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Photo of the Week—September 10th

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RunnerPhoto   Sep 11th 2008, 3:50am
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Hey there Runnerspacers, sorry to take off for a week and leave you hanging without your photo fix, but in my defense, I was camping in the woods and had a lot of fun. When you're camping, there are certain things you simply aren't allowed to do, such as: 1) Do anything productive, 2) shower or 3) wear clean clothes. Not doing any of these things for a week freed up a lot of my time, and I used that extra time to sit in front of a campfire and stare at it blankly, which for some reason never gets old. While I sat there for hours on end, I tried to figure out why I wasn't getting bored, and while I never quite figured it out, I did come to the conclusion that besides a TV, a campfire is the only man-made thing that you can stare blankly at for three hours or more and still remain entertained. If you can think of any other object I've overlooked with similar abilities, let me know (and boobs don't count because they aren't man-made—usually).

But I'm getting sidetracked from the task at hand. This week’s photo, submitted by txRUNNERgirl, was taken four hundred years ago and depicts a man wearing large leather pants being chased down by three members of the Silly Hats And Absurd Mustaches Club. America’s oldest sports club, SHAAM was formed around the concept of fox hunting, but instead of foxes they used skinny runners, and instead of hound dogs they used large absurd-moustached men wearing silly hats and carrying cone-shaped bats. I'm pretty sure that's what's going on in the picture. But don't take my word for it, I'm no historian. In fact, if you think YOU'RE historian, or at least better at making up captions than me, why don't you jump on board the interactive participation blog wagon an write your OWN caption for this photo. Then we'll see who really knows their history, and who's just a lying creator of fiction. Really, post some captions, let's see what you got. Either way, accurate caption or not, this picture is awesome. And really old. Nice find txRUNNERgirl!

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