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BB group portrait reader-remixed as Wizard of Oz poster

Xeni Jardin at 2:16 pm Fri, Mar 7, 2008

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Link to larger size. P-shopped by a Boing Boing reader who posts as HOLTT, from this thread about an ETEch snap. Our colleague Joel Johnson, not pictured, is of course -- the Wizard. (thanks, Teresa!)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • yankeeknowhow

    This particular Boing Boing quartet was already cute as a button, but after being inserted into that Wizard of Oz backdrop, I can safely say that it’s become much more cute and desirable.

    Kudos and tender cheers to the Photoshop artist who put this composition together -outstanding! Makes me so happy to be a regular reader and devoted fan – yum!

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

    If things are less fractious tomorrow, I’ll put it back up.

  • Antinous

    The week started out quiet, but it sure went to hell in the last two days.

  • Takuan

    wimp. C’mon now, where is that Yamato Damashi?
    When they kick you in the groin, you smile and ask if they have the strength to favour you again. MMM! I LOVE THE TASTE OF LIVER! Sisu and hara!

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

    Yes, Padster, you’re being a miserable old killjoy. Next question?

  • Antinous

    At the moment I’m feeling more sonnō jōi, if you replace ‘tennō’ with ‘BBers” and ‘Christians’ with ‘trolls’.

  • Takuan

    too superficial. Sisu. Walk 12,000 miles.

  • Antinous

    I’m more of the sit-in-padmasana for 12,000 hours disposition.

  • Takuan

    http://www.crystalinks.com/gilhumbaba.jpg
    g’nite

  • Antinous

    Oyasuminasai.

  • Takuan

    hey Antinous:
    http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2006/0608/rottentomatoes_big.jpg

  • Antinous

    Is that us?

  • Takuan

    one avatar

  • noen

    “And who would be the Good Witch and the Bad Witch?”

    Teresa? Not saying which one.

    /ducks

  • Antinous

    Hey, she had style. And a great house full of cool stuff. And live-in help.

  • Takuan

    I liked it

    http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Life-Times-Witch-West/dp/0060987103

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

    Agnot, I think Poesy Emmeline grows up to be Ozma. Glinda is a virtual avatar operated by Ken Snider. I’m the bad witch. The role of the Wizard of Oz is played by Albert Pike, who faked his own death in 1891.

    NotaDoktor, Oz is large and contains many remarkable characters. You can be any of them you want, except for Scraps, the Patchwork Girl of Oz, who is already spoken for.

  • Songe

    I wish I could put all of you in my pocket.

  • Takuan

    how do you feel about Tiktok?http://www.waltdisneysreturntooz.com/OOAK_Tiktok.jpg

  • librarygoblin

    If only Mark had some noive!

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

    If Steampunk isn’t cool, how do you account for Tiktok?

  • baden

    one would think toto would be a unicorn… the only thing missing from a perfect job!

  • Jeff

    Very Cute. The crew looks great! Now, if the crew will just record a little bit of “We’re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz…” then that would be very fun.

  • Songe

    I wish I could put all of you in my pocket.

  • Stefan Jones

    As an early Boing Boing contributor, I claim Chief Winkie Guard (the one who says “You . . . you killed her!” and “Hooray for Dorothy!” and “OH-EEEH-Oh, Oh-EEEEEH-Oh!”).

  • Antinous

    You know what that O needs….?

  • holtt

    Oh God, I log in to see if there were any comments in the old picture thread and I find this! Now I HAVE to put Joel in I see.

    Oh yea and if you can’t think of what this photo could be turned into, you aren’t worthy of a monkey badge! http://www.xeni.net/images/lat-E1.jpg

  • Antinous

    Oh, please! Oh, please!

  • Takuan

    that girl has hobbies….

  • holtt

    Need good Joel picture…

  • A New Challenger

    Thank you Takuan for bringing up Return To Oz. I only have vague memories of watching it, but somewhere I have the Golden Book stashed away. What I remember was neat.

  • TomDewitt111

    GG, PK, VMT, RLPH!!! h thy lv s s mch!!! W’r clbrts nw. Lk hw cl w r wth r prtnts glsss nd hr cts. N ths sn’t vrly thght t t ll. n f r fns rntrprtd s, yy ths s s mch fn. Lt’s pst t nd myb w’ll b vn mr drd.

  • Takuan

    I know! Isn’t it Great!!!

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

    Very bad things will happen to anyone who contrives indecent or otherwise offensive images of any of the Boingers.

    Just so you all know.

  • Takuan

    awwww!

  • Moon

    Now THAT’s hilarious!

    :D

  • Antinous

    Oh! That’s the straw man that people are always talking about in their comments.

  • OM

    “If I only had a Brain!”

    “If I only had a Heart!”

    “If I only had some Balls!”

    “Me? I’ll settle for a pair of Boobs instead of the three I’m walking with!”

  • xopl

    So many hipster glasses… I thought Joel Johnson was the dog?

  • padster123

    Hmm. Let’s hope that celebrity culture doesn’t permeate any deeper into Boing Boing. Or am I being a miserable old killjoy?

  • Takuan

    har! it’s funny cuz it’s cruel!

  • agnot

    It explains lots but it also raises some questions:

    Does that make John Battelle the Wizard of OZ?
    (His office wouldn’t be in Seattle would it?)
    Which leaves Joel Johnson as Toto.
    And who would be the Good Witch and the Bad Witch?

  • Not a Doktor

    so are we the flying monkies?

  • whoknew

    Oh, I’m definitely a flying monkey, right out of Wayne’s butt!

    http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=bst&media=MP3S&type=Movies&movie=Waynes_World&quote=monkeys.txt&file=monkeys.mp3

    teehee

    But when do we get a team poster that ACTUALLY includes Joel?