Way too many irreverent snarkage possibilities to be included here, so leave ’em in the comments. Go for it.
[Found here.]
Way too many irreverent snarkage possibilities to be included here, so leave ’em in the comments. Go for it.
[Found here.]
A hayseed, a jug o’ hard cider with a corncob bung, and a pumpkin. The guy’s ready for anything.
[Found here.]
[Found here.]
[Found here.]

A somber ceremony at Pike’s Peak 1876. The dangers of the new frontier were many, and there were many horrible ways one could part from the living.

The U.S. Signal Service (an early Weather Bureau) built a telegraph station on the summit [of Pike’s Peak] in 1873 to monitor the weather, and a guard was posted in Manitou at the beginning of the trail to collect a toll for hiking to the summit.
In May of 1876, tragedy befell the O’Keefe family when their daughter Erin was apparently eaten by mountain rats. The true story may be found here.
[Bottom image found here, top image here. Related post here.]
“Gramma, I know that you and Grampa escaped the old country without shoes, but capitalism is evil, so I made you a lamp to show you how wrong you were to leave.” –Overheard at Zuccotti Park September 2012.
[Image found here. Quote was entirely fabricated only because #OWS is entirely fabricated.]