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heliumsocket

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Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
« on: November 10, 2013, 11:12:03 PM »
I currently work at the Portland Art Museum, and this fellow in the early American wing caught my eye.

http://imgur.com/a/fV4q2#0

AP Mike's great-great-great-great-great granddaddy? A Vigo the Carpathian-type deal? Or have I lost my mind? I might've just lost my mind.


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Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2013, 01:46:16 AM »
totally, Helium Socket. The resemblance is uncanny. Was he a brewer?

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Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2013, 08:40:40 PM »
If you look closely you can see the note says "Do you have puppy dogs?"

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Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2013, 12:12:25 AM »
I wonder if he hung out with this guy: http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7981.0.html
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Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2013, 06:41:34 AM »
He holds his pinky in the air as he swigs from the tallboy.

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Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2013, 11:24:14 PM »
Update: The painting is by Joseph Blackburn, and is titled "The Honorable William Greenleaf."

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Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2013, 02:24:01 PM »
I currently work at the Portland Art Museum, and this fellow in the early American wing caught my eye.

http://imgur.com/a/fV4q2#0

AP Mike's great-great-great-great-great granddaddy? A Vigo the Carpathian-type deal? Or have I lost my mind? I might've just lost my mind.

I'm getting a Barnabas Collins vibe here- any chance AP Mike is a hundreds of years old Bayonne vampire?