WTF images for today MK II

[Black Aeronaut]

Okay, I know what this is.  It's a piston-rod off a truly ginormous diesel engine - most likely one built for a super-tanker.
What I don't know (and would love to find out) is how in the blue-blazes did that happen?

[robkelk]

From the scorch marks, I'm guessing that whatever happened also sent the supertanker to drydock... (Assuming it is from a supertanker, of course.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Sweno]

Given it's size, I don't know of anything else it could be from.

Also, (according to the discovery channel at least) when you build engines that big, small problems can become big problems rather fast. In a normal engine anything large enough that it's structural stable, won't fit through the vast majority of the openings. When engines get large enough that you can crawl inside the cylinder to inspect it, the average size of the openings between various parts of the engine allows for significantly larger parts that broke off upstream to pass on through to whatever is next.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Jinx999]

Also when parts are bigger, they're more likely to have a larger flaw in them. Then fracture mechanics will bite your ass.

[Dartz]

The first thing I thought of
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

[Rev Dark]

http://blackacrebrewing.com/home/
When they ask if you are under 21 - say yes.  Don't worry, your IQ will have dropped to this level by the time it is finished.

[Rod.H]

[dark seraph]

 

. . . I have no words beyond Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

[Foxboy]

That's A-D'Aww-able!
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Black Aeronaut]

.... HAAAAHHHH!!! That is awesome! I want one now.

[robkelk]

It's one of those "collect all the pieces and we're not telling you which piece is which" deals...
%[link=http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=BAN13276&mode=retail]http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail]

Edit: Besides, that's not a "WTF" – That's normal for merchandise for that series.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail]This is a "WTF":


--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[dark seraph]

Some one just told him about angry birds.

[Star Ranger4]

No, he IS an angry bird.... "What you pointin that camera at me for, foo?"
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Rod.H]

[Wiregeek]

NOW you're celebrating with Portals!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Black Aeronaut]

Okay, who are these people?  Because I seriously want to move in with them. 

[classicdrogn]

So your tree is too tall for the room? Not to worry, Cave took care of it.

- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[Thesilentjackofalltrade]

You have to remember....the portal gun was originally made to be a shower curtain, as messed up as that sounds. This is well within the realm of possibilities.
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar

[dark seraph]

[Logan Darklighter]

Okay. A buddy of mine sent me these. All of the same theme, and I have to share.

[robkelk]

Sometimes I save this thread's images to the local drive. This time, I think I'll pass...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Star Ranger4]

can anyone illuminate me as to the cultural referent for the "clothes beam" and Multi-pass? (Not the concept(s) the people in the pictures)
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Bob Schroeck]

Sometimes I save this thread's images to the local drive. This time, I think I'll pass...

Um, Rob, somehow I don't think that's going to be an option.

can anyone illuminate me as to the cultural referent for the "clothes beam" and Multi-pass?

The clothes beam goes right over my head, too, but the "Multi-pass" is LeeLoo (Milla Jovovich) from The Fifth Element, and it's a line she speaks in the movie (it's better with context).
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[LynnInDenver]

can anyone illuminate me as to the cultural referent for the "clothes beam" and Multi-pass? (Not the concept(s) the people in the pictures)

The man is Captain Jack Harkness. The weapon he holds was once a "Defabricator" used on a "fatal" television show. It was used to, well, defabricate his outfit at least twice in the episode, leaving him "naked in front of millions of viewers".
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

[dark seraph]

Cloths Beam is from Team 4 stars Dragon Ball Z Abridged, used by Picilo.