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Haha, I thought at first that the second-to-last one was a prize wheel
So how did some variation of this photo not make the cut?
Is this one a primitive animatronic too, I wonder?
If humanity is ever attacked by mechanical race of Abrahams Lincoln I only hope that they scream “E-MAN-CI-PATE! E-MAN-CI-PATE!” as they chase people around.
Honestly that looks to me like a real guy with some kind of bald cap and fake hair/beard.
Logan’s Run, right?
Just opposite that bust is a Sphinx of President Grant, and if you try to walk past them with unpatriotic thoughts in your heart they shoot laser beams at you from their eye sockets.
Yes and no.
Looks like he’s wearing Ray Bans.
Am I the only one who thought this was going to be about snapshots of the literal living man himself?
e.g.,
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg
Yeesh, that Pinkerton guy has malice in his eyes, and he’s the one protecting Lincoln
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