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from Oddly Enough Blog:
So it’s the nudes vs. the dorks?
Blog Guy, I'm looking to join a rugby team. I saw your item about Naked Rugby, but I seem to recall there are two different kinds of rugby. Is that right?
Sure. There's the Stark Naked Rugby, and then there's the Traditional Old-Fashioned Rugby.
Right! Traditional Old-Fashioned, that's the one I want. I'm in! Tell me about it.
Well, you smoke a pipe and wear a top hat and frock coat, and zip around on your Segway, as you...
from Russell Boyce:
Asia – A Week in Pictures January 23 2011
As India heads towards their Republic Day celebrations, Prime Minister Singh makes minor adjustments to his cabinet while outside on the streets people demonstrate over food and fuel price inflation and corruption. Adnan Abidi produces a great picture as a middle-aged demonstrator gets to feel the full force of a police water canon. In stark contrast, B Mathur gets a glimpse of the dress rehearsal of the full military parade planned to celebrate India's independence where the security forces are deployed in a somewhat different manner. Danish Siddiqui added to the file this week with a well seen picture to illustrate a government spending initiative with a man pulling a pipe across a building site, the shadow creating an eye like image that almost seems to wink at the viewer.
Police use water canons to disperse supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a protest in New Delhi January 18, 2011. Thousands of the supporters on Tuesday in New Delhi held a protest against a recent hike in petrol prices and high inflation. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
from Oddly Enough Blog:
We NEED three more naked chicks?
Somebody please help me out here.
We have a story about how the Louvre, which is this really big museum in Paris, is asking the public to help raise the cash to buy it a 16th century painting deemed a "national treasure" by art experts.
The Louvre has scraped together $4.19 million for "The Three Graces," an oil painting by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, but they still need another $1.35 million.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
Couldn’t she just do a floral tribute?
Blog Guy, the World Cup is drawing to a close. So who would you say is the big winner so far?
Oh, without a doubt it's model Larissa Riquelme, of Paraguay. Without leaving her hometown, she managed to mug her way into 24 pictures on our photo file while her country was still a player.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
The naked stewardess time warp…
Welcome back to a regular feature we like to call, "What Year is this Again?."
There was a time, years ago, when airline flight attendants were called stewardesses, and they tended to be portrayed as flying cocktail waitresses.
Gorgeous girls in sexy outfits, catering to sexist businessmen. Back in the 1960s, there was even a very popular book, "Coffee Tea or Me?"
from Oddly Enough Blog:
You’re naked behind those white bars!
My usual policy is not to blog about Spencer Tunick, that "artist" who goes around the world shooting photos of buck-naked crowds, often in front of landmarks like the Sydney Opera House.
I avoid his stuff because a) it's been done so often that I don't consider it news any longer and b) it ties up my assistant all weekend long, adding those white bars that protect my readers from breast blindness, etc. Imagine my overtime bill for sanitizing these photos here.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
A very special holiday time at the blog
Blog Guy, do you have anything special coming up in your blog for the holidays?
Do I!
Do you?
Yes, that's what I meant by "Do I! "
Traditionally the end of the year is a time of lists and recognition, and I'm starting off tomorrow with the closely-watched Goofiest Photos of the Year announcement.
Then comes the Top Ten Blog Items of the Year as measured by reader page views, followed by my personal list of favorite posts for the year. And of course the annual Oddly Enough Blog staff photo, some thank-yous, etc.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
Steamy ski hostesses shower on the slopes!
I don't know. I just can't figure out what's happening here. The caption just tells us we're seeing "hostesses" simulating a shower during a "promotional event for a dating Website."
Well crap, I've been skiing and I haven't seen women showering at the top of the mountain. Can I get my money back? This must be the place where Hef skis.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
Which half of ‘em is naked?
Okay, I've got another small quibble with our photo captions. The actual caption for the pictures you see here begins, "People take part in a half naked "Santa run..."
While it is true that most of them are not wearing shirts or pants, I don't see anybody I'd call "half naked." I just see people who aren't fully clothed.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
Get naked for the hokey pokey!
Blog Guy, help settle an argument with my wife. What's the most popular dance? I say it's the tango, but she says it's the samba. So? So? Which is it?
You're both wrong. It's the naked hokey pokey. Haven't you noticed the proliferation of naked hokey pokey dance clubs and cable shows? Where do you live, Wyoming?
