issues/0212/articles/021222a.htm _____________________ go to Nocturnal Threads
Joy Honey Not just another dumass Join date: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 3,751	02-17-2006 08:13 From: Reitsuki Kojima I dunno, a few things about that picture seem odd to me. For one, there doesn't appear to be any damage to the boat itself... If the car was moving fast enough to bridge that distance with that amount of drop, I would think there would be more damage, both to the car and the boat. For another, note that the teather is slack... That weight distribution should put downward pressure on one side of the boat, causing the boat to drift away from the pier... resulting in a tensed rope, not a slack one. A few spots have peculiar blurs... note the grey-white blur on the bottom of the door frame, for example. I'm thinking fake? It looks real to me - like the car was stopped with its front wheels on the boat, the boat started to slowly drift out, car was not in park (could be a manual transmission and was not in gear either), car drifted with the boat, coming to rest on its bumpers. But, I could be wrong, don't have my glasses on, either _____________________ Reality continues to ruin my life. - Calvin You have delighted us long enough. - Jane Austen Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Euterpe Roo The millionth monkey Join date: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 1,395	02-17-2006 08:41 From: Mulch Ennui Cuz shes a woman... Then, shouldn't she be driving this? http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/art/car.jpg _____________________ "Of course, you'd also have to mention . . . furries, Sith Lords, cyberpunks, glowing balls of gaseous neon fumes, and walking foodstuffs" --Cory Edo “One man developed a romantic attachment to a tractor, even giving it a name and writing poetry in its honor." MSN "next week: the .5m torus of "I ate a yummy sandwich and I'm sleepy now"" Desmond Shang
Zuzu Fassbinder Little Miss No Tomorrow Join date: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 2,048	02-17-2006 08:44 From: Euterpe Roo Then, shouldn't she be driving this? http://www.univie.ac.at/cga/art/car.jpg Did the guys on American Chopper build that? _____________________ From: Bud I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.
ZsuZsanna Raven ~:+: Supah Kitteh :+:~ Join date: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 2,361	02-17-2006 08:49 From: Reitsuki Kojima I dunno, a few things about that picture seem odd to me. For one, there doesn't appear to be any damage to the boat itself... If the car was moving fast enough to bridge that distance with that amount of drop, I would think there would be more damage, both to the car and the boat. For another, note that the teather is slack... That weight distribution should put downward pressure on one side of the boat, causing the boat to drift away from the pier... resulting in a tensed rope, not a slack one. A few spots have peculiar blurs... note the grey-white blur on the bottom of the door frame, for example. I'm thinking fake? That and she's pretty dry...unless she tp'd over to the dock. _____________________ ~Mewz!~
Burke Prefect Cafe Owner, Superhero Join date: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 2,785	02-17-2006 08:58 Dude, where's my car? Dude, you wedged it between the boat and the dock. Man, I guess I should have fixed the parking brake. _____________________ My Blog \| My Board \| My Cafe\| My Slex
Cybin Monde Resident Moderator (?) Join date: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 2,468	fake or real? 02-17-2006 09:04 then again.. check out the window that the front of the car is up against, you can see the blinds inside the boat are pushed according to the position of the car's nose.. and there's no glass in it, possibly due to shattering? the shadows look to match up between the boat, car, woman and the rest of the picture. i see the little blur, but it looks like it's either something moving or a slight smudge/spot of water on the lens.. or possibly on the window (or whatever it is) that the picture is taken from. (see? look in the top corners.. is that the edges of a port-hole? a lens cover? hmm..) and it's possible that the boat isn't out further because the car is acting as an anchor keeping it from floating out further. sure.. she's dry, but she may have crawled out and over the car to dry land. or maybe she isn't the driver? just having a friend take a picture to show friends back home? whatever the specifcs, i'd say it's real.. i'm just not sure how such an odd thing happened. _____________________ "We, as developers, are doing the easy part – building the scaffolding for a new world. You, as the engines of creation, must breathe life into it." - Philip Linden "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be." - Willy Wonka (circa 1971) SecondSpace (http://groups.myspace.com/secondspace) : MySpace group for SLers.
Gabe Lippmann "Phone's ringing, Dude." Join date: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 4,219	02-17-2006 09:09 From: Cybin Monde that the picture is taken from. (see? look in the top corners.. is that the edges of a port-hole? a lens cover? hmm..) That is odd looking. Certainly not a porthole from that angle, I would think. I thought the rope might not even be tied to anything, but it is seriously easy to move a boat and the impact of the car....idk....i don't care, it looks funny. _____________________ go to Nocturnal Threads
Joy Honey Not just another dumass Join date: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 3,751	02-17-2006 09:11 DAMMIT MULCH!!! I can't alt+zoom on the picture to verify if it's real or not Seriously, where'd you come across this pic? _____________________ Reality continues to ruin my life. - Calvin You have delighted us long enough. - Jane Austen Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Siobhan OFlynn Evildoer Join date: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 1,140	02-17-2006 12:40 This is what happens when you let Floridians drive _____________________ From: Starax Statosky Absolute freedom is heavenly. I'm sure they don't have a police force and resmods in heaven. From: pandastrong Fairplay omgeveryonegetoutofmythreadrightnowican'ttakeit From: Soleil Mirabeau I'll miss all of you assholes.
Mulch Ennui 15 Minutes are Over Join date: 22 May 2005 Posts: 2,607	02-17-2006 15:13 From: Joy Honey DAMMIT MULCH!!! I can't alt+zoom on the picture to verify if it's real or not Seriously, where'd you come across this pic? just google image search "woman driver" rofl!!! now who in the world stole Neehais motercycle? _____________________ I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. http://forums.secondcitizen.com/
Juro Kothari Like a dog on a bone Join date: 4 Sep 2003 Posts: 4,418	02-17-2006 19:43 From: Sally Rosebud http://www.wreckedexotics.com for several pictures of what happens when men drive That site makes me cry. All those nice, expensive cars. sniff _____________________
Joy Honey Not just another dumass Join date: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 3,751	02-17-2006 19:44 From: Mulch Ennui just google image search "woman driver" rofl!!! now who in the world stole Neehais motercycle? LMAO _____________________ Reality continues to ruin my life. - Calvin You have delighted us long enough. - Jane Austen Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Euterpe Roo The millionth monkey Join date: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 1,395	02-17-2006 20:03 From: Mulch Ennui just google image search "woman driver" rofl!!! now who in the world stole Neehais motercycle? "Feels like a pump, drives like a sneaker" _____________________ "Of course, you'd also have to mention . . . furries, Sith Lords, cyberpunks, glowing balls of gaseous neon fumes, and walking foodstuffs" --Cory Edo “One man developed a romantic attachment to a tractor, even giving it a name and writing poetry in its honor." MSN "next week: the .5m torus of "I ate a yummy sandwich and I'm sleepy now"" Desmond Shang
Garoad Kuroda Prophet of Muppetry Join date: 5 Sep 2003 Posts: 2,989	02-18-2006 18:54 They didn't drive the thing into that position obviously. I've always thought it happened exactly how Joy explained it. It rolled, hit the boat, the boat started floating out further... and use your imagination from there. _____________________ BTW WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!

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