Caption: Poncho honcho or Pickles' makeover victim?

[emad]

[Phentex]

1. That blood red looks good on him

cha cha cha

[meegbear]

4. That's exactly what I thought yesterday when I saw that ...

sublime swipe by our Chilean friends?

[pdx_prog]

2. I know there's a really good one..

just not coming to me right now!

[Jo March]

3. In the grand tradition of "Southerners" making clothes from curtains

I give you...The Tablecloth Poncho!!

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho??

Hmmmm, no fooling.

:evilgrin:

[Crankie Avalon]

6. "All right, I put it on...

...now live up to your end of the bet and fork over that tequila, Rico Suave."

[TroubleMan]

7. It's the rug he wears when Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Pearle walk all over him

nt.

[obreaslan]

8. It's actually a security measure....

The S.S. has developed a new bullit-proof poncho for the pResident to wear in public at all times. Just in case you thought he did look rediculous in the first place.

[Endangered Specie]

9. I think the culture is about to give him a seizure.

[Crankie Avalon]

10. "AWESOME!!!...

...maybe now that thing strapped to my back won't show."

[emad]

11. IT GETS WORSE:

REUTERS/Carlos Barria
U.S. President George W. Bush (C) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (R) and Chilean President Ricardo Lagos walk to the group photo session inside La Moneda Palace, before attending the final session of the annual meeting of the 21 member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), in Santiago, November 21, 2004.

[emad]

12. AND WORSE......

[emad]

13. And now they're ALL at it.....what hope for humanity/democracy/

life on planet earth.....

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark (C) wears a poncho as she gathers with other APEC leaders during a group photo at Los Naranjos courtyard in Santiago, November 21, 2004. Other leaders are (L-R) Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, U.S. President George W. Bush, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.

[Not_Giving_Up]

14. I saw this on CNBC Sunday morning

And just died laughing. My cats thought I'd lost my mind. Wait, that's been gone for a while now. OK, it's still cracks me up though.

[emad]

15. I think my cats would just LOVE to get their claws on those cutesy

rugs, maybe hairball up a few choice deposits on them too....

[peekaloo]

16. Uh, Welcome to El Burrito Stupid-O. May I take your order?

[skip fox]

17. W. is "thinking": "Wow. In my next job I think I'm gonna be Clint Eastlake

or whatever and be in cowboy land with the good the band and the fool me twoce or something. Then I'll be the fastest cause I know how split time into little slivers of moments with my superpowers and I lasso all the terrorists and stuff like that. Wow."

[mcscajun]

18. Was thinking along similar lines...

...Clint's got nothing to worry about.

[AlCzervik]

19. Chilean eye for the dumb guy

[Lisa]

20. more weird APEC photos