Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

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There were eight people in that picture. If you recognize them all, cool! If not, look 'em up yourself!

Cool, but care to tell me how I can "look 'em up" based on a captionless photo alone?

Someone argued upthread that saying who the people are takes away the whole point of the thread. If you recognize them then the photo has interest for you, if you don't then it hasn't.

Yes, this has been repeated many times in this thread, and the counter-argument has also been repeated almost as often, but apparently people just ignore that part, so here we go again:

i'm bad w/faces, i haven't even recognised many of the people i do know in this thread. and i know who wayne coyne is, and do find that funny (in a bad way), but wouldn't have recognised him by sight

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), 6. syyskuuta 2010 19:35 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The same with me, I don't every celebrity by the face but I might recognize the name. I know about Flaming Lips but I didn't know what their singer looks like.

― Tuomas, 6. syyskuuta 2010 19:37 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wait another 12 hours?

Or ask. We might kid if you ask about Sidney Poitier and Richard Nixon in that last picture posted, but you'll still likely get an honest answer.

http://youtu.be/z1e6e33J0Jw

lol good picks there t

Here's why I swear I'm being lazy and not obstinate - I copy the URL of that Billy Joel pic, but I don't have it open any more. I do the [[Removed Illegal Image]

Holy hell, she really does still look like that!

*45 more minutes looking up Christie Brinkley pix*

Oh, fuck. Haven't posted that Billy Joel picture yet. Well, that's not Christie on Howard's lap so I'll pass for now and we end with Paul Rudd. There. An incomplete caption that took an hour to post and list. I just got fired, but hope it was all worth it everybody!

OR VERSION 2 - copyandpaste url, let God and everyone else sort 'em out.

Here's why I swear I'm being lazy and not obstinate - I copy the URL of that Billy Joel pic, but I don't have it open any more. I do the [ img ] code, but fuck if I can remember the order of the picture. But for Tuomas' sake, I open it up in a different tab. Ok. Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, well now who the hell is that. Oh, man, what if I say I don't know who that is and it turns out to be Kim Gordon's sister or something. I'll have ILX egg on my face then! Skip it for now - Billy Joel, Gordon Sumner, Howard Stern, now that isn't Christie Brinkley? Of course not, why would she be backstage with her ex-husband sitting on Stern's lap? Besides no way, she still looks like that.

http://db2.stb.s-msn.com/i/FE/46638B3A282A19E3895949738FBFA_h498_w598_m2.jpg

Holy hell, she really does still look like that!

*45 more minutes looking up Christie Brinkley pix*

Oh, fuck. Haven't posted that Billy Joel picture yet. Well, that's not Christie on Howard's lap so I'll pass for now and we end with Paul Rudd. There. An incomplete caption that took an hour to post and list. I just got fired, but hope it was all worth it everybody!

OR VERSION 2 - copyandpaste url, let God and everyone else sort 'em out.

Oh Billy Joel!

I see him now.

Who is that in onimos pic

Mr Caption, apparently.

No beside him

Tuomas

No on the right

I think it would be reasonable for a poster to list those people whose presence together in the photograph in question makes them happy; I agree that it seems unfair to expect a poster to do any research into the identities of others who may feature.

After all, without that basic captioning we all run the risk of assuming you are made happy by the appearance of (say) Sting and Joel in a photograph, when in fact it was the presence of (say) Rudd and The Sterns which caused you pleasure.

We could end up talking at cross purposes! Who knows what disasters might ensue?

Well at least there I can see yr argument tbf, rather than "poster with trait of demanding effort from others asks for effort from others 200 times in one thread"

tuomas is a funny bloke isn't he. proper oddball.

lol

Ey big T, can we get a comprehensive list of celebrities you would recognise on sight

Tuomas's request is completely reasonable and in the spirit of the thread IMO, no one is saying ''go do an hour of research,'' just post the names of the people that caught your eye. If nothing else, it would make it easier to control-f the thread to see if something's been posted already, though obviously it's a bit late for that to help much.

I realise I've dragged myself into arguing otherwise but I agree.

