Here's my first entry:

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=emdxv3nxeza&thumb=4

(Note: It's my first time using www.mediafire.com. No registration required and files stay online indefinitely. I just went to the main page and hit upload. When we get a tanga solution to the problem, I'll resubmit.)

Hope2002, Hopesgrrl, Puzzleplyr9, Chewbacca (the puppy), Lucy (the puppy), and my favorite WPE (Edit: this would be a cryptopix, the picture on the site would be a link to this video) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4uVEd1k0D0

[1] and [2] Enjoyed those immensely, but something is amiss here! Snce you have to include the (alleged) solution when you submit a puzzle to Tanga, shouldn't the same rules apply here?

I think the explanations may be even "worse" than the puzzles themselves. ;-)

[1] Hey, I'm responding to myself! This time I'm including an explanation.

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=emdxv3nxeza&thumb=6

(This cyst) + (the war) + (STP) + (Zuul) + (lever)
This is the worst puzzle ever!

Personally, I love the STP being both tail/head of successive clues.

Googling cysts is an exercise from which I will not soon recover! Do you have any idea how bad they can get or in which sensitive locations they can appear?

Beat this one!

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=fjwdnxxnwsl&thumb=4

This is incredibly fun, here's my contribution:

And since we are including explanations now:

Pictures of pasta dishes, a map of Europe with an arrow pointing to Germany (DE), a plate with a bratWURST on it and a confused cow.

(dishes) + (DE) + (wurst) + (puzzled heifer)

After I finished, I thought I should have a -D after the puzzled heifer, but then I remembered we're going for "worst". :)

[9] Even knowing the answer, that one is awful!! Good job!

glad we can post the pics now!

To explain the above in [9]
The first picture is a sketch of the city of Dis by Botticelli
The second is Clinton and the word definition in reference to the statement he made in that video, "It depends on what your definition of is is."
Third is Dubya-the you or "ya"
Fourth is highlighting the county of Worcestershire - (stir + shire - from the Hobbit of course) leaving worce.
Fifth is an obscure puzzle I found.
Sixth is an actress I found on IMdB that no one could find just by searching for her picture--Ita Ever.

So
Dis is dub worce puzzle Ever!

Note to self: Stop groaning out loud over these, or someone at work will hear you and ask what you're doing!

[4] It is a cryptopix!! The original graphic would be a post to the video. It's been done before on the OWW and the Hyper. Thought it would work here too!

I just didn't do the graphic for it because: a) there wasn't a place to post the graphic when I first posted the link and b) I didn't want to make people have to reenter the link when they just could have clicked on the link.

Oh and to add to [9] and [13] In the background is a picture of Ze Frank looking disgusted.

[2] I'm going to have to wait till I get home to view your vid since youtube is blocked at work for some unknown reason...thank goodness they haven't found Tanga yet!

[6] Yuck!
[8] Awful in a completely different way. Love how you can see the words through the blur!
[10] Trying to pull yours up and having trouble. Is that your evil plan?

I was going for "This is the worst tanga puzzle ever"
T HIS Clinton's "is" speach THE WURST a Tanga Puzzle, EVERest -est.

Do I really need to post the solution? I guess the winner will likely be the one you can't get, even knowing the answer.

All the entries are fantastic so far. And mediafire is great!

[18] No, not part of the plan, but I notice everyone else's link looks different than mine? I just used the link that was there, even clicked on "copy link":

http://www.mediafire.com/?0ljl1qjxjgj

[19] Great! Putting in an actually puzzle for the word 'puzzle' stopped me in my tracks and made me try and solve it to come up with another word.

[21] Is that a "bad" thing?

[22] No, that was brilliant! Brilliant in a "WTH was that all about" kind of way!

Here's another one.

Explanation:

Dictionary definition of Thesis, Dewar's Scotch mirror, Mr. Clean with an arrow pointing to his Tee shirt, Puss moth, Russ Sewell (A Knight's Tale), Everett Dirksen, Mr. Clean with an arrow pointing to his Tee shirt

Thesis, Dewars + T, Puss + Sewell, Everett - T

My little tribute to Monocle:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=dmnbdmmv4m0&thumb=4

Salt:
The folders are opened and closed...just like binary. Hmmm...

[25] LOL LOL. I'll have to respond later when I'm not late for work. but.... LOL.

