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bubbaprog		2007-02-18 08:10:40 PM

Digital zoom can make Pam Anderson look like Bea Arthur. Never use digital zoom.

Pam Anderson->Bea Arthur would be an improvement.

FarkinOgre		2007-02-18 08:10:59 PM

I'm so glad I got to use this today, since that other thread got axed from the main page. I'm not cool enough to be a TFer.

CannedTangent		2007-02-18 08:12:43 PM

Tiredude99		2007-02-18 08:12:51 PM

Ill take Streetlamps for $1000 Alex.....

DrumCorpsAlum		2007-02-18 08:13:26 PM

Q&D

rockhound		2007-02-18 08:13:53 PM

Ok, so here's what happened. You were pointing your camera setup at what you thought was a planet. When you snapped the picture, the planet was obscured by an internal reflection of a streetlamp in your lens. The camera was pointed up, and the streetlamp image came into the lens system at an oblique angle from below. And if I recall correctly from my optical minerology class, this is the best case scenario to lead to internal reflection in a crystal or lens.

I've had it happen in my eyeglasses.

See how easy that was?

LOGICAL_PSYCHO		2007-02-18 08:14:02 PM

Is it a streetlamp?

PedroWonStopVoting		2007-02-18 08:14:32 PM

DrumCorpsAlum: Q&D

nice!

char_boy		2007-02-18 08:15:30 PM

Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there?
Was it round? And did it have a motor?
Or was it something different?

/miss you, Frank

rhiannon		2007-02-18 08:15:30 PM

"she said she had to do do something; she's been in & out. slack. cut."

You're right. It's only been 6 hours. I'll leave it until next April.

Sunny Ray		2007-02-18 08:15:46 PM

bubbaprog

Pam Anderson->Bea Arthur would be an improvement.

You just may have a point. Hubba hubba!

aliens		2007-02-18 08:15:47 PM

Well that definitely wasn't mine. I had the oil leak patched up a few weeks ago.

heap		2007-02-18 08:15:57 PM

Gaboo

This May Be The Single Longest User Name On Fark		2007-02-18 08:17:14 PM

Best

Ziggy1138		2007-02-18 08:17:31 PM

Damnit, I always spend two hours reading epic threads, waiting for so long before I post that I can't beg for sponsorship.

//Oh well
///Thanks for the thread, tfers!

This May Be The Single Longest User Name On Fark		2007-02-18 08:17:51 PM

Thread

This May Be The Single Longest User Name On Fark		2007-02-18 08:18:51 PM

Ever!!!!12

LOGICAL_PSYCHO		2007-02-18 08:19:38 PM

Ok I was goggle imnage searching for a picture of a blunt to photoshop the streetlamp onto the tip and ran across this.

http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Doug-Winger/index05-by-date.html (NSFW)

/I give you Transvestite Furry Porn.

I// couldnt even photoshop after that.

Yaos		2007-02-18 08:22:34 PM

It's a giant eye crying.

DrForrester		2007-02-18 08:22:38 PM

Jesus H. Christ, was it a slow day on Total Fark or what?

F42		2007-02-18 08:22:41 PM

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: /I give you Transvestite Furry Porn.

31 pages of thumbnails!? Dayum!

/lampadaire

The Voice of Doom		2007-02-18 08:24:48 PM

dpernal
and The Voice of Doom, you earned a month of TotalFark. welcome aboard.

Thank you very much.
It think I'll go and pay the Photshop queue a visit.. :)

Sensual Mango		2007-02-18 08:24:50 PM

This thread is a streetlight manifesto.

ChronicallyCanuk		2007-02-18 08:25:12 PM

with all seriousness, just adjusted contrast, saw a distinct "branch pattern"

RInewsPhotog		2007-02-18 08:26:19 PM

Is it a jackal?

CDMaker		2007-02-18 08:26:44 PM

Swamp Gas????

clown-freak		2007-02-18 08:27:15 PM

It looks like a streetlight.

AddressOk		2007-02-18 08:27:48 PM

This thread is freaking awesome ~ thank god the mods gave it a streetlight.

DrumCorpsAlum		2007-02-18 08:28:29 PM

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: Ok I was goggle imnage searching for a picture of a blunt to photoshop the streetlamp onto the tip and ran across this.

Well, not going to use this computer for presentations to my 5th graders anymore until I do some serious cleaning on the hard drive. NSFW is no joke.

Malarkey		2007-02-18 08:29:52 PM

Bungalo		2007-02-18 08:30:38 PM

Guys, I think I'm gonna be probed tonight. I just took a photo from my balcony:

img413.imageshack.us

AND I'VE GOT A REALLY SENSITIVE ANUS!! :( :( :((((

jayday		2007-02-18 08:32:13 PM

Big White and Round

.....Rosie O'Donnell eating the moon.

.....Donald Duck on a three day bender, tangled in fishing line, and wearing Trumps best florescent toupee.

.....Britney Spears airborne pictorial of a lonely vagina.

kraut7		2007-02-18 08:34:56 PM

Subby is either the biggest moran on the planet or having some fun with us.

Mobro4000		2007-02-18 08:35:29 PM

is it an alien ship arriving too late to save a drowning alien witch?

the Mole of Production		2007-02-18 08:35:39 PM

The Voice of Doom: It think I'll go and pay the Photshop queue a visit.. :)

Ha! Amen. Welcome back!

Campaigner444		2007-02-18 08:36:04 PM

a rubber glove

char_boy		2007-02-18 08:36:18 PM

"It's NOT SWAMP GAS!"

magicalOne		2007-02-18 08:37:19 PM

no votes for my peepee glowing white hot?

i'm disappointed

so's my peepee

Shattersoul		2007-02-18 08:37:36 PM

Cute joke and attempt at a cliche', but hey, it will prolly end up as one anyway. (Joke or Cliche'? Maybe both)

On a side note, your site, while interesting, needs to scale itself to AT LEAST a minimum of 1280x1024, but 1024x768 would be ideal.

/just saying
//I want to believe too, but it's a freaking streetlight....
///slashies FTW

Lonestar		2007-02-18 08:37:57 PM

Ohh god I am late to this thread.

Has someone figured out what drugs Forked@fark is on? Cause damn I wanna smoke some of that too!

mistervague		2007-02-18 08:38:00 PM

creepingdeath		2007-02-18 08:39:14 PM

Two pigs in a dress.

friend49		2007-02-18 08:41:22 PM

I am surprised no one had thought of this before. Maybe forked_at_fark is really a psychology student and she is writing a paper on people's reactions to to being told an every day item such as a street light is really an alien ship. The joke would be on us then and further more

WE ALL FAILED IT!!

If not then I'm with everyone else it's a street light

jayday		2007-02-18 08:41:39 PM

The streetlight for the international space station jogging path.

buckler		2007-02-18 08:41:40 PM

TFT was too long to read, but I have a suggestion, smitty. Take another photo of the thing using a tripod at night. Touch nothing, then wait until daytime and take another picture with the zoom and direction exactly the same. That should solve your mystery.

zhinz1		2007-02-18 08:41:53 PM

I came to post what PedroWonStopVoting already posted.

So I got nothing.

Poop-n-Slop		2007-02-18 08:41:54 PM

Streetlight?

vondoom		2007-02-18 08:42:49 PM

Has anyone even considered that our alien overlords in their infinite wisdom are smart enough to design ships that look like obvious street lamps?

Hey Colonel Mustard, get a clue.

/someone sponsor me damnit
//streetlamp