What WAS V's picture? Did I miss the answer?

So do you eat soft boiled eggs, Merc? I never had one. They seem too messy, hard to eat, and a bit yucky.

I know, I know. Whew....scared me a bit there too!:eek: I had to call and ask him. No....not butt cheeks. Sorry V!

Armpit. It's an armpit? On second thought...I don't know....

It is a very overexposed (sorry, forgot the flash was on) shot of the median notch on the whale flukes sculpture in the Neototems Children's Garden.

http://www.imagesofseattle.org/Artwo...re/CO00287.jpg

Good one mercy! I was stumped.

No I did not eat them. But it came from my FIL's house, my MIL is dying and we have recently cleaned out the house of all the belongings. My wife had to explain it to me as she had watched him eat them for years.

What it is?
 

Tree, wood, bark, etc all will not qualify. You'll have to tell me more. :p

lightning strike

what put the dent in you car

Yeah, I was going to say that's what it looked like when my mom sideswiped the tree in our driveway once.

A beam or trunk of wood surrounded by cement in a log structure.

That bark has been stripped...so...he's making aspirin...but it's not a willow...it's an oak...?...so he's tanning leather...?

Some kinda pine.
I'm with glatt.

Either a deer or an elk was scraping their antler on the tree.

a bug.

With an evil look in his eye. Just look at him.

If I'm wrong I'll put $111 in the tip jar.

I know! But I am pretty much anti-bug in the first place. I think they're all evil.

Enough!

But Flint! I'm...I'm...I'm SICK!



















*cries a little, pouts, looks for attention and affirmation*

What you need is a good firm spanking.

I think you are probably right. You can see the scratch going down the sap wood perfectly centered within the scar of the missing bark.

Ok. Can I call you "Daddy"?

You can call me professor! ha ha ha I'll wear my cardigan...

I hope so. I don't really have $111.

Animals are not that neat. The scratch appears to follow the grain of the wood.
I still say "lightning."

Anything would have a natural tendency to follow the grain of the wood. You'd have to try not to.

P.S. Your line sticks out farther...or is it further? Either way, I'd ban you for that shit, If I was the boss of these parts.

What do you mean my line sticks out further? (I'm just blessed that way!)
As for the scratch, I've seen a few deer scrapes, and they are not neat and usually more than just one. It takes a lot of force to peel of a big strip of bark like that.

It means your handle is longer than the rest of ours. That means you're a non-conformist and that leads us to believe you are a witch.

The fact that UnderFreud let you get away with it means he has a PRO-Witch
Agenda!!

Y'all been eating moldy rye bread again?
Don't make me touch you with my noodly appendage.

[jan bradyhooligan]HEY, why does beauregaard always get the longer line? beauregaard, beauregaard, beauregaard.[/jan bradyhooligan]

Oh, so do I. I can't change my answer now. It was the first answer to pop into my head, but now I'm not so sure. HLJ may be putting the tip jar over the top.

LMAO! Funniest!

[foreshadowing]I got a bad feeling about this one...[/foreshadowing]

wth? You're eyesight is either much better or much worse than mine.....

(psssst.. you should be reaching for your wallet about now...)

Yep. That's gonna hurt.

Winnah. Smart money doesn't bet against the glatt. glatt, were you the kind of kid who turned immediately to the Eyeball Benders puzzle in Games Magazine too? You're good. Real good.

Lightning strike is right. Technically, I reckon it struck somewhere higher then ran past the spot in the first photo *reallyfast* on its way to earth. Very cool. Killed the power in the house. Indescribably loud.

A couple more pics of the tree. The lightning hit the tree much farther up (of course) and followed the highly conductive (wet) path of least resistance to earth along this line. Under the bark, where the sap was instantly turned to steam, exploding this strip of bark right off the tree. Very very cool! It's Science!

Pic 01 -- Looking upward at the path of the strike.

Pic 02 -- The puddle of bark like an enormous woolly noodle.

:)

It seemed to miss a spot. A small stretch of bark is still intact.

How do we know it wasn't just a really big deer?

OK, I was wrong. I've paid the piper.

(P.S. On the paypal site, it says,
Your order is being shipped to

and it lists my home address. So I guess I now own the Cellar. I wonder how they'll ship it.)

you should dig around the base of the tree to see if there are any fulgerites.

I noticed that too. A drier spot? The bark was more tightly adhered there? The conductive path was deeper? A vent / crack in the bark we can't see that relieved the pressure? I don't know.

You, sir, are the man, and a helluva good sport too. I'll try to find some more pictures with deer strikes in them just for you. :)

What is this? A pretty easy one, I admit. The follow ups will be interesting.

Oh look the tip mug is full...! Well done gents, and thanks.

It's a circle of lights reflected in someone's eyeball... now, if you're looking for me to tell you what the lights are, you're out of luck.

Looks like warp speed captain! Beam me up Scotty.

How'd you get a pic of my last abduction by aliens?

It looks a photograph of the video monitor displaying someone's eye. Those lights are like the lights of an LED light ring used in macro photography.


Didn't you post this picture a few years ago in a thread about Tink's lasik eye surgery?

Edit: So I went back and searched for that old thread, and found it, but the pictures from back then are different. So it's not necessarily Tink's eye.

a bug.

Yea, I'm with the thought that it is an eyeball close up too.

an pic of an eye as seen from a survalence cam ,
The new ones have a r ring of leds around the lense

Part of old dial phone?

Ok this is a Hard one ,
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/...8d7e784a_o.jpg

Man, for a minute there, I thought you were gonna post a pic of your wanger.

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL162.../306393133.jpg.

sorry that's so obvious... it's much darker in my screen than jims :blush:

zippy, looks like a penny after being run over by something heavy or a knick out of a piece of copper wire or bar.

I have to agree with Merc. It looks like a nicked copper wire. If it was black around the area, I might say it was a spot on a wire where a short had occured, but it really looks more like a nick.

jinx, MIL?

That is a cool picture of the hippo, though. All dark and mysterious.

Whoopi Goldberg?