Howling Fantods Motivational Poster Contest

I thought this contest ended a week ago, and was disappointed I hadn’t had time to think about what I’d want to enter. So when I saw an email tonight saying that it was the last day of the contest (they extended the deadline), I thought I’d throw a few quick entries together:

Entries into the DFW motivational poster contest:

probably too offensive, but Hitler was the best image i could quickly think of when it came to visually representing hideous men.  personally, i’d find fat/hairy/disfigured pictures of real people to be more offensive.

probably to obscure, this is supposed to be the baby in “The Compliance Branch”

does it count as a motivational poster? does the lack of tagline hurt it?

I doubt any of these really makes the cut – I can only hope that few people are entering the contest!

Tokyo customs gives away marijuana

As part of a training for drug-sniffing dogs, a customs officer put a package of cannabis in a tourist’s suitcase, but then lost track of it. According to Reuters:

Customs regulations specify that a training suitcase be used for such exercises, but the official said he had used passengers’ suitcases for similar purposes in the past, domestic media reported.

“The dogs have always been able to find it before,” NHK quoted him as saying. “I became overconfident that it would work.”

How could someone with regular access to government-rolled joints be so distracted and forgetful as to lose some?

Israeli Tourist Deploys Weapon of Mass Distraction

Fed up with the “wolf whistles” of construction workers, a female tourist in New Zealand removed her clothes, used the ATM naked, then got dressed and went on her way…until the cops tracked her down.  Apparently the police explained that her behavior was “inappropriate in New Zealand.”

Kudos for her moxie, but I don’t really get her logic.  I guess if she had been really fed up, she would have gone over to the guys and started making out?

Combination toothpick / earwax spoon

I know a few people who might be very interested in something like this, although I doubt that they’d be willing to pay $100,000 for this particular one (even if it is made of gold).

May 20, 2008 — Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys. (photo included after the jump)

U.S. politicians ignore threats to national security, global security

Japan is ahead of the curve yet again!  We need political debates like this, particularly in this election season:

“A debate over flying saucers has kept Japanese politicians occupied for much of this week, ensnaring top officials and drawing a promise from the defense minister to send out the army if Godzilla goes on a rampage”

Why hasn’t the YouTube/CNN community jumped all over this topic for debates?  And what about the REAL threat of global warming – Godzilla may find the Pacific too warm and move over to the Atlantic!  We need to know where our politicians stand on issues of national security and global defense!!!

Hello Luke!

I hope that you don’t mind that I’ve hijacked one of your images for the temporary header on my blog. You probably mind more that it looks crappy now that it’s been cropped and magnified into a big pixellated mess. You probably don’t want credit for it as is. So anyone stumbling upon this should head over to Luke’s site and take a look at a representative image of Bull With Lions, actual art available for $44.44.