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It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:28 pm
by Phil Ken Sebbin
My teammate took this picture at our football practice yesterday and I thought it was pretty cool. It was pretty hard to balance the rainbow on the tip!
Ironically, there is a pot of gold at the Holocaust Museum.

Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:33 pm
by ulysses5019
Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:My teammate took this picture at our football practice yesterday and I thought it was pretty cool. It was pretty hard to balance the rainbow on the tip!
Ironically, there is a pot of gold at the Holocaust Museum.

I saw it on FB. It looks really cool when it's larger.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:43 pm
by silvercamaro
That's a great photo, but I want to hear more about this football team! Do you have a league? I know you were a basketball player in college, but how long have you been playing football?
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:45 pm
by Roy G Biv
Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:My teammate took this picture at our football practice yesterday and I thought it was pretty cool. It was pretty hard to balance the rainbow on the tip!
Ironically, there is a pot of gold at the Holocaust Museum.

OMG! That rainbow has been impaled, or my name isn't Roy G Biv!
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:49 pm
by Phil Ken Sebbin
silvercamaro wrote:That's a great photo, but I want to hear more about this football team! Do you have a league? I know you were a basketball player in college, but how long have you been playing football?
It's a co-ed alumni flag football league. I have been playing with this team for ten years but I have played pickup football (read: no pads, no insurance, no pay, tackle football) since I was a kid. It's a cool league where alumni from colleges from all over the country get teams together and play football/basketball/volleyball/softball. I even remember playing during the DC sniper time. I figured there couldn't have been a safer place to be out in the open than the White House ellipse.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:33 pm
by geoffil
wow! that picture belongs on the front page of a newspaper. Great!
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:59 pm
by Jeemie
Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:52 pm
by mellytu74
lovely
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:55 pm
by Estonut
Jeemie wrote:Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.
Nice comment...don't mean to resort to name-calling...but only an asshole would say that.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:19 am
by ulysses5019
Estonut wrote:Jeemie wrote:Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.
Nice comment...don't mean to resort to name-calling...but only an asshole would say that.
It's all about being in the right place at the right time. It's a great picture.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:30 am
by secondchance
Jeemie wrote:Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.
I suppose the photo of the plane being flown into the tower wasn't all that hard to take either. Or the little girl running naked through the street in Viet Nam. Or the soldier dipping the nurse for that Victory kiss. Or the student crying on her knees at Kent State. What the hell, someone just hurriedly snapped those pictures, after all!
This is an amazing photo and that was a ridiculous comment. Sometimes not only lenses need filters.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:00 am
by TheConfessor
They're all easy if you know the answer. Oh wait, I'm thinking of game shows. Nice photo, PKS.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:35 am
by littlebeast13
This was hard to draw, but belittle away.....
lb13
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:51 am
by ulysses5019
littlebeast13 wrote:This was hard to draw, but belittle away.....
lb13
Hey, I get to say "Found It!"
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:58 am
by littlebeast13
ulysses5019 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:This was hard to draw, but belittle away.....
lb13
Hey, I get to say "Found It!"
It's all about being in the right place at the right time.....
lb13
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:00 am
by peacock2121
Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:My teammate took this picture at our football practice yesterday and I thought it was pretty cool. It was pretty hard to balance the rainbow on the tip!
Ironically, there is a pot of gold at the Holocaust Museum.

It is magnificent.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:02 am
by ulysses5019
And this was an easy avatar to post...
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:03 am
by peacock2121
Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:silvercamaro wrote:That's a great photo, but I want to hear more about this football team! Do you have a league? I know you were a basketball player in college, but how long have you been playing football?
It's a co-ed alumni flag football league. I have been playing with this team for ten years but I have played pickup football (read: no pads, no insurance, no pay, tackle football) since I was a kid. It's a cool league where alumni from colleges from all over the country get teams together and play football/basketball/volleyball/softball. I even remember playing during the DC sniper time. I figured there couldn't have been a safer place to be out in the open than the White House ellipse.
Wow!
Just plain old WOW!
No, wait, there is more.
I am impressed and in awe.
Holy Crappola Batman.
When I was way younger, I had this fantasy that my husband would do those things and I would spend evenings and weekends at various 'ballpark' places rooting him on.
Neither husbands came even close to wanting to or being able to.
Wow!
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:04 am
by peacock2121
Jeemie wrote:Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.
You are a piece of work.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:05 am
by peacock2121
Estonut wrote:Jeemie wrote:Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.
Nice comment...don't mean to resort to name-calling...but only an asshole would say that.
You are a piece of work in a totally different way.
Like opposite way.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:06 am
by littlebeast13
ulysses5019 wrote:And this was an easy avatar to post...
No wonder unicorns don't exist anymore.... the cavemen roasted them all.....
lb13
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:06 am
by peacock2121
secondchance wrote:Jeemie wrote:Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.
I suppose the photo of the plane being flown into the tower wasn't all that hard to take either. Or the little girl running naked through the street in Viet Nam. Or the soldier dipping the nurse for that Victory kiss. Or the student crying on her knees at Kent State. What the hell, someone just hurriedly snapped those pictures, after all!
This is an amazing photo and that was a ridiculous comment.
Sometimes not only lenses need filters.
I wish I had thought of and said that.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:23 am
by ulysses5019
littlebeast13 wrote:ulysses5019 wrote:And this was an easy avatar to post...
No wonder unicorns don't exist anymore.... the cavemen roasted them all.....
lb13
Only after they self skewered themselves.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:34 am
by SportsFan68
littlebeast13 wrote:This was hard to draw, but belittle away.....
lb13
That is wonderful, LB. A definite winner. Makes me smile. I hope it's up a long time.
Re: It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:55 am
by ulysses5019
SportsFan68 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:This was hard to draw, but belittle away.....
lb13
That is wonderful, LB. A definite winner. Makes me smile. I hope it's up a long time.
Yeah, but it needs Matias.