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Seven out of the current top twenty

Seven out of the current top twenty most popular photos on Yahoo! News are of female Olympian asses. Current gold medalist in this particular competition is Sandra Pires, Brazilian beach volleyballer.

By Jason Kottke    Aug 16, 2004 at 12:58 pm

There are 18 reader comments

Adam    Aug 16 2004    2:00PM

Oh man, now that is truly funny. The popular opinion of the internet is a beautiful thing. I think I'll call it "The Bootytrain Manifesto".

ramanan    Aug 16 2004    2:18PM

Funny? No my friend, this is truly great. The chance of seeing well defined asses on the internet is what keeps me waking up in the morning.

phil    Aug 16 2004    2:57PM

the captions are the best. "Russian water polo player Maria Yaina prepares for team training at the Athens Olympic Aquatic centre on August 13, 2004", when what it really should say is, "Here is a totally random picture of Maria Yaina's Ass."

Brandon    Aug 16 2004    5:22PM

I have always been a strong proponent of Womens Beach Volleyball

Curtis    Aug 16 2004    5:33PM

This is almost as good as Diary of an Ass Monkey blog. Well, no really, it's just as good, but not infinite like the Ass Monkey.

Kevin    Aug 16 2004    7:20PM

I can't explain why the pope picking his nose ranks with a bunch of Olympic female butts, but it still makes me laugh.

Gene    Aug 16 2004    7:23PM

I noticed that too! All by different photographers. Obviously the Reuters photogs have orders to shoot ass. Er... or something like that.

jcs    Aug 16 2004    8:30PM

ass good

plemeljr    Aug 16 2004    8:58PM

As Ron Gilbert said:

"The Web is the sum of all human knowledge plus porn."

Beerzie Yoink    Aug 17 2004    11:49AM

A fine trend.

Sharyn    Aug 17 2004    3:41PM

Did you check out that solid muscle? Any one of those women could handily kick your asses for staring at theirs.

Julian Vega    Aug 17 2004    8:00PM

At this point, the Olympian asses are taking over Yahoo's Most Popular images.

Bryce    Aug 18 2004    1:04AM

Asstacular.

phenostar    Aug 18 2004    8:16AM

My God, the Brazilians. I'm so very glad I ran into this today.

Wow    Aug 18 2004    4:27PM

Wow, MISTY MAY! :O

Julian Vega    Aug 25 2004    4:08PM

And now ... the news coverage turns to "Olympian Girl-On Girl Action".

JB    Aug 27 2004    11:07AM

I luv Misty May! Whats wrong with admiring the female form? It's art.

John    Aug 29 2004    1:28PM

My home page is an SBC Yahoo! DSL one that I customized. On the left top I put
is the module "most e-mailed Yahoo! photos". I have also noticed the preponderance
of girl butts which I enjoy immensely, even looking at them once per day until they
drop off. But howsabout the gay angle? Lots of the most e-mailed photos can be
construed as popular because there are many gay Yahoo! members. Take the
men's Greek Synchronized diving team: two guys huggind tummy-to-back, awaiting
their score to come up? They were so synchronized that in the final group of dives,
they made one dive that had one big error. But they WON because they both made
the same exact error at the same time. Also May-on Walsh and many other girl-girl
and guy-gut photos have been up there. My opinion is that they really ARE the most
e-mailed photos, but that the e-mailers are not just hetero but homosexuals interested
mostly in sex!

This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.

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