Just when you thought the best stinker to come out of Vermont was the Dean for America campaign, along comes Daegan Goodman, just 10 years old and winner of a rotten sneaker contest held in Montpelier.
Sponsored by Odor-Eaters, the contest was judged, for the fifth time, by 48-year-old George Aldrich, who owns a keen sense of smell and probably has tons of hot, single women calling him at all hours of the night. Lest you think Aldrich is a one-trick pony, the New york City-based actor has also conducted hundreds of smell tests for NASA. So I guess you know who to call if you really have to know what a fart smells like in space.
Stay tuned to PK.com news as results filter in from other Vermont contests. Hairiest back? Nastiest pits? Correspondents are in the field now.
Other News Links:
• Donald Trump to Trademark 'You're Fired' — He is expected to split residuals with the racoon that takes up residence on his head.
• Bin Laden's Deputy Reportedly Surrounded — We'll get all these dicks eventually. Good still outnumbers evil by a wide margin.
• Rewarding Terror in Spain — Edward Luttwak's op-ed in the New York Times on how the terrorist attack in Madrid changed a national election. Many more interesting takes on the situation can be found on Real Clear Politics, a daily index of political commentary from a variety of international sources.
• Woman Uses Sex Act as Manslaughter Defense — How could she have been driving the doomed car, she asks, when her head was buried between her man's legs?
• Toilet Seats Cleaner Than Keyboards, Telephone Dials — I'm not surprised. Nothing freaks me out more than having to use someone else's computer, especially when that person has a propensity to eat at his desk. Or, um, do other things at the computer.
• Britain Charges Those Wrongly Imprisoned — The Royal Courts of Justice in London charges victims of miscarriages of justice for "saved living expenses." The ass-reamings are free, though.
Unfortunately, as much as I abhor the British government's decision to charge exhonerated prisoners for their (unfair, wrongly convicted, mistaken) stay in jail, I'm not shocked. Nothing any government does surprises me anymore. I'm turning into such a cynic...
There's a great quote in that story, though: "Vincent Hickey, one of the Bridgewater Four who was wrongly convicted for killing a paperboy, was charged £60,000 for the 17 years he spent in jail. He said: “If I had known this I would have stayed on hunger-strike longer, that way I would have had a smaller bill.”"
Posted by lucy at March 18, 2004 5:28 PM