# This guy is definitely up to no good
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 6, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267 "2007-09-06T17:51:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/21 "2007-09-06T19:06:24Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
_Everybody_ in this painting makes me uncomfortable. Especially the turkey. _backs slowly away from monitor_
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The whole overexposed appearance of the image isn’t helping either. It makes me want to squint just a bit, which increases the foreignness of the thing.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/22 "2007-09-06T19:07:58Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
_Everybody_ in this painting makes me uncomfortable. Especially the turkey. _backs slowly away from monitor_
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“One of us! You’re one of us!”
_checks **Kythereia** ’s location field_
Oh. Nevermind.
😃
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/23 "2007-09-06T19:13:09Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief]
Like [this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E270Qx5OpxU) Go about 2:00 in.
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That was funny. Ha! Alton agrees with me. We’re like twins.
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### Author:  [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/24 "2007-09-06T19:13:26Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
Sauteed in mud and garnished with shrapnel
We also had dandruff as ersatz sugar and phlegm as cream, sometimes the mud doubled as coffee
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Can’t beat a bit of Baldrick. 😃
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/25 "2007-09-06T19:34:44Z")
He is, how shall I say, _making gravy_ under the table.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/26 "2007-09-06T19:43:19Z")
So these folk are all grinning maniacally, but are any 2 of them actually making eye contact with each other?
And who the hell is the guy in the lower right supposed to be looking at? A diner who is not portrayed but is occupying the same position as the viewer - hovering several feet above the table?
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### Author:  [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/27 "2007-09-06T19:47:24Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon]
That turkey looks too heavy for granny to be hefting so casually.
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You youngsters these days. She’d probably just finished plowing the field and baling the hay. That’s when women were _women_, dammit.
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/28 "2007-09-06T19:52:34Z")
It like “The Manchurian Candidate,” but instead of Communist brainwashing seminar = ladies garden club, it’s Thanksgiving dinner = Hitler’s Bunker, and he thinks he’s Von Sauffenberg. And the turkey is his briefcase.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/29 "2007-09-06T19:53:13Z")
Freedom from want - and tumblersful of tapwater all around!
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/30 "2007-09-06T20:10:11Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick]
You youngsters these days. She’d probably just finished plowing the field and baling the hay. That’s when women were _women_, dammit.
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Yep. When the men were men, the women were women, and the sheep looked real purdy wearin’ lipstick.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/31 "2007-09-06T20:13:20Z")
He is getting his list of questions ready.
Why don’t you go back to college?
What happened to that nice girl Debbie you were dating? (even though you have girlfirend Anne is sitting next to you)
When are you two going to have children? Is there a probelm with you semen?
Why don’t you say grace?
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/32 "2007-09-06T20:18:34Z")
I’m sooo tempted to photoshop a dead baby over the turkey.
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/33 "2007-09-06T20:30:07Z")
Where’s the rest of the food? One tureen of something, three sticks of celery, a small molded something and a turkey. Hope they really like turkey. I don’t even see a gravy boat! Where’s the sweet potato souffle? And the bread?
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### Author:  [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/34 "2007-09-06T20:39:32Z")
I dunno, but that sweetie on the right looks to me like Lois Lane.
You sure that’s not Super Chicken on the platter? (Lois does get around) 😃
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/35 "2007-09-06T20:53:34Z")
I think he’s about to leap prone onto the table and dry-hump the gravy boat.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/36 "2007-09-06T21:32:04Z")
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the [Doors](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/doors/the+end_20042686.html) playing in the background, very faintly, very late at night.
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### Author:  [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/37 "2007-09-06T21:47:46Z")
I just noticed that creepy Uncle Reg in the bottom right is sitting opposite his twin brother Sylvester who just got released from a stint in the Big House.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/38 "2007-09-06T22:04:45Z")
The fruit bowl in the forground looks like gold spray painted plastic fruit. Yum!
I’m also pretty sure uncle Pervy in the lower right is giving the viewer a reach-around.
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### Author:  [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/39 "2007-09-06T22:17:00Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord]
This is a lot better than the trenches in France.
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I’d like to see Norman Rockwell depict some soldiers in trenches! (Or just lying there, bleeding out in Vietnam).
Some may be interested in [this book](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226314405/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/).
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/40 "2007-09-06T22:30:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dinsdale]
So these folk are all grinning maniacally, but are any 2 of them actually making eye contact with each other?..
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Yes, the two closeted lesbians on either side of the table, just above center right and just below center left.
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