# ID this picture...please **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 28, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495 "2006-09-28T15:19:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/1 "2006-09-28T15:19:01Z")
Posted on [this thread](http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2313374) at [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) But you can just see the picture [here](http://x02.xanga.com/d12b24546673140803280/b27814498.jpg) . What is this? Is it photoshopped? Is it real? Note the warning floaters in the background. For some reason they give the photo credibility. Or did someone just wake the Krakken? Thanks dopers! ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/2 "2006-09-28T15:23:15Z")
It looks fake to me as there does not appear to be any circular motion of the water, it just goes straight down. I’ll be the first to admit I’m no expert though. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/3 "2006-09-28T15:23:17Z")
It looks like an intake for a large dam. It’s not Hoover dam, those intakes kave towers built around them. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/4 "2006-09-28T15:37:30Z")
It’s real, or at least there are things exactly like this that are real. It’s one of the several rather diverse meanings of ‘glory hole’. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/5 "2006-09-28T15:40:05Z")
The linked pic is apparently at Monticello Dam ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/6 "2006-09-28T15:43:15Z")
That is indeed a “glory hole” type spillway. That particular one is in [Lake Berryessa](http://www.usbr.gov/mp/berryessa/facts.html) in northern California. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/7 "2006-09-28T15:46:07Z")
cool, live and learn. I’d love to see one in reallife. We’re not big on dams in the UK though. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/8 "2006-09-28T15:47:59Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] It’s real, or at least there are things exactly like this that are real. It’s one of the several rather diverse meanings of ‘glory hole’. [/QUOTE] Google ads: “Oprah has spoken.” :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/9 "2006-09-28T15:49:07Z")
But for the sake of your eyes, don’t do an unfiltered image search on ‘glory hole’ - two other meanings (if you didn’t already know): -A hole in a wall or partition through which a person inserts his penis, for exhibitionist purposes, or to receive sexual gratification. -The anus ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/10 "2006-09-28T15:54:53Z")
In [this](http://www.usbr.gov/mp/berryessa/images/monticello_dam.gif) aerial photo, you can see where the spillway empties back into the river, but I have a question… Is it just an open tube all the way down? I presume this will be the case, since installing a grille would seem to serve no useful purpose and would just trap debris, possibly causing obstruction. So if it _is_ an open tube all the way down, has anyone been foolhardy enough to try to ride it? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/11 "2006-09-28T16:16:50Z")
Ohhhhh! Hot [Glory Hole](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6632346267598821336&q=%22glory+hole%22) vid!!! (SFW) ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/12 "2006-09-28T16:24:36Z")
Wow! The Dope Rocks! (I should visit GQ more often!) Now that I know what to look for, I did a google search on: “glory hole” +dam That got rid of all the penis pics. Also got me to a couple of interesting links (is this kosher?) [Riding the Glory Hole on a skateboard](http://www.nosewheelie.com/may/feature.html) > [@](#): > > **IS IT A BUST?** Nope. It’s been skated for decades by local skaters. I even met up with a park ranger walking in one day, and he was only interested in me to see if I was going to go fishing, and whether or not I had a fishing license. He asked me where I was going, so I told him. He just told me to be careful, and let me go on my way. It’s on the internet, so it must be true, right? Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/13 "2006-09-28T17:10:24Z")
Oh. Great. Og. Somebody talk me down from this panic attack. The sight of that thing just horrifies me. :::shudder::: ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/14 "2006-09-28T17:31:38Z")
[URL-="[http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/texaco/texaco.html](http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/texaco/texaco.html) "]Lake Peigneur, circa November 21 1980, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/15 "2006-09-28T17:45:42Z")
[QUOTE=FlightlessBird] Also got me to a couple of interesting links (is this kosher?) [Riding the Glory Hole on a skateboard](http://www.nosewheelie.com/may/feature.html) It’s on the internet, so it must be true, right? [/QUOTE] Interesting … it just so happens that my daughter spent this last summer as a park ranger at that very lake. I’ll ask her if she can verify that such things would be tolerated by the PTB there. I’m guessing that security concerns would shut that down now, if basic safety wasn’t a worry. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/16 "2006-09-28T18:01:55Z")
Damn! That looked just like the “Glory Hole” at the Bridge Creek Reservoir on Crossman Ridge. It supplies the water where I live. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/17 "2006-09-28T18:20:18Z")
[QUOTE=FlightlessBird] It’s on the internet, so it must be true, right? [/QUOTE] It doesn’t seem that remarkable to me - they are skateboarding in the _bottom_ part of the pipe where it’s horizontal. But this little paragraph got my mind wandering: > [@](#): > > Before I moved up to San Francisco, I had asked everyone I knew where the Glory Hole was. There were tantalizing hints in the few articles I’d read about it. But nobody seemed to know for sure. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/18 "2006-09-28T20:50:51Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] Oh. Great. Og. Somebody talk me down from this panic attack. The sight of that thing just horrifies me. :::shudder::: [/QUOTE] Same here. But looking at the second pic with the concrete around it soothed me. Makes it seem less freaky that it’s planned. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/19 "2006-09-28T20:56:20Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] Oh. Great. Og. Somebody talk me down from this panic attack. The sight of that thing just horrifies me. :::shudder::: [/QUOTE] Same here. But looking at the second pic with the concrete around it soothed me. Makes it seem less freaky that it’s planned. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495/20 "2006-09-28T21:44:16Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] Oh. Great. Og. Somebody talk me down from this panic attack. The sight of that thing just horrifies me. :::shudder::: [/QUOTE] I agree; there’s something incredibly gripping and viscerally chilling about it, isn’t there? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-picture-please/374495.md?page=2)