Manning Leonard Krull ([info]manningkrull) wrote,
@ 2008-04-25 18:15:00
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Entry tags:paris, photography

La Defense
My friend Andrea and I took the Metro waaay over to La Defense today, basically just to enjoy the gorgeous weather and to see what they got over there.



What they got over there is a giant thumb.



Told you.

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you knew some one would go THERE! in fact you were ho[ing for it...so I'll oblige
[info]twirlingtulip
2008-04-25 04:23 pm UTC (link)
It's a penis in disguise!

Much like their conversational sentences, the French couch their hidden intents within other things...

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[info]amanofhats
2008-04-25 04:23 pm UTC (link)
La Defense approves, in a BIG way.

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[info]twirlingtulip
2008-04-25 04:23 pm UTC (link)
She has beautiful hair and a beautiful jacket...

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-26 03:40 pm UTC (link)
My friends have beautiful everything!

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[info]abinka
2008-04-29 02:19 pm UTC (link)
Yeah I was going to say she's very pretty.

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[info]fasterpussycat
2008-04-25 04:27 pm UTC (link)
Are all your friends supermodels?

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[info]quba
2008-04-25 04:27 pm UTC (link)
It kind of looks like an elephant's penis.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-04-25 04:33 pm UTC (link)
WHAT'S GOT ONE THUMB AND IS UNDERGROUND?

THIS GUY!

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[info]calamityjon
2008-04-25 05:23 pm UTC (link)
Man, as I think about it, did you ever read Swamp Thing back when Alan Moore was writing it?

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-26 03:40 pm UTC (link)
A little, but I got no idea where you're goin'. Whatchu got?

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[info]calamityjon
2008-04-27 03:48 am UTC (link)
Oh, nothing, just making conversation.

Wait, no, I meant:
Page one.
Page two.

The important thing for you to take away from this is that you simply shoiuldn't try to understaaaAAAAAAAA(spak)(fzat!)kzzit!

Edited at 2008-04-27 03:48 am UTC

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[info]calamityjon
2008-04-27 03:52 am UTC (link)
(In retrospect, this was actually the page of which I was thinking, wherein the Spectre fights an enormous thumb. ONE TWO THREE FOUR I DECLARE A SPIRITUAL THUMB WAR!)

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-29 03:00 pm UTC (link)
Hahaha, holy shit, I most certainly had never seen that.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-04-29 03:02 pm UTC (link)
I suck, THIS is the panel where he actually fights a thumb. I'm going back to bed.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-29 03:10 pm UTC (link)
If it's any consolation, I'm equally dumb; I thought you were simply showing me the giant thumb and explaining that he fights it later (like maybe you didn't have scans of that).

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[info]mooflyfoof
2008-04-25 04:59 pm UTC (link)
That's unbelievably creepy.

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[info]thistlelurid
2008-04-25 05:13 pm UTC (link)
You're a fancy pair, the two of you!

All I can think about is the fonz.<----get out of my heeeeaaaaad.


The Arche de la Défense!!

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[info]slickninja
2008-04-25 05:36 pm UTC (link)
I hope you did not miss this wonderful opportunity to get small.

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[info]brahman_atman
2008-04-25 05:56 pm UTC (link)
That is the Holy Grail of manicurists.

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[info]phedrang
2008-04-25 07:00 pm UTC (link)
THat is like the ugliest thing I have seen in awhile. Like they buried King Kong after he fell or something.
I bet I'm going to have nightmares about this image.
Thanks Manning!

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-26 03:41 pm UTC (link)
Glad to be of assistance!

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[info]rxgreene
2008-04-25 07:00 pm UTC (link)
...And in Paris, once again, the corpse of the Jolly Green Giant has risen from it's grave. Despite being buried over three hundred feet beneath the earth, the mammoth thumb of the Giant (pictured above; with a quarter, for scale) has once more surfaced near La Defense...

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Your best friend in peas and corn
[info]okaree
2008-04-25 11:55 pm UTC (link)
And not the friendly modern one, either. This one:

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Re: Your best friend in peas and corn
[info]manningkrull
2008-04-26 03:42 pm UTC (link)
HOLY FUCK

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[info]willowfinn
2008-04-25 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Its a hitchhiker's monument!
Someone give that guy a lift already, jeez. ;)

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[info]christy_wolfe
2008-04-25 07:24 pm UTC (link)
the thumb is really cool, but you two both look amazing and much better than the thumb.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-29 02:58 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! I should certainly hope so!

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[info]ngakmafaery
2008-04-25 08:45 pm UTC (link)
...fortunately, though, the giant thumb matched your-guys' outfits as well as the first background did...whew! Otherwise, how embarrassing!!!!!!!!

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[info]bbullock
2008-04-25 09:07 pm UTC (link)
That top picture is a cover waiting for an album.

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Give y'all a big thumbs up!
[info]lisastrawberry
2008-04-25 09:47 pm UTC (link)
Big thumb? SCARY.

Y'all? Gorgeous, Dahling!!

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Re: Give y'all a big thumbs up!
[info]manningkrull
2008-04-29 02:58 pm UTC (link)
Why thank you!

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[info]dawaioser
2008-04-25 10:09 pm UTC (link)
I'm waiting for the big Monty Python foot to come stomping down and make the farty noise.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-29 02:58 pm UTC (link)
Haha, perfect.

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[info]varpulis
2008-04-25 10:27 pm UTC (link)
that thumb needs some moisturizer.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-26 03:43 pm UTC (link)
Interestingly/funnily/grossly enough, you can see how the right side is all smooth and shiny from people playing on the thing while the rest looks dusty and dried out.

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[info]brahman_atman
2008-04-26 09:10 pm UTC (link)
This is like the bronze statue of a bull down in Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan. Shiniest parts of that thing are where people grab it as they pose for pictures: the horns and the balls. :)

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[info]kiwikat
2008-04-26 01:06 am UTC (link)
that thumb's head is in nice at the museum of contemporary art. maybe there's just a whole giant guy buried under france and popping up all over in bits.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-04-26 03:47 pm UTC (link)
Hi giant bike is buried over at the Parc de la Villette.

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battle royale
[info]grapenut
2008-04-26 02:20 am UTC (link)
one, two, three, four...i declare a thumb war!

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[info]ashesmonroe
2008-04-28 02:34 pm UTC (link)
Il y a une sculpture de Balzac à Metro Varenne qui me fait vraiment penser d'un grand phallus.

Je me demande comment il aurait pris ça, si tu a dit à Balzac que plus tard dans le monde, son memoire serais prochement associé avec un enorme sombre penis.

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