# Is this protester putting us on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 16, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503 "2003-02-16T21:21:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/1 "2003-02-16T21:21:34Z")
Stumbled across this today: [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030215/170/3a5m8.html&e=10](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030215/170/3a5m8.html&e=10) The Neville Chamberlain reference makes me think this guy is protesting the protesters. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/2 "2003-02-16T21:23:24Z")
He is wearing what appears to be a snide smirk. I saw this picture on a conservative blog fairly recently, but they didn’t seem to think he knew what he was quoting. Now that I think about it, he may be putting them on. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/3 "2003-02-16T23:13:42Z")
Hehe, I like him. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/4 "2003-02-17T00:23:02Z")
Heh, that sign says it all. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/5 "2003-02-17T00:25:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daoloth \* > \*\*He is wearing what appears to be a snide smirk. \*\* I don’t see that. I think you are reading want you want to into his expression. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/6 "2003-02-17T00:28:16Z")
After examining the picture again, the person holding the sign is behind it, so you can’t see his face at all. He has no expression. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/7 "2003-02-17T00:28:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daoloth \* > **He is wearing what appears to be a snide smirk.** Are we looking at the same picture? (I’m looking at a fisheye lens photo of a crowd, in the forground is a yellow placard ‘PEACE IN OUR TIME’ - the snide smirk (indeed the entire visage) of the person (wearing a black jacket) holding the placard is obscured by the placard iteself. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-protester-putting-us-on/155503/8 "2003-02-17T02:45:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*Are we looking at the same picture? > \*\* Aye, but I was looking at the wrong person. I was looking at the man in brown to the right of the card wielder, thinking that was the man holding the card.