*shudder*
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Topic: *shudder*
Posted By: DeTrevni
Subject: *shudder*
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 8:15am
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Wow. I mean, seriously. I learned something about the Victorian era: it's odd. Here's a pic of what would have been a young, pretty girl of the era:  http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d140/paintbrawlerdon1/creepy.jpg - Yeah she's dead. And for some time too. It's called postmortem photography. They take dead people, make them look not dead and snap pictures. Sometimes, living members of the family will pose with the less than living members. What gets me, is most of 'em are smiling... Google it... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 8:21am
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Too weird for me. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 8:22am
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9 days after she died?
Ugh... Find her dead, clean her up, snap one last picture, ok, but crap that's freaky. Edit: Just went to see the Wiki on this and then went to the Wiki on death masks. While a bit creepy on their own, they upped the ante here: "One such mask, known as L'Inconnue de la Seine, recorded the face of an unidentified young woman who, according to one oft-repeated story, had been found drowned in the Seine River at Paris around the late 1880s. A worker at the Paris morgue was so taken by her beauty that he made a plaster cast of her face. She was considered so beautiful that in the following years copies of the mask became a fashionable morbid fixture in Parisian Bohemian society. The face of Resusci Anne, the world's first CPR training mannequin, introduced in 1960, was modeled after L'Inconnue de la Seine." That really kind of creeps me out. ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 9:09am
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Eeek. And Reif, that is really messed up.
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 10:15am
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 10:23am
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It's also creepy in the pictures that the living people are a little blurry because they move slightly during the exposure time, but the dead person is sharp and clear.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 10:30am
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Photography was new and expensive, though not as expensive as a oil-painting portrait. So, a lot of families waited to have them done. If you notice, a lot of the dead people in the postmortem photographs are young. The families planned on getting a picture taken down the road, but the untimely death of a son or daughter would prompt them to get the photo taken sooner with the deceased able to still be used in the photo. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 2:07pm
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/ - The Others ? ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 2:16pm
| How dead are they? Do they dig them up out of the grave or once they die do the family members say, "oh hey we never got around to take that family photo..." |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 3:44pm
| Yeah, I've always found that odd. They'll give them props and stuff. |
Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 7:53pm
 crazy creepy------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 11:39pm
Dude......... 
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 24 May 2008 at 8:04am
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f-ed up. ------------- 
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 2:18pm
| i'd hit it. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 2:54pm
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^^^ I'm surprised it took 13 responses before someone said that... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 3:02pm
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Thats really weird.
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Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 3:05pm
Creepy, but funny none the less. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Styro Folme wrote:Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 10:12pm
| I learn more odd history from this message board than anywhere else on the web. Thanks, it was interesting, even though it was also creepy. |
Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 11:23pm
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It's not uncommon for someone in funerals in rural Puerto Rico to take pictures of the dead in the casket and send them to family members as a memento of the funeral. ------------- 
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Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 11:27pm
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I've found a lot of blacks seem to do that. I don't know why though.^
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 11:53pm
So racist. ------------- |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 25 May 2008 at 11:58pm
I believe we established that .357 is a racist last month thank you. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 26 May 2008 at 11:12am
See, that doesn't seem weird. At least, not nearly as weird as propping the dead person up in their casket, and everyone gathers around for a group photo. |
Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 26 May 2008 at 11:31am
Or taking them out of the casket and handing them some flowers. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 26 May 2008 at 12:15pm
I have this nagging urge to go "PHOTOSHOP!" KBK |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 26 May 2008 at 12:17pm
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or have them on your track team. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |