Submitted by: Gregg Geil via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Czernobog says, “No one would have believed, in the first years of the 21st century, that human affairs were being watched from the traficless Arizona byroads. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life in Arizona. And yet, from their hiding places under bits of dried wood, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.”
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The mailbox is actually a magical portal from Middle Earth, where small Ents come from when they are bad and sent to time-out on a deserted Arizona road. NO ONE was supposed to see this happening… argh.
…but mailmen are?
This mailbox only appears for moments in time in order to allow the magic portal to exist (work with me here…)
It’s an occasional mailbox.
It looks like an occasinal mailbox! That locker to Narnia looked pretty occasinal too, right?
I wonder if you can send letters to Gandalf through this MailPortal…
Most mailboxes are allowed to grow a bit taller before they are plucked and pruned for use. Some impatient person uprooted this one as soon as it broke the surface and just haphazardly threw it as is along side of the road. How tacky!
Sally…is that you?
The new line of arachnid- based mailboxes are a big hit in the Southwest.
It’s a visual illusion. That mailbox=shaped-thing is on the other side of the road, and the ent is on this side of the road. If you squint you can see the spaceship.
Is the Statue of Liberty in there?! Please tell me it is!
*squints* Nope. Can’t see it.
The T. Rex is in the way.
T-Rex? You’re crazy. Sure, that one guy looks a little bit like Marc Bolan, but I think it’s just a cover band singing “Get it On, Bang a Gong”.
Seems like the SEP-Field is too strong here
Why did the mailbox cross the road?
because chuck norris told it to.
Cause there was a female box on the other side
Because the mailman is British.
To kiss the ent, of course!
Swing and a miss…
Where is this? It looks like Glade Park, Colorado.
I was gonna say it looks like Cedar Creat, New Mexico. Or maybe Moriarity or Estancia, where it’s flatter…
*Cedar Crest
This is in my hometown! I drive past it every day! LOLZ — who could have guessed it wood wind up on this website! XD
This had the mailman stumped so he decided it wood be better to leave deliveries for this address to the branch of the post office that handles their rural root.
Yew bad!
He just doesn’t mind making an ash of himself in public.
Wood yew be happier if he was just pining to make the pear of yew laugh?
(Puns are a tree-mendous use of the English language!)
I mean, come on- this place is out in the sticks.
No one would have believed, in the first years of the 21st century, that human affairs were being watched from the traficless Arizona byroads. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life in Arizona. And yet, from their hiding places under bits of dried wood, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.
“In a world where…”
HGW FTW!
Hahaha snap…
There you go, you have the start for a book that sounds better than Twilight…which isn’t…that hard to do, actually.
That sounds like something from war of the worlds
Hahaha, yes! I made it to the big time, baby!
Absolute Win
Thanks, now I have Richard Burton’s gorgeous voice locked into my head and the guitar stylings of Jeff Wayne keeping them company. I will be forced to listen to the whole double album, on vinyl. Forced, I tell you.
Epic win for czernobog and Effie McB. With an extra brownie point for Effie in still having the album in *vinyl*.
Plus, LOTR and Dark Crystal references FTW.
There must be more old fogies here like me. Most of the kids I work with don’t know who Pink Floyd is, let alone Jeff Wayne.
Long live Thunderchild!
War of the Words for the motherf**king win!!
*Worlds
Gravel road. New mailbox. I hope cowboys appreciate artwork.
It’s not a gravel road. It’s an older, asphalt road. And, judging by the type of driftwood, the cedar trees, hilly terrain and overall background, this looks like the Texas hill country, north-northwest of Austin. It’s beautiful up that way.
I spoke with Greg Geil and he said it’s a Hollywood sound stage. The background is a green-screen, the driftwood is made of a high-polymer plastic and the green bush to the right is actually Danny DeVito. All that aside, it *is* beautiful.
He wrote further down in this thread that the picture was taken in Erath County, Texas. Though closer to Fort Worth than Austin, I was right in it being in the Texas hill country, and it is north-northwest of Austin.
neener. :p
Aw, poor little Enting…it has lost its parents (and its way back to Middle Earth) and must now rely on mailboxes for food.
Looks like he’s trying to blend modern day conveniences with the local environment, or possibly he was too cheap to buy a post for the mailbox.
look closely; the mailbox is supported by 3 rods. very clever even without the wood.
oka that is awsome!
That seems like a long way for a piece of driftwood to walk.
I was standin’ on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It’s a….ent? With a…. mailbox?
Slowin’ down to take a look at me
This photo was taken in Erath County, Texas. (For real.) Maybe, some life form was told told to go to Earth and monitor us, but it found itself in Erath by mistake.
Your basic Arachnid warrior isnt too smart, but you can blow off a limb, and its still 86 percent combat effective. Heres a tip: Aim for the mailbox, and put it down for good.
Michael Bay presents: The Two Towers
Experiment 7: Reviving previously living wood is a partial success. I have yet to see roots or leaves form, but the wood does seem to be returning to its ‘original’ form.
An Enting! Clearly someone must have found the Entwives…
Peaseblossom? Is that you?
What exactly is the kludge here? Hiding your ugly mailbox tripod under a bunch of sticks? I don’t get it.
Oh, thanks for pointing out the kludge. Now I get it.
It would fit in “Mailbox design Totaly looks like Ent”
uh….that would be Entling, not baby Ent. ;}
It’s in Australia. That explains everything.
I think it’s probably the the first reported case of a carnivorous mailbox.
P.S.: plz look at the “submitted by” tag: Gregg Geil … he would be considered as a stud or p***star in Germany ( another Version of the willie stroker fail, perhaps?!?)
AHHHHH!! Skeksis!! Someone find a gelfling!
This is a TF2 turret.
So…where’s the fail in this, other than perhaps the metal pipes forming the basis of the structure not being strong enough for a decent mailbox? Other than that, it’s just another driftwood/found-object sculpture that’s a useful item.
It looks like a Landstrider from The Dark Crystal – with too many legs!
texas….. its in texas…. *sobs* someone help me
thats the smallest flag i’ve ever seen !! is that USPS regulation ??
I don’t know whats the scariest thing about this pic because before I scrolled down I #1 knew it was from Arizona even with the lack of big saguaro cactus #2 know it’s probably from the Prescott valley area and #3 I think I know who’s mailbox this is.