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  • gbudavid, on 07/20/2008, -17/+4Arrrrggggh u gotme
  • binky79, on 07/21/2008, -18/+6What... No big stone turd followed by the Aqua Teens?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9mVm6LxC8
  • maxyRO, on 07/21/2008, -7/+70nice ass
    • disrupter, on 07/21/2008, -8/+1That's what she said.
    • stretch611, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3I was actually expecting to see a humor shot with a real ass.
    • leetninja, on 07/21/2008, -4/+2in the butt!!!
    • liljay2k, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2Pow, right in the kisser!
    • diggystardust, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1jesus . .

      i clicked the link

      re-read the title

      horrifyingly thought i was about to get goatse'd
  • rypic7, on 07/21/2008, -8/+226wow. all this time i have been looking these breathtaking images of it from the front with rolling deserts and pyramids behind it. Now I know it is a football field away from a dumpy city. Bummer.
    • bmorris, on 07/21/2008, -14/+14Cairo isn't a dumpy city.
      • Rotzooi, on 07/21/2008, -12/+7As a New Yorker, I assure you, Cairo is a dumpy city.
        This is a picture of a park in central Cairo:
        http://lh5.ggpht.com/_C_XC_gyVJWE/RwKNH7mbapI/AAAA ...

        Dumpy.
      • cslawren, on 07/21/2008, -2/+7Isn't it near Giza?
      • DesignNerd, on 07/21/2008, -2/+4yes
      • smashingmonkey, on 07/21/2008, -0/+6As a New Yorker and one who has spend a month in Egypt, I can assure you that Cairo is not a dumpy city. It is a fantastic place with dumpy parts, much like NYC.

        But of course bmorris is getting burried by a bunch of ignorant diggtards. Times like this Digg is a dumpy website.
      • faatbuddha, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4I also lived in Cairo for a month, it's a fantastic place. Of course it's got its dumpy parts, but don't all cities?
    • SuperWinner, on 07/21/2008, -2/+78Ya, from the tourist photos you assume the pyramids and the sphinx are out in the middle of the desert... kinda disappointing.
    • FredFredrickson, on 07/21/2008, -16/+6Oh hey, it's a dumpy city because it's not quite up to the standards we enjoy in America, right?

