Philippines officials Photoshop themselves into typhoon cleanup photo

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This is really funny that they got caught - but even funnier are the photos from various folks in response...

Philippines Department of Public Works and Highways officials were left red-faced Thursday after it was discovered they had Photoshopped three officials into a typhoon cleanup photo.

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...cleanup-photo/2011/09/30/gIQA09OhAL_blog.html
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Original photoshopped photo:

photoshopped.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/im.../photoshopped.jpg?uuid=k5FRtuuWEeCKBcEOwQfcZg


Sample of response photos:

phillas.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/im...mages/phillas.jpg?uuid=Rd3h_OuZEeCKBcEOwQfcZg

More can be seen here:
http://jimayson.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/the-great-dpwh-photoshop-meme-kicks-into-overdrive/


And there's now even a FB page devoted to photoshopping these men into various pics/locales:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/DPWHERE/147529172009029?sk=wall
 
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