What is miss "net USA" and when is being done in Libya? Do they have beauty pageant over there? What is that thing on her net? Do you think that she's going to have to sleep with Ghadafi to get of the country alive?

on her neck, not her "net."

The last photo:

"What do you mean you still love your wife?"

"You're hurting my arm!"

"The ring is fake?"

The second to last photo:

"We all love our necks, don't we? I mean we wouldn't want anything happening to them"

"But I don't want to go down!"

What's up with those t-shirts? I mean, in pagents aren't women dressed in gorgeous dresses and sometimes bikinis? "We've spent all of our money on my monkey hat, so we skip all of the dance numbers as well"

Do we have any intelligence on the Harfouch brothers? Has anyone even Googled them yet?

Well! That last photo makes me think maybe Moammar's just jealous that he's not turning heads like he used to when he was young. Honey, use some blush!

#3   podzdorf  ”What's up with those t-shirts? I mean, in pagents aren't women dressed in gorgeous dresses and sometimes bikinis?”

Those cheesy tees are for modesty’s sake, oh ignorant infidel. ;-)

What ever happened to his boyish curls? I liked Muammar better when he had a perm!

A lazy Sunday afternoon. I am listening to Arab music as I write this —every song is about God, the prophet [peace be upon him] or the "oppression" of Muslims — but, the tunes are great!

What a shame—marvelous music, wonderful food, beautiful art, spectacular architecture, some good literature and philosophy. . .

Anyone re-read “A Thousand and One Nights” lately? Talk about adult literature! Here are a few more “adult” literary epics and authors I could recommend:

'Abd Al-Rahmmane Al-Souyouti. Nuits de noces ou comment humer le doux breuvage de la magie licite

Abu Nuwas (8th-9th centuries)

al-Hajjaj (10th century)

al-Jahiz (9th century)

Al-Nafzawi, The Perfumed Garden

al-Tifashi (13th century)

Bahr al-Jahiz and theoricians of profane love

Ibn Daniyal (13th-14th centuries)

Ibn Kamal Pasha, How an Old Man can Regain His Youth Through Sexual potency

Nizami (c. 1141-c. 1209), Khosrow and Chîrîne and other authors of Persian romances

The Thousand and One Nights

Ubayd-I Zakani

Of course, many of the above, such as “The Perfumed Garden” tend to view women from the repressed “Islamic” point of view—nevertheless. . . for a rainy day.

"Did you see that small line of embroidery at the border of her veil?" Salah asked. "What is next? A series of stripes at the hem of the garment near the ankles? I pray to Allah that I never see the day."

Woman in burqa condemns woman in chador for “immodest dress.” [Link: www.theonion.com...]

I just had this vision of a “pure” Islamic porno film. It really gets dirty when you see the girl’s ankles and the hole in the chador.

Why the Hell can't they export the extraordinary, positive part of their cultures instead of terrorism?

I want one of those cute little hats Muammar is wearing.

Re.: #6

Ms. Freebourne, in case you didnt realize, that article at the Onion is a fake.

The second photo looks like Gadhafi's about to do a re-enactment of the Joe Pesci/Sharon Stone love scene from Casino.

But in the third photo, it appears that didn't work out, so he has to resort to shameless pleas for sympathy.

Was Ghadafi Duk the sponser of this "Beauty Pagent"? I ask since it appears to be his ugly mug plastered across those T-shirts.

Alternative captions:

#2 "Bend over a little more, woman, and I will show you my Islamic Tower O' Power, heh-heh.."

#3 G-man "As I was telling Yasser at the Turkish bath-house the other day, child, don't you know he wears the CUTEST pink Speedos??? Anyways, as I was telling that Egyptian stud muffin..."

Girl (thinking) "Oh, Coronel Ghadafi, you pig, here I though you were after ME, but it just my beauty secrets that you want to go after that BITCH Arafat...sniff..."

Re 6

I think Saturday Night Live had their version of an Islamic Porno last year:

Horatio Sanz in a heavy accent: "Two Faces! Two Faces! Work those faces! Now put your face next to her face..." Or something to that effect.

Where Saddam always looks like some guy who should be running a Mexican restaurant with sombreros on its sign, Ghadafi has always looked to me like some 60s celebrity now doing Branson because Hollywood Squares won't return his calls. "Honey, should we go see Don Ho or Muammar Ghadafi tonight?"

Arafat uses baby wipes.

Gadhafi sits on plastic lawn chairs.

What's the world coming to?

I think little Miss libyan American should try out our NEW Lady Remington on her calves.

My wife liked them so much she helped me buy the company!

If she doesnt try the Lady Remington, goats may be tempted to graze on her otherwise comely-shaped and fragrant legs.

I assume that Tecca Zendik, Miss Net USA, will be arrested when she returns to sunny L.A. Isn't is still illegal for U.S. Citizens to travel to Libya?

This pic is proof that Libyan men are chronic overdressers and the color scheme is just wrong. Wrong! When will someone tell Gadaff that he's an autumn?

And, why are slippers good in a country that has sand that can get up to 120 degrees when you walk on it?

It's just wrong to be in power and not go with your assets. This man dresses like he's from california, for christ's sake!

The boy ain't right!

#14 Clem -

Nope. Libya is under State Dept restriction, but like with Cuba, Iraq...you can go there with State Dept blessings if you -have family, do some cultural/athletic thing, some international corporate job, have journalist credentials, and about a dozen other waivers...

