# Count to infinity in pictures **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 4, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824 "2014-03-04T14:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 94
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1862 "2014-06-02T03:19:23Z")
[Bravo!](http://www.iss.infn.it/150-anni-unita-ditalia.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1863 "2014-06-02T03:22:44Z")
[Cha-Ching](http://www.coinfacts.com/gold_dollars/1862_gold_dollar_rev.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1864 "2014-06-02T03:37:10Z")
[Four score and 71 years ago…](https://www.floridabooks.net/catalog/images/Gettysburg-July1863.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1865 "2014-06-02T03:56:10Z")
[Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent…](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/California_Geological_Survey_Field_Party_of_1864.jpg) [QUOTE=buddha\_david] Four score and 71 years ago… [/QUOTE] Shouldn’t that be “Seven score and eleven years…”? 😃 Straight Dope, fighting ignorance, yada yada. And, to out myself, I messed up the Tennyson quote. Should have been, “…theirs but to do and die…” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1866 "2014-06-02T04:43:45Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > Shouldn’t that be “Seven score and eleven years…”? 😃 Straight Dope, fighting ignorance, yada yada. What does it matter? It all adds up the same. 😉 In play: [So…other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Fords_Theatre_Playbill_1865-04-14.png) ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1867 "2014-06-02T05:05:05Z")
[Meanwhile, across the pond…](http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/webpages/Der_Deutsche_Krieg_1866_.gif) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1868 "2014-06-02T05:17:50Z")
[O, Canada.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Canada_provinces_1867-1870.png) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1869 "2014-06-02T06:38:20Z")
[Buy the suit and you got the moustache half off.](http://www.victoriana.com/Mens-Clothing/images/gentlemensfashions1868.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1870 "2014-06-02T12:39:12Z")
[Hope you can swim](http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasRivers/Images/LaGrangeTexas1869HighWaterMark06JT.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1871 "2014-06-02T14:52:08Z")
[Is there a hedgerow in your bustle?](http://www.neheleniapatterns.com/assets/images/top_1870-76.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1872 "2014-06-02T14:59:14Z")
[Those damned cows…](http://www.greatchicagofire.org/sites/greatchicagofire.org/files/imagecache/landmark_details_320x300/i34703_poster.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1873 "2014-06-02T15:09:30Z")
[Hey baby, what’s shakin’?](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KsrAIsEG8VI/UVpdGcaue3I/AAAAAAAAYMQ/qupnzunzK30/s1600/Grave+of+1872+Earthquake+Victims+Placard.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1874 "2014-06-02T15:12:39Z")
[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~palackaw/maps/title1873.jpg](http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~palackaw/maps/title1873.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1875 "2014-06-02T15:38:56Z")
[We’ve underlined the names of kids who haven’t been kicked in the head by a mule yet.](http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pryde/walkerschool/1874.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1876 "2014-06-02T16:15:43Z")
[That’s one dog, not two dogs, not 3 dogs and four dogs is right out](http://ep.yimg.com/ay/scripophily/inland-revenue-license-for-one-dog-1875-3.gif) ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1877 "2014-06-02T16:27:56Z")
[Ring ring!](http://www.w-smit.com/images/science/telephone1876.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1878 "2014-06-02T16:50:14Z")
[How do you text on this thing?](http://thephonebooth.com/equipment/telephone-story/1877.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1879 "2014-06-02T18:14:38Z")
[America’s pastime.](http://www.19cbaseball.com/images/spalding-league-ball-1878.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1880 "2014-06-02T18:54:50Z")
[Last year they only managed sixteen events.](http://d3nwmepzs3yo04.cloudfront.net/~/media/Events/1879/1879logo.jpg?mw=655) ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824/1881 "2014-06-02T18:57:28Z")
[Yes, but it is not an official sport (gotta love the fine print)](http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc207.2.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-infinity-in-pictures/682824.md?page=95)