Probably something really obvious but I’m missing it.
It’s a Photoplasty contest at Cracked.com. The subject is “Situations About To Go Horribly Awry”. Here’s the image.
A mouse has just been elected president of the United States?
The President is an elitist mouse? An English titmouse is about to call the reptiles down on the US? These are the images I had available on my computer so. . . here’s an awful 'shop?
Winston Churchmouse?
A British rat! This cannot end well.
(No, I’ve got nothing.)
It’s confusing, to be sure. Why the hat? Why the monocle? Why the pipe? Why are there two cords coming out from the monocle? Is it implying that those are wires and it’s some kind of ratbomb?
I think, ultimately, all that is just irrelevant. The point is it’s a rat that got elected President.
Okay, so apparently it’s not just me.
It would be par for the course for there to be between 1 and 3 images in those Photoplasty bits that I just have no handle on whatsoever. This would be one.
I was figuring that the mouse was a Secret Service agent, not the President himself. But I still don’t get it.
The mouse is British. British government is controlled by the US?
Basically some unexpected, presumably crazy chain of events has ended up with a mouse as POTUS. I would say that fits the category.
Sometimes anti-union types are referred to as rats. The bowler hat and monocle seem to suggest an elitist bent.
Is this something to do with the recent government union-busting in certain states like Wisconsin and others supposedly being applauded by big-business types?
Otherwise, who knows?
But that’s not the premise. The premise is that something bad is “about” to happen, not that it already did.
BTW, here’s a link to the page, so you can see the photo in context.
Rats desert sinking ships. As soon as things start to go bad, the President is out of here.
I don’t get it. I don’t get the bathroom one, either.
What is that coming out of the back of the President’s seal on the rat’s back? Is it a strap? Is it a gun? What is it? I think that is key to understanding this otherwise inscrutable image. Perhaps it signifies a “elite-rat” commander-in-chief (as shown by the gun and the forward momentum of the rat) leading the country into war? And since it’s a rat, well, we all know what rats do when the going gets tough.
That’s a sculpture. The line is never going to move, and the guy at the end (who is the only one not made of bronze) is gonna soil himself.
My post was, of course in reply to:
Ah. Those sculpture dudes just look like the gold and silver mime guys downtown, so it didn’t occur to me they wouldn’t be real people. :smack:
Regarding the OP, my best guess is…
Not only has a rat been elected President, he’s not even an American rat.