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http://sg.yimg.com/xp/reuters/20080930/03/1510764032.jpg

sensual harrassment (naus), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Three for the price of one, including our old friend from Germany:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp10-6-08b.jpg

Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link

bottom lest is stan laurel.

Christopher Blix Hammer (Ed), Monday, 6 October 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link

oops those are doublers, didn't spot them glancing through thread the first time.

Have we had this guy yet?
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44062000/jpg/_44062007_bombaytrader_ap416b.jpg

aye it's me (onimo), Monday, 6 October 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/1869/jimmy2sr8.jpg

Haha, ^^my fav. Poor, poor Jimmy from outer space.

RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 6 October 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/09/29/t1wide.mrkt.bail.mon.03.ap.jpg

william h macy stars in ...

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 6 October 2008 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahah, an idea whose time has come.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/images/Duimpje02_gr.jpg

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6271/crazytrader2lp1.jpg

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Our thread is better, but I do have to point out: http://sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Linked a few posts back, Chris!

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

http://improveverywhere.com/images/sui00.jpg
Sequence and video here

derelict, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp10-9-08hh.jpg

Super Cub, Thursday, 9 October 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link

there was a great one in the newspaper yesterday, either the telegraph or independant, of a bloke in tears

Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Friday, 10 October 2008 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link

guys guys - the guardian has a stone cold classic today, i'll try to find it

Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 October 2008 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link

argh not online - it goes with this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/10/executivesalaries-creditcrunch1

i swear to jesus - it's as if chris kattan were playing a stock trader

Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 October 2008 10:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Ooooh yeah that one's a humdinger.

Matt DC, Friday, 10 October 2008 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45095000/jpg/_45095458_1788b6af-f5b9-48ce-a830-2b03268c12a4.jpg

Same dude does the serious double-phone look.

Matt DC, Friday, 10 October 2008 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link

This thread should be a book

Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Friday, 10 October 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link

is there a website which archives back issue front pages of newspapers? a friend of my sister's was on the front of the torygraph yesterday...(and no, i can't find it on the telegraph website)

CharlieNo4, Friday, 10 October 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link

does anyone actually know what these guys (sorry, and women) do and understand it?

not_goodwin, Friday, 10 October 2008 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link

BUY SELL AAARGH *bang*

Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Friday, 10 October 2008 10:47 (fifteen years ago) link

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2008/Oct/Week2/15117646.jpg

Charlie - no, I don't think so. There's http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_show_sort=yes but that's only today's and anyway, UK papers seem to have pulled out of it.

Alba, Friday, 10 October 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link

if i were a newspaper's website i'd have a page with links to every front page since my inception! it's ridiculous.

CharlieNo4, Friday, 10 October 2008 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link

can you imagine how inky your fingers would get, scanning all those newspapers? i'd do it though. i enjoy tedious, undemanding work like that.

Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 October 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link

There are royalties issues. Photographers would want recompense.

Alba, Friday, 10 October 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link

so do they get recompense for all the above pics from a year ago (and longer ago elsewhere obv) which are still live and linkable?

CharlieNo4, Friday, 10 October 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link

It's a bit of a shadowy area. I think, to be honest, a lot of those pics have gone up under agreements that probably don't allow them to be available in perpetuity. But the web's frontier country for intellectual property. It's all a bit hard to control and results in arguments between the various parties about digital-reuse clauses in contracts. Similar problems with text. Big chunks of pre-web newspaper archives have been pulled because fears of lawsuits by freelancers.

Alba, Friday, 10 October 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.newseum.org/media/dfp/jpg10/lg/AUT_KZK.jpg
Can someone who speaks German tell me why these people are smiling?

Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 10 October 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Just finished swinging on gigantic phone.

Matt DC, Friday, 10 October 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link

the copy says, more or less:

Top bankers listen and respond to savers

Where would my money be safe?
What shall I do with my shares?
Ask the experts on the phone at 1pm.

so they're smiling because the newspaper is giving them a load of cash to placate its readers, presumably.

CharlieNo4, Friday, 10 October 2008 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link

Big chunks of pre-web newspaper archives have been pulled because fears of lawsuits by freelancers.

i seem to remember ipc freelances and staffers threatening a walk-out in the early 2000s over online republishing of printed copy. can't remember what happened though.

CharlieNo4, Friday, 10 October 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link

(although i'd imagine they were very quickly "persuaded" to sign a contract allowing once-only online reprinting for no extra payment)

CharlieNo4, Friday, 10 October 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks, and it explains the dangling phone.

Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 10 October 2008 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link


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