Surprising images in the "Where's Waldo?" books

January 7, 2010 9:20 AM

For those with enough time and attention to detail, the Where's Waldo puzzles hold some strange and lurid images. In fact, the book has made banned lists in the past despite the fact that it doesn't contain the word scrotum once (previously on MeFi).
posted by bizwiz2 (15 comments total)

Third link is to this post.
posted by swift at 9:24 AM on January 7, 2010

Some people have way too much spare time.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 9:24 AM on January 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Oops, third link, take two: http://www.metafilter.com/58759/This-is-just-nuts
posted by bizwiz2 at 9:28 AM on January 7, 2010

I remember seeing all of these, with the possible exception of the mermaids.
posted by stilist at 9:30 AM on January 7, 2010

I remember seeing them too, stilist. But only once, cause then the pages were stuck together.
posted by greekphilosophy at 9:50 AM on January 7, 2010

Sorry, forgot the sarcasm tag.
posted by greekphilosophy at 9:51 AM on January 7, 2010

Some people have way too much spare time.

Or some people once inquisitive kids, and now have scanners and blogs.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:01 AM on January 7, 2010

...or some people read the Where's Waldo books with the same care that one might read a novel which had words instead of pictures.

Seriously, those are intense books when you really look at them closely. The examples in the linked article only begin to touch on the mini-stories which are being told by the hundreds on every page.
posted by hippybear at 10:08 AM on January 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

I remember staring at these books for hours. Yeah, some of it was weird, but there was just so much to see...
posted by amanzi at 10:10 AM on January 7, 2010

I remember some of those, too. I loved Exploding Bicep Guy.

It wouldn't be any fun to look for Waldo in a landscape full of people just standing around doing nothing, anyway.
posted by Metroid Baby at 10:10 AM on January 7, 2010

Seriously, those are intense books when you really look at them closely. The examples in the linked article only begin to touch on the mini-stories which are being told by the hundreds on every page.

HAMBURGER
posted by billysumday at 10:11 AM on January 7, 2010

How did you manage to link to your own post before it was active? Strange...
posted by jckll at 10:39 AM on January 7, 2010

The Waldo Ultimatum
posted by Evilspork at 10:56 AM on January 7, 2010

jckll, that's what happens when you create a link but don't fill it in with anything. If you look at the raw HTML code for this page, you see an anchor with the href argument an empty string. Browsers interpret that as a link to the current page.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 12:22 PM on January 7, 2010

this is as good a thread as any for this image.
posted by phredgreen at 6:02 PM on January 7, 2010 [1 favorite]