Meet the WWI women who pretended to be rocks for the war effort

[nimelennar]

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett.

[Mister44]

I think it is a geology pun… but it is possible Monty Python is in there somewhere.

[DrDave]

@Ministry

I love the cunning plan of hiding ships by putting them in Union Park, but is that really camouflage?

It’s something called “dazzle” camouflage. It was used on a ship to make it difficult to determine the the range, speed and bearing of the vessel when looking at through, say, a periscope. As I recall, women from the Royal Academy in London painted different designs on miniature models, which were then viewed through through a periscope to test their effectiveness.

[lolipop_jones]

Thank you, after reading the first two replies I wanted to cry.

[teknocholer]

@Mister44

We can count on one hand the number of people who get your pun.

@chgoliz

I thought it was a gneiss one.

You see? I had faith in the BBS readers, although perhaps I should not take them for granite.

[nimelennar]

Of quartz you shouldn’t.

[Auld_Lang_Syne]

Only if you replied to the wrong comment.

[howaboutthis]

Uncle Sam wants you… to get stoned in the park.

[teknocholer]

@Brainspore

I feel like I might have missed a Monty Python reference.

I got stoned and I missed it - Dr. Hook.wmv

[mocon]

@Ministry

I love the cunning plan of hiding ships by putting them in Union Park, but is that really camouflage?

Clearly the camouflage worked, because that is actually a biplane.

… actually an infantryman?

… actually a woman on a rock?

I got nothing.

[logruszed]

The NY “camouflage scene” actually started in the village when students of Meisner were hiding from Strasberg’s students.

[LearnedCoward]

The comment knows how not to be seen.

[LearnedCoward]

I norite?

[Brainspore]

Brilliant misdirection. The Kaiser was so busy planning a naval invasion of Union Park that he didn’t notice the concrete foundations of his war bunker were actually American women.

[Ministry]

Sorry; I phrased that badly: I am familiar with dazzle camouflage. Thanks anyway!

As part of the First World War commemorations in Liverpool, Sir Peter Blake painted one of the Mersey Ferries in his version of dazzle camouflage:

@mocon

Clearly the camouflage worked, because that is actually a biplane.

You win

[Mister44]

I that is razzle dazzle camouflage.

[Mister44]

Speaking of camo, I love this pattern. Sort of sci-fi looking.

They come in all sorts of colors.

[renke]

invisible when placed before a Hundertwasser building

though he neither designed harbours nor the water surface

[L_Mariachi]

We get the pun, but the unintended (?) second meaning is that the women in the photos are indeed dressed as Manhattan Schist, one of the main components comprising the geology of Van Cortland Park.

[anon35121463]

When it comes to spotting geology puns, I reckon most people here picrite.