      Why do I even wonder why people don't like Americans...?
      • compdude32, on 07/21/2008, -4/+4It simple, they are jealous of what we have in this country, that is why they dislike us.
      • vintershaype, on 07/21/2008, -3/+7ford trucks, baseball, and kenny chesney. who the hell wouldn't be jealous?
      • FredFredrickson, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1...tell me you're joking!
      • compdude32, on 07/22/2008, -1/+0Fred I am not joking at all, we have one of the highest standards of living in the world, many from other countries resent us because of that, that is why people don't like Americans it is jealously.
    • HayString, on 07/21/2008, -0/+13Check out the satellite view: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.975278,31.137778 ...
    • mongrel, on 07/21/2008, -4/+4Very much like the Alamo in Austin, TX. Forget the schoolbook glory, it's practically a taqueria.
      • Harabeck, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1Ya, to get it the easiest way is through a shopping mall. But hey, the pizza hut across the street was one of the cleanest Ive ever seen.
      • ringo380, on 07/21/2008, -1/+6I believe you mean San Antonio, TX. Same point still applies though.
      • mongrel, on 07/21/2008, -2/+2Crap yes that is what I mean - brain fart. Haven't been a Texan in 18 years...
      • AngeloM3, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2"Aren't we going to see the basement?"
      • rjc309, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Ah you beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing. For those who've never been it's sort of like SKYSCRAPERSKYSCRAPERalamoSKYSCRAPER, and so on...
    • Kyrato, on 07/21/2008, -3/+0Learned that in 5th grade.
    • rypic7, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1the point of my comment was not specifically that the city near the sphinx is dumpy, but rather that compared to the majestic existence of ancient architecture, what the modern world has to offer dulls in comparison and could be described as nothing but "dumpy."
    • julezCoz, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0Whats worse is you can actually see the Pizza Hut in this picture!
  • ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -2/+20From behind it does look rather plain.
  • aforsberg, on 07/21/2008, -3/+15pretty lame...
  • BoonTobias, on 07/21/2008, -10/+68I'D HIT IT
  • scunner, on 07/21/2008, -2/+12The towering metropolis of Cairo.
  • Cadenzah, on 07/21/2008, -10/+1In before sphinc jokes
    • dannyapplesauce, on 07/21/2008, -2/+6when the hell did this "in before" ***** get popular on digg? Why the hell is it popular anywhere for that matter?
      • enigmatics, on 07/21/2008, -2/+2Too late..
      • dvsbstrd, on 07/21/2008, -2/+1POST ENDING IN 32 NAMES MY DOG
      • Myonosken, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Would you be surprised if its origin included the words '4' and 'chan'.
  • RealmDown, on 07/21/2008, -4/+49The sexual desires of a camel
    Are stronger the most people think.
    One night in a seizure of passion,
    One tried to make love to a sphinx.
    Now the sphinx is made out of sandstone,
    And has rocks that stick out to the Nile.
    Which accounts for the hump of the camel,
    And the Sphinx' inscrutable smile.
  • kotn2012, on 07/21/2008, -1/+36Huh, I always pictured it being bigger.
  • alapoet, on 07/21/2008, -1/+4Take cover!
  • csanz, on 07/21/2008, -10/+65looks like a penis
  • neK231, on 07/21/2008, -12/+5hey we're gunna spray paint a giant turd on the ass of the sphinx tonight....anyone else in??
  • project46, on 07/21/2008, -9/+14this isnt fake is it? i always pictured the sphinx out in the open sahara
  • tripledjr, on 07/21/2008, -8/+1Thats how she did it...
  • kirkness, on 07/21/2008, -0/+18this reminds me of when I went to the Alamo and how if any of the postcard shots panned 10 feet in any direction, or turned around and took a pic, you'd see a shopping mall, and tons of tourist trap shops.
    • faatbuddha, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Except here, it actually is on the edge of the desert.
    • SilenceIsFoo, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3True. I remember the Alamo.
  • sassy343, on 07/21/2008, -8/+2Here is a really good image of the sphinx http://uploadingit.com/view/742319_kf8bn
    • nerdherder, on 07/21/2008, -0/+7Wow that site design is blatently stolen from digg.
  • Chairboy, on 07/21/2008, -2/+31I like big Sphinx's and I cannot lie, those other egyptians might deny That when a 5,000 year old statue gets in your face you get-

    Hey, waitaminute....

    BTW, it's really beaten up. The restoration work the greeks did a couple thousand years ago is really noticeable. Until a hundred years or so ago, there was sand up to its neck, and many egyptologists would like consideration given to re-burying it so the head doesn't break off.

    Here's a picture I took of the head a couple months ago: http://picasaweb.google.com/walkasone/BenHallert/p ...
    • Chairboy, on 07/21/2008, -2/+4Yes Redditors, I recycled my post from there. We're all about re-use, right? Green future? Or is this compost?
    • yikiad, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4i like the picture of the iss. what did you take that with?
      • Chairboy, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5Canon SD 850 (the EXIF data is available on PicasaWeb on the right hand side under 'More info') plus wobbly photographer. I would have loved to have a tripod, but the 'gull wing' shape of the ISS reflects my movement while trying to painstakingly take the shot. It was just a moving point of light.
    • T-Maaz, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4Nice shot, and excellent detail. kudos to you - BTW, are you the one that bears a striking resemblance to Kevin Smith?
      • Chairboy, on 07/21/2008, -0/+8Yep, that's me. A pair of guys walked in at a restaurant where I was lunching and sat nearby and kept looking over at me. After a few minutes, they walked up and asked if I was Kevin Smith. I denied it, smiling because I've heard it before, but they thought this meant I was being coy and didn't appear to believe me. "That's totally what you'd say if you WERE and were trying to keep it on the down-low" one of them said.

