# Pictures worth a thousand words - of LIES! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357 "2005-11-23T00:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/1 "2005-11-23T00:56:48Z")
So, it’s that time of year, family and friends back home have been asking me send some updated pictures of me, my husband, the cats, etc. so they can print them, frame them, or stuff them away in a folder. One of the pictures I sent out, though not the greatest, was the best picture I could nab of [Sebastian](http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/7675/bastian7uq.jpg) on short notice, with some apologies and promises that a better one would come later, if anyone cared. However, this is the picture that prompted more laughs and “WTF?” e-mail replies I’ve gotten in a long, long time. You see, people weren’t looking at the cat. They saw [this](http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/3466/bikehelmet4tc.jpg). Yes! Yes, that is a bike helmet, hanging from the handle of… a stationary bike. :smack: No, I don’t wear it when I ride it, but I did go for a \*real \* bike ride, and that was the handiest place to hang my helmet when I came inside. But does anyone _believe_ this? _No!_ Does anyone else have a picture that speaks _lies_? 😃 ---
**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:** [November 23, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/2 "2005-11-23T00:59:37Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > So, it’s that time of year, family and friends back home have been asking me send some updated pictures of me, my husband, the cats, etc. so they can print them, frame them, or stuff them away in a folder. > > One of the pictures I sent out, though not the greatest, was the best picture I could nab of [Sebastian](http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/7675/bastian7uq.jpg) on short notice, with some apologies and promises that a better one would come later, if anyone cared. > > However, this is the picture that prompted more laughs and “WTF?” e-mail replies I’ve gotten in a long, long time. You see, people weren’t looking at the cat. They saw [this](http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/3466/bikehelmet4tc.jpg). > > Yes! Yes, that is a bike helmet, hanging from the handle of… a stationary bike. :smack: > > No, I don’t wear it when I ride it, but I did go for a \*real \* bike ride, and that was the handiest place to hang my helmet when I came inside. > > But does anyone _believe_ this? > > _No!_ > Does anyone else have a picture that speaks _lies_? 😃 Bwaahhahah! Ok, so I don’t have a picture quite so…um…untruthful…but I have to say you made my night. I almost pissed meself! Teeeeheeeeeeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/3 "2005-11-23T01:03:32Z")
Anastasaeon, um, are you SURE you were on a real, um, well, of course you were! Sure, I believe you! Honest! ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/4 "2005-11-23T01:05:04Z")
Look at the bright side. Your nude reflection isn’t showing anywhere in the pic!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/5 "2005-11-23T01:12:17Z")
Hahaaaaaaaaa! Well, it _is_ pretty funny. 😃 I don’t have a copy of the pic (I believe I issued a decree that they all be destroyed!) but when I was about 17, someone took a photograph of me and two friends swimming in a backyard pool. Everybody else looks normal in the photograph, but I’m in the middle of shooting across the pool underwater. Something about the way the light hit the water and the way the water rippled around me - I don’t know exactly what but some evil effect makes it seem as though I am completely naked, despite the fact that I was wearing swimmers. There is a clear body shape under the water, and right in the two places where there ought to be swimwear - there is a flesh coloured blur! I admit that it would be hard for anyone looking to think that the person in the water is anything other than nude - but dammit - I wasn’t. I’ve spent many an afternoon trying to convince people of it. It doesn’t help that my friends like to introduce the photo as ‘Ooooh… and _this_ is the photo where she’s NAKED! Sqeeeeal!’ _sigh_ I still don’t think it’s as funny as yours, **Anastasaeon** ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/6 "2005-11-23T01:24:38Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Look at the bright side. Your nude reflection isn’t showing anywhere in the pic!😉 This made me laugh until I had tears in my eyes. Yes, I know, I’ve stated before here on the Dope that I’m pretty casual with the nudity thing, but usually, when I get ready to take pictures of the cats and I’m home alone, I don’t make a habit of shedding my kit and getting down on the floor to chase the cats down with the camera… However, now that you mention it, perhaps it _is_ those extra millimetres of cloth between me and the floor that is preventing from getting that perfect angle… 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![Calliope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/7 "2005-11-23T01:25:15Z")
Now that is funny! Of course, it could be worse. You could have sent out a holiday portrait in which your nipple was showing. ---
**Author:** ![lonesome\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@lonesome\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonesome_loser)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/8 "2005-11-23T03:34:04Z")
Tumbles off staitionary bikes can be deadly. Of course if they turn out not to be deadly, they are hilarious. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/9 "2005-11-23T03:40:51Z")
Well, at least the kitty is cute. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/10 "2005-11-23T04:46:12Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > Bwaahhahah! Ok, so I don’t have a picture quite so…um…untruthful…but I have to say you made my night. I almost pissed meself! Teeeeheeeeeeeeeeee! I already took care of that department. [sub]Look at the thread I started here in MPSIMS. . .you’ll get it.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/11 "2005-11-23T18:44:20Z")
Aside from posing _just so_ in front of Mount Rushmore, I got nothing. You, however, have made my day. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/12 "2005-11-23T18:48:26Z")
I have absolutely nothing like this. Sir, you are my hero. _salutes_ ---
**Author:** ![Sgt.Pepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sgt.Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sgt.Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/13 "2005-11-23T19:15:28Z")
That’s hilarious. After the cat, it was the first thing I noticed in that picture. I was wondering if I should ask about it, but by then I’d read more of the op. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/14 "2005-11-23T23:58:14Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I have absolutely nothing like this. Sir, you are my hero. _salutes_ … Who are you calling _sir_? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/15 "2005-11-24T02:22:00Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > … > > Who are you calling _sir_? > > 😛 :o I beg your pardon! :o _slinks off humbly, grovelling before **Anastasaeon** _ ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/16 "2005-11-24T12:19:07Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > :o I beg your pardon! :o _slinks off humbly, grovelling before **Anastasaeon** _ And this is the second time you’ve done this to _me_! _ **Me** _! _sniffle_ I changed my sig for you! (and your kind, because you’re not the only one!) :smack: 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/17 "2005-11-24T13:26:11Z")
I’m baffled how anybody could think of **Anastasaeon** as male. Everything she writes has that gentle (but wonderful) whiff of female-itude. I just don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/18 "2005-11-24T13:28:09Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > And this is the second time you’ve done this to _me_! _ **Me** _! > > _sniffle_ > > I changed my sig for you! (and your kind, because you’re not the only one!) :smack: 😛😃 Honey, the next time that tall, dark, bone-meltingly hot guy with the twinkly smile and great buns walks by in the coffee shop, I’ll snag him just for you. Promise. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/19 "2005-11-24T20:53:11Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Honey, the next time that tall, dark, bone-meltingly hot guy with the twinkly smile and great buns walks by in the coffee shop, I’ll snag him just for you. Promise. 😉 _Oooohooooohoooo_! Wonderful! A promise from the goddess of love! Oh, I’ll _take_ him! Just do me a favour and sedate my husband when it happens, okay? 😉 Or whisk him off for a weekend of love, I want him to have fun, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357/20 "2005-11-24T21:09:40Z")
Does the old staple of the “baby sucking on the bottle of booze” count? Otherwise, I got nothin’. Oh, and your kitty is CUTE! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-of-lies/332357.md?page=2)