Pyramid of skulls | 43 comments (43 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Pol Bush.

Good frame.

(A bit ghoulish to be thinking about this in terms of frames - but I think it gets the message across.)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 10:57:42 AM EST
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Yep - the old meme is powerful in these days of soundbites.

I think just the word 'pages' played a very important role in the continuing Foley scandal. I am sure the average Joe Schmo was not aware of the system of using young lads and lasses in this way on the Capitol - so he had to think about it and what it meant. 'Pages' becomes the hook on which to hang all the other messages.

I was thinking earlier how Bush's membership of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale could be tied in to a visual...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 11:58:48 AM EST
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For sure. If they called them 'interns' - which is what they really are - the creepiness factor would have been somewhat smaller.

There's endless campaign potential in a statistic like this, and even more for creative interpretation.

Maybe someone should print out 655,000 skulls on paper and hand them in to Downing Street. Or start piling plastic skulls outside Westminster. (Until arrested.)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 12:25:43 PM EST
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Or make a pdf mask of a full size photo-realistic skull face that could be printed on A4, cut out and worn with a piece of string. With the words "I met Tony".

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 12:34:38 PM EST
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Or (none / 0)

"Got your message, Tony!"

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 12:35:56 PM EST
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That number of skulls would fill 14 olympic sized swimming pools ( to take it to the absurd)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 12:43:04 PM EST
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That number of skulls would fill 14 olympic sized swimming pools ( to take it to the absurd)

I'd figured five. An Olympic Swimming Pool is 50m x 25 m x 2m, or 2500 m^3.

Though looking at it, I'm probably guessing the size of my skulls wrong; 2L is only 12.6 cm a side. Baby skulls?

by IdiotSavant on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 11:20:45 PM EST
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