October 09, 2006

BATTLE OF THE BULGE

So, a couple weeks back, a group of guys I know who run a fantasy football Web site had a convention in Phoenix to draft their teams.

During the weekend, they played football, went to see a game and did other male-bonding kinds of things.

And, as with all things male, silliness ensued.

While in the lobby of their hotel, one guy, Mike, pulled his shorts up as a joke. Snap. Someone made a photo.

That's where the fun starts.

MikeTaylorsBulge.jpg

The key thing to note here: Mike doesn't look like this. He's an athletic, trim, upbeat, normal American male. He's not retarded, at least not in a way that any of us have noticed. He was just goofing around with the guys, that's all.

But someone posted the photo on the fantasy site after the convention. Can't remember why. I think it was during a discussion thread relating to the things women tolerate about us.

And then someone ran it through Photoshop:

MikeTaylorsBulge2.jpg

But it gets better.

I captured the doctored photo to my computer, created a Gmail account for Mike's Bulge (mikesbulge@gmail.com, of course) and then set up a MySpace page for it.

I even got the bulge some MySpace friends, including bagged spinach, Nick Nolte, Mark Foley and Mark Willard's tapeworm.

But when I went to log in, MySpace gave me an error message that the page had been taken down.

So I made another one.

Then the first one reappeared.

So now Mike's Bulge has two MySpace pages.

Personally, if I had to choose, I'd say the second one is better, even though it has fewer friends. I like that one mostly because of the photo gallery I put with it.

Moral of the story: Don't post a funny photo around Salad Man. It'll have its own cult following by the end of the day.



Posted by Jeff at October 9, 2006 07:39 AM | TrackBack
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