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Long time no pictures!  [message #39286] Sun, 26 November 2006 21:38 Go to next message
Whitop is currently offline  Whitop

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What do you think his eyes tell you is going on in the head of this (I think) lovely boy?

Edit, added Monday afternoon: The picture, of which only the heart appears below, covered the whole width of the front page of the Sunday NY Times Week In Review. The ‘person’ leapt out at me and I was drawn to the eyes which were looking just to the right of the camera but seemed to be strongly focused. I couldn’t think what the boy might have been thinking and I wondered what those eyes might say to a bunch of perceptive folks like those on this board without knowing the context.

If you get something, please reply here as I have posted the full photo and caption below and the lack of context will be blown as it was for me. Thanks, Mac

File edited for size and screen resolution

[Updated on: Mon, 27 November 2006 22:18] by Moderator

Re: Long time no pictures! (addendum)  [message #39287 is a reply to message #39286] Sun, 26 November 2006 21:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Whitop is currently offline  Whitop

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I'll tell you the little I know about him after I've seen some answers.

Mac
Question!  [message #39289 is a reply to message #39286] Mon, 27 November 2006 02:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cossie is currently offline  cossie

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Are you sure it's a boy? And, if so, why?

Not an entirely frivolous question; with the current furore in the UK about muslim women wearing veils in jobs requiring interpersonal contact, I'd instinctively have assumed that 'he' was a girl!



For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
Re: Question!  [message #39296 is a reply to message #39289] Mon, 27 November 2006 04:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Whitop is currently offline  Whitop

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Must be the eyelashes. The caption clearly states he's a man. I guess I instinctively made him a boy.
I would not have assumed a boy  [message #39309 is a reply to message #39296] Mon, 27 November 2006 14:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Deeej is currently offline  Deeej

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He looks too wrinkly around the eyes to be young, I would have thought, unless he's had a very hard life. Otherwise he could be pretty much any age, but I'd tend to assume older rather than younger.

David

[Updated on: Mon, 27 November 2006 14:34]

Re: Long time no pictures!  [message #39313 is a reply to message #39286] Mon, 27 November 2006 16:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"I wish I had not climbed into this mailbag"?



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Re: I would not have assumed a boy  [message #39317 is a reply to message #39309] Mon, 27 November 2006 17:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jedediah is currently offline  Jedediah

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Listen, English Boy - not everyone's got a 'peaches & cream' complexion. People in countries with harsh sunlight, (indeed, any sunlight), do tend to get a bit wrinkly around the eyes, even at a young age.

You might be right, but i think it's a boy - teenager.

cheers



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Re: Long time no pictures!  [message #39320 is a reply to message #39313] Mon, 27 November 2006 19:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Whitop is currently offline  Whitop

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A declarative sentence in quotation marks followed by a question mark! What does that mean?

Oh well……………

The picture, of which I posted only the heart, covered the whole width of the front page of the Sunday NY Times Week In Review. The ‘person’ leapt out at me and I was drawn to the eyes which were looking just to the right of the camera but seemed to be strongly focused. I couldn’t think what he might have been thinking and I wondered what those eyes might say to a bunch of perceptive folks like those here without knowing the context. So far, apparently, nothing.

The caption of the photo reads in part: “MASKED: A militiaman in Baghdad carries a rocket launcher and a Koran during a parade by the Mahdi Army,...”

[I tried twice to attach the picture here. Maybe Timmy can do it.}

Hope so, Mac

The original picture was enormous. I have edited it for size and resolutiion

[Updated on: Mon, 27 November 2006 22:19] by Moderator

Re: Long time no pictures!  [message #39323 is a reply to message #39320] Tue, 28 November 2006 07:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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You asked what was going through his mind. Smile

What is a real shame is that any nation "needs" armed militias like this, especially for "one brand of god against another brand of god".



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Re: Long time no pictures!  [message #39338 is a reply to message #39323] Tue, 28 November 2006 18:40 Go to previous message
Whitop is currently offline  Whitop

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Agree! Not even "needs". "Has" is bad enough!
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