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underpants

(182,270 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 04:19 PM Jan 2015

This thread's title is... Batman on an elephant




A man testing a prototype football helmet. 1912


A maintenance crew loads 5 megabytes of memory into a Pan am Aircraft. 1956




Members of the Seattle Tubing Society relax on a warm afternoon 1953


War orphaned Vietnamese babies are flown to LAX. April 12, 1975



Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank. 1950


A German soldier firing a gun from the back of his horse. 1939


Portable TV Concept 1967

http://news.distractify.com/culture/weird-history-photographs/?v=1
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This thread's title is... Batman on an elephant (Original Post) underpants Jan 2015 OP
Wow. Just wow. shenmue Jan 2015 #1
Holy pachaderms! uppityperson Jan 2015 #2
Some men just want to watch the world 'derm. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #5
Bunny with a pancake on its head, you have competition. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #3
LOL underpants Jan 2015 #8
or... underpants Jan 2015 #9
That picture always cracks me up TheCowsCameHome Jan 2015 #12
he was as loopy as a Klan Carnaval KittyWampus Jan 2015 #14
Right, okay, a bunch of Klan members riding a Ferris wheel. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #21
Dunces stuck on the endless wheel of idiocy. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #26
That deserves a rec just for that line. hifiguy Jan 2015 #19
The orphaned Vietnamese kids is depressing. n/t Fix The Stupid Jan 2015 #4
Yes. Can you imagine the nurses working that flight? underpants Jan 2015 #6
I was working in Congressman Ed Medvinski's office in Iowa City when this happened. Immigrations jwirr Jan 2015 #23
thank you for sharing that. KittyWampus Jan 2015 #31
5 megabytes CrispyQ Jan 2015 #7
And it was all used for porn. n/t Yavin4 Jan 2015 #32
Holy Batman on a baby elephant!!!! Autumn Jan 2015 #10
The guy in the bottom picture TheCowsCameHome Jan 2015 #11
I fear you may be slandering some pioneering video artist ... surrealAmerican Jan 2015 #24
DO NOT FEED THE BEARS! Sheesh. KittyWampus Jan 2015 #13
That's the one photo I am not sure about underpants Jan 2015 #15
It may have been taken by the driver of a different tank... Blanks Jan 2015 #17
That is true underpants Jan 2015 #20
I know that I wouldn't be out on the ground to get a picture... Blanks Jan 2015 #28
Reminds me of... Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2015 #16
What an age we lived in hifiguy Jan 2015 #18
Amazing. treestar Jan 2015 #22
The football helmet guy ballabosh Jan 2015 #25
He was really putting his all into it underpants Jan 2015 #29
The Seattle Tubing Society made me smile. Tubing is a blast! Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #27
Yes they appear to be quite eclectic underpants Jan 2015 #30
 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
3. Bunny with a pancake on its head, you have competition.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 04:28 PM
Jan 2015

"I have no idea what he's talking about, so here's a picture of Batman riding an elephant."

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
21. Right, okay, a bunch of Klan members riding a Ferris wheel.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 09:16 PM
Jan 2015

That is apparently a thing that happened.

underpants

(182,270 posts)
6. Yes. Can you imagine the nurses working that flight?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 04:51 PM
Jan 2015

Literally a passenger manifest of a totally unknown future. Amazing.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
23. I was working in Congressman Ed Medvinski's office in Iowa City when this happened. Immigrations
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:26 PM
Jan 2015

did not want to take the responsibility of allowing these babies in to our country.

I started getting calls from the adoptive parents telling me that we had to get the babies out now that we could not wait for all the paperwork. I got on the phone to immigrations and told them this and they basically said it would be our (the Congressman) responsibility. I assume they were getting calls from other Congressmen as well. Anyhow they gave the plane permission to take off.

The story we got was that many of these babies were already being adopted and when the war started winding down the mothers literally brought the children to the base to pass them over the fence to be put on the plane. Don't know how true this was. But I do know that one of the nurses on that flight was my cousin. She never forgot that day.

Autumn

(44,743 posts)
10. Holy Batman on a baby elephant!!!!
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:08 PM
Jan 2015

Rec for that one picture alone. I was a Batman fan back in the day, I don't know how I missed that. I am off to post that picture all over FB.

surrealAmerican

(11,339 posts)
24. I fear you may be slandering some pioneering video artist ...
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:32 PM
Jan 2015

... but I can't tell which one that might be.

underpants

(182,270 posts)
15. That's the one photo I am not sure about
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 06:06 PM
Jan 2015

Someone (probably the driver) had to be on the ground to take that pic. Drivers, from my Army time in a Bradley, tend to be the lowest ranking guy but I am not too sure about getting on the ground with bears. You can't just jump back into an armored vehicle.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
17. It may have been taken by the driver of a different tank...
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:32 PM
Jan 2015

He could have pulled up there buttoned up so that he didn't have to jump back into the tank.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
28. I know that I wouldn't be out on the ground to get a picture...
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:10 AM
Jan 2015

but it would be hard to resist a good picture.

underpants

(182,270 posts)
29. He was really putting his all into it
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:26 AM
Jan 2015

I wonder if that is from the same testing that Colbert used in the intro to his "Spor Repor" - a guy in a similar helmet getting kicked in the head by someone wearing a leather football cleats

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