'Cigar Guy' Creates Web Frenzy

Yahoo Buzz ^ | 10/05/10 | Claudine Zap

[kik5150]

A photographer for the Daily Mail got an amazing picture at the Ryder Cup of Tiger Woods flubbing a shot headed directly at the camera. He didn't duck and Tiger's golf ball actually hit the lens — but not before the image was captured midflight. The photo has been seen around the world.

But that's not what's captivating the Web. It's the amazingly unique look of the fan standing just to the right of Tiger's shoulder, chomping on a cigar, wearing a turban-like brown hat, and sporting a thick, Groucho Marx–style mustache. The spectator just steals the show.

And just like that, the "Cigar Guy" Internet star was born. The mystery man has been inserted in pictures and shared around the Web. Yahoo! searches for the mustachioed golf fan twirled up 675% in just one day. Searches were also popular on "Cigar Guy," "cigar guy ryder cup," and "cigar guy tiger woods."

It's the shot that launched a photo-editing frenzy: One image is of the now famous Tiger Woods photo, except everyone, including Tiger, has been turned into the Cigar Guy. Check it out here. There's the Cigar Guy on a Beatles album cover. And the Cigar Guy taking out Sonny Liston.

[AuH2ORepublican]

That photoshop is absolutely outstanding.

[clintonh8r]

Thanks, everybody. I needed a laugh today!

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[onedoug]

Funny. ´Wonder what he´s smoking.

[Mopp4]

Thanks....I know the corridors they make are usually very small but I thought he was really being ridiculous...lol..

[reagan_fanatic]

[GraceG]

Thw turban goes over his ears so most likely the guy is a Sikh and nto a member of the ROP.

[martin_fierro]

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[AnnaZ]

omglol... you got practically everyone in there. Even camouflage bank man. rotf.

BTW, another guy with an oddball wig made it into the followup shot of Tiger.





Just what kind of an audience does golf attract anyway?!

[rlmorel]

LOL...I see him now! Missed him!

[Politicalmom]

I’m waiting to see this head on the picture of the New Orleans guy carrying his looted beer. :)

[rlmorel]

Who is “Vacation Girl”? (I must have missed that one)

[BlueLancer]

For awhile there, the threads were overrun with pictures of Moose-shell Obama photoshopped on various events and locations around the world. She became known as "Vacation Girl" on those threads, and some of them were hysterical. Vacation Girl at the Running of the Bulls. Vacation Girl in Paris, Venice, London ...

Can't find any listed under titles or keywords now, but I know that I saw them here ...

[El Sordo]

Dear Lord, that is funny.

[ErnBatavia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2569841/posts

[ErnBatavia]

See 55.......best thread of August.

[aphid]

Thank you!!

[rlmorel]

Ah! I remember going into this thread! I was going to photoshop a picture of her in her Black Widow dress visiting Shelob’s Lair on the set of Lord of The Rings...:)

Funny...I ended up having a major systems issue that had me tied up for a week at work (I had worked 48 hours straight at one point...don’t do that kind of thing much) and completely lost track of that thread. Now that I look, I still have the folder of images on my desktop I was collecting to composite together...

[SevenofNine]

OMGGG Monk I think we found out new looter guy LOL!

[SevenofNine]

ROFL That funny

This better than Islamic rage boy LOL!