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By Sunday October 14, 2007

alien_corpse1.jpg

Do any readers know what in hell this thing is? Photoshop? My guess is it’s an art project.

From knuttz.net.



34 Comments
  1. Joshua says:
    10/14/2007 at 10:37 pm

    #17…Awake….Geesh…I watch Fox News (among others) and I don’t think Ann Coulter is hot in ANY photo.
    But the resemblence is amazing. :)

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  2. Mr. Fusion says:
    10/15/2007 at 5:18 am

    #17, Awake,

    Amazing resemblance. Watching her makes my inches turn into millimeters.

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  3. JFStan says:
    10/15/2007 at 6:19 am

    This is definitely what’s called a sideshow gaff.. A constructed creature made to resemble something mythical. I can’t tell whether it’s an original or something recently created for another purpose (it doesn’t resemble any particular gaff that I’ve seen during my research).

    One of the more common gaffs is called a Jenny Haniver, and is usually made by slicing and shaping a dead ray into a strange looking creature and then mummifying it. Another common (and probably more famous) gaff is the Fiji Mermaid. You can find many pics of them on the ‘tubes!

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  4. Phillep says:
    10/15/2007 at 9:08 am

    Probably a freak show prop.

    It looks sort of like one of the aliens in one of the early Andre Norton stories, (humans are “johnny come lately” to the intersteller scene and the established races relegate humans to a role as mercenaries, sugar is a controlled substance). Can’t remember the name of the story or find it through the filter.

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  5. Mister Mustard says:
    10/15/2007 at 9:15 am

    >>Can’t anyone answer the question?

    Probably not. Just because something is on the internet doesn’t make it “famous”. It’s probably just some kid dicking around with PhotoShop. These scary monstrosities are a dime a dozen.

    Although I agree with Awake. I think it’s Ann Coulter without her makeup. All that Chardonnay and Nicorette gum really takes its toll.

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  6. RBG says:
    10/15/2007 at 9:22 am

    Photoshop BS.

    Note that the shadow of the large head and the back area are separated from the creature indicating these areas are floating above the table. As are the legs, arms and tail. The balance point is at the waist which is the only spot that actually touches the surface. Assuming uniform density, the imbalance would have the cantilevered head resting on the table if it was a real object.

    RBG

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  7. Dwight E. Howell says:
    10/15/2007 at 9:34 am

    You are looking at a freak show exhibit. Parts of various animals and whatever stuck together and dried.

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  8. iGlobalWarmer says:
    10/15/2007 at 10:06 am

    #18 – Sorry John, most DUers are sarcastic smartasses before anything else.

    That thing is what’s left of the first attempt to clone Hillary.

    #22 – You’re not referring to a stack of buttons are you?

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  9. Norman Speight says:
    10/15/2007 at 10:53 am

    Bloody obvious. Its a Roswell thingy having a colonic examination by a member of the Homeland Security mob.
    Obviously didn’t survive the procedure.
    Probably someone in Florida is using his vote by now.

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  10. Mr. Fusion says:
    10/15/2007 at 1:31 pm

    #26, RBG,

    Not if the brain pan was the size and had the contents of James Hill.

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  11. Rich says:
    10/15/2007 at 1:39 pm

    I can’t determine the species, but I think I know the cause of death- With his lobster claws he was unable to grasp a toothbrush and clean those glorious teeth of his. A painful infected molar kept him from eating and he starved to death.

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  12. Punster says:
    10/15/2007 at 2:56 pm

    I don’t know what that is or is supposed to be but there’s a load of those on a japanese site:

    http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/room.htm?no=1

    Change the final number in the url from 1 up to 10 to see more critters.

    Maybe you can find someone who can read japanese so you can tell us what this is all about.

    http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/

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  13. ologophilos says:
    10/16/2007 at 5:30 pm

    From the Google translation of the link provided by #32, the beastie pictured appears to be a representation of Greed, a paper and bamboo construction from an exhibit called the Seven Deadly Sins by Hazime Emoto:

    http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/room.htm?no=10.

    The whole website is a ‘Fantasy Museum” and appears to display pages of pictures from several exhibitions of his constructions over the last six years or so.

    http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/index.htm

    For Ann Coulter fans, he does appear to have the Japanese version of the “any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead….” disclaimer:

    http://sow.ggnet.co.jp/ex/curatoroffice.htm

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  14. ologophilos says:
    10/16/2007 at 5:34 pm

    From the Google translation of the link provided by #32, the beastie pictured appears to be a representation of Greed, a paper and bamboo construction from an exhibit called the Seven Deadly Sins by Hazime Emoto –

    The whole website is a ‘Fantasy Museum” and appears to display pages of pictures from several exhibitions of his constructions over the last six years or so.

    For Ann Coulter fans, he does appear to have the Japanese version of the “any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead….” disclaimer –

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