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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 12:49 PM
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Bush hasn't grown since 1949. He's the same child. (photo)

The shadow is interesting. It looks like the shadow profile of Bush as he is now.

I thought someone might want to add this to her or his collection.
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Cabcere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 12:53 PM
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1. The difference is...
...that a three-year-old being a three-year-old is cute. An adult acting like a three-year-old, especially when said adult is the leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world...well, that's just scary. :scared: Thanks for posting this.
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 12:57 PM
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2. The bushlibrary.tamu.edu site has some interesting photos
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/photos/gwbphotos.php

I don't think we're supporting Republicans or the Bush clan by visiting. I find it fascinating.:popcorn:
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 05:40 PM
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25. Disappointing ... no photos with Jimmy-Jeff. nt
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 12:58 PM
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3. It reminds me of an episode in the original Star Trek
where they encounter a giant being who is all-powerful, totally frivolous and unreasonable. At the end we find out it's a child.
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Cabcere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:02 PM
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5. Ahh, yes - I know what you're talking about
Good analogy. :thumbsup:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:32 PM
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30. The Squire of Gothos
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:45 PM
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31. I was thinking of 'The Corbomite Maneuver'
Balok's projected image...







...and the real Balok.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 08:02 PM
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32. did you know the actor who played Balok
is Ron Howard's little brother?

check out The Squire of Gothos.

He's a grown man, trapped in body of a man but with the mind of a child, all ego and unchecked power (only his parents could keep him in line).
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 08:07 PM
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33. Yeah — Clint
Did a whole buncha teevee and minor-league movie stuff. Brudda Ron stuck him in "The Paper" as the reporter who's always asking, "What's another word for..."

I'll have to get some ST from Netflix. There're a lotta eps I haven't seen in 20, 30 years.

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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 12:58 PM
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4. I'm guessing that was before the horsiephobia kicked in?
I'm thinking maybe Splinters threw him and he never got over it.
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:05 PM
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6. There is photo of him on a live (I think) horse

I really wish they would pose him on a Pony at the ranch. He really needs to back up that cowboy act with something other than the belt buckle and POTUS boots.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:08 PM
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8. A genuine smile, not a smirk.
What ever happened to that little boy? What did Pappy and Babs do to him that he lost his ability to have a genuine smile?
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:47 PM
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14. Look again. He's not really smiling in either shot.
Looks more concerned than happy.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 03:49 PM
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21. Actually I think in the second one, he is smiling
His expression in the first one is more complex.
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MassLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:28 PM
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29. the sun is in his eyes
in the first one. Hence the squint.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 08:29 PM
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34. He's squinting in the 1st photo but not the second.
The second one is Bush without a shirt.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:26 PM
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13. I doubt that's a live horse.
Edited on Sat Jun-09-07 01:35 PM by TahitiNut
As someone slightly older who also had such photos taken, I recall several such stuffed ponies (yes, even with the ears and pose) at photo concessions, particularly in tourist areas. There were backdrops and props almost exactly like that. If we look at where his hands are and how the reins are set, it's pretty clear there's no "horsemanship" at all in that photo.

Indeed, I'd say it's a fake as this one ...

George W. Bush on a bucking broncho at Knott's Berry Farms, California.
Spring 1950

What's interesting to me is that I had my picture taken on this exact same "bronco" about a year later, in 1951, when I was 8.
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 02:33 PM
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20. I remember thatg horse at Knott's...
Shit, I may have taken a pic on it myself. I was a bit older though. :rofl:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 06:47 PM
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28. The "kids" around here don't know what fun was.
:rofl: I recall really being jazzed by Knott's Berry Farm ... particularly the train.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:53 PM
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15. It is so damned tragic that this beautiful child turned into the monster he is today. This was
before his sister died, before his parents started to ignore him when Jebby was born. So damned sad.
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 04:02 PM
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24. I had a similar reaction, wondering how that little boy would've turned out if...
...he'd been raised by another family. That's the thing with photos of people who've turned out badly as small children -- their former innocence tugs at your heart.

Hekate
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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:08 PM
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7. if yor child looks like this
he is the antiChrist, quick drown him in the bathtub!
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 02:04 PM
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18. Someone apparently tried that, it didn't work....he popped back up!!!
Here's the photo evidence:
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:13 PM
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9. What a cute little kid. It's hard to believe that he
grew up to be the monster that he became. But then I suppose Vlad the Impaler was a cute kid at one time too.
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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:14 PM
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10. Eventually, he learned..
to get others to point the guns for you. To stay in the AC and ignore the carnage.

And to walk like he has an invisible watermelons under each arm.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:17 PM
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11. piles of trash in the background
Not a very nice/clean place for such elite, beautiful people.
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 01:17 PM
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12. Interesting take on the shadow....
....I see him in a suit, standing behind a podium, pointing his 'gun' at America. Really creepy actually.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 02:01 PM
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16. Geez, he's either shootin' at someone or grabbing his package


What is it with that boy???
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 02:01 PM
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17. The shadow looks like a military tank to me
foreshadowing, definitely!
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 02:16 PM
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19. Now the shadow is starting to look like a bunny...
...with a gun mounted on it's nose.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 03:52 PM
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22. Now where have I seen something like that somewhere, before?
Oh, yeah.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 06:05 PM
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26. That's exactly what popped into my head as well. nm
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 03:54 PM
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23. I thought bush's social
development came to a screeching halt at a freshman frat party.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 06:43 PM
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27. Photo #15 from the top is even more telling:
Edited on Sat Jun-09-07 06:45 PM by ellisonz
George W. Bush with his father, George H. Bush, at the commissioning ceremonies for the Scorpion off-shore drilling platform.
20 Mar 56
Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library
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