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Back home in Sydney there is a State election going on, our Prime Minister made a "secret" visit to our troops in Iraq but refused to say when they might be able to come home, diplomats and journalists covering the Foreign Minister's visit to Indonesia aren't accommodated in the VIP section of the official plane and so several die in a plane crash on the commercial flight they'd taken instead.

But in typical larrikin fashion, the main stories I hear about today are a pro surfing woman getting bitten by a shark and blithely saying it was just like a small dog bite, and this - a tribute to Borat and pubic hair...


IT WAS a morning of pimply cheeks, hairy buttocks and waxed nether regions as the contestants for the Borat-inspired "mankini" competition strutted their stuff at Martin Place yesterday. A sobering, if not disgusting, display of the male anatomy, the parade of five finalists had the hosts, radio talk jocks Merrick and Rosso, squirming, especially when contestant number three, Steve of Rockdale (aka "Pubes of Fire"), performed a few cartwheels and risked full-frontal exposure.

But the day belonged to contestant number five, the hairiest and most daring, Matias Stevens. Bounding onto the stage with a Borat beam and accent to boot, Matias then pashed judge Dicko (of Australian Idol fame) on the lips.

The judges considered "hair displacement, cuppage and tortion" and Dicko anointed Matias as the mankini king, proclaiming: "He is clearly the one with his embarrassment gene removed."

But the joke was on the judges. Matias, 28, is a recent NIDA graduate, originally from Brisbane. He embodied the Borat fake-personality perfectly and walked away a winner.

"When I was back in Queensland for Christmas I had a moustache, and people would stop me in the streets saying I look like Borat," he said. "They took photos and everything. Everyone told me I had to enter this. I'm also the biggest fan of Ali G and Borat." Or is the joke on him? The prize? Return air fares for two to Kazakhstan, including five nights accommodation.

"Is there even a cafe there?" Stevens asked.

Source: SMH

Posted by Ness on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 12:12 PM | Permalink