# What's with the photo...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 18, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276 "2006-08-18T21:40:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276/1 "2006-08-18T21:40:15Z")

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…of the guy with a prolapsed rectum and what does it have to do with baby poop?

[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060818.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060818.html)

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**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276/2 "2006-08-18T21:55:22Z")

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What’s really weird is that, if I click on your link, there’s an ad there where the photo was.

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**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276/3 "2006-08-19T02:42:38Z")

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I’m not getting the ad, but the photo is not a guy with a prolapsed rectum, he’s sitting on a section of about 8" pipe. But it doesn’t really have anything to do with either section of Cecil’s column. Wierd.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276/4 "2006-08-19T02:54:32Z")

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It’s just an advertisement. The online columns have included them in that space for a month or two now. Most of them are more obviously ads than this one. When I first saw this one, I wondered if Slug has taken up photography.

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276/5 "2006-08-19T03:29:22Z")

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I saw that “advert” and didn’t know what the hell it was. I assumed it was the usual weirdness.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-photo/369276/6 "2006-08-19T04:04:34Z")

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> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#):
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> he’s sitting on a section of about 8" pipe.

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird–it’s a plane–it’s a WHOOSH! 😉

I know. It just reminded me of one of the pictures on [rotten.com](http://rotten.com) which actually didn’t involve pipe, that I know of.