# Funny "craption", but what on earth are they doing in that pic?

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**Created:** [July 31, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-craption-but-what-on-earth-are-they-doing-in-that-pic/504849 "2009-07-31T05:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-craption-but-what-on-earth-are-they-doing-in-that-pic/504849/1 "2009-07-31T05:39:01Z")

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From [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com)’s “craptions” contest, where you add your own caption to a bizarre picture of the day:

**[“This season on Lost . . .”](http://www.cracked.com/craptions/craption/1297)**

Pretty funny, but mystifying as well: what on earth are the people doing in that picture? Is it some kind of hippie confab?

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**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-craption-but-what-on-earth-are-they-doing-in-that-pic/504849/2 "2009-07-31T06:48:15Z")

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They appear to be worshipping it. The spirit inhabiting the tree is probably horrified and wishing a good old-fashioned heathen would come along and chase away the scary naked muddy neo-pagans and dump a bottle of mead on its roots so it can drink deeply and forget this day ever happened.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-craption-but-what-on-earth-are-they-doing-in-that-pic/504849/3 "2009-07-31T08:05:29Z")

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They’re tree hugging hippies who have gone just that little bit too kooky.

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**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-craption-but-what-on-earth-are-they-doing-in-that-pic/504849/4 "2009-07-31T16:20:15Z")

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I think GuanoLad has it… looks like the Rainbow gathering or something.

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**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-craption-but-what-on-earth-are-they-doing-in-that-pic/504849/5 "2009-07-31T16:31:03Z")

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I don’t know, but that older man standing away from everybody else has a major muffin-top.

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**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-craption-but-what-on-earth-are-they-doing-in-that-pic/504849/6 "2009-07-31T17:14:05Z")

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> [@Marlitharn](#):
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> They appear to be worshipping it. The spirit inhabiting the tree is probably horrified and wishing a good old-fashioned heathen would come along and chase away the scary naked muddy neo-pagans and dump a bottle of mead on its roots so it can drink deeply and forget this day ever happened.

I’m on it. Wish me success.