Trick or teat.

Any number of repugnant men will tell you with conviction that sex transcends cultural barriers. Often, they illustrate this quite nicely by thrusting an extended middle finger into a small circle formed by the digits of the other hand.

Humour does, too. Charlie Chaplin had crowds all over the world roaring way before Rowan Atkinson , who does the same in his dopey Mr Bean persona.

Less discussed is fear. Horror. It's interesting how an American crowd exits the theatre just as shaken as a Japanese crowd, after watching say, The Ring. It seems to be a bond people of the civilized world share. Quite likely insinuated by upbringing and the media, and a rather useless bond, though.

Linking to that is superstition and its buddy...stupidity.

I suppose most people are quite happy with accepting whatever explaination is offered right off the bat. If cannot explain, then is ghost, lah. Perhaps acceptable in certain, rather limited situations, but those are far and few between in our age of technology, connectivity and TEH INTARNET.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.



Wah scary ah. No, really, the effect is there, and I was quite spooked when I saw it. The curious thing is, it came from a fairly...well-known-type of person as an attachment in a forwarded mail. Why paraphrase the orginal when it does such a lovely job of making itself look stupid?

Formatted for readability. WTF is with the twenty thousand >>>s that come up in forwards?

"The guy in the photo went to the Sundarbans with his friends and he asked 1 of his friends to take his picture in that very place. While his friend was taking the picture he screamed and fainted, 2 days later he died in the medical college.

Doctors said he died because of heart attack. When the photos were exposed, in the last photo there was a lady standing right beside him though friends claim that he was standing alone.

Many people said it is a rumor and the picture is the result of the blessings of latest technology. However, the photo itself is very scary and I'm sure you'll also feel the same way I've felt. Here you go with the photo!!!

A navy officer sent this letter to 13 people and he was promoted.. A business man received this letter and threw it away.. not believing in it.. and he lost everything he had within 13 days It reached a labourer and he distributed it to 13 people he was promoted and all his problems were solved within 13 days

So you must send this e mail to 13 pe ople for something good to happen to you; so people. get sending !! :) don't be lazy.. P/S : Do not send back to the person who send this to you!!! "

Well, the original sender did get something right. I thought it was rather scary, yes. And then it gets to the 13 bits and suddenly a smiley face pops up out of nowhere and ta dah no more scarys.

Ahhh, but I went and counted the addresses the person I'd got it from had sent the mail to. Guess how many?

Just to be sure I was laughing appropriately and would not be found in the morning 13 days later strangled to death by a rubber chicken, I ran the thing through abit, and ta dah!



Bit of explaination. You'll notice the picture is taken in the day, in a shaded forest, with a flash. Because no retard goes tromping around the forest at night taking pictures of himself. That, and the telltale bits of bright sky are up there. It's possibly been digitally altered to have everything but the person darkened.

With the shadows gone, see how Miss Luminous Green, once appearing to eerily float out from the darkness, now has a clear, rather oddly-shaped outline. Almost like she was cookie-cut out from somewhere else.

I decided that look on her face was getting to me, really. If you gotta be a ghost, be a happy ghost!


There we go. Much better.

But why stop there? Today, let your favourite Goat show you how to spook up your own pictures!

First, we take an ordinary picture. Nothing and nobody significant in there. He walked right across as I was trying to get a picture of something else.


Now we do the cast everything else into shadow thing. Sloppily done, because um, hooves don't grip the mouse very well. ...what.


Voila. And now, we select from random pictures, a suitable person to ghostify. She was a lovely girl I knew from Ragnarok Online. Forgive me, Luna. T_T


Sorry about the screwy text. Didn't realize low-ressing the picture for faster loading would make it choppy like that. Live and learn, we do.

Next, we uh, dig her eyes out (sorry Luna!) because that seems to be the quinessential Ghost quality. Also, must dress in white. When was the last time you were scared by a ghost in Hawaiin floral prints?


Spookeh spookeh. Almost there, we are. And for the finishing touches...


Yay, ghost!

It's absolutely the wrong setting for it to be believable of course. Just showing you it's really quite easily done. And that I need to plan better usage of my time.

But meh, if you're interested, send me a picture of yourself for me to put a ghost in.

Amaaaaze your friends.