No mo' Po

Alas, our weekend was much too busy for me to enter the Mister Po contest at the local Globus department store. Still, it's good to know that the local press has it covered, so to speak, with an article titled "Basels Popo-Parade". (I'll leave it to Gretchen to say whether I would have had a chance...I'm guessing there's a four-letter answer: Nein!) This is what the article had to say, according to freetranslation.com:

Kinked-asses in that International Jockey Contest

Basels Popo-parade

Around the prettiest men-Po, all in the gentlemen department of the Globus revolved on Saturday – to be sure around the prettiest Po with underpants.
For for the underwear-manufacturer Jockey is perfectly present can «the man, that the Jockey-underpants», «the man with that quite rear». That International Jockey Contest 2005 seeks the man with the knackigsten of rear in many European countries (Baslerstab reported). Men of each age who wanted to apply themselves for that were able to let themselves on Saturday in the Globus Basel behind a curtain with Jockey-Boxershorts ablichten. Also if the chance to win, the European Final and therefore a trip to New York and a Model-Tagesvertrag, all too largely be not liked, was able to bring each participant nevertheless the Boxershorts in the value of 35 francs as a gift.

Each underpants characteristic
«I joined in as a Gag, was without ambitions, but it witty», meant Roman Gull out of Münchenstein. It would be simply passed by because it had read in the newspaper about that. Patrick Gerwer out of Basel told that its partner had seen it in the newspaper and had run it to go at the Casting. «I joined in to the first time in so somewhat. It was jolly. I did not know previously how it would be with the hygiene, if all the same underpants had had to dress. Because each underpants however one got, it was perfect», was happy the young man. Little success had the advertising of the Jockey-Crew to be sure with three also young men, who expressed many arguments against a photo in Boxershorts. «That is an exception. Most men did not shun themselves», noted Uta floated, that is responsible in Jockey for Merchandising.

76-year-old Model
«Today the oldest participant 76 was years old», emphasized it. «On our tour through eleven Swiss Globus-branches we noted, are would be astonishing that that Swiss quite courageous.» Above all that in little cities as well as Chur and St. Gallen the press had been «comparatively large». In Basel, let 100 participants be the goal if 80 come, would be that already a good average. Mike Galeli, more responsible for the Jockey-graduation-tour calculated even therewith that it will be until store end at the 100 participants. Until about 14 o'clock, in any case already 57 were it. In Between Galeli sat down into the Globus-shop-window and tried with a show to convince the passersby, to be photographed in Boxershorts. «In our gentlemen department is Saturdays always much loose», explained its sale leader Christina Wälti. «The Casting that has had been very yet animated.» Most astonishingly however the fact that not only young men joined in.

Once again, this is what passes for news these days. And now that I think about it, I hope this is the last post I ever make about the male Po...