6 baffling black-and-white pictures to confuse you with

My attempts at captioning…

1) Paulina Elam explains her plans for the nineteenth-century WGTOW movement.
2) After years of war, the Minotaur Legion is beset with manpower shortages.
3) Only through a specialized piano horn could David Bowie command the goblins.
4) What fowl chorus is this!?
5) Although he reluctantly posed for this picture, the father of glaciers did not appreciate our attempts at avant-garde beehive construction.
6) The children were promised their very own Zeppelins for Christmas, but instead they just got balloons.

The apparent source for #5… I guess it’s a snowman.
http://anonymousworks.blogspot.com/2012/11/father-of-glaciers.html

Two thoughts,

on the 1st Photo: That picture almost looks like a pedicab situation in which someone added a whip for some reason.

Last photo: Its almost like someone’s worst birthday ever.

I don’t know why, but #3 reminds me of Japanese war tubas:

http://www.futilitycloset.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/2006-08-28-japanese-war-tuba.jpg

(these weren’t really a musical instrument, but then again, I’m not sure #3 is, either)

@fruitloopsie – “the iPod in early development” – ha! I like that!

And now I want I giant organ-tuba. (I got a new instrument recently – it’s a folk harp with a handy tuning stick, and it sounds very pretty, even when my inexpert piano-playing hands have a go at it – but it’s a bit deficient in the loudness department.)

My first thought, seeing that one, was, Why do they all look so scared? And my second was that they all looked like they’d been infected with slapface.

A friend of mine caught slapface (slapcheek) from her infant niece! We’d never heard of it before. She got pretty sick.

But yeah – something terrible is about to happen at that party. Season 1 of American Horror Story terrible. Like, those kids are not leaving that house.

Actually, pic #2 is right out of American Horror Story S3. (I have so much love/hate for that Season)

We’d never heard of it before. She got pretty sick.

Yeah. “Slapped cheeks” virus is one of those all or nothing illnesses. Practically everybody has had it and many people never even notice, they were just a bit feverish and off-colour for a couple of days. They certainly wouldn’t have gone to the doctor. Others get it just a little bit worse with a rash – that’s pretty well gone by the time they get to a doctor.

Then there are those like my bloody kids. One had a term off school, the other was so ill she had to stay home and sign up with distance education for a few months. It was diabolical. Her feet were so painful that she cried just getting out of bed to go to the toilet.

@ Tracy

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/c4/c4b1534b17165004a8225c4506d274447e4d40e3b6e8ea4aac301db4ce24498c.jpg

I want to guess the people in #2 are slaughterers or something? And this is some kind of initiation to the slaughterer’s trade union?

Donald Duck’s animator, Carl Banks apparently drew a lot of anthropomorphic duck erotica, so maybe #4 is just an early furry convention. [NSFW and may ruin your childhood: http://www.cracked.com/article_21568_7-famous-artists-you-didnt-know-were-perverts-pt.-2_p2.html%5D

I really want to know how they built the Father of Glaciers. That really must have been quite a feat.

I couldn’t help but look at the people wearing bull’s heads, and imagine a future publication 100 years from now gawping at all the people who have gone viral wearing rubber horse masks…

Sarah:

That fifth one looks sort of like an early incarnation of Burning Man.

It’s Burning Man’s more genteel forerunner, Burning Chap.

I’d never heard of slapped cheek disease before. Thanks all for giving me a new disease to look up!

Roosh, “world tour”? Huh. I’d guess he’s on the lam for sexual assault again.