Miss Net USA is kosher to go...

Libya, BTW - is a country that has wonderful, educated people without major Islamicist pathologies. Ghadafi, though a bizarre prick, has done some impressive things for them. An example is the Libyan's success at the Southern Aquifer Project - a feat that most thought was out of their capabilities.

In his later years, Ghadafi seems to be realizing that his confrontational politics and terrorism were more trouble than gain. He doesn't have many years left...the guy has ruled since 1969. And, he has been trying to build bridges to the US and the EU.

That should be encouraged.

"O God, let me not weep as I picture the F-16's of the great Satan flying by with JDAM's to strafe the Royal Compound..."

"O God, let my mascara not run as these crocodile tears are not easy to produce..."

"O God, get this pervert's hand off of my ass!"

Yet more proof that beauty does not equal brains.

He is so camp. What straight man would dress like this?

I imagine he wears heels around the house, like these Marabou Slippers from Frederick's of Hollywood. Probably has the matching Feather Boa too.

These were the original captions that were seen with these photos, until the Libyan secret service got hold of them:

Under Photo #1. Hey, you look kinda cute.

Under Photo #2. Why don't you come back to my tent tonite.

Under Photo #3. Only one problem, my dick has been like this ( look at his left hand ), ever since the Americans bombed my tent.

Zulubaby! I'm shocked! How is it you know your way around the Frederick's website? I thought you were a nice girl! ;-)

Curmudgeon (#21)

Oh, but I am a nice girl!

I just happen to like the shoes at Frederick's of Hollywood. ;-)

Miss Libya is stunning! But who is the girl in the white dress?

In the last picture it looks like the Col. has his hand on her knee; it's just the position of the chair in relation to where she's sitting but his hand is dangling over the arm and ...oh who cares! Right? If she had any sense she wouldn't be there so if she has to 'sing for her fare home' too bad.

Guys,
I am absolutely SHOCKED that you could make fun of an enlighten world leader who has just recently been elected as Chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
How dare you?
Wooaaahaahahahahhahahaha!
Gaddafi, Human Rights, Pageant, all in one story? Defies comprehension!

No reason for fuss. OK, sure he used to be one of the baddies, but he responded quite well to the one-time application of the Clue Stick.

Since then we have not heard a peep out of him. Seems like he learned his lesson, and learnt it reeel good.

"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

My eyes! They burn!

I'm guessing that Ghadafi is color-blind. If he was gay, there'd have to be some green and yellow in the ensemble to complete the Rainbow flag.

And what's with the Don "Miami Vice" Johnson no-socks look?

"No reason for fuss. OK, sure he used to be one of the baddies, but he responded quite well to the one-time application of the Clue Stick.

"Since then we have not heard a peep out of him. Seems like he learned his lesson, and learnt it reeel good."

I reluctantly admit that he has been, yea, indeed, more circumspect of late. I even more reluctantly admit that he does the 'comic-opera dictator role' very well: but I absolutely -hate- having to give him style points for an all-Amazon bodyguard and flinging greenbacks on his way to Johannesburg in his imported limo. I grew up in the Reagan years, you see: those roots grow pretty deep.

:)

Moe

What a wiley ole dog
Its good to be the king
I hereby announce that when i get my own country i will immediatley have a beauty contest
Miss all net world for howie contest
any entrants ??

HG

You know, since the F-111's paid him a visit, he's been a bit nicer.

I'd pick a beauty contest over a Lockerbie any day. Just never realized the big Libyan role in the Internet. Are there root servers in Tripoli?

People have always called him "colourful". He's just living up to his rep.

Harfouch... that's Arabic for "pimp", right?

Here's the big Kahuna of Lybia...has dozens of wives, scores of children, thousands of head-bobbing yes-men, soldiers, planes, bombs, attitude...and he's sitting in a plastic chair that you can get at KMart for about $5? Amazing!

Also, stop teasing him about his hat! Do you know how hard it must be to balance that style on top of the point?

I hate to spoil the fun but the page is a hoax. Check "whois" for the domain owner - a publicity hound from Kiev. (SuperNovaRadio).

And none of the names found on the site check
out.

But it was truly entertaining.

Its probably not a fake. The Harfouch brothers are apparently Lebanese who have adopted Kiev, Ukraine, of all places, as the base of operations of their media empire (so to speak):

[Link: www.ahram.org.eg...]

Btw, the t-shirts have a picture of muammar on them, in one of his cheche hipster revolutionary garbs, and those t-shirts will be available internationally...

"Foregoing the traditional bathing suit contest, Miss Net World participants will instead parade about in jeans and T- shirts sporting Colonel Gaddafi's face. The T-shirts -- the handiwork of Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli -- are, Harfouch says, to be sold at Cavalli boutiques around the world. The appeal of these items, in Harfouch's words, lies in Gaddafi being a sort of a "romantic, revolutionary symbol". Other sartorial highlights will include contestants sporting the uniform of Libyan army officers as they strut their stuff to a soundtrack proclaiming, 'Beauty will save the world.' "

This has to be one of the most hilarious news items I have ever seen

y'all should read the Libya chapter in Judith Miller's book "God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East". she has a few juicy, hilarious/frightening first person anecdotes about Qaddafi's... er... advances.

All of u should move your ass and visit Libya , especially the desert , to understand how fantastic ,beautifull and peacefull this land is !

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