# 50 unexplainable photos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292 "2011-10-01T21:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/1 "2011-10-01T21:43:42Z")
> **[50 Unexplainable Black & White Photos](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/50-unexplainable-black-white-photos)** > > A collection of the most confusing/unexplainable photos from my Tumblr blog, Black & WTF. There are a couple of ‘nudes’, but no naughty bits are showing. They’re vintage, so they’re ‘art’ anyway. #12 is a photo of a situation depicted on a plate my mom’s mother had. On the plate, a stereotypical Black boy is urinating through a knothole in a fence, and a chicken is racing up on the other side to get the ‘worm’. Had I not seen that plate when I was little, I wouldn’t have immediately ‘gotten’ what was happening in the photo. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/2 "2011-10-01T23:27:17Z")
Also, I think #12 is a cautionary depiction of why you should never stick your pecker in a glory hole without knowing what’s on the other side. It could also be the origin of the word “pecker”. It’s good to know the world was not only fucked up in a weird way before I got here, but also way before the internet made it obvious. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/3 "2011-10-01T23:46:27Z")
Those are some strange pictures. #2 stands out to me. What on earth… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/4 "2011-10-01T23:47:58Z")
No. 21 is\*\* Anna Held\*\*–I wrote a book about her! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/5 "2011-10-01T23:50:04Z")
Dial-up sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/6 "2011-10-01T23:51:45Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > No. 21 is\*\* Anna Held\*\*–I wrote a book about her! That’s one of two or three photos that is perfectly normal. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/7 "2011-10-01T23:54:56Z")
And the nekkid lady with all the heads is from a book of Weimar-era German porn, which, _yes_, I have. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/8 "2011-10-02T00:39:18Z")
Re: #2: wasn’t it the custom in Italy to display bloody bedsheets after a wedding night to show that virginity had been broken? I suppose a mattress would qualify… #18: People liked porn with skeletons? #19: “The gasmask look tops the runways for the spring 1940 season…” #24: Most. Unfortunate. Siamese Twin. Ever. #31: A pig fetus. Or Cthulhu. I’m not certain. #32: Dave knew he was in trouble when his time machine malfunctioned in 1896. Fortunately, has skills as a steampunk reënactor enabled him to blend his time suit right in. #39: One day, the watermelon bit back. #44. It was fortunate that the Waldenheimertal Brass Band was on hand when the new electric locomotive’s horn failed. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/9 "2011-10-02T00:45:09Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > #31: A pig fetus. Or Cthulhu. I’m not certain. Armadillo, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/10 "2011-10-02T00:46:46Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > No. 21 is\*\* Anna Held\*\*–I wrote a book about her! Well then, you’d be the person to ask…I used to live in the Edgewater Beach apartments in Chicago, and there is a florist there named after her. I heard it was because she once lived in that building (or in the attached hotel that was torn down, maybe), and I’ve always wondered if that was true? ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/11 "2011-10-02T01:16:29Z")
Well, that is a big collection of WTF… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/12 "2011-10-02T02:45:45Z")
> [@Sarahfeena](#): > > Well then, you’d be the person to ask…I used to live in the Edgewater Beach apartments in Chicago, and there is a florist there named after her. I heard it was because she once lived in that building (or in the attached hotel that was torn down, maybe), and I’ve always wondered if that was true? Anna Held never lived in Chicago–she had homes in Paris and New York–but she certainly stayed in Chicago hotels while touring. But she is the sort of glamorous person a florist (do you mean a person or a shop?) might have been named after. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/13 "2011-10-02T03:10:13Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > And the nekkid lady with all the heads is from a book of Weimar-era German porn, which, _yes_, I have. Looks like that dude’s about to get some head. (Stolen and paraphrased from the comment section because it made me lol). ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/14 "2011-10-02T03:34:51Z")
The guy with the shotgun in #20 looks a great deal like my father. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/15 "2011-10-02T03:43:42Z")
Do the two little girls look like your late sisters? ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/16 "2011-10-02T04:16:31Z")
#23 is kind of cute–soldier with a cat on his head. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/17 "2011-10-02T04:37:25Z")
#19: Are you my mummy? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/18 "2011-10-02T04:38:07Z")
wow. :eek: Stephen King could write a book based on…well, pretty much any of those photos… ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/19 "2011-10-02T04:44:59Z")
#7 There’s obviously something very unusual with the left cyclist, he doesn’t have a mustache. #8 That would be the penguin uprising of '27. #23 No wonder they lost the war… #35 is a very precocious Tea Partier. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292/20 "2011-10-02T04:59:02Z")
I love that collection! But my favorite is #38 because it looks like a real life posing for a Kliban drawing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292.md?page=2)