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Gee, Ryan, you need to get out more. Travel around, see the country. Maybe you'd learn something.

If you squint your eyes and look from a funny angle, it kind of looks like a carrot - which is even more hilarious!

This has nothing to do with war, but a cab exploded outside St. Patrick's Cathedral today. What the hell.

@Swifter: I grew up one or two freeway stops from Humble TX, where that series was supposedly set. I never once heard anyone say "dadgum."

I decry Balderdash on this cover!
It's a gal-darn shame!
(I, too, thought it a carrot)

@LeGagneur: I totally thought it was a carrot at first, and assumed it was one of those ads for things that don't need ads, like cotton, plastic, or the Ab Roller.

How unfortunate considering the art director (AH) is a certified genius, but the photo director (MaG) is known as a mischievous, alcoholic cunt and they have the worlds biggest douche-flap (BK) as 'operations manager'.

but seriously folks, Time is a shell of its former self. You can brag about the significance of Time abandoning the ceremonial red border on its cover for the third time in 80-something years, or you can accept that the managing editor (RS) and the upper echelons of Time Inc are so desperate to regain the smallest fraction of its former glory that theyve taken to cheapen the very legacy of this 'flagship' publication.

Morale has never been lower at Time and it won't get better anytime soon. I weep for the brilliant editors who toil under the misguided senior leadership at that magazine. The fact that the photo department allowed one of the greatest images in the history of the United States to be perverted in such a fashion, as well intended as it may be, should not go unnoticed. Their 'unrighteous arrogance and dimwitted machismo' has finally caught up to them.

May the stewardship change at the helm of that luxurious lady.

But then again it's not news, it's Time Inc.

That is so cool, Iwo Jima dudes. Stick the tree up the ass of some Times staffer. Hell, youtube it. We're all dying to see that.

Dear Time magazine:

How to stop global warming? Stop killing trees to produce your fucking magazine.

Love,

Duh

Say what you will, but these old-timers have class. They'll only stick trees up somebody's rear if the intended recipient expresses consent, and further, only if the intended recipient believes that to do so would have curative value.

It is quite rare to observe such gallantry in today's crazy, mixed up world.

@Ryan Tate: No worries. Just sayin' that's all.

@Ryan Tate: Humble, TX? That's only 3 hours from Bell County!

A bonsai wouldn't have had the same effect, I guess.

Man, that old school psy-ops stuff was pretty Meta. Those Japs must have totally freaked out- no wonder they started blowing themselves up in their caves.

@Ryan Tate: no shit?! i have family in humble. and kingwood. all up and down 59 actually.

Oh wait, this scene didn't really happen?!! WTF! Tell those vets I've got a catcus farm for all their arboreal sodomization needs.

@Swifter: And of course you were right anyway, when _isn't_ a roadtrip a good idea? ;->

@Bell County: Is that where Blue Bell ice cream comes from? I miss that stuff!

@the cajun boy: Ha ha, Kingwood is where I grew up! Well, ages 2-10. Pre California. Humble was where we went to see movies, and to shop. I go back to Houston for Christmas sometimes, I have family out there, though on the other side of Houston. Isn't a house out in the Houston suburbs still, like, under $200k??

@Ryan Tate: No, Blue Bell is from Brenham, which is about an hour and a half from Kingwood. Dadgummit.

Ever have Elgin sausage?

@Ryan Tate: A road trip isn't a good idea when gas is over three dollars a gallon. :(

@Bell County: I knew there was a reason I was following you! One time I accidentally hit a kid in the head with a rock at church camp at Lake Belton. Accidentally. I swear!

Yes. Trees are profane and flags are sacred. Thanks for the clarification, vets. And the reason you fought that war was what again?

@ILovePuppies: Ha! Some of my fondest Belton memories involve church camp stonings...

My father-in-law used to say "dadgum." But he wouldn't have been upset by that picture. He would have liked it.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a gay porn movie called "Raising The Fag On Iwo Jism" with a massive cock Photoshopped where the flag should be.

So, some old veteran guys are upset because Time altered an image (and not in a disrespectful way) that was apparently faked, er, reposed for better effect? Shut up old veteran guys, please.