Ukranian politican turning into Emperor Palpatine due to mystery illness.

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Let your anger consume you!

― Huk-L, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That's so uncharacteristically mean, Ned! He's gone from very handsome to science-fictional: I for one am moved and filled with pity.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be more inclined to feel bad if I didn't have general suspicions of former Soviet politicians in general (please note the guy isn't an outsider at all -- among other things he's been prime minister before, for instance).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, dude, Ralph Reed could get that face and I'd still feel bad for him.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I would be inclined to note that if Ralph didn't claim it was an act of God then he's a man of very little faith.

(Look, I fully agree suffering sucks and I certainly don't want to end up with what this feller has. Nonetheless that was the comparison that leapt to my mind = I am a creature of my upbringing = oh well.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

is this for real? the face looks so wayans-brothers-as-white-chicks.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine Gordon Brown will probably look quite a lot like that one day.

― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sorry, Ned, I didn't mean to be getting on your case about it -- I'm semi-kidding here.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's related to his hair-color change.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This is bullshit. Only in the Ukraine can you pull a complete switcheroo like this after kidnapping an opposition politician, find some dude WHO DOESN'T LOOK LIKE HIM AT ALL and then have everybody and the BBC swallow it whole. Where are your critical thinking skills people? Mystery illness my ass! Most pathetic ringer I've ever seen!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

he alleges that the president's goons poisioned him! i actually sort of believe him.

didn't the results of this election come in? what happened?!?!?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

You get a more believable news piece from the plot summary for Casino Royale

― TOMBOT, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

poisoned him with what? colloidal silver and the fumes of sixty thousand bad cigars?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

he looks like billy crystal in the princess bride!!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey man, that Chernobyl.

(The guy is married, I should note -- I'd like to think his wife might have noticed something by now, but who knows?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Tom, that can't be the same guy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

He didn't look this bad in the news reports BBC has from September. The nose of the man on the right is completely different.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Viktor Yushchenko's mystery illness has completely altered his face and fingerprints and DNA. We've never seen anything like this before claimed a prominent Ukrainian doctor (who asked to remain anonymous.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahaha

no, this is sad though, really.

― John (jdahlem), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This is over a matter of months, right? What the hell!? I think the photos relative color balance distortions exacerbate the undead effect.

― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It could very well be the same nose. Illnesses like rosacea, for example, can totally make your skin and especially your nose all fucked up and bulbous (like a wino or W.C. Fields), albeit over the course or many years.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Viktor Yushchenko's mystery illness has completely altered his face
The pro-Western candidate in Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday has warned of mass demonstrations if the result is rigged.
Viktor Yushchenko narrowly beat his rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovyh, in the first round on 31 October.

Mr Yushchenko said he believed authorities would try to falsify the vote, but he still expected to win.

"NNNNNNNNNGAH. BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINSS," he said.

He said his Our Ukraine party would field 80,000 observers to check for fraud in the country's 33,000 polling stations.

"ARRRRARAAARAAAUUNNNNNNGH," he said, shambling slowly towards a shrieking coed with a twisted ankle.

Mr Yanukovych, prime minister since 2002, was due to hold a major rally in Kiev sports stadium on Friday.

His campaign team has portrayed Mr Yushchenko as an American puppet who will do anything to gain power, including inciting civil unrest.

Mr Yushchenko's followers include a student group called Pora, which is modelled on the Georgian Kmara and Serbian Otpor organisations, which helped to bring reformers to power after rigged elections in 2003 and 2001 respectively.

Mr Yushchenko came out of the first round of the election with 39.87% of the vote, compared to Mr Yanukovych's 39.32%.

He won about two-thirds of the vote in the capital, Kiev, and was also ahead in the eastern city of Kharkiv, his home region of Sumy, and most western regions of the country.

Mr Yanukovych was ahead in his home region of Donetsk, and most other eastern and southern parts of the country.

Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said the election had been marred by severe irregularities.

Among other things, they cited a pro-Yanukovych bias in the state media and interference by the state authorities in favour of the prime minister.

The head of the Central Electoral Commission, Serhiy Kivalov, admitted that there had been many complaints from citizens who found their names missing from the register and were unable to vote.

US President George W Bush has sent the head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Richard Lugar, to represent him in the country during the election.

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, who has come out behind Mr Yanukovych, has also sent a trusted ally, Boris Gryzlov.

Mr Yushchenko, prime minister between 1999 and 2001, claims to have been the victim of dirty tricks, including what he alleged was an assassination attempt, when a lorry repeatedly swerved towards his car.

In September, he sought medical treatment in Austria, claiming that he had been poisoned.

His illness, whatever its causes, has caused startling changes to his boyish looks, which used to endear him to female voters. He has also begun to hunt the living in an attempt to crack open their skulls and feast on their sweet, succulent brains.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(hahaha Badger Growling)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I kinda think he's cute all puffy and bloated. Those eyebags, though -- yowch!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Zombie love!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan's story is clearly the accurate one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

nabisco otm - human suffering isn't funny to me either.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

That's nice.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I still don't believe that is the same guy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the same guy as drawn by Drew Friedman.

― briania (briania), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

google image search turned up this

http://www.arnadal.no/film/images/elephant.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit! What kind of disease alters your bloody DNA???

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, people, I'm really sorry to ruin this for everyone, the sympathizers and the "meanies" alike, but yeah, Tom and Alex are OTMFM.

Sounds like they "forgot" they didn't do purges anymore so they stuck some other dude in to pretend it's the same guy but with MYSTERY ILLNESS that changes his facial structure, age, DNA, and finger prints, AMAZINGLY.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.razom.org.ua/en/news/3511/
Yushchenko's offical website in English. Lots of photos there. Interesting.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 November 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

well the "BEFORE" picture the BBC chose to use is a really, really old photo of Yushchenko, in fairness. But I mean still--look at photos of the dude from like April, May and June.

Also the fingerprints and DNA thing makes no sense! I still maintain they successfully poisoned him and this is not him.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I made up the fingerprints and DNA thing Ally.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY DID YOU TELL THEM THAT ALEX

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

THANKS FOR RUINING THE FUN

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a news article that mentions the fingerprint / DNA thing? I am reading that bit about that upthread merely as a parody. (xp - drat)

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha sorry.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

APRIL FOOLS ON ALL OF YOU THE UKRAINE IS NOT REALLY A COUNTRY

― TOMBOT, Friday, 19 November 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I get paranoid news articles forwarded to me about the Ukrainian election EVERY SINGLE DAY because I'm in a class about the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and apparently this also requires me to keep up with every bizarro development in the Ukrainian election of 2004. I was kind of hoping that "That is not Yushchenko" might've caught on and made it to my inbox, soon :(

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

mystery illness = lots and lots of exposure to radiation?

I mean, it's not outside the realm of possibility given the way things were/are handled over there.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

MODERATOR PLZ DELETE ALEX'S RASH CONFESSION

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I wish to be entertained. Even though I'm not a mod here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha I really feel like I ruined something potentially wonderful here. I'm so sorry.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 20 November 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This is getting curiouser...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Very curious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's amazing to watch this. Folks are refusing to accept the candidate appointed by a corrupt system. Meanwhile, in America...

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

they have it harder over there

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Better comparison. That is scary as hell.

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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