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Motivating the Libyan Rebels

By lex, on October 13th, 2011

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October 13th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: buffoonery

33 comments to Motivating the Libyan Rebels

  • virgil xenophon
    October 13, 2011 at 6:49 am

    That’s GOT to be one of the most incongruous combat photos I’ve ever seen! (for a photo-shopped delieo, that is. :) )

    • Zane
      October 13, 2011 at 6:58 am

      It’s not a photoshop, taken by a Norwegian photog. Notice the guns aren’t being fired, there’s no smoke (but a lot of brass). Staged, but not a photoshop.

      • Jeff Gauch
        October 13, 2011 at 10:08 am

        The guitar’s a photoshop. It’s too clean, the colors aren’t right, the shadows are off, and the hand positions are wrong.

        • Zane
          October 14, 2011 at 3:28 am

          VIRKELIGHETENS «GUITAR HERO»: Musikk til arbeidet får en litt annen betydning med bilder som dette. – Jeg var heldig som var på rett sted til rett tid slik at jeg kunne fange dette øyeblikket, skriver fotografen i en e-post til VG Nett om bildet han tok i Sirte i Libya denne uken. Foto: ARIS MESSINIS/AFP”

          Translate it yourself. And as a guitar player, I can tell you those are perfectly normal positions for the hands, especially when holding a guitar with only your hands, no strap.

  • Zane
    October 13, 2011 at 6:50 am

    Back in the early days of NATO’s liberation of Libya’s oil and gas there was a character from Benghazi who showed up in many photos with his guitar, but he dressed more like a cowboy. It’s kind of like that guy that shouted, “Democracy, whiskey, sexy!” as the US forces rolled on to Baghdad.

  • RonF
    October 13, 2011 at 7:08 am

    What? If the Scots can march into battle under the swirl of pipes what’s wrong with this?

    • virgil xenophon
      October 13, 2011 at 7:21 am

      Or, come to think of it, our own various Revolutionary Drum & Fife corps. n’cest-ce pas, RonF? :)

      • RonF
        October 13, 2011 at 10:26 am

        Indeed. I had occasion to see a few fife and drum corps recently, in fact. In West Layfayette, IN the last weekend of September there is an event called “The Feast of the Harvest Moon”. Various kinds of re-enactors gather there, covering the time period from the Native Americans to the Revolutionary War. Among the re-enactor groups are French, English and American fife and drum corps, and they put on exhibitions regularly on the parade ground and also do their duty at the raising and retreat of the flag(s) every day.

        And, on the last day (and I rather suspect after having been ensconced in the brewery tent) after their appearance on the parade ground they parade around the grounds playing en masse.

        • Sim
          October 13, 2011 at 9:29 pm

          One of the things I regret is my high school didn’t have the pipes & drums, my older brothers school did, home footy games for the first XVIII the band would lead their team onto the field….

  • Kris, in New England
    October 13, 2011 at 8:46 am

    All he is saying is – give peace a chance. -the walrus

  • Quartermaster
    October 13, 2011 at 9:42 am

    You misspelled piece.

    • RonF
      October 13, 2011 at 11:43 am

      Hey, Joe, that almost locked up my machine. Seriously, some kind of script that IE 8 kept asking about. I kept saying “Stop the script” but it wouldn’t respond and then kept asking me about the script.

    • MaxDamage
      October 13, 2011 at 10:26 pm

      Maybe it’s just me, but I find those pin-up girls to be *hawt*. Not that any of them have, ummm… assets that aren’t to be found on the American female today, and I’d like to state here and now that none of them can hold a candle to My Good Wife just in case she happens to read this. But honestly, it’s their hair.

      Really.

      Those hair-do’s took a solid hour to work up. It shows a certain class and elegance, an attention to proper grooming. The same goes for the guys, I suppose — check any picture from the Great Depression and the poorest fellow selling apples or pencils from a box is still wearing a jacket and hat and quite often a tie.

      I sort of miss the age when folks cared enough to dress for dinner.

      – Max

  • Rumbear
    October 13, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    Hope that’s not one of them Gibson guitars. The Feds will have that guy in cuffs tout de suite

  • mojo
    October 13, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    It’s al-Kabong!*

    * Cultural Ref

  • GeoSTI
    October 13, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    He’s just giving the +1 attack bonus to the others. Inspire Competence and what not.

    • Jeff Gauch
      October 13, 2011 at 5:04 pm

      These are Libyan rebel’s we’re talking about, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Inspire Adequacy at best.

  • Quartermaster
    October 13, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    Boq posted the pic for a caption contest over at the castle. Got all the weapons IDd anyway.

  • MaxDamage
    October 13, 2011 at 10:28 pm

    Samuel L. Bronkowitz remakes “Desperado.”

  • Pumaking
    October 14, 2011 at 6:11 am

    If I was the guy trying to fire the belt-fed MG at the top of the pic I am not sure I would be filled with confidence having Akmed with the FN behind me…as likely to give his own guy a 7.62 enema as hit the enemy.

  • Pumaking
    October 14, 2011 at 6:15 am

    Note to self: The guy at the top of the pic…not firing at the top of the pic; lets keep our prepositions in order..duh.
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