I think as a birthday present to me, you should just give me the award now.

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=bmw9tvsjbsn&thumb=4

THI = Ven Diagram of alan THICK and wheat THINS. Overlap = "THI"
SIS = Sicily - muhammad ALI -> "SIS"
THAW = A snowman melting -> "THAW"
WERE = A pirate says "Arrr!". 2 minutes later, we'd be in past tense, thus "are" becomes "WERE"
STEP = An exaggerated STEP
UZZ = A Bee says "BUZZ". Subtracting "bee" from "BUZZ" leaves "UZZ"
ELE = "Elevator" minus "Vader" = "ELE"
VER = Ernest P Worrell's catch phrase is "Hey, Vern!" Subtracting the N from the missing part leaves "VER"

THI + SIS + THAW + WERE + STEP + UZZ + ELE + VER

[28] Oh, man, that is BAD!

But then, so are [1] and [9] and...

I'm afraid my feeble effort can't hold a candle to any of yours, but FWIW:

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=4itwy9bz4r1&thumb=4

It's a bit lke Arnott's in that it's based on missing words, but I didn't go the extra mile of barely blurring them.

THIS IS (spinal tap)
THE WORST (witch)
PUZZLE (jigsaw)
EVER (after)

Yours are all so good, er, bad, perhaps we should have subcategories of "worstness": Most Obvious, Most Disgusting, Most Obscure Solution, etc.

Ack, it buuuuurns! These are all so delightfully terrible. [5] Arnott, I too have been pondering "worstness." Maybe we can treat it like "obscenity" and just say we'll know it when we see it.

[30] I like the idea of subcategories, but we still need a grand prize winner, one that manages to blend multiple types of terrible into it.

So, I guess I'm judging, but does anyone else want to help me pick a winner? I fear that I might overdose on awful if I'm forced to do this on my own. I would ask renfurdson, but I don't know if he'll have the time to follow this thread with all his other duties.

OK, this one isn't eligible to win, but I have to join in the fun.

Man, mediafire doesn't work at work...this sucks.

[33] Fortunately, that's one of the few things that DOES work in my district!

[33] Bummer. Aaron was going to start a thread for me that allowed image uploading, but by the time I read his email response, this thread had already been started. Apparently you have to enable image uploading upon creation of the thread.

UPDATE: Aaron has come through for us! Uploading now works.

Anything that contains/allows videos is blocked here at work. Mediafire is okay for now, which is excellent. I went home at lunch to see Blue Devil Ducky's video (which I LOVE by the way!)

Ack! I am missing out on all this fun since I am at work. I won't be able to post mine until I get home! :(

I don't know if anyone else will be able to see this... but here was the one I actually submitted last night... before I knew we were not actually submitting them.

http://www.tanga.com/uploaded_files/0013/8838/file_puzzle.jpg?1202696570

DISHES = this is
a can of DUH = the
a WURST = worst
PUS + ELLE (mcpherson) = puzzle
EVE (singer) + r = ever

I have plans for a much bet... uh worse one but it will need to wait until I get home.

[25] I broke out into spontaneous laughter several time on my way to work this morning because of that... once on the train. Fortunately... stuff like that goes unnoticed around here. I'm not sure if you were saying that my puzzle was a worst puzzle ever... or you just wanted to pay homage to it. Either way, I am honored to have a tribute puzzle made for me... even if it is for a "worst puzzle ever" contest. LOL! For what it is worth, my puzzle you "reference" may be the first puzzle where the answer is also (meant to be) a red herring.

[38] Your pus picture made me gag. You've trumped dfmurphy's cyst. *Awfully* well done.

[39] I guess I should be happy that the image came up broken in my browser. :)

It would be interesting to pick the biggest groaners out of a few puzzles to make a "meta-worst" entry...

I know this one isn't a winner, but hey ... this kind of stuff makes me want to wretch.

I like BlueDevilDucky's tribute to Monocle.

I don't want to win this title, but I want to submit a puzzle.

