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Live and Let Dianetics

Brian Moylan · 01/11/10 07:05PM

[This photograph of the Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador looks like the L. Ron Hubbard book cover but in real life. Highly recommended: Clicking to enlarge. Image via Getty]

Paris Hilton With No Makeup Sells Beauty Products

Hamilton Nolan · 05/22/08 04:05PM

An Ecuadorian business called Xiomara Coronado Beauty Center is running this ad campaign, with a tagline that (according to Copyranter) translates to "Nobody will look younger than you." I guess the message here is, if you don't want to look like a sun-scarred celebutante, Xiomara Coronado Beauty Center is a place that you should consider patronizing. Or maybe they just like to show off their photo retouching skills. Either way: funny, yucky. Ecuador must have some very loose laws about fair use of celebrity images. After the jump, an equally horrible transmogrified version of Angelina Jolie: