i love khomeini’s posture in the first one. he’s…. chillaxin’.

Bonus points for defiling the sacredness of WWII. A well placed shot, to be sure.

I personally think Khomeini is gellin like Magellan, but whatev. It is almost too tasteful. I mean as objectively pro-terrorist, I would put that on my wall, right next to the picture of two imams kissing each other in Times Square at the end of WWII.

Dude, cheetos, where’s the cheetos? A bag of spilled cheetos on the bed, maybe red hot cheetos with stains on his fingerprints, and his fat little thigh…ewwh. You were on such a roll with the first one. Definitely took the round, but still…the devil is in the details…where is that preview button anyway?

I want Claire Chennault on my gun cake. I think we can charge it to Frank J.

One might also pursue the Top Gun route, if I may be so bold.

You should do one where they’re all wearing flight suits on an aircraft carrier under a “Mission Accomplished” banner.

Am I the only one baffled at Cadet Happy’s choice of subject matter? I mean, is there something inherently funny about Muslims on planes that I’m missing? And do all participants in the contest now have to adhere to the “ha ha let us make fun of the wogs trying to ride on our civilized interjets” angle?

In my book, Mr. Happy would have done a lot better if he’d just left aside the tricky images, and instead used the text tool to make a png reading “I’M TIRED OF THESE MOTHERFUCKING IMAMS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANE.” Gets right to the heart of the wingnut response to the story, y’know?

Ok, Frank started it with an almost-amusing but technically poor take on a headline.

So, it’s headlines for the theme, eh? How about this one?

“Papal visit: On a wing and a prayer”
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2023852.ece

This way, you can toss his flying nun back at him and keep the aviation riff going.

grampaw-
If gavin takes up my headline, we can ignore Islam and slam Catholics instead. Feel better?

scarshapedstar so far is the only one I’ve actually laughed at.

It’s funny because it’s true.

Or…

“Family Suing Greyhound after Flying Fecal Matter Covers SUV on I-75”
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=5658999&nav=0RZF

scarshapedstar so far is the only one I’ve actually laughed at.

Well that makes me feel just wonderful.

(I was trying to find something juicy about Calderon’s inauguration in Mexico, so I googlenews’d “FeCal”, forgetting that google isn’t case-sensitive.)

scarshapedstar so far is the only one I’ve actually laughed at.

Well that makes me feel just wonderful.

Oh, chin up. I laugh at you all the time!

points awarded.

also, anyone know what’s going on over at Billmon’s site? First Poorman, and Billmon? Seems everyone’s have technical difficulties.

t_m_l:

Not long ago, Billmon put up one of those posts that you see bloggers putting up every so often saying “I have to go deal with my actual life for a while, so long,” but then Lebanon got mad at him for it, and made him keep blogging until the midterms were done.

Now that the news is on break for the holidays, I suspect he’s gone and made good on his earlier promise, and let his last, out-of date post slip off the page.

Oh, never mind about the state of the world or righwing blogs, or whatever.

Has anyone been paying attention to the spectacular train wreck that Britney Spears has been making of her post-divorce life? My holy Christ! Girlfriend is making her new best friend Paris look like the frickin’ Duchess of Windsor!!

Focus, people…

Let’s think of something really hard and frightening that demands technical acumen…

“Bee for bomb disposal”

A story about using bees to sniff out explosives…
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/95253341-E0DD-498C-A3C0-D71AB0638B96.htm

It should make all the monitors at IMAO explode, along with Frank’s head. There’s gotta be some serious bonus points for making them click on an Al-Jazeera news item.

I realize this is only remotely on topic, but this is Sadly, No and all.

One of them there commenters on arch-rival IMAO, motopolitico, had this HILARIOUS AND FRESH response to a post on renaming the Democratic Party:

“How about the Dumb-ocrats? Or why don’t we go “subliminal” and just call them the Rats? Works for me.”

Barely able to catch my breath, and following the theme of the week on conservative humour and all, I clicked the link (http://motopolitico2.blogspot.com/), hoping to find some more toppa qualitia zingers. Instead, I hit a goldmine of insanity:

“The position of this paper is that, within the church, a woman is not to serve in any office where she would be de jure teaching or in authority over men… In any position where a woman serves, she must do so in a way that positively demonstrates her attitude of submission to authority.”

The interwebs is so money. You go out looking for one kind of crazy, and come back with a whole kind of other.

