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Old 08-16-2005, 12:16 PM   #1
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Come on, we have to call bullshit on that pair of old fraudsters. I know we all shrink a bit as we get older, but the height disparity between the man and the woman is ridiculous - he's probably a foot and a half taller than her - whereas they're of the same height in the original picture.. He's taller than the sailor in the original picture by a fair way, to my eye, whereas she's gotten stumpier.
...did I mention that I was at Woodstock? And at the wall in '89...
the statue is on a pedastal.. compare the positions of the feet between the people and the statue
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Old 08-16-2005, 12:29 PM   #2
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Bullitt, he's not talking about their heights, he's mainly talking about their relative heights, and I see it too.

* The man appears to be taller than the man in the statue. (Is the statue accurate wrt scale in the photo?)
* The woman may or may not be shorter. It's hard to tell, and old people shrink anyway, so I'm not going to make much of that.
* The difference between their two heights is much greater.

Even accounting for shrinkage in the woman, the man appears to have gotten a lot taller. It doesn't seem like this would be such a hard thing to verify, but on the surface they don't look right.
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Old 08-16-2005, 12:42 PM   #3
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is that an omnidirectional in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
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Old 08-16-2005, 12:55 PM   #4
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I would far rather see two people kissing, regardless of gender, than something more offensive like, say, fighting, suing each other, ripping each other off. Kissing is good.

BTW...did anyone else click on this IOTD title thinking they were going to see Gene Simmons in a wheelchair?
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Old 08-16-2005, 01:10 PM   #5
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BTW...did anyone else click on this IOTD title thinking they were going to see Gene Simmons in a wheelchair?
Me.

re: height
my dad grew several inches from the age of 20-30 (he's only 5'9" or 10" still). My brother is 29, and he grew an inch (from 6'1" to 6'2") in the last 2 years. I don't think the height discrepancy is necessarily a dealbreaker.
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Old 08-16-2005, 07:54 PM   #6
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I would far rather see two people kissing, regardless of gender, than something more offensive like, say, fighting, suing each other, ripping each other off. Kissing is good.

BTW...did anyone else click on this IOTD title thinking they were going to see Gene Simmons in a wheelchair?
Me too.
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Old 08-16-2005, 01:19 PM   #7
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Plus, in the original photo, the sailor is bending over, so it's hard to tell exactly what the height difference is.
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Old 08-16-2005, 01:39 PM   #8
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Besides women shrink a lot more than men do- men lose bone to osteoporosis, but since they have more to begin with it rarely affects height. And women get more curvature. Plus, notice that she is wearing heels in the original and sneakers today.

And need we mention that the scupture is not a photograph even if it was done from a photograph? So some of the height differential may be due to artistic license.
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Old 08-16-2005, 03:54 PM   #9
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My grandmother used to be 5'8". She is now 4'10".

I read somewhere that this lady is the only one who ever claimed to be the woman in the photo, but that almost a dozen men have claimed to be the man. I think they picked this one guy not because they were sure, but because they wanted "the couple" for the commemoration ceremony.

I think it's cute that she'll only let him kiss her on the cheek this time.
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Old 08-16-2005, 05:19 PM   #10
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Since the guys aren't groping, they could just be clowning around, too.
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Old 08-17-2005, 08:13 AM   #11
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What about the guy on the left - he seems to have his arm around one girl but is well into tonsil exploration with another - greedy old so-n-so, or should that be lucky. lucky, lucky old b*****d!

Oh, and on the growth thing, heard/read somewhere that the only body part to continue growing as you get older is the ears - check out your old folk to confirm - strange therefore that old people get hard of hearing - I SAID STRANGE THEREFORE....
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Old 08-16-2005, 04:54 PM   #12
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If the gay guys were really trying to be flamboyant, they would have duplicated the original pose.
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Old 08-17-2005, 09:21 AM   #13
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If the gay guys were really trying to be flamboyant, they would have duplicated the original pose.
Look carefully, though. One's humping the other's leg.


I'm just saying.
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Old 08-17-2005, 08:47 AM   #14
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And the nose.
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Old 08-17-2005, 10:20 AM   #15
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And the nose.
No, not the nose, anything but the nose!

Are you sure - I've noticed the expansion of ear tissue on a number of our senior citizens, but cannot recall having witnessed any sudden eruptions in the nasal area (I could have said that better) when performimg annual visits on various elderly relatives. Sounds more like a rumour put around by the likes of Jimmy Durante, Charles de Gaulle and more recently Gerard Depardieu to me
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