Random PICTURE of the day thread *KEEP IT WORK SAFE*

[CJ-95GT]

Poor little Tommy.

[Strychnine]

Ironic George Washington portrait in the background


Replace "officer" with "first lady"

"Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title."

- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment, Jan. 8, 1756

Or maybe this is better:

"Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds."

- GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783

[46Tbird]

Damndest thing I have ever seen.

[Strychnine]

Damndest thing I have ever seen.

Dude... that's fucked up.

Look at how precise the legs on the opposite side of the body are drawn. Zero overlap on the legs in the foreground. That animal has a better grasp of drawing with perspective than a lot of humans.

[Venix]

Dude... that's fucked up.

Look at how precise the legs on the opposite side of the body are drawn. Zero overlap on the legs in the foreground. That animal has a better grasp of drawing with perspective than a lot of humans.

The fact that these creatures can be taught to do this shows that one day, given the chance, they could develop other higher abilities. Who knows, but I am sure we will kill them all off before then.

[CexMashean]

The fact that these creatures can be taught to do this shows that one day, given the chance, they could develop other higher abilities. Who knows, but I am sure we will kill them all off before then.

Or go broke providing them with welfare benefits some day.

[bird_dog0347]

Damndest thing I have ever seen.

Artist Elephant

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Artist Elephant that is WAY better at painting elephants than I am

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[DON SVO]

Or go broke providing them with welfare benefits some day.

You have won my daily innernetz.

[CJ]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/elephantpainting.asp

To most of the members of the audience, what they have seen appears to be almost miraculous. Elephants must surely be almost human in intelligence if they can paint pictures of flowers and trees in this way. What the audience overlooks are the actions of the mahouts as their animals are at work.

This oversight is understandable because it is difficult to drag your eyes away from the brushes that are making the lines and spots. However, if you do so, you will notice that, with each mark, the mahout tugs at his elephant's ear.

He nudges it up and down to get the animal to make a vertical line, or pulls it sideways to get a horizontal one. To encourage spots and blobs he tugs the ear forward, towards the canvas. So, very sadly, the design the elephant is making is not hers but his. There is no elephantine invention, no creativity, just slavish copying.

Investigating further, after the show is over, it emerges that each of the so-called artistic animals always produces exactly the same image, time after time, day after day, and week after week. Mook always paints a bunch of flowers, Christmas always does a tree, and Pimtong a climbing plant. Each elephant works to a set routine, guided by her master.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals...CkyX2KolCEE.99

[mstng86]

^^^way to burst a bubble

[Cannon88]

"first lady"

What.the.fuck.

[CJ]

What.the.fuck.

[crapstang]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals...ntpainting.asp

The fact that these creatures can be taught to do this shows that one day, given the chance, they could develop other higher abilities. Who knows, but I am sure we will kill them all off before then.

Well, that just took a dump on that idea.

[line-em-up]

Ironic George Washington portrait in the background


Replace "officer" with "first lady"

"Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title."

- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment, Jan. 8, 1756

Or maybe this is better:

"Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds."

- GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783

You can take the ".." out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the "..".

[Strychnine]

However, if you do so, you will notice that, with each mark, the mahout tugs at his elephant's ear.

He nudges it up and down to get the animal to make a vertical line, or pulls it sideways to get a horizontal one. To encourage spots and blobs he tugs the ear forward, towards the canvas. So, very sadly, the design the elephant is making is not hers but his. There is no elephantine invention, no creativity, just slavish copying.

So it's a 12,000 lb Etch-A-Skech.