Solution:
Not friendly to color-blind solvers.
If you can distinguish the colors, you have to figure out that there are too many red squares. Then ignore the letters in the red squares.
The other letters are crossword intersections. Group those letters by color. You might have to look at the screen from a certain angle to tell the difference between green and light blue.
Anagram the groups of letters to get "reasonable" words. You get yellow=THE, dark blue=PUZZLE, pink=THIS, orange=IS, green=EVER, light blue=WORST. Be careful with how you arrange the letters in the pink squares.
There are many permutations of the 6 words. You'll have to keep trying different ones till you get the right one! :)

Once again, not eligible.

Solution:

discus = huge stretch
Dao = impossible to research
hearse + T = lame
pez = another stretch
lever = terrible picture

[43] Much too clever!

[44] I like how you left in some unerased lines around the boxes. Nice touch.

[44] Huh...no, wait....ummmmm.....Nope, still don't get it! :-)

ok... decided to crank out my second idea during lunch.

solution:
[think tank book] - [ink tank] + [isis] = this is
[therapy book] - [rap picture] - "[why book]" = the
[bad pus.. worse pus] = worst puzz
[elevator] - 8 = le ever

I thought I would add to the worseness by making some ridiculous -/+ steps

[47] It's leet speak. 9v2231 = puzzel

[49] I got yours :-)

And I was just pulling an Arnott on [43] bigger :-)

[32] I was going to do that, been at work all day though.

How do I upload image?

Edit: Nevermind

[24]scoutmom, I like the use of "Mr Clean with an arrow pointing to his Tee shirt". You even used him twice, like it's really very important! :)

My traditional puzzle:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=9r2lxdy2flq&thumb=4

edit: BTW, mediafire is pretty easy to use. Great temporary solution. Thanks dfmurphy

the explanation

dis + (isthmus - imus) sth + wor + st. david - david + puzo + lever

[13] Haha. Ita Ever, "Estonian actress, mother of Roman Baskin". Couldn't get more obscure than that. You get 5 stars in difficulty.

[48] I don't think I'm going to click on that thumbnail.

[56] ahhh... what's a little pus among friends? LOL

[all] they have all been good so far.

[28] Oh, I thought it was a "big bee" minus a "sweating baby bee". :)

Okee dokee - here's my first one.

Okay, Mr. T would translate to the letter T plus "his" from the next picutre (the other word is crossed out)
Plus eye = "I" and some goofy alien thing with an "S" on it (put upside down for no aparent reason) = "IS"
Then the dictionary definition of "the" = "THE"
Then a person with knockwurst sausage wrapped around his neck like a creepy scarf - "wurst" = "WORST"
Then the dictionary definition of "Puzzle" = "PUZZLE"
Plus a math term of e - e=2.71828183 = "E" plus "VAH!" = "EVER!"
Easily translated to "This is the worst puzzle ever!"
Right?

Here's the other one I made last night

Thesis: = "THIS IS"
The word "twenty" #20 which equals "T", an 8 which equals "H" and a five dollar bill #5 which equals "E" = all together is "THE"
The solver should , of course, notice that those are little pictures are a knockwurst cartoon guy which translates to "wurst" = worst
The Wurst guy spells out EVER
and the background is puzzle pieces
All of which would automaticaly lead the solver to see that the answer is The Worst Puzzle Ever?!

[61] Thanks! And sorry! Fixed now.

Just came up with this one...

BIG GIANT word "the"
take "TH" from Big giant word the and add little "IS" = "THIS" = another little "IS" = "IS"
"W" picture + "Hearse" picture + saint picture "St" (of course you would automatically know to shorten it) all together = worst
The image of a record label has two of the three title words crossed out by the big giant "th" from the - leaving the word "puzzle
Then an evergreen branch picture "evergreen" and then a circle with the line across which is green instead of the usual red which (of course) means no green and therefore you remove green from evergreen leaving "ever"
Finally, all the crazy colors in the background is just to confuddle and confuse the solver cause this is the worst puzzle ever! Right??

[65] Three, add explanations, please! That last one is making my brain sore :)

[61] Of course they bleed over, it adds to the awfulness of the puzzles!

[64] Just remember that heifer, it was "borrowed" from one of my other puzzles...of course in that one, it isn't so confused!

[60] It's pretty. How does it work?

Arnott

"(side note to ducky: and I quote... "Cryptopix puzzles are solved by putting the pictures together to form a word or phrase!" Yours is clearly a OWW)"

does that mean that my OWW answer of
"Thisistheworstpuzzleever" give me more bonus points?? lol Oooh...that would even add it