The Random Image Thread!

[Big Raj]

[B-Lister]

more to come soon.

[B-Lister]

not to help or anything, he just likes to stand in the corner and watch.

[Toyman]

I've always loved this one:

[Marv-El]

Not an image, but a local church had this on their message board:

"Do you know what hell is? Come listen to our preacher."

[Toyman]

Not an image, but a local church had this on their message board:

"Do you know what hell is? Come listen to our preacher."

   That is great! 

[Marv-El]

Just to make sure I wasn't the only one getting the idea, I drove both kids (at the time, 17 and 12) and the wife past it and told some friends. Everyone got what the church meant, but the bemused/incredulous response was right there too. You know what you have to say about the congregation there...bless their hearts.

[B-Lister]

[Big Raj]

 

[Toyman]

That trolley flyer is fucking hillarious!!

[measle]

That trolley flyer is fucking hillarious!!

And real.  I live in Seattle.

Regarding the history post Sac did, is that shit all true?

[Ballsac]

Don't know...but how about this ;

The History of the Middle Finger.

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, antici- pating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew').

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger- salute!

It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.'

[Big Raj]

How about this:

Manure:  In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of manure were common..

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.

Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term "Ship High In Transit" on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term " S.H.I.T " , (Ship High In Transport) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

[B-Lister]

And real.  I live in Seattle.

Regarding the history post Sac did, is that shit all true?

I know parts of it to be true, I can't speak for the entire thing, but I'm sure quick searches could bring up whether or not it is.

[B-Lister]

Don't know...but how about this ;

The History of the Middle Finger.

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, antici- pating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew').

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger- salute!

It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.'

I know for certain that this one is untrue.

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.asp

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