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I'm not sure if it can get any better than this.
Posted by: Jasper | November 05, 2007 at 04:00 PM
What's the one with the Pope supposed to be.
I got a laugh from the Olympic winners because I thought initially it was a reference to the guys who did the Black Power salute. It would have been a funnier choice I think.
Posted by: \_escarpment | November 05, 2007 at 05:30 PM
How wonderfully random these are.
@ escarpment: It's a recreation of a photo of John Paul II forgiving his would-be assassin.
Posted by: Listener James from Westwood | November 05, 2007 at 08:27 PM
the olympics? pretty sure that's the screaming napalm girl. who cares about oswald, but the other two are documents of unbelievable cruelty and suffering you and i will never know. so it's hilarious to take some doddering senior citizens, when you aren't making them sing sonic youth so you can enjoy their kitch value (maybe you missed that, go look it up, you'll like it) and give them a day's entertainment so you can snigger with your hipster friends about how delicious it all is. whatever.
Posted by: andy | November 05, 2007 at 09:21 PM
This is soooooooo good
Thanks Brian
Posted by: Paulo Martins | November 06, 2007 at 09:12 AM
Wait, where's the Buddhist monk burning himself to death?
Posted by: Parq | November 06, 2007 at 09:54 AM
You're right Andy, old folks have no damn place in art!
Posted by: CJ | November 06, 2007 at 11:26 AM
I'd like to see a sequel with the Abu Ghraib butt pyramid and the Paris Hilton sex tape.
Posted by: Doctor_gogol | November 06, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Before I read the headline, I thought that top photo was just a bunch of geezers reenacting a publicity still of the Fall circa "This Nation's Saving Grace," which is a really sad comment on me, more than anything else.
Posted by: Seb | November 06, 2007 at 02:06 PM
I'm a Glasgow senior, so I'm getting a real kick out of these replies, etc, etc.
Seriously, these are in remarkably poor taste. Perfect for WFMU!
Posted by: Ed Dunkle | November 06, 2007 at 05:22 PM
Today's "poor taste" is tomorrow's hilarity.
Posted by: Jeffersonic | November 07, 2007 at 02:47 AM
I believe that one with the Pope is based on a photo of him meeting in jail with the guy who tried to assassinate him. Meanwhile, andy was in such a rush to funsuck and buzzstomp that he didn't realize that the Olympics photo in question was to be found at the link, not on this site. As for the Olympics pic, that is the Black Power salute moment, isn't it? If not, what is it?
Posted by: forked tongue | November 07, 2007 at 12:44 PM
I did realize it later but didn't think that changed my point, exactly, so didn't bother to add a correction; maybe I should have. I also found a link where seniors act out the entirety of a 45 minute video of potty training for retarded children. It's great art and it would make your heads explode, but I seem to have mislaid the link...sorry!
Posted by: andy | November 07, 2007 at 08:57 PM
The Olympics photo represents Jesse Owens receiving a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
http://www.yale.edu/terc/democracy/may1text/images/JesseOwens.jpg
Posted by: Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss | November 07, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Surprised they didn't ask the lady depicting the little Vietnamese girl to strip naked. I have to agree with the "Nays" on these. Are there some delightful vignettes of the Holocaust, or black people hanging from trees as well?
Posted by: Dale Hazelton | November 08, 2007 at 10:05 AM
TOMMY: Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
RENTON: I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the fucking low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any fucking difference.
Posted by: K | November 08, 2007 at 12:53 PM
The first photo is the napalm girl. I think everyone's seen the second photo. The third photo has nothing to do with the Pope; it's Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald. Do I win something?
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Posted by: WEL | March 23, 2008 at 02:59 PM
getting done for a penknife is small potatoes compared to this
Posted by: davie | April 26, 2008 at 10:57 PM