        When I left later on, they wished me luck on "my" next film. What they thought KS would be doing in Eugene,OR, I'm not sure...
      • mcphatty, on 07/21/2008, -5/+2nevermind, digg me down
    • flamyngo, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4dugg for your awesome khaki outfit. sup indiana.
      • Chairboy, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5My favorite 'Indiana Jones' moment was near the end of the trip when I snuck into the Giza plateau w/ a couple of girls and climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid. We were hiding from the AK-47 carrying guards and had a few narrow escapes (including a ten minute huddle in the funerary temple at the base of the second pyramid while a guard car hung out nearby) but made it. The only pictures that came out is this one of the wooden structure at the top, I had to use a 15 second exposure:

        http://picasaweb.google.com/walkasone/BenHallert/p ...

        Plus the next two of the girls laying up there. All of these are 'dark room, bright monitor' pics, heh.
    • funkynewtaste, on 07/21/2008, -3/+1you know you just gave away your email address to all teh trollz of internutz
      • Chairboy, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2They might have figured that out from visiting my site, hallert.net, which is mentioned in my profile. No trolls yet, so I think I'm doing ok, but the day is young. ;)
    • Sarevok9, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3Dugg for random guy balancing water on his head in your album

      http://lh5.ggpht.com/walkasone/SCzxiIsAotI/AAAAAAA ... sailing and train party 163.jpg
      • Chairboy, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2That was the steward in the lounge car on the overnight train from Cairo to Aswan. He was awesome, and really got the party going.
  • killtherockyo, on 07/21/2008, -9/+0ze sphinxter, ja?
  • spiderbazz, on 07/21/2008, -7/+0ha haaaaaa.. looks exactly like a coffee table!
  • areohbe, on 07/21/2008, -1/+21Never seen it from that angle...from the front it looks like its miles away from civilization... this takes the mystery out... :(
  • Corrosionx, on 07/21/2008, -7/+2Wow, a phallic symbol from ancient history, never seen that before....
    • TrevorBelmont, on 07/21/2008, -2/+4I think it says more about you than it does the Sphinx if you look at that photo and see a phallus.
      • Corrosionx, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1Touché, but seriously, ancient history is full of those, you don't know a quarter of it.
  • Skor459, on 07/21/2008, -7/+2What the heck is a... Vuh-jye-ner?
  • klitzbtc, on 07/21/2008, -3/+2mm yeah back that big stone ass up

    seriously though it does look horrible, you can tell all the restoration/preservation is focused on the frontal facade.
    • Abomonog, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1I don't think much can be done to the rear without reconstructing it almost totally. The work is to preserve what is left, not restore it.
  • Jocose, on 07/21/2008, -2/+13Don't believe it? Then just see for yourself: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=p ...
  • captmorgan555, on 07/21/2008, -6/+3I thought yo head would be bigger... head look like a peanut!
  • Abomonog, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2It is a sadder image than those from the front.

    I am not dissing the Sphinx here.
  • heliox, on 07/21/2008, -3/+12wow...a bunch of 10 y/o on dig
  • QualityGal, on 07/21/2008, -0/+0Not much to look at from behind. I wonder what it used to look like, way back when.
  • Rusticles, on 07/21/2008, -2/+3sphinxtor
  • swizzlestick, on 07/21/2008, -7/+2From the front:

    http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ItbKyfuVQRQ/R8R5ROxmQ0I/AAAA ...
  • Negligence, on 07/21/2008, -5/+10A sphincter says what?
  • krumplicukor, on 07/21/2008, -4/+3This picture ruins the movie : Jumper
  • paradisetonight, on 07/21/2008, -3/+1the right butt cheek is bigger than the left butt cheek, kinda hot
  • screamingjoker, on 07/21/2008, -1/+11Wait you mean to tell me that Textbooks, Shows and Movies have only been giving us an idealized version of everything, and not the whole picture of how things actually are ?! (shakes head in disbelief)
  • Parasiteartist, on 07/21/2008, -0/+9Multiple pictures of the Sphinx and around it. http://pharaohsadventure.com/

    I always wanted to visit it, and camel-trek across the desert there. But now it looks like I can walk to it while my lunch is being made. Still beautiful though.

