what do folks see in the picture?

It's clearly The Faceless Mermaid of Orgasm Shoals, captured in the American Mural style "Symbolic Vagina."

OK, the picture thingie....

This is one of those optical illusion things where you can can see two different things. Either an old man, or a mermaid. At the F2F, I was (I think) the only one to see an old man. I was muchly confused when others discussed the mermaid with the boobies....

I just listened to that cop who called the cops on himself after stealing pot, making brownies, and thinking he was dying...and then dead.

Oh dear.

So some asshole backed into my car last night. Luckily, it just hit the bumper enough to bend it a little on the side. I'll have the mechanic take a look to make sure nothing else was mashed next time I go in. But no note, no sign of who did it.

Dear Anonymous Asshole-

You're an asshole and I hope your bumper falls off. I'll bet you didn't even check to see what you hit. You suck.

-me

At the F2F, I was (I think) the only one to see an old man. I was muchly confused when others discussed the mermaid with the boobies....

I thought it was Keith Richards in a shipwreck. Lemme go look at that again.

ETA

Hah! I never saw the mermaid at all until just now.

I thought I was having a bad day yesterday until I took the bus home. My poor bus driver. She missed the exit, turned around and got back on Lakeshore Drive, then got off at an exit that wouldn't allow her to turn right. Although she tried. And then the bus stalled. She had to REBOOT THE BUS.

I then got off the bus and walked the mile home in my three-inch heels because it was nice out and I needed the exercise, but my feet still hate me today.

I thought it was Keith Richards in a shipwreck.

Heh. It looked more like Snape to me....

I was muchly confused when others discussed the mermaid with the boobies....

All I can see are the boobies, since I read about the boobies before looking at the picture.

What's cooler than a gay flamingo couple? A gay flamingo couple that adopts a baby flamingo! [link]

LONDON (AFP) - A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.

Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.

But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.

The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.

"Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves," said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.

"They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents."

Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.

"If there aren't enough females or they don't hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males," she said.

I can't figure out how there's an old man at ALL.

All I can see are the boobies, since I read about the boobies before looking at the picture.

The rock that the mermaid is sitting on is the old man's shoulders. The mermaid's right elbow is the old man's nose. The blue thingie above the mermaid's boobies is the old man's eye. The mermaid's hair wrapping around her waist defines the old man's mouth.

I saw the old man first, but once I saw the mermaid I find it difficult to see the old man.