# 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
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/41 "2007-09-06T22:53:15Z")
[QUOTE=panamajack]
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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I hate the guy’s pictures, so you can guess how badly I wanted to leave the show at the museum. His pictures affect me like clowns do. All the characters are suspect. The thing that is amazing is these people sat posed for hours, while he did his work.
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/42 "2007-09-07T00:48:25Z")
Great great Aunt Eustasia is smiling awfully hard. I’m just sayin’.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/43 "2007-09-07T01:11:53Z")
It’s Uncle Uranus’s severed head- on a stick.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/44 "2007-09-07T01:15:53Z")
Um… maybe it’s just me… but… that bowl of fruit… does it have a baby’s head in it?
I’m going to have nightmares.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/45 "2007-09-07T01:25:01Z")
PS- Norman Rockwell gets a bad rep for being really goody-two shoes Americana. He definitely showed underside in his drawings: [racism](http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/history/6-legacy/images/rockwell.jpg), [poverty](http://www.eng.usf.edu/EE/snider/light/artist/Rockwell/homecoming.jpg) (one of my favorites ever- he took some criticism on this one, incidentally, for setting it in tenements instead of suburbia), [multiculturalism](http://www.gcms.k12.il.us/gcmsms/art/art%20appreciation/rockwell.jpg), [eating disorders](http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane/archives/Norman_Rockwell.jpg) , [child mortality](http://www.bible.ca/marriage/spanking-norman-rockwell.jpg) , [inbreeding](http://www.ciaccess.com/~toveza/rockwell/famtree.jpg), [gay youth](http://www.ciaccess.com/~toveza/rockwell/secretsrdngsistersdiary.jpg), [why one shouldn’t snitch](http://www.unshod.org/pfbc/nrCANING.JPG), [first abortion](http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/norman3.jpg), [aging and lesbianism](http://www.ciaccess.com/~toveza/rockwell/charwomen.jpg), etc…
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/46 "2007-09-07T02:43:50Z")
Jesus **Sampiro**! I just spit Coca Cola on myself, much to the entertainment of my seven year old!
😃
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/47 "2007-09-07T02:55:43Z")
Eating disorders is good…Sampiro strikes again.
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/48 "2007-09-07T03:03:51Z")
There’s no way that tiny Jello is going to feed all those people.
What’s in it, anyway? It’s _brown_.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/49 "2007-09-07T03:19:21Z")
[QUOTE=Jeep’s Phoenix]
What’s in it, anyway? It’s _brown_.
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Relax.
It’s made with well water.
the killer awoke before dawn
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/50 "2007-09-07T03:57:05Z")
[QUOTE=panamajack]
I’d like to see Norman Rockwell depict some soldiers in trenches! (Or just lying there, bleeding out in Vietnam).
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“Southern Justice” is a pretty intense painting.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/51 "2007-09-07T04:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=slortar]
I’m sooo tempted to photoshop a dead baby over the turkey.
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I’ll marry you if you’ll photoshop one of those creepy plastic touched-up glamour kids on it. (Not really.)
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/52 "2007-09-07T14:22:14Z")
The old guy standing up? A ghost. Nobody can hear him as he tries to warn them about creepy guy at the bottom and his little “collection” in the basement. The very collection whose discovery resulted in the old guy becoming a ghost. Creepy guy is sharing a knowing smile with the viewer as he picks his next “trophy.” His protege, Junior at top, knows too. He’s smiling in anticipation…
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/53 "2007-09-07T14:38:38Z")
I hate to say this and I’ve held back. The guy in the lower left corner looks like Ronald Reagan when he was senile.
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### Author:  [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/54 "2007-09-07T14:45:41Z")
Oh man.
There’s a print of this painting in the dining room at my place of employment. I’ll never be able to go near it again without getting hysterical.
The worst thing is that no matter what part of the room I’m in, the eyes _follow me._
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/55 "2007-09-07T19:22:59Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou]
I’ll marry you if you’ll photoshop one of those creepy plastic touched-up glamour kids on it. (Not really.)
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My little sister for the baby _and_ the glamour kid. 🙂
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/56 "2007-09-07T20:12:11Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
My little sister for the baby _and_ the glamour kid. 🙂
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[Behold my mad photoshop skillz.](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g137/slortar/wrongjustwrong.jpg)
Incidentally, if you thought that little girl was creepy before, just zoom in by a factor 20 or so…yeesh…
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/57 "2007-09-07T20:59:16Z")
So, you want my sister to dress up like a nun or a French maid or something?
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/58 "2007-09-07T21:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
So, you want my sister to dress up like a nun or a French maid or something?
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Piffle. Catholic schoolgirl or the deal’s off.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/59 "2007-09-08T03:06:19Z")
Okay, that _really_ain’t right. Good thing I said I wouldn’t really marry you - my husband would be so disappointed. 😃
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-definitely-up-to-no-good/418267/60 "2007-09-08T03:25:21Z")
[QUOTE=Dinsdale]
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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He’s looking at the by then ubiquitous family photographer, played in this scene by the much less ubiquitous painter.
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