  • Fast05GT, on 07/21/2008, -8/+3These comments suck
  • Hodor, on 07/21/2008, -1/+5how much do you think the condo's across from the sphinx cost??
    • rameznabel, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1kinda`expensive in egyptian prospective i think it's more than 600 $ per month
    • rjc309, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1how long before you got sick of the ***** tourists?
  • InvisibleKid, on 07/21/2008, -1/+10what has been seen cannot be unseen
  • wattzz, on 07/21/2008, -2/+3she has a terrible view
  • vroom101, on 07/21/2008, -1/+3The Great Sphinx from the top . . .
    1. http://web.archive.org/web/20060929063721/www.spac ...
    2. http://www.satimagingcorp.com/galleryimages/quickb ...
    3.http://www.spaceimagingme.com/content/Downloads/sa ...
    via http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040823.htm
    • rjc309, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1anyone else try to drag that image around? thanks google earth.
  • spyd3rweb, on 07/21/2008, -2/+9Buried... This was posted on digg 3000 years ago.
  • ArkRaider1936, on 07/21/2008, -0/+32I was fortunate enough to get to go to Giza last year, and I can tell you that it is nothing like what you expect! The number of people there really detract form the majesty of the place -- especially those damn in-your-face, grabby vendors who can't understand the concept of personal space. My first minute in Giza went something like this:
    Annoying Vendor #1: My friend, you want free camel ride?
    Me: Free?
    Annoying Vendor #1: Yes, my friend! Free!
    Me: Yeah? Well, how much to get off after the ride?
    Annoying Vendor #1: We will negotiate later.
    Me: [turns around, walks off, is approached by Annoying Vendor #2]
    Annoying Vendor #2: [pushes a t-shirt into ArkRaider's arms] My friend, gift from Egypt!
    Me: Cool, shokran (thank you). [walks off and is stopped by Annoying Vendor #2]
    Annoying Vendor #2: No no no, you buy.
    Me: Umm, no, no buy. You said it was a gift; gifts are free.
    Annoying Vendor #2: Well then, is not gift! You buy!
    Me: [throws shirt back to Annoying Vendor #2] La shokran (no thanks), pal.
    Annoying Vendor #2: But is lucky!
    Me: Don't need it; I make my own luck!

    There were plenty of other schmos for them to trick out of money, so after a while I just started having fun with them as they approached me. I started talking to them in Latin (sly devils knew every other language I tried) and eventually I started joking around by doing the Jedi mind trick, waving my hand and telling them, "You do not want to sell me [whatever it is they were selling]." That worked surprisingly well because they had no response for it.
    • db0255, on 07/21/2008, -1/+4"I make my own luck!"
      Alright there, Harvey Dent...
    • DrunkenDigger, on 07/22/2008, -4/+2you're a huge dork.
  • GhostM, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2Egyptian style, oh yeah
  • MedicalMatt, on 07/21/2008, -4/+1That's sad
  • Andrwmorph, on 07/21/2008, -3/+2Bow chicka wow wow
  • educate808, on 07/21/2008, -2/+0I was there last summer and that's really what it looks like and the town around it was horrible. I saw people dumping there trash in the same river they bath and use the restroom in. I actually had lunch in the chairs on the right. The Sphinx is a lot smaller than a lot of people expect.
  • Pegritz, on 07/21/2008, -2/+3Cairo is an abysmal *****--literally, it is a hole full of *****: human, animal, and...Horus only knows what else. A friend of mine from Kuwait went there and she told me it was unimaginably horrible. However, the people were *incredibly* nice. It's a shame they have to live in such squalid conditions, but...really, whose fault is that but their own? The Egyptians seriously need to abandon this Islam crap and get back to worshipping the Old Gods. Amun-Re must be mad as hell at what the people of Kem have done to their promised land.
  • wh3873, on 07/21/2008, -1/+2I was just in Giza last weekend. I guess if you've never been there this shot is a big surprise but really it makes sense that such a large tourist attraction has so many people around it. To be honest I enjoyed Sakara much more. You can check out my Cairo pictures if you want another view. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24340037@N07/
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