How is that subliminal? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Am I the only one looking for useful headlines? Oh well. If anyone else is too, I recommend looking at sites that wingnuts would rather cut off their own testicles with rusty piano wire than actually have to click on…

AlJazeera, for one. The Guardian, for another.

From Iran’s official news source:
“Scientists Develop Substance That Halts MS Progress in Mice”

oops

http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2720/html/science.htm

“she must do so in a way that positively demonstrates her attitude of submission to authority.â€?

That’s a good one. I’m ttrying to think of how one POSITIVELY demonstrates SUBMISSION.

jeez, fuckin louise. between these assholes and Britney and Paris flashing their…er…whatevers, I think I want to move to Ted Kazinski’s cabin.

This “No points will be given for technical acumen” rule bores me.

You guys should up the ante and just recite pixel base code to each other. Blindfolded.

You’d be like those chess prodigies. It’d be teh 4w350m3. Like:

Gav: JPEG base, flat-q=75, 0.25, 59.1, 30.45!
IMAOtard: You sunk my battleship!

I told you we had it in the bag:

Winning entry.

Gavmo, you should definitely to the Mission Accomplished one just for fun, but what about a conservo’s bete noire? Preggers Barbara Streisand drinking whiskey and Plan B while pregnant officiating at the wedding of Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan? You could imply than Cindy is actually a dude and that it is a gay wedding. Something like that.

Man Seeks Record for Arm Hair Length

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061127/D8LLJFC01.html

I SAID WINNING ENTRY

Then he spake unto Peter, saying “Take care, disciple, when thou Laughest thine Ass Off. For there may be someone there who will Hand it to Thee.”

Ramen, Brother O, Ramen.

Canadians have it all over you guys for Photoshopping (our) conservative badasses. Tip: take an original and distort it beyond all recognition. Example 1.

Example 2.

Example 3 (GEORGE BUSH!).

Remember, our conservatives are as chimplike as your conservatives (no offense to actual chimps).

I didn’t know Jerry Garcia flew P-38’s.

Imams standing next to a P-51 is subtle and plays on several different jokes. Not only the headline but also history and the fashion sense of your typical religous leader.

Imams on a carpets over Minneapolis chasing Sally Fields reminds me alot of drawing mustaches on pictures in a magazine. Something a 10 year old finds ENDLESSLY entertaining. The point isn’t to alter an image to change its context. The point is stamp very large “look I made a funny!”

Point to Gavin.

Not bad, not bad — though it might be nice if the picture were bigger than postage stamp size — I’m not using a cell phone to view your entries

This one has everything:

Cuban Popularity in Indonesia

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar22/35popindo.html

Preggers Barbara Streisand drinking whiskey and Plan B while pregnant officiating at the wedding of Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan?

Singing Michael Moore officiating at the gay, interfaith wedding of Barbara Streisand and Britney Spears. While Cindy Spears offers preggers Kevin Federline a Plan B pack and a fo’ty.

Now I just need to figure out how to include Pam Anderson’s pro-PETA mission, and maybe something about the fact that Scarlett Johansson is never going to have sex with Mark Steyn, much less Dan Riehl.

Am I the only one looking for useful headlines?

Okay, RobW, I’ll play:

“Castro: I’m too sick to party“

Pope tends his ‘little flock’ on second day of Turkey visit

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2477785,00.html

I am going to have to put down my AD&D rule books (1st edition, be-oytches) & get all WWII geek on my fellow commenters’ asses?

It’s not a P-38, it’s not a P-51. It’s a Curtiss P-40 with the tiger mouth made famous by teh Flying Tigers.

P-51 can I forgive, but the P-38 has twin booms with the cockpit between them…

See! And the pic is even educational.

Another point to Gavin.

Imams in pursuit of the last virgin.

This one’s dedicated to Confederate Yankee.

I don’t want points fo technical acumen.

FS even came up with a better headline.

There’s a new, animated one up at IMAO, and boy does it suck balls. Technically it’s even worse than the last one – I assume that Gavin’s supposed to be rotating, but you can’t really tell. And if he’s a “massive sucking phenomenon”, why is he having no effect on anything around him? Why is the “blogiverse” represented by a single galaxy?

Is there a velveteen twelve-sided dice pouch up for grabs in this competition?

They don’t look like imam’s, they look like pilots. Some one pointed out the imams in the other entry didn;t look like imams so thats a wash I guess.

The propeller’s ‘shadow’ across the far right ‘imam’s chest is waaaay too dark. Did ambient light not diffuse in 1941 China?

Plus the ‘imam’s are ON THE GROUND! They aren’t even flying! Sure there’s a plane or two but they aren’t in them. And they look like pilots so the flying potential is there, just not followed through on.

Did no-one notice that China is geographically pretty much not anywhere near Minneapolis-St Paul?

Negative bazillion points to Gavin. and also to each commenter who didn’t pick it to shreds.

Gavin M,
While we are at it, is scarshapedstar related to Michael Moore? They bear a startling resemblance to each other.

Imams standing next to a P-51 is subtle and plays on several different jokes. Not only the headline but also history and the fashion sense of your typical religous leader.

Is there any way to make them animated so they could lip-sync to old Pat Benetar songs…?

ouch Gavin. that was way too easy a win.

spacemonkey, I am embarassed on your behalf.

Hey isn’t that a P-40?

And China…?
Dude, you did NOT get your photoshop all over the Flying Tigers did you?

I’ve been waiting for IM IN UR AIRPORT USING UR FLOORZ.

Gaah! pwned by Seanly, still…not bad for a girl, eh?

Nobody let Gavin catch them misattributing WWII fighters, he gets touchy about that. Then we’ll get a long post about Messerschmidt prototypes.

They don’t look like imam’s, they look like pilots

They look like both – or was the “flying imams” theme to complex for you?

Ditto kathleen

This is my favorite part of spacemonkey’s erm… brilliant critique:

The propeller’s ’shadow’ across the far right ‘imam’s chest is waaaay too dark. Did ambient light not diffuse in 1941 China?

Because if you look at the original, here, it sure does look like Gavin didn’t photoshop the propellor shadow at all.

This isn’t one of the kids who has been all over the news services looking for evidence of doctored photos, is it?

I guess ambient light didn’t diffuse in 1941 China, Marita! Wow, Spacemonkey is actually a brilliant scientist!

http://primatejournal.blogspot.com/2006/11/hidden-bush.html
hahahahaha. Ftw, sphinx.

This close, they do look like P-51s, though I believe those had 4 props, as the bubble canopy version of the P-51 wasn’t introduced until a few variants inwards of the production.
Spacemonkey is RIGHT, Gavin, as well all knows Imams only look like
http://membres.lycos.fr/jgross/Images/Aladdin.gif this.
Hehehe. They’re stupid, it’s cute.

Plus the ‘imam’s are ON THE GROUND! They aren’t even flying!

We don’t let them fly in the present-day U.S. either.

Oh, they’re totally P-40s — the famous Flying Tigers, with the distinctive toothy shark-mouths on the cowl. Hence the joke, pretty much.

There is one egregious mistake in the caption, alas. It has to do with the wing insignia…

Hence the joke, pretty much.

Some days it almost doesn’t pay, does it? Speaking for my own thought processes, I don’t know how the Flying Wallendas got misfiled in there; but I blame the Ritalin.

“P-51 can I forgive, but the P-38 has twin booms with the cockpit between them… “

Oops.

But that is Jerry Garcia, right?

Gavin, your most glaring failure there wasn’t the caption, it was keeping the trousers on the flyboys, instead of outfitting them with dishdashas.

Clearly, you can no longer be taken seriously.

Note to non-Gavin onlookers: if you have any interest in the outcome of this contest, and if you just had to Google “dishdasha,” then you may safely assume your team has lost the contest.

From Iran’s official news source:
“Scientists Develop Substance That Halts MS Progress in Mice�

I don’t think this would be very much fun to Photoshop. Unless you went with MS=Microsoft and not MS=Multiple Sclerosis.

Mice don’t get Multiple Sclerosis, btw. Scientists can induce an MS-like, artificial demyelinating condition in mice, which they use for research such as this.

However, since it’s not actually MS, most of these ‘wonder cures’ are never heard from again. Some MS researchers do not think that the MS-like condition is medically equivalent to actual MS and thus, that this sort of research is mostly a waste of time. I tend to agree.

This headline ran ages ago here in the US. I know this because every time my mom reads anything like this she gets all excited and thinks I’m going to be cured next week and calls me on the phone to tell me about it AND sends me the newspaper clipping so I won’t ‘forget to ask my doctor.’ And I have an aunt who thinks I’m ‘a quitter’ because I won’t allow myself to be stung by bees even though I’m allergic to beestings. In my next incarnation, I hope to be born into a rational family. *sighs*

I wonder what the incidence of MS in Iran is like. I wouldn’t think it would be very high, as the disease is far more more prevalent in colder climates. Perhaps this was just filler for their science section.

Sorry, just thinking out loud. Carry On Photoshopping!

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