I tried to warn you
Posted on Sun, Jul. 17, 2005
Dog wins ugly contest, paws down
BY DENISE FLAIM
Newsday
Ugly, your name is Sam.
At least, that's what the judges at the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in California concluded earlier this month when they awarded that dubious superlative to a 14-year-old Chinese crested from Santa Barbara.
It was the third consecutive landslide for Sam, a hairless, blind, dermatologically challenged fellow who bears more than a passing resemblance to Yoda, or maybe the Cryptkeeper.
(The first year Sam won, Japanese television producers -- struck by his resemblance to one of their more successful imports, Godzilla -- hurriedly dispatched a camera crew.)
This year, a photo of Sam in all his wrinkled, mottled glory has been whizzing around the Net, inspiring simultaneous fascination and revulsion the world over.
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