east village idiot

intelligent and unintelligible thoughts about life in these five boroughs

« amNY Watch: It’s a Tough Job, But Someone’s Gotta Do It
Odds and Ends: Way Down Yonder on Britney’s Coochie »

Get the Picture

Sometimes, you have to see the whole picture to get the whole picture.

For example, this is part of a picture that was on the front page of the Ithaca Journal after a Cornell student fell into gorge on campus:

foppish0.JPG

But that’s only part of the picture. Watch how the scene changes completely when the full image is revealed:

foppish1.jpg

In the story, and in the caption, there was no explanation for this mysterious snappy dresser. We are forced to speculate as to what a Foppish Dandy was doing in the middle of a 100-foot-deep gorge at 7:30 am on a Friday morning. The floor is open.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 10:21 am and is filed under Life Before Blogging. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Get the Picture”

  1. November 30th, 2006 at 10:27 am

    says:

    Is that person DEAD? (The one the rescuers are carrying, not the dandy)

  2. November 30th, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    says:

    He definitely looks like “that guy” who stands around watching whenever tv cameras and reporters (or the Ithaca Journal photographers)are around just so he can say he “was totally thereand saw it all happen.”

  3. November 30th, 2006 at 9:23 pm

    says:

    And also, why the crap does Cornell have a giant gorge on its campus? Whose idea was that?

  4. November 30th, 2006 at 11:56 pm

    says:

    They have not one gorge, but TWO: one on either side of their main campus. And yes, they also have the highest suicide rate of any university in the country.

  5. December 1st, 2006 at 2:34 pm

    says:

    that’s hercule poirot, duh, to find out whodunit.

  6. December 7th, 2006 at 4:32 pm

    says:

    Ah, the return of the Foppish Dandy! Remember all of the pictures you made using Photoshop? (I refuse to turn a noun into a verb.)

  7. December 12th, 2006 at 11:02 pm

    says:

    Cornell doesn’t have the highest suicide rate in the country. It’s a myth, perpetuated by a 1970’s CBS special discussing suicide on college campuses. One of the campuses discussed was Cornell. It’s true that CU students tend to kill themselves in an unusual way (jumping in the gorges) but the suicide rate is not any higher than the norm. Furthermore, the gorges are part of the natural geography of Ithaca (Ithaca is Gorges). It’s a really pretty town.

  8. December 17th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

    says:

    Chris, whatever happened to the adventures of Foppish Dandy?? I remember you had a whole bunch of “photo appearances” that he made. I would really love to see those again- good times. :0)

Leave a Reply