For Cowboy Blob.

P.S.  Drat!  I forgot to sign it again.  Oh well, Cowboy Blob did it for me.

A somewhat Larsonesque caption, I think.

British pagans are outraged and offended.  And they're going to do a rain dance to try and wash it away.

Thank goodness they didn't portray Homer without his undies.  That would be really offensive.

UPDATE:  Nyx has found a hilarious animated version.

Shooting The Messenger reports:

A South Korean tourist has filed a formal complaint against a monkey he says stole his reading glasses during his visit to the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in northern India.

Well, at least it didn't steal the keys to his BMW.

(If someone, somewhere doesn't get this, I'm going to be so disappointed).

There has been a spate of alleged crypto-critter sightings in the area of Basra, Iraq.  The creature is supposed to attack people at night.  Cryptomundo covered it here, and later followed up here.  It's called "Garta," or "the muncher," and conspiracy theories are abounding through the area that U.S. or British troops have concocted this creature in their super-secret crypto-critter laboratories, only to release them around Iraq and cause general terror and mayhem.

(Cough).

However, the good people of Iraq can rest easy.  Major Mike Shearer (a U.K. military spokesman), has stated (with what must certainly be the quote of the week):

We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.

Well. Isn't that a relief.

Uh, I mean, "Fooooorrrrkkk!!!"

I think I might start having caption contests.  I've been finding some good pix lately.

Apparently there is some problem with translating the names of certain presidential candidates into Chinese ideograms.

Mitt Romney's been called many things as he runs for president, but chances are "Sticky Rice" isn't one of them.

That's how his name might be read on some ballots, according to state Secretary William Galvin.

Galvin says the federal Justice Department is pressuring Boston election officials to translate candidates' names into Chinese characters in precincts with prominent Chinese-speaking populations.

But there's more than a little lost in translation, according to Galvin.

Since there's no Chinese character for "Romney," translators have resorted to finding characters that most closely match the sound of each syllable in the name.

The problem is that there are many different characters that could be used to match the sound of each syllable, and many different meanings for each character.

So Mitt Romney could be read as "Sticky Rice" or "Uncooked Rice." Fred Thompson might be read as "Virtue Soup." And Barack Obama could be read as "Oh Bus Horse."

Galvin's own name could be read at least two different ways, as "High Prominent Noble Educated" or "Stick Mosquito."

But perhaps the most perplexing translation would be for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's name, which could be read as "Sun Moon Rainbow Farmer" or "Imbecile," or "Barbarian Mud No Mind of His Own."

"To try to make rhymes or approximations in Chinese, you can have unintended negative meanings," Galvin said. "It leads to confusion. You can render it with a good meaning or a bad meaning."

Potential presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg's name is rumored to resemble either "Screaming Feces Flinger" or "Honking Butt Donkey." Inexplicably, no good meanings for his name could be found.