Ecce Haggis!
In response to a survey that found one in five Britons believes the Haggis is a beast that roams the highlands, we asked you to design what this cryptozoological fancy might look like. Brynn Metheney's awesome digital painting, cast against expectations of devilish furry things, takes the prize! Which is a Verizon Droid Eris cellphone. More after the jump!
Alison Jardine's young twins' double whammy of Haggie earns each a BB T-shirt.
There were so many other great entries it's truly an agony not to have more prizes to give out. Any one of the following finalists can take some random item from the gadget dungeon if they ask and I haven't run out.
Wooie's is just plain monstrously monstrous:
Newspaper Nells' Looks like an actual Haggis, retromutated into a living thing:
Zapgunner's photoshop skills lends it a truly unappetizing character:
I'm not eating at TheHamburglar's branch of MacDonads…
BCG, however, wins easily in the 'I must unsee that somehow' stakes:
Yesohrobot's Haggis wants to know what's up. Poor thing doesn't see it coming.
PolishQ offers the Haggiseuss!
JNA Brown not only designs a haggis, but offers the encyclopedia entry!
The Haggis (Struthio scoties – the species formerly known as Struthio camelus massaicus, before it joined the pilgrimage of native Scots who were returning from Egypt after overseeing the design of the pyramids).
The Haggis, King of the Pudding Race (Struthio c. tasties, now all but extinct throughout Great Britain) is rare enough to have inspired many legends some of which are as ludicrous as the mythical "Hard-Working Banker" and the "Civil Servant". What follows here is purest truth.
PrettyBoyTim has a competing tale: The Haggis is a creature found in Scotland, created from the dreams only of a true-born Scot… Here's his pic:
Big Ryan offers something I can't imagine anyone wanting a bite of:
Also in the 'mutant human' genre is Dean's
Seehear's sees something surprising:
wychwolf's entry is "sweet and ginger" and very orangey indeed:
Kex Luthor would have us eating xenomorphs for dinner! Love the biomechanical bagpipe!
Ed Frome dreams of docile platypodes, with mucho flesh:
Dachicityguy's entry soars above the others:
You must be level 12 to defeat Rikki Simons' "pixie-punched wight."
Tom's Haggis is totally busted:
Ulk's comes ready-wrapped for action:
Rub's beast is a chimera:
I don't rate your chances against Redders' horned monster:
"the horns are removed from the carcase, rendered into a fine powder and then used to make Lynx Africa."
Cigarsam is close, but no Haggis…
Evan4sh claims that the Haggis is in fact the world's only mammal/reptile symbiont. What, British prime ministers are Haggises?
JacquesPhoto's Haggis seems resigned to its fate:
But Dirtbag Kingdom wins 'best of show' on the inedibility front…
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