100,000 Memories of Oz.

November 13, 2007 4:54 PM

The 100,000th photograph has been scanned into the National Library of Australia's digital database. It is a picture of an oprhaned joey wearing a winter overcoat. But there's still 999,999 other photos for you to peruse. Check out a large selection of them here!
posted by Effigy2000 (17 comments total)

Aussie humor in a nutshell
posted by parmanparman at 5:01 PM on November 13, 2007 [2 favorites]

Pshaw. Only 100,000 photos!

Amateurs.

This is the 2 billionth photo uploaded to Flickr -- and it was today!!!
posted by ericb at 5:03 PM on November 13, 2007

I think there's a reasonable chance that that photo might spawn a whole new genre: lolroos.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 5:06 PM on November 13, 2007

That's the saddest kangaroo I have ever seen.
posted by signalnine at 5:07 PM on November 13, 2007

After seeing that photo, I don't think I'm going to be able to stop crying long enough to click any other ones.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 5:10 PM on November 13, 2007

Awww... I would adopt him.
posted by vronsky at 5:16 PM on November 13, 2007

All together now: AWWWWW!
posted by Faint of Butt at 5:29 PM on November 13, 2007

I want to write a song about that joey...

Sad kangaroo...oooooo
Lonely and blue... oooooo
I feel that way too... oooooo






OK, I'm crap at this. :(
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 5:31 PM on November 13, 2007

poor little joey, lost and alone

good count vronsky will give you a home

something something something, kookaburra tree!



me too:(
posted by vronsky at 5:57 PM on November 13, 2007 [1 favorite]

yes! it must have loads of kookaburras and gum-gums and Foster's!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:08 PM on November 13, 2007

Um... if there are 999,999 other photos, wouldn't that make this one the 1,000,000th, not the 100,000th?
posted by papakwanz at 8:10 PM on November 13, 2007

Whoops. Yeah, OK, chop off a 9.
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:15 PM on November 13, 2007

Hmm, dad's photos don't seem to be scanned yet.
posted by Neale at 2:22 AM on November 14, 2007

But... after seeing this picture, I don't need any more. This one picture of a baby kangaroo wearing a sweater is really the only photograph I'll ever need for the rest of my life.

Why would anyone need more?
posted by koeselitz at 8:20 AM on November 14, 2007 [2 favorites]

I mean, for one, I'll be pondering for years to come why they found it necessary to note that he was an orphan. Was it absolutely necessary for those bastards to make this crochety old fool cry?
posted by koeselitz at 8:22 AM on November 14, 2007

Maybe that joey could team up with the kangaroo from Dot and the Kangaroo and be a family...
posted by Lucinda at 9:48 AM on November 14, 2007

Wonders why the term "peruse" is used here.
posted by bz at 2:04 PM on November 14, 2007