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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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 Posted - 10/09/2008 : 01:36:59
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Penguins are gazing in the direction of war, anger is once again tearing open my chest.   |
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Larry 
"Larry's time / sat merrily"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 03:24:11
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Nothing says war like victory. |
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w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 03:31:13
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| The picture that defines the Vietnam War to me. |
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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MguyX
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 05:34:14
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| Nothing says war like casualties. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 08:51:17
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Picasso's Guernica humanizes war.
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Wheelz 
"FWFR%u2019ing like it%u2019s 1999"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 13:48:01
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A cool album cover (remember those, kids?) from my youth.
I especially like the dichotomy between the band's name and the album title. |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 14:05:15
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| Wish I could get my hands on this cool cheese T. |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 19:03:22
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WARfarin has been useful for waging WAR on rats. Some populations have become WARfarin resistant, so other anticoagulants have become more popular.
Here's your WARfarin history lesson.
Note to Cheese (a useful rat trap bait, btw):
Be sure to keep backup copies of the avatars. All my sites will be migrated to a new server by next Monday. |
Edited by - duh on 10/09/2008 19:04:41 |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 20:18:14
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quote:
Originally posted by duh Improper Username
WARfarin has been useful for waging WAR on rats. Some populations have become WARfarin resistant, so other anticoagulants have become more popular.
Here's your WARfarin history lesson.
Note to Cheese (a useful rat trap bait, btw):
Be sure to keep backup copies of the avatars. All my sites will be migrated to a new server by next Monday.
Which avs should I have backups of? Just the winners and the current round? Everything else icing, no? |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 20:31:47
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| Yes, I know there's a movie call "Chocolate Wars" but the real chocolate war is the one between Hershey and Mars! |
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Koli
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 21:54:23
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It's so easy to take a pop at George Bush that I decided to look for something different.
But I was drawn to this portrait of G W Bush, because it's made up of the photos of US servicemen killed in Iraq.
I can't show the larger version, because the file is too big, but if you find a large one on the net you can make out the faces of the individuals that make up the whole.
I believe it's called War President. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 22:09:03
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quote:
Originally posted by Koli
It's so easy to take a pop at George Bush that I decided to look for something different.
But I was drawn to this portrait of G W Bush, because it's made up of the photos of US servicemen killed in Iraq.
I can't show the larger version, because the file is too big, but if you find a large one on the net you can make out the faces of the individuals that make up the whole.
I believe it's called War President.
Look here
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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 10/11/2008 : 08:10:05
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I've been playing avatar for long enough to know that this isn't a winner, but I couldn't not enter this week.
I visited one of the nazi concentration camps with my parents when I was about 15 (horrified now to say I am not even sure which one), it had very little impact on me. Part of that may have been age, but part of it was that the place itself didn't "connect" with me in any way - the atrocities that had happened there were to big to imagine, I couldn't personalise the experience in any way. The gas chamber was a room, it couldn't be a room where men, women and children were slaughtered. There was no way to bring the experience down to my level, to make it or the victims 'real', the scale and strength of the atrocity was beyond my ability to understand, and the buildings where it had happened couldn't change that.
About 3 years ago after a visit to Angkor Wat I started reading up on Cambodian history. So on a short trip last year to Phnom Penh, the capital, I made sure to visit Tuol Sleng, or S21, an interrogation centre set up by the Khmer Rouge after they took power in a civil war in 1975. I knew a fair bit about the prison before going, and knew that its 'central exhibit' was rows of photos of the victims. Based on my experiences previously I didn't really expect to get too much out of visitng Tuol Sleng.
We wandered around the some of the torture chambers and cells, and I thought maybe age and maturity would enable a greater effect on me than the concentration camp had 20 years before, but it didn't. It was all very horrific and shocking, but I still couldn't connect the dots, I couldn't make it 'real'
Then we hit the photos.
The Khmer Rouge were great record keepers, and they photographed and catalogued every admission to the prison for its 5 years or so of existence. Of the 17,000 who entered Tuol Sleng, only 12 people came out alive.
I can't explain the impact the photos had on me. They aren't particularly gruesome or disturbing in themselves (they are 'passport style' photos taken as the prisoners were admitted), but it smashed into context the place where i was. I looked deep into the eyes of row upon row of people who would within weeks be dead, and likely tortured and mutilated.
Row on row on row, men, soldiers, women, children, I'd been looking at them choking back tears for about an hour, I lost my wife who was probably sitting outside bored waiting for me. She wasn't outside, she was staring, tears streaming down her face, at rows of childrens' faces, every one of them murdered shortly after the photo was taken.
I really can't explain the impact it had on me, I am a cynic at heart and I knew what to expect, but every photo told a story of a life, a life that would be demolished so soon afterwards.
Anyway, that's why I'm choosing this as my entry for this week; it made me cry the only tears I've ever cried for anything other than the death of a close family member. |
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Koli
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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Posted - 10/11/2008 : 18:07:22
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quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
quote:
Originally posted by Koli
It's so easy to take a pop at George Bush that I decided to look for something different.
But I was drawn to this portrait of G W Bush, because it's made up of the photos of US servicemen killed in Iraq.
I can't show the larger version, because the file is too big, but if you find a large one on the net you can make out the faces of the individuals that make up the whole.
I believe it's called War President.
Look here
Thanks BB. Nice one. |
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MguyX
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 10/11/2008 : 23:47:54
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| Very poignant, bife. |
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Avatar Contest #232 - WAR!
