With help from my fellow Loungers, I scanned in an "Olde-Tyme" photo that I took

[Aristus]

at the Puyallup Fair this year:

Me as a tired and broken-down Civil War Union officer:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. You demonstrate the perfect aura of weariness.

If we have to we can kick the South's ass again...

[SeattleGirl]

2. Cool photo!

Got one taken there myself; my, MrSG and our daughter.

[Left Is Write]

3. Wow! I like that! You've got the expression down pat.

[Aristus]

4. Well, it helps that my mother's house has several old pics of my ancestors

who were Civil War vets (all Confederacy, unfortunately). They all have the same expression.

[Aristus]

5. Kick.

:kick:

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Holy Crap!! You're just the man to lead us in the war against GD!!!

:patriot:

[Aristus]

7. A war against fellow DU-ers? That would be, well,

a Civil War, wouldn't it? B-)

[Midlodemocrat]

8. More of a skirmish, methinks.

[philosophie_en_rose]

18. Oh it's unlikely to be civil.

very unlikely indeed.

[JVS]

9. Finally we have a man who can overcome Colonel Angus!

[Aristus]

10. Yeah, he deserves a real 19th Century Civil War type of name.

Like: Colonel Zebulon Jedediah Isaiah Matthew Broomfield, Esq., or something like that.

[JVS]

11. Colonel Hezekiah Butterworth III

[Aristus]

12. Oh COOL! Hey, everybody! Contribute a 19th Century-sounding name.

Please. B-)

[porphyrian]

14. How about Colonel Azariah Pootietang? -n/t

[Aristus]

13. C'mon, people! I wanna hear some Civil War-style names!

:bounce:

[JVS]

15. Captain Justus William Cornstalk

[davsand]

16. I will give you a family name.

Napoleon B. Livingston

Wanna know what the B stood for? Yep, you guessed it, Bonaparte "Nappy" is buried in a VA cemetery in Danville, IL.



Here is a really cool site to search for names of men who actually served in the civil war:

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm


Great picture!


Laura

[yewberry]

17. You can do it at a trot, you can do it at a gallop.

You can do it real slow so your heart don't palpitaaaate,
So don't be late.
Do the Puyallup!

Eeeee, that's going to be an epic earworm.

Nice photo, Aristus!