This week, That One. Next week, terrorists. Submit for either at lolterizt@gmail.com
Meanwhile, pass ’em around, spread the love, and if you make your own, don’t be shy about dropping a link to your pics in the comments. The more, the merrier.
NOTE TO READERS: Hovering your mouse over the picture activates closed captioning for the l33t-speak/txtmsg impaired.
From AT:
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From Basil:
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From DamnCat:
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From James:
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From Jared:
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From Kris:
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From Mrs C:
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BONUS: Check out Irritable Pundit’s Occupy Wall Street pic.
My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:
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From Russ:
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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with [Hat tip: Wild Bill]:
For this week’s Obscury, I’m thinking AT’s Darth Obama quote. What say you?
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Funny stuff, all.
Yep, Darth Obama, hands down. Knew the general reference, of course, but had to look up which Darth it was. Also, the Philosoraptor meme was at the margins of my recollection.
I vote for Philosoraptor for the award but my favorite was Me The People. Good shot Kris.
I take exception to comparing Obama to one of the Sith. (the Darth Obama thing) His actions have been more consistent with those of the Jedi Order. Meanwhile, the Sith are pretty much consistent with Ayn Rand:
“Equality is a perversion of the natural order!…It binds the strong to the weak. They [the weak] become anchors that drag the exceptional down to mediocrity. Individuals destined and deserving of greatness have it denied them. They [the strong] suffer for the sake of keeping them even with their inferiors.”
I’m partial to how well Kris’s The Man Who Would Be King fits. It’s not just the title. (SPOILERS FOLLOW) In the movie, the natives become VERY unhappy when the person they thought was a god starts to bleed….
Oh, and Russ’s “tire check” one was good ref on what may be becoming gradually forgotten Obamalore. (Maybe later we’ll hear about how the Republicans drove AF1 into ditch….)
I vote for Kris’ Silence of the Lambs for obscuration, funnitude and for tricking me into trying to pronounce SMWUNZ as a single-syllable word for longer than I care to admit.
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I think there is a Fat B@st@rd reference from Ausitn Powers for the new one. “Get in mah belly, you little taxpayer.”
Is anyone else getting as tired of looking at this guy’s nostrils as I am?
I wish the Obscure Reference of the Week Award had been around when I was churning out loads of these things! (Been uninspired for some reason lately, but happy to enjoy others’ awesomeness.) I kept coming up with stuff weird enough that even Harvey had trouble finding a reference link. Maybe I should start up again.
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I have to say AT’s is the Obscurantism of the Week in my book. It’s especially cool since obscurans is Latin for “darkening” – so apropos for Darth Vader (Dark Helmet?).
The “twinkles” references are very good too – the utter ridiculousness of the OWSers just leaves me agog in wonderment.
Thanks to Lars, CrustyB and Apostic for the kudos – I aim to please! 🙂 Great point, by the way, Apostic – that’s just what I was thinking (figuratively, of course!).
Finally, I liked the airplane ‘shops, especially Basil’s. Why only two, H-man?
Why only two? Good question.
Answer: the vast majority of entries this week used self-selected pics, rather than the uncaptioned I offered. As it turned out, most of the really good ones were self-selected, so when I was cutting the pile down to 15, most of the marginal ones that I tossed out had used the uncaptioned pic (lot of “under the bus” themed ones).
It’s pretty random how this happens. Other weeks, it’s been damn near all uncaptioneds that get posted. You never can tell.
Like a box of chocolates? Or a box of active grenades? 🙂