# Help me convince my wife I'm not Nuts or full of it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025 "2004-06-12T22:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/21 "2004-06-16T01:20:23Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > **TellMeI’mNotCrazy** can you tell me how you found this pic? My Mom’s driving me nuts, and so far the contact you gave me is unresponsive. I’m hoping I can get to the actual site it’s on and see if there are additional contacts. I went to Google Search, clicked on the “Images” option, which lets you search specifically for pictures and typed “Swim Mobile” - with the quotes. There’s only one result - that picture. The actual link for the website is [http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/photobook/Swim.jpg](http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/photobook/Swim.jpg) If you delete everything after the .us in the link, it will take you to Detroit’s city webpage. At the bottom of that page is the email address for the person that I gave you - more poking around might give you a better lead on someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/22 "2004-06-16T01:23:57Z")
Thanks and I didn’t know about that google option, so again thanks. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/23 "2004-06-16T01:28:18Z")
We’re still holding out for the completely nuts and full of it thing though. This is one of COOLEST things I’ve seen on the board in a long time! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/24 "2004-06-16T01:42:46Z")
And I’m just dying of curiosity to find out the, well, Straight Dope on this, so definitely keep us posted! ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/25 "2004-06-16T02:00:42Z")
Me too, that and my Mom IMs me ever hour or so, so I have to find out or work will be impossible 😃 Myself I alternate between really cool, and really crazy. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/26 "2004-06-16T02:37:06Z")
I googled Rose Love Detroit and found this number 313-224-3757 for Rose Love as the contact for Detroit’s Sister Cities program and Relocation program. Perhaps she still can help you find out who to contact about the photo. I can’t wait to hear how this turns out! ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/27 "2004-06-16T14:29:59Z")
The Swim.jpg appears on this page: [http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/photobook/photobook1.htm](http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/photobook/photobook1.htm). At the bottom, it says: > [@](#): > > All photos are the property of the City of Detroit. Photos by CC SD photographers Kwabena Shabu, Karen Sanders and Hugh Grannum, DWSD photographer Paul Gomez, and free-lance photographer William Harper. Old photos are from the City of Detroit archives ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/28 "2004-07-12T00:42:39Z")
So, any update? ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/29 "2004-07-12T00:50:18Z")
Not yet I was just talking to my Mom about it again. I hadn’t yet tried the number but my e-mails have gone unaswered. I’m going to try that number tommorrow, but thanks for the bump, I was planning on searching for it today. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/30 "2004-07-12T02:01:19Z")
This IS the best message board in the world! How exciting for you! ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/31 "2004-07-12T02:48:59Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > Holy Cow!!! You’re not gonna belive this, but can you tell me how I can get a copy of that pic? I just showed it to my Mom, to just to be sure I was seeing what I think I see. That looks like a pic of me, my younger brother and Stepfather!! My mom is trying to clean it up in Photoshop, I’ll keep you guys posted. Ok, now _I’m_ skeptical!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/32 "2004-07-12T03:47:15Z")
If you get no response from that number, try the city archives as mentioned above - their staff might be a lot more knowledgeable about specific photographs than you expect, or at least able to pull up that one given the rest of the information on that page. Or possibly so understaffed that you talk to a misplaced intern from some other department. But the city archives are, at least in part, there to serve you. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/33 "2004-07-12T03:48:41Z")
I’m happy for you Stuffy, really. It’s just that now I’ve got the song, “It’s a small world after all” stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/34 "2004-07-12T04:18:15Z")
> [@Booker57](#): > > I’m happy for you Stuffy, really. It’s just that now I’ve got the song, “It’s a small world after all” stuck in my head. That song has been stuck in my head since I first saw the photo. Oh, and I decided not to wait and left a voice mail message after I my last post. If I had waited I was sure to get caught up in work related crap, which is why I haven’t called before now. **sperfur** I forgot to mention that my Mom doesn’t use Photoshop, I had assumed she did because she does the layouts for an Asheville weekly, she used whatever program came with her camera, the photo cleaned up nicely and she’s so convinced that she uses it as her IM pic. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/35 "2004-07-12T04:54:07Z")
Last update before I go; look at this photo, it’s of my son Stuffy II my school pics and his loook like the same child. You be the judge. [pic](http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stephenbye@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=/4f4b&.dnm=e1b2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/36 "2004-07-12T11:32:02Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > **sperfur** I forgot to mention that my Mom doesn’t use Photoshop, I had assumed she did because she does the layouts for an Asheville weekly, she used whatever program came with her camera, the photo cleaned up nicely and she’s so convinced that she uses it as her IM pic. Just teasing you, **Stuffy**. There are at least 3 people in the photo that your mom recognizes. She would be the one to know! I’m just as happy for you as everyone else in the thread. This is more than cool! I _love_ this message board! ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/37 "2004-07-12T12:09:49Z")
This has got to be the coolest thread I’ve stumbled upon at the SDMB. Awesome, **Stuffy!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/38 "2004-07-12T19:42:54Z")
How did \*\*Mrs. Stuffy \*\* take the news? Did you make a bet with her? ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/39 "2004-07-12T22:20:42Z")
Did you hear anything today? ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025/40 "2004-07-12T23:02:06Z")
**Zebra** It wasn’t a bet, what brought the conversation up in the first place was that we were talking about signing the boys up for swimming, and I mentioned that the Swim Mobile was my first encouter with swimming. She’s pretty amazed by the whole thing, and she’s seen the picture I mentioned earlier that still hasn’t surfaced. **AwSnappity** Still nothing. I may start trying the other names listed, I mean you’d think she could at least let me know she received my phone message or e-mail. Maybe she’s on vacation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-convince-my-wife-im-not-nuts-or-full-of-it/250025.md?page=3)