The greatest pictures ever.

January 9, 2003 11:38 AM

The greatest pictures ever. According to the refined aesthetes from SomethingAwful, that is. Surprisingly, it isn't altogether unsafe for work, illegal or ultra-offensive as long as you stay on the path.
posted by 111 (22 comments total)

I think you might get shouted down for this, but personally, I'm glad you posted it. This sort of thing is the reason I started coming to Metafilter in the first place.
posted by Samsonov14 at 11:40 AM on January 9, 2003

Oh the hilarity of it all! Please tell me that the old woman on page 3 isn't real. Yeesh.
posted by picea at 11:59 AM on January 9, 2003

Cool
posted by BigCalm at 12:01 PM on January 9, 2003

He's huge in Germany, you know.
posted by yhbc at 12:18 PM on January 9, 2003

the shaved cat is very, very angry. do not laugh at the shaved cat.
posted by andrew cooke at 12:18 PM on January 9, 2003

As a side note, do not EVER attempt to steal SA's images. I mean, you can copy them to your drive and whatnot, but if you try to steal their bandwidth by loading a picture they host on your site, then really bad stuff happens.
posted by ph00dz at 12:21 PM on January 9, 2003

Also, you shouldn't link to Something Awful if you're Slashdot. Apparently, Slashdot did that once, and they opened up a very, very wide pipe for all the traffic.... (I suppose no link is truly necessary)

Needless to say, Slashdot won't be linking to SA anytime soon.
posted by Captain_Tenille at 12:33 PM on January 9, 2003

cooke, that shaved cat truly is the best innernet picture and the only one that I did actually laugh at. Chortle.
posted by ajbattrick at 12:59 PM on January 9, 2003

When Lowtax farts, his goons hurriedly drop to their knees to get a whiff. The place has a cult-like feel to it. I visit everyday.
posted by Zoyd Wheeler at 1:00 PM on January 9, 2003

Uh oh, I laughed at the shaved cat...Now what?
posted by aaronscool at 1:07 PM on January 9, 2003

shades of my inbox.
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posted by quonsar at 1:14 PM on January 9, 2003

Dressed-up pets. Awful.
posted by kozad at 1:20 PM on January 9, 2003

The Coleman/Hasselhoff picture has that weird historical pop reference feel to it. You'll never get them together again for a picture in front of KITT, and they'll never be as popular as they were at THAT moment.

The late-20th/early-21st century equivalent would probably be have been David Duchovney (X-Files stud) and Jake Lloyd (kid who played a young Darth Vader) standing in front of the "I Want to Believe" poster.

I remember the Peoples Almanac (or was it Book of Lists) that had a selection of meetings you'd never thought would have happened but did. I'll have to go look it up to see if there was anything interesting there....
posted by grum@work at 1:32 PM on January 9, 2003

I loved the guy acting like a missle,

oh, and as an aside for the interested:
here is the story about the slashdot link to somethingawful, I had forgotten all about that.
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 1:38 PM on January 9, 2003

I *heart* lowtax. I think he was drunk one night and sent me this, apropos of nothing, I'd never e-mailed him before:

From : [e-mail]
Subject : JeffK is ow3d!
Date : Fri, 14 Jan 100 20:55:26 +0000
I 4m a m4d h4z0r and 1 h4v3 0w3d j3ffI<'s w3b b04rd. 4md rul3z! fr33 k3v1n!
k3wl 0-d4y w4r3z @ 127.0.0.1.
posted by WolfDaddy at 3:15 PM on January 9, 2003

I noticed that guy hanging off the hardpoint of that F-16, and it reminded me of this picture...which in turn reminded me of my all-time favorite funny military photo.
posted by alumshubby at 5:59 PM on January 9, 2003

My favorite part of goatse.cx is that the 'Receiver' is wearing a wedding ring. It adds an almost subliminal level of offense for the guys who feel like they've Caught the Gay by seeing it.
posted by GriffX at 6:32 PM on January 9, 2003

Er, what's the joke in that first picture, alum? Pls...
posted by five fresh fish at 10:05 PM on January 9, 2003

fff: look carefully at the two pointy red "missiles". Took me a while, too.
posted by biscotti at 10:26 PM on January 9, 2003

fff: and the sink
posted by gottabefunky at 2:05 PM on January 10, 2003

I asked on sci.military.naval, but nobody's owned up to knowing any kind of backstory to the car taking off from the Enterprise (CVN-65). If anybody here can add details, I'd love to read 'em.
posted by alumshubby at 8:09 PM on January 10, 2003

It's funny that a collection of images that for the most part are not trying to be funny is the funniest thing I've ever... funnied. p.s. Funny
posted by kevspace at 8:30 PM on January 10, 2003