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People, we know why we’re here. Our public relations firm has been hired by a bodybuilding association to improve their image, since focus groups tend to describe bodybuilders as freakish, grotesque, disgusting and hideous.
So. Who’s got some ideas. Lamar, you raised your hand?
Yeah Boss, I’ve got a suggestion. I think if we just got them to smile all the time while they’re onstage, people wouldn’t notice the rest of it.
Smile?
Sure. Think about it. Everybody loves seeing a happy person. Look, let me prove it to you.
Okay, send that grinning creep show out here! Amazing, huh Boss?
Oh, yeah. It’s like night and day. Does anybody OTHER than Lamar have any ideas?
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Top: Contestants compete in the Amateur Women’s Classic Bodybuilding competition at the FIBO 2011 in Essen, Germany, April 16, 2011.
Left: A contestant competes in the Amateur Men’s Classic Bodybuilding competition at the FIBO 2011 in Essen, April 16, 2011.
Right: Contestants compete in the Amateur Men’s Classic Bodybuilding competition at the FIBO 2011 in Essen, April 16, 2011.
REUTERS photos by Ina Fassbender
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I know I keep asking for Mr.Fab Abs… however, this just goes way beyond radical for me…
Appreciate the effort though, Mr.B…
Oh, and I am pretty sure the “lady” in the middle, is a dude.
@Shra, hey you are catching on, that indeed is a dude!
I think the one in black is also a dude.
That’s exactly the reason I left the Gym, ladies were too sexy for me to handle
Are we sure this is a body building competition and not an advertising campaign for an orthodontist?
You know, all German chicks are that scary.
Smiling just makes them seem evil as well.
Looks like Hulga’s been hitting the gym.
I’m pretty sure one of them is Cam’s sister…
In this situation, only a haiku will do:
The bulging biceps,
girls with Adam’s Apples, too.
Who’s got the steroids?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the goal was to have six-pack abs. Looks like the gal in blue only has a five-pack. What’s up with that?
I will break you. No, really, they will.
I see the Iranian wax museum ran out of candles and needed to start gluing walnuts together instead.
Is it just me (to which the answer is often “Yes!”) or is there a pun somewhere in the photographer’s name?
Well, CG, “fass” means “barrel” in German.
@Crow: LOL! Good one!
@Spin: I wouldn’t want to meet them in a well lit alley; and you just know they’d kick sand in my face at a beach.
Perhaps he is grimacing because he is behind the eight ball.
I can just see myself nodding and laughing my imaginary muscles off at the comments…
Doc, Zapppppp!
When ARE you gonna realise!!!
Bodybuilder smile. So beautiful
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I didn’t know that Doc, thanks. I have learnt! Ha ha! Shra is off and away now, right?
He got what he asked for, CG…