Asking after each pic when ppl have declined to do so isn't reasonable tho, nor is insisting in bizarre terms like others having a 'duty' to or even 'should' do it, as if 'no' wasn't an answer

Anyway peace out t this isn't an election issue on the doorsteps, see you next time someone posts a pic itt

problem with "kids" nowadays is they don't want to work

it would make it easier to control-f the thread to see if something's been posted already

Best argument I've heard against my position yet.

Wouldn't stop reposts and certainly won't keep me from throwing up a pic and flitting off back to some weird tumblr site, but it's a valid point.

Tuomas's request is completely reasonable and in the spirit of the thread IMO, no one is saying ''go do an hour of research,'' just post the names of the people that caught your eye.

Yes! I'm not asking you to "research" every person in pic with kazillion people, but obviously you instantly recognized at least some of the folks in the pic, because why else would you have posted it in this particular thread? So how hard it is to write the names of those people in your post? It should take you maybe 20 seconds.

And IMO it's the duty of every poster to be informative when it helps your fellow posters. Being needlessly oblique when others have asked you not to be is just rude. (It's not like the obliqueness is in service of a good joke or something here.) This should be a basic rule for every message board. I'm going to vote for anyone who runs on this platform.

takes 0.96 seconds to google an image. being needlessly lazy and stupid when others have asked you not to be is rude.

i mean i get it's yr troll technique for many many years running now, to the point that you've actually been tempbanned over it before, but don't pretend it's not deliberately tedious and hostile

Okay, balls.

Our intrepid hero stares into the vast seas of search by image.

that this thread of all threads has caused so much friction over the years is incredible to me

i feel like, over the years, maybe i've picked up the subtle style cues that would differentiate an unknown-to-me europoid face among "musician," "pol," "'footballer,'" "high culture icon" or "other media barnacle" but in general it's only rarely worth the investigation anyway? unless other people follow on with a lot of lols

Being needlessly oblique when others have asked you not to be is just rude. (It's not like the obliqueness is in service of a good joke or something here.)

Thru the looking glass here ppl

David Bowie and Keith Chegwin

If this thread is about sharing a great thing you've found, deliberately excluding some people from the pleasure of it seems a bit ungenerous to me. I have to confess I have no effing clue who most of the people are in these photos, nor the tenacity to keep asking, and I've only still got the thread bookmarked because of the occasional gem it throws up. The rest of the time it's an annoyance.

But then almost all of ILX is like that too.

There is a certain joy in seeing a picture and figuring out what it depicts via inference

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eO6y_zqiUF8/UhA2jwUMlZI/AAAAAAAA5r0/YbW4S3CXxz8/s1600/Au0P0C2CMAAotOd.jpg_large.jpg

John Cooper Clark, Tom Waits, Billy Connolly

who's the guy on the right?

kidding...

There was some pic that a Britisheser posted of a boxer shaking hands with a convicted murderer? Or something like that?

Anyway, typical single-word "whoa" replies followed, so I went ahead and googled it to read the whole story about why the non-boxer was such a pariah. I Learned Something that day.

Now, if there had been a cutline like the one there for John Cooper Clark, a fella I know nothing about, I likely wouldn't have googled it since I already know the name.

I mean, I don't catch half the "jokes" on the Excelsior thread, but I don't insist on the punchline being explained to me either.

oversimplification but john cooper clarke = british jim carroll sorta. rock poet, releases a pretty great album in the early 80s. if you really really like that hannett factory sound i'd say seek it out. they used one of his tracks in a sopranos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpsWgaYnS8

Probably expected, still cool:

http://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/10157399_863048133709904_100905553857432747_n.jpg

Weird Al & the Monkees not named Michael Nesmith.

http://www.looneypalace.com/img/misc/celebrity-friends/celebrity-friends01.jpg

50 Cent | Bette Midler

ban in orbit

or, some of you are being fucking ridiculous

Aw only some of us?

John Cooper Clark, Tom Waits, Billy Connolly

always think that "dream dinner party guests" is a lazy Q&A standby but if it must be asked this would be a great answer

and in which year is your dream dinner party taking place