Friday, October 3, 2008

Paris-Match: Jambe-Packed


OK already, enough, here, I'm posting it. Sheesh.

France's President Sarkozy, shown here meeting with Emperor Palpatine, is pursued by Toulouse Lautrec[citation needed].

53 comments:

Tasha said...

I might go so far as to say that this is the best caption ever!

Mark said...

Spooky.

David said...

Priceless headline. What are you, some kind of intellectual?

Ha! Just thought I'd add that my word verification code is wtfjc. Some sort of religious connection there...

Zoolander87 said...

lol... it could be a midget !?¿

David said...

A midget? Behind Sarkozy? Very unlikely!

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Bill In Asheville said...

I am surprised they did not cleavage up his hotty wife... they have done that to her before

Briana A Burke said...

Emporer Palpatine!! lol

Elyanda said...

I assure you we continue to laugh in France about that.
The poor bodyguard has been violently erased, but he let some pieces in the surgery. :-)

It was an initiative of the photographer: bad idea, isn't it ?
And of course, no control by the magazin before print it... all good !

Elyanda said...

Anyway, a famous citation by Toulouse Lautrec :
"I'll drink milk when cows will graze grapes"

Perhaps it is also the favorite citation of the photographer ...

Katy said...

And her FACE, and his EAR... gah

Michelle said...

"A midget? Behind Sarkozy? Very unlikely!"

LOL!! Do you think this was 'shopped to make him look taller or only to take someone out? Also, Carla's head looks... pasted on.

ajsolid84 said...

His hands freak me out. Who holds their hands straight down with arms as stiff as planks of wood when they are walking?

Stefan said...

Maybe the holy ghost behind him?

Martin said...

Carla Bruni's head seems pasted to her body. Maybe she was looking in the wrong direction or blinked? Anyway, now she looks like she's on drugs. As does her husband.

Stacia said...

Not a disaster. He's got a ninja bodyguard who can make 80% of his body disappear. It's mean of you to point out that one uncooperative leg of his.

Zapan said...

Paris Match is the same newspaper that photoshoped Sarko's love handles away on his holiday "stolen" pictures.

You must understand that in France, since the election of Sarkozy, we have a very bad problem with press freedom, Sarkozy managed to put close friends at the head of every media groups, wich causes that kind of stalinian dictature's treatement of every event concerning the government.

We call that the "machine à rassurer" (reassuring machine).

andrea said...

Ehi, I saw this one on pinacrew.blogspot.com!

Jigsaw said...

Maybe its just a wrong angle photo, its unlikely to be a photoshop cut..
anywayz if it is its a pretty poor one.kinda funny too.

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Jean-no said...

@Martin : I think Carla Bruni's head was too tall (she's 20 centimeters taller than her husband), so her neck has been shortened. Or she wasn't there ?
Anyhow, the real fake on the picture is not there. It is the two men on the front, the white one and the blue one.

Will Kemp said...

I reckon Carla Bruni wasn't there at all. Check out the guy immediately behind the pope. He looks like he should be ahead of Bruni, but he's lit completely differently. My guess is the man whose leg they amputated was removed so Bruni could fit in there.

Elizabeth said...

haha. best headline and caption ever.

Syahaneez A.J said...

an invisible man with visible legs. haha.

Brat said...

I think it's a ninja.

Tilman Hausherr said...

@zapan: speaking about press freedom, a search on the french google news finds only one hit in french language, which is a swiss blog:
http://news.google.fr/news?hl=fr&ned=fr&q=Sarkozy+photoshop

Bill In Asheville said...

Not only that... they have the same smile.
What the hell is that?

And if you adjust levels in the pic, you can see where the body guard was behind the Pres.

BTW, the guy in shadow is correct, this has to be a telephoto shot, so he is down the hall.

lusciousqueen said...

Oh please don't exaggerate about press freedom in France. Even if it's public knowledge that some papers like Paris-Match (which issues EVERY WEEK an ass-kisser article about our dear president) or other medias are directed by acquaintances of Sarkozy and thus very 'presidentially correct'. But there are also MANY left-wing papers that disagree with Sarkozy and are not afraid to tell (like Libération, Marianne). Zapan, your comparison with the stalinian dictature is totally out of proportion. As far as I know, we don't have goulags in France yet.
(by the way, I'm French and apolitical)

Elyanda said...

@ Tilman Hausherr : please... you missed the news by Le Figaro, Le Point, Paris Match, 20 minutes, Nouvel Obs, and more than twenty internet's sites.
Don't be so quick to condamne, and try this "photo Sarkozy troisième jambe" (translation : picture Sarkozy third leg) as keywords on google.
We are not yet in dictature...

For the other "disasters", I'm sorry but I've seen the other pictures and no, Carla was here, with this face, the guy at her right was here too... only the bodyguard has disappeared, and it's well enough.

Tilman Hausherr said...

@Elyanda: thanks for pointing me to this. I made the error of using the keyword "photoshop", which is apparently not used so much in France. (I forgot that the french try not to use foreign words)

ST said...

So what, the Adams family has the Cold Little Hand and the Sarkozy family has the Cold Little Foot.

Gollum999 said...

It's G-Man!
From Half-Life!
O_o

Alberto said...

O my god! I left my leg there when i visited the Vatican!!!

Rocky said...

Emperor Palpatine indeed. Even though I want to rebuke the photo, the caption wins. :)

Matt said...

It looks like she's twisted her ankle as well...

Alexandra said...

I think their faces creep me out more than the extra leg.

Lal said...

Huh, I thought it had something to do with the creepy eyes they all had.

ernest said...

Uuugh !
So, I have no credits on this priceless fact…

Who is the guy who gave you this photo ?

Dalrick said...

Nice find, great caption! You can see the cloning on the doorway where the guard was removed.

Terminator7845 said...

They also made him taller than he actually is. There is no way he is taller than Pope Palpatine, and it is common knowledge that he is smaller than his wife, and yet he appears taller than her (even with the perspective).

And since there's been some debating here about the state of freedom of press in France, I have to say that if Sarkozy can't even accept his body, what other, more important things is he ready to lie about?
And beside, while not ALL medias are kissing his ass (yet), the way Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (a French journalist) got fired after being not too ass-kissy to Sarkozy is pretty revealing of the said state of the current state of our freedom of press.

And last but not least, you've also got to remember the number of people he got fired for not being 100% correct to him or his friends (the last one being this police captain because one of his friends' house got illegally occupied). So sorry but Sarkozy DOES act like a fascist, only without having (yet) all the tools to be a complete dictator.

Saurio said...

This is not a Disaster!

look at Sarkozy expression! It is obvious that the leg belongs to the famous One-legged Armless Ass Kisser who, in the heat of the moment, got a bit further in.

This blog is going downhill.
Or the hill is going upblog.
Something like that.

Elyanda said...

@ Terminator7845 : Please, enough !

I come here to read hilarious comments on photoshop disasters.

I'm not here to read all cliches about France, the United States, Great Britain, China or any country you think about...

You think what you want, but thank you to go on forums more suited to this propaganda.

Here is a place for fun and big laugh, not "taking head" with the politic.

Ross said...

Think that might be the guy who waves the white flag !

Christina said...

Have you looked at Carla's right foot and ankle? Monster foot.

Josh said...

Sarkozy's wife is effin hot.

Ms. Masson said...

oh caption I love you!

Alice said...

Jesus! Sarkozy is married to Carla Bruni and he goes out with that ugly old boiler? What gives? Is he insane?

Jonathan Hunter Walker said...

my favorite part is the yet-unmentioned severed (red) bishop's head above Sarkozy's right shoulder.

jacques said...

They actually used the same trick on Napoleon Bonaparte back then. Since he was quite small (maximum 5' tall) they were painting him on his horse or place in order to look taller...

BreAnna Hoppe said...

Not only is there a spooky disembodied leg behind President Sarkozy, but someone's cut the middle out of the President's own leg!

Brian said...

Are you sure we're looking at someone being photoshopped out? Looks to me like someone's leg's been photoshopped in. Hilarious...

nette7 said...

also look at Mrs carla bruni sarko… she looks odd - abusive ctrl-v - with her face ???

{CB}Marsupial Vomit said...

Damn, I thought Sarko's face was the problem when I first scrolled down to this one, before I realized who it was...

Federico López said...

The best comment of all!! :
"France's President Sarkozy, shown here meeting with Emperor Palpatine, is pursued by Toulouse Lautrec"
... I almost fall to the ground laughing!

Aeroplano Modello said...

Superlative caption writing. Gurgle.