warning post yesterday morning, a flu outbreak reared it’s ugly head in my nostrils Tuesday. There’s more to this lame excuse highly justified reason for not having posted The Box on it’s regular day, but the fact that my situation was referred to by someone as “The Perfect Storm” is probably reason enough, even if that “someone” was me.
Suffice it to say, there were throngs of people who were all heart.
Wait, sorry. I’m still a little feverish.
I meant to say there were people wearing thongs at Walmart, where I posted an update yesterday morning while waiting for my medication. I blame those people for setting back my recovery process by at least a day.
Give or take a year.
Regardless, after a two-day delay, “Skippy” the wild, blindfolded and potentially rabid squirrel was more than a little aggravated when I set him loose in the newsroom this morning to help select this week’s mystery photo. Now, for those who might be visiting for the first time, or who, after reading this, are concerned they could be experiencing signs of a stroke, I should explain that using a wild squirrel to select a photo from The Box of unclaimed and unidentified photos each week is completely normal here at Siuslaw News! I simply dump The Box onto the newsroom floor, release “Skippy,” and choose the photo nearest the person who screams first. Given “Skippy’s” aggravated state, this week’s selection came quickly, hastened by the fact that my fellow reporter, “Brian,” was wearing shorts.
This brings us to today’s mystery photo, which I must warn you is somewhat explicit in nature. But if you’re old enough to have watched Three’s Company, you should be fine…
Drawing from my 15 years of investigative journalism experience, my first instinct tells me these people are too overdressed to be swingers. However, I’ve been wrong before (And let’s just leave it at that). The first step in uncovering the circumstances surrounding any photo is to establish a timeline. To the untrained eye, this might seem an impossible task. However, there is a glaring “timestamp” of sorts that not only helps me hone in on the late 1990s, but also concurs with my first instincts. Just like the mystery shadow in the famous photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding his rifle, there has been some manipulation involved in this image, i.e., this woman is holding something has been erased…
That’s right. I believe a fifth, uh… “member” has been eliminated from this photo for purposes of decorum. The technology required for that level of manipulation, albeit a small area, wasn’t available until the arrival of Photoshop in the late 1990s. However, add back in that one tiny, seemingly minuet and insignificant detail, and the circumstances surrounding this photo become clear:
What was supposed to be a dinner party hosted by this couple…
… turned out to be a swingers party, which the husband of the other woman knew about…
… but didn’t bother to tell his wife…
Ned's Blog 
I believe this image was retouched by hand.
[slow hand clap]
I believe it’s called a one handed clap.
Come again?
That’s what she said.
Yeah, but when she said it there wasn’t a question mark after it.
I believe she’s making a period.
U.N.C.L.E. H.E.N.R.Y!!
heh heh heeeeeeeeeh
Is that really a good idea?
I’ve heard it eventually clears up.
Thank you for the clap.
The work of a minimalist perhaps.
Ha! And all along I thought you were going to go on about the length of his tie!
Lol! I think that might’ve pushed the envelope.
…what kind of device/contraption is that hanging at the door behind the unbothered wife? Swingers for sure. …………………….um…………..not that I would know.
where is that bowl….
BTW…i meant to tell all the readers yesterday…but will add on today…GEORGE CLOONEY was quoted and I heard it, that ..”he has not found “her” jsut yet..”. I would like to make a global statement to ALL your readers… please make sure you tell him “I” am “her”. Thank you. Much obliged.
I’m pretty sure that’s a fly strip hanging behind her. Kinky.
And as for George, he might’ve simply misplaced “her.”
You know….that’s just wrong.
George needs me. I’ll bring a fly trap.
My today’s post is “unto you my friend….” For my friend Ned! š
I just nearly spit out my licorice allsort.
That’s what she said.
I promise I made my comment before I saw yours!!!
You mean, “I swear this has never happened to me before…”
There’s something about Ned’s blog…
How do you solve a problem like Ned? How can you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
I’d start with rubber gloves.
And hip waders
I’m thinking Haz-Mat suit, but sure… hip waders.
That’s what she said.
I know there’s a swallowing joke in there somewhere, but…
Well, that’s probably all I need to say.
Don’t beat yourself up; it happens as we get older.
Thongs, shorts, and an the ugliest swingers ever posted – you really are sick, aren’t you?
I was told it was a condition. Irreversible. Like a thong.
I believe the guy with the beard is from Dork Dynasty.
He is Steven Seagal’s stand-in. In 20 years.
I just couldn’t get the image of Walmart shoppers in thongs out of my head—when you say thongs I think of the underwear variety, not flip-flops, and this has induced some gastrointestinal discomfort in me.
Ha! That’s what I thought of too, the underwear!!! I thinks that’s Ned’s influence.
I SWEAR I never influenced those people in any way to wear thongs.
Sure, you didn’t. Blame it on the meds.
Lol! I really should’ve known better than to go to Walmart, which clearly shows how sick I was.
No, you did a good thing; imagine the Chinese children that earned a living making those thongs! (LOL but feeling bad about it)
HAHA!
Oooops. I mean “…that’s terrible…!”
No, I’m sorry ā it’s definitely HAHA! š
3 Hail Mary’s and 10 Our Father’s — I feel better now š
Thong, thong, tha-thong-thong-thong! lol
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If they had been wearing flip-flops where their thongs were, I would’ve recovered from my illness much faster.
hahaha
I hope you are feeling better soon š
Thanks, Colleen š I’m almost back to normal, which is subjective.
I strongly believe that this picture should be used in college psychology classes, maybe while teaching about Freud. Students should tell a story as to what is going on and use different theories and approaches to explain it.
That’s a great idea! Wouldn’t it be fun? I think the students would learn as much about each other based on their interpretations as they would about the process.
Then again, they might decide to just get drunk… š
LOL!!!
as usual, i have quite a different read on this. it is clearly a scene from a hallmark hall of fame tv movie version lifetime channel reenactment of rosemary’s baby, when mia farrow, met the devils/church people. clear as day.
That would explain the fly strip, which they use for tying down the spawn if I remember correctly. Or maybe that was one of my kids…?
Or maybe this is the famous Invisible Man, who, as usual, tried to blend in by simply putting makeup on his face and hands, but didn’t think it was necessary to paint the parts of his body that don’t normally get exposed in public…
Or maybe the Invisible Man is still a swinger but just didn’t want to draw attention to his shortcomings?
Or maybe he’s an exhibitionist who doesn’t want to get arrested for indecent exposure.
That remains to be seen.