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This just in...

jasper411 — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:50:27 -0800

If Fox News had Been Around Throughout History... We've learned that Greeks are in fact hiding *inside* the horse and will be attempting to infiltrate the city of Troy after nighfall... via essays & effluvia

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:54:51 -0800

Did they resize those to 40x60 pixels, enlarge them back to full size, then save as JPEGs with the lowest possible compression or what?

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:00:22 -0800

Not to be nit-picky but the first photo is from Birmingham, not Selma, thus BFD on the firefighter's uniforms. Bridge and teargas - Selma Dogs and firehoses - Birmingham

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:01:01 -0800

Oh, and funny in the "hee hee" sort of way.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:07:14 -0800

homikaze?

By: louigi

louigi — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:07:43 -0800

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:09:34 -0800

homikaze? I'm assuming it's a joke on the homicide bomber. You know the essays and effluvia site is almost entirely unreadable due to their unfortunate choice of font colors and backgrounds.

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:09:52 -0800

"homikaze." What's funny is that other blogs are reproducing the mistake.

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:10:20 -0800

On postview: fair enough.

By: uni verse

uni verse — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:10:43 -0800

THIS IS NOT FARK- so, don't post like it.

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:12:01 -0800

Oh also this is terrible.

By: patgas

patgas — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:12:03 -0800

It seems like funny idea that deserves a better execution.

By: BuzzKill

BuzzKill — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:14:15 -0800

Most of these are lame. I did like this one though 'Negros Attack Police, Demand Special Rights'

By: ob

ob — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:16:30 -0800

I thought it was quite funny...

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:16:41 -0800

Er, it's a two-and-a-half-year-old Fark photoshop thread. Many originals are now MIA; the link seems to have salvaged only a few.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:19:10 -0800

Metafilter for Newbies: If you have seen it before cry BoingBoing If it is funny cry Fark If somebody died cry .

By: jsavimbi

jsavimbi — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:21:36 -0800

DailyKos has it up too. Simultaneously, I might add.

By: sbutler

sbutler — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:28:50 -0800

Er, it's a two-and-a-half-year-old Fark photoshop thread. Many originals are now MIA; the link seems to have salvaged only a few. Hahaha. Best part of this whole thread.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:29:59 -0800

Some people just don't understand the importance of apropriate JPG compression. Ugh

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:40:03 -0800

DailyKos has it up too. Shocker. Hackity hack hack.

By: jasper411

jasper411 — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:12:20 -0800

I agree the picture compression sucks, but I thought the idea was funny. dailykos posted about 20 minutes after this appeared, so maybe they got it from Mefi. dhartung - that's astonishing that you knew it was an old Fark thread, and where to find it! How'd you do that?

By: GaelFC

GaelFC — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:15:14 -0800

Eh, I recognized it as a Fark thread too. They do do some great Photoshops there.

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:30:19 -0800

The Trojan Horse one doesn't really make sense to me. Wouldn't that be an example of Fox getting a great scoop?

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:45:44 -0800

" DailyKos has it up too. Simultaneously, I might add."..... it's it's it's....... a recrudescence !

By: my sock puppet account

my sock puppet account — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:06:05 -0800

Christ. I feel really sad that I immediately remembered that Fark Photoshop contest. The Lincoln one is pretty funny.

By: Happy Monkey

Happy Monkey — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:06:25 -0800

papakwanz - Imagine Geraldo is Greek, in that situation.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:32:18 -0800

Yeah - it was a spoof on how Geraldo gave away troop positions on the air.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:48:01 -0800

that's astonishing that you knew it was an old Fark thread, and where to find it! How'd you do that? a) These things always begin on Fark, or SA, or Worth1000 ... b) Google c) Lived through it the first time it was posted on the internets

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:57:12 -0800

dhartung - that's astonishing that you knew it was an old Fark thread, and where to find it! How'd you do that? He, like me, probably remembers it from reading fark.

By: skallas

skallas — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:59:10 -0800

>I feel really sad that I immediately remembered that Fark Photoshop contest. The Lincoln one is pretty funny. Me too. I only actually remember the O'Reilly/Lincoln one which seems too clever for fark.

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:23:20 -0800

Ah, OK, I get the Geraldo/Greek thing now. Wait, that sounded wrong...

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:23:11 -0800

just don't understand the importance of apropriate JPG compression Fark posters are encouraged to keep their 'shops under 100k to allow 56k peeps to be able to DL the thread. Oddly, it was this exact Fark thread that introduced me to Fark, back in 2003. Sigh. What a colossal waste of time that has been, and I don't even have an account there.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:16:22 -0800

I found out about FARK here on metafilter by people complaining that they saw something or other there first, and decided I should check it out. Meh. It's like Metafilter without the interesting discourse, but it has boobies.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:37:03 -0800

Metafilter: It has interesting discourse, but no boobies.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:45:31 -0800

Metafilter: It has interesting discourse, but no boobies. But... But.... But what about iconomy ?

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:27:29 -0800

Thumbs down!

By: scarabic

scarabic — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:07:15 -0800

I liked it.

By: mek

mek — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:51:55 -0800

Some of these are really good. The O'Reilly knock has his manner of speech perfected; I can hear him saying those exact words in my head. And c'mon.. PILATE: "WE FOUND HIM LIKE THAT"? genius.

By: kurtrudder

kurtrudder — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:51:29 -0800

i thought it was alright, seemed to capture Fox in the correct light. who cares if it has been around the block, i hadn't seen it and it gave me a laugh!

By: stumcg

stumcg — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:58:27 -0800

I thought it was funny and hadn't seen it before either. Some of ya need to get out more.

By: Gamblor

Gamblor — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:51:52 -0800

Metafilter: A funny idea that deserves better execution

By: milovoo

milovoo — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:03:01 -0800

It's hard to tell the actual jokes from the mistakes. A funny idea that deserves better execution - agreed!