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RUDE ROVER
The Christmas dog with no class! He sings and toots Jingle Bells.
INFLATABLE TREE
Who needs the hassle of a real Christmas tree?
FARTING SANTA
Go ahead and pull his finger!

Which one is it? I can't choose. For the first one, giraffes are very tall, but not as tall as a jet plane, I think. I doubt it would be standing on a wing, but it may be standing on a cargo lift.

For the second one, the cloud cover may be something else, like water, altho it looks like there may be moisture on the engine (look at the very top of the engine, there is a flash of light, and the reflections suggestion moisture, which could mean the plane is in-flight).

It was to be one?
I'd say the 'guy in engine' one is real then, and the white stuff below is snow on the ground(rather than clouds), and they aren't flying.
But, at a glance, I would have said both shopped.

@Bruce
Do you see the out-of-focus ice on the window. You would not see that on the ground, even in cold weather.
Funny pictures! Both fake, right?

I think the giraffe pictures is fake.

In the giraffe photo, you can see the shadow the giraffe is casting on the inside of the window frame. As light from the sun is essentially moving parallel by the time it reaches the earth, any shadow should be the same width as the object casting it, hence the 'giraffe' is just a few cms wide.

If not the result of a sloppy Photoshop job, this is probably nothing more than a giraffe sticker on the inside of the window.

Since there appears to be snow on the top of the engine in the second picture, I would have to say that it was in fact taken on the ground (and not photoshopped), as snow would not be present in flight.

the first one is a giraffe picture taped to the inside of the window. the shoadow cast by it into the cabin gives it away. although i dont know if that makes it the real or the fake one

the giraffe pic cannot be a sticker on the inside of the window, as if it was, the shadow would start at the point where the giraffe neck meets the window frame. Alternatively, if the giraffe sticker was placed with a gap below the neck, the shadow would not start at the base of the window.

Of course, the sticker might be on the outside, but that would be quite hard to get into position, so I think that that is the photoshopped image

I think the giraffe pic is the real one. There is an airport, somewhere in the world (can't remember where) that is a couple thousand feet above the ground and has a steep cliff off the side. It is altogether possible that the giraffe really is right outside the window.

F both of you, Mr. Giraffe and Santa.

Of course the real one is the first, because the giraffe is just a sticker put on the glass, you can see the shadow.
Therefore, the second is fake.
Have I won anything?

The one of the giraffe is real. The plane could be a small charter or private, that is parked overlooking a cliff.

They're both fake!

"One of these might be fake. Can you guess which?"

My guess is that either of them /might/ be fake, but that in /fact/ both are genuine.

i'm going to say it's a trick question and that both photos are real. the giraffe is outside a small plane on higher ground, and the other is of an airplane being cleaned...not clouds, but soap suds.

Giraffe is fake as stated in earlier posts, the 2nd one is real because the cloud like setting is actually snow.

That's my take anyways ;p

The giraffe was the winner in this photoshop contest on fark.com :

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1837095

There are a few things that make it obvious that the second photo is a fake. Were is the ladder the person must have used to reach the engine? No engine on any plane is that close to the ground. Plus you can see that the toes of his boots are deflected in a way that would indicate that he is standing on something. I don’t know were the people who think that’s snow on the ground is from, I’m from CA, and even I know what snow looks like, and I’ve never seen snow that looks like that. But they sure look like clouds. If that had the misfortune to be caught in the engine during flight, he/she would ether be sucked into the engine, or flattened against the rim from the wind speed.
People have already pointed out why the giraffe, while not technically being a fake photo, is simply a cut out of a giraffe stuck to the window, if it was a real giraffe, the Shadow cast from it would be much wider then the one seen in the photo.

Simple riddle of words. It says one might be fake. Never says either are real. They are both fake.

obviously the giraffe photo is the fake one, the engine in the other photo has ice or snow on top of it which would never be there in actual flight