More important than any election results last night were the results of the Mr. & Ms. Penn Bodybuilding Competition. Are you ready? Jesse Carlin sailed to her second straight victory in the Ms. portion, and Jason Myers did the guys proud to win the Mr. But forget for a second the joyous results or the eerie amount of enthusiasm (and body paint) that was stirred up. There were actually highlights to this thing, from that ubiquitous Soulja Boy banger to a rare back flip/one-armed cartwheel/one-armed push-up combo. What’s most intriguing, if not the least bit surprising, is how dead-serious and devoid of irony the participants were:

“It’s a lifestyle,” men’s short class third-place Anthony Lee said. “It consumes 24 hours of your day.”

“If I can do this, everything else will be a piece of cake,” women’s short class competitor Marissa Martinez said. “No pun intended; I can’t eat cake.”

Hey, with wit that sharp, you’ll always have a backup career as a Writers Guild scab if this whole Penn thing doesn’t work out.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm.