Billygoat Goatse - The Ultimate Goatse Tribute

The identity of the Goatse-man, was suggested shortly after goatse.cx went live. At that time, there were no social networking and media sharing applications such as Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. Instead, internet users who shared a common interest would form and subscribe to a newsgroup (an early type of forum that resembled a cross between a shared email inbox and RSS feed) where they could post stories and exchange files. 

Goatse (pronounced goat-see), refers to an infamous internet shock site, originally hosted on the domain goatse.cx. It featured a picture (named hello.jpg) of a man wearing nothing but a gold wedding band, bending over with all eight of his fingers inserted into deep into his anus, stretching is open to about the size of an apple. His testicles and semi-erect penis can be seen dangling below. Before the site was taken down in January 2004, it displayed a warning at the top of the page:

The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!

Another pumpkin to ward off those pesky trick-or-treaters, although not as scary as it's siblings. It's a shame that the focus on this picture is a little blurry.