March 14, 2002

2:56 AM

Whats wrong with this picture? You have to look really close. Takes a while to notice it.
(Been doing the rounds this one, may of appeared elsewhere, my apologies if it has)
posted by MintSauce (26 comments total)

Oh, we haven't seen THIS gimmick before... When the page tried to load a .swf file (set to prompt on activex loading) just to display a supposedly still frame jpg, I knew immediately where it was going- although I wasn't viewing the window at that point, so I only heard the scream.
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Maybe it's just Linux/Konqueror. I'm not getting it in which case.
posted by crasspastor at 3:18 AM on March 14, 2002

Mintsauce: you couldn't possibly have found it via Search, so here's the original thread.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:41 AM on March 14, 2002

I mean here, dammit.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:42 AM on March 14, 2002

I knew I saw it linked (also) on MeFi...
I guess explicitely worded FPP tend to be more useful when you use Search =)
posted by XiBe at 3:46 AM on March 14, 2002

Ho hum ... different url... *sigh*

Delete away Matt.
posted by MintSauce at 3:46 AM on March 14, 2002

The tacky furniture and the plants growing away from the window.
posted by ParisParamus at 4:10 AM on March 14, 2002

why was homer screaming when i had this window open in the background?
posted by jcterminal at 4:33 AM on March 14, 2002

Don't you wish Matt was cloned and his clone moved somewhere closer to GMT?
posted by costas at 4:40 AM on March 14, 2002

Saw it on the Pile. What the hell is wrong with it, or do I just lack patience?
posted by adampsyche at 4:42 AM on March 14, 2002

That's worse than the infrared camera thing, where it claims that it's an infrared camera, and it can take a picture through your monitor, and at the end, when your picture is "developed," it's a picture of a monkey.
posted by Kevin Sanders at 4:46 AM on March 14, 2002

Why is this thing so popular? I don't understand its appeal at all.
posted by aaron at 4:47 AM on March 14, 2002

That thing scared the HELL out of me. Okay, so I was looking at it at 3 in the morning, but still. I'm glad I didn't show it to my grandmother........she'd be dead on the floor from the shock.
posted by KoPi_42 at 4:58 AM on March 14, 2002

Holy mother of fuck. New one for me, and it worked. I won't need any coffee today, thank you.
posted by keli at 5:40 AM on March 14, 2002

geez. i didn't even post this crap to blort.
posted by quonsar at 5:42 AM on March 14, 2002

And you'll post ANY OLD THING to blort! Trust me. I look daily.
posted by ColdChef at 5:59 AM on March 14, 2002

Oh, I saw it now. Is this supposed to be better than that stupid ghost in that dank room from like last month?

Pass the espresso.
posted by adampsyche at 6:02 AM on March 14, 2002

ColdChef:     :-)
posted by quonsar at 6:15 AM on March 14, 2002

ok, the other was lame, it didn't suprise me. but this one, on the otherhand got me. i was looking for photoshop mess-ups. I'm going to clean out my shorts now. seriously, my heart stopped.
posted by tomplus2 at 6:29 AM on March 14, 2002

S-T-U-P-I-D
posted by Macboy at 6:32 AM on March 14, 2002

I've seen it before, and I put the thing in the background when I couldn't see anything. I figured the screaming homer sound came from another program I had loaded, so I never made the connection. Scared the crap out of me this time though.
posted by Hildago at 6:59 AM on March 14, 2002

I hate these things.
posted by Spoon at 7:49 AM on March 14, 2002

Ah, you guys hate everything. It worked perfectly on me -- I admit it, I jumped.
posted by mrhappy at 8:13 AM on March 14, 2002

Not as good as the basement pic where the ghost appears in the background. No annoying sound, and much more effective, IMHO.

Although that Flash animation with the Chinese writing and the screaming was pretty funny too.
posted by wackybrit at 9:17 AM on March 14, 2002

I hope this gets posted every day so I can puke cool beans all over my monitor while enjoying a deliscious pancake.
posted by Outlawyr at 9:22 AM on March 14, 2002

deliscious n.
1) legumous
2) vine-dwelling
3) mefian delicacy, pancakes marinated in cool beans.
posted by quonsar at 9:32 AM on March 14, 2002