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posted by hincandenza at 9:08 PM on October 10, 2001
Ah, now you got me depressed. If only we could go back to Sept 10th.
posted by QrysDonnell at 9:11 PM on October 10, 2001
posted by valerie at 9:27 PM on October 10, 2001
This guy is the most unfortunate person in the world.
posted by phatboy at 9:29 PM on October 10, 2001
posted by sylloge at 9:30 PM on October 10, 2001
Not really relevant to anything else, just a great memory that will now always dove-tail into my memories of 9/11. Anyone else have good memories or stories about the WTC?
posted by GriffX at 9:39 PM on October 10, 2001
Another WTC Guy sighting...
posted by tpoh.org at 9:44 PM on October 10, 2001
posted by tpoh.org at 9:45 PM on October 10, 2001
None with the WTC guy.
posted by Geo at 9:52 PM on October 10, 2001
posted by QrysDonnell at 10:08 PM on October 10, 2001
posted by realjanetkagan at 10:56 PM on October 10, 2001
posted by realjanetkagan at 11:33 PM on October 10, 2001
Historical significance is important, I think. It ought to be left up.
An aside, of sorts: has anyone noticed the unofficial game going on at filepile to photoshop the now-infamous "WTC guy" into various disaster/ exotic location photos?
That's nothing; it's a worldwide Photoshop game now. Check out touristguy.com. I can't believe nobody has spread an image of him next to Bert next to Osama yet.
I was going to say something about the sudden increase in IMG SRCing on Mefi threads, but I don't think I mind it any more. I kinda like it now.
Hm. I guess I did just say something about it anyway. Oh well.
posted by aaron at 12:37 AM on October 11, 2001
Still: what I'm asking isn't so much for more pictures- although like AYBABTU it will probably still be funny for a while until it suddenly becomes "old"- but rather finding out who that guy is! Is he some Dutch tourist who has no idea his picture is famous, or is he some 'murrican dude involved with the creation of the original photo?
posted by hincandenza at 1:15 AM on October 11, 2001
posted by realjanetkagan at 1:23 AM on October 11, 2001
posted by hincandenza at 1:29 AM on October 11, 2001
Actually, I'm relatively sure the tourist photoshopping started out as an idea ripped from the somethingawful.com forums. The first picture, with Fred Durst in place of Tourist Guy, was posted on the 26th of Sept.
As to who he is, touristofdeath.com claims the fellow's name is James, with some other identifying information also provided. I seem to remember the original source cited was snopes, but it's since been changed, and a cursory glance over both links on that site turns up nothing.
posted by digital_insomnia at 7:41 AM on October 11, 2001
posted by digital_insomnia at 7:45 AM on October 11, 2001
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How long until this photo to show up doctored with a plane:
Whistling past the graveyard...
posted by phatboy at 8:49 PM on October 10, 2001