I guess the movie 300 has inspired many to make history more awesome. 
http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/1776.html
“1776… It ain’t accurate but it will blow your f… mind.”
(In that parody Washington did hit a polar bear when crossing the Delaware)
Pretty much my favorite animal. Bred for its skills and magic.
Well, I always knew that Washington was awesome, but clearly I haven’t been reading the right books.
I’m impressed that the flag was still there. That, and its having the right number of stars and stripes… although I’m less certain about the verisimilitude of GW’s personal weaponry. Given that tiger’s (or liger’s) armspan, I don’t think the sword really cuts it. You can see that GW has already sustained a nasty swipe at his pants from those claws… surely a firearm would offer him a better chance at downing the beast?
So, armaments experts, what kind of pistol or rifle would George Washington most likely have had on his person, and wouldn’t the rifle (or musket, probably – late 18th C., after all) have had a bayonnet attachment offering a reach superior to that of that sword?
Then again, loading a musket with black powder, tamping that down, and dropping the shot ball in while on a hurricane-tossed boat that’s rapidly sinking is probably a non-starter. In that context, a sword offers a quick-draw advantage.
I’d like to see a U.S. Congressperson draft a bill requisitioning the purchase of the original painting for permanent installation in the Capitol Building. Honestly, it’s no worse than some of the other colonial & revolutionary-era commemorative kitsch already installed there…
Of course not. Texas just got the one with this picture in it approved.
I see what you did there. :dubious:
Your question about arms is irrelevant, however. GW wouldn’t need any weaponry to take on a simple tiger… bare hands would suffice nicely. He used a sword to give the poor animal a fighting chance!
(unlike that A-hole Lincoln, who whooped the ever-livin’ hell out of Sasquatch using his bare hands…)
Man that would look great in my double-wide.
What’s most impressive about this is what we don’t see, as implied by all the blood in the storm tossed waters: A great white shark, just beneath the surface has the lower half of the tiger (liger) in its toothy jaws. Despite this, the tiger (liger) feels the more immanent threat is GW. Of course, GW will dispense with the menace soon enough, then he’s on to the great white. I hope paintings can have sequels… do they come in sequels?
I once saw a painting of GW crossing the Delaware on a hamburger. I haven’t neem able to find that anywhere again for years.
Hey, old GW was pretty ripped…
Heck yes he was. And that was before he started working out. And, that cherry tree he supposedly chopped down? Yeh, he did it with his bare hands. Oh, and it wasn’t really a cherry tree… it was a velociraptor.
Exactly what I was going to post.
“I heard that mother-fucker had, like…30 God-damn dicks.”
Hanging out around CollegeHumor.com and Digg, natch. This particular one isn’t very obscure. It went viral around 2 years ago. If you missed this one, you might have also missed Narwhals. You might wanna look that one up.
There is only one thing to counter that much awesome:
Batman Fighting a Shark with a light saber.
My mom is an artist.
She was in a mood one day and did a Jesus on the Crucifix. Black Sky behind him. Crown of Thorns. Lighting Bolt behind him. The whole nine yards.
It has to be the singlehandedly most depressing piece I have ever seen her do. Looking at it makes me want to slice my wrists.
She’s in her 80’s, so whatever.
But, when I saw this picture for the first time, all I said to her was, " THAT would look AWESOME on BLACK VELVET and you could set it from a van on a street corner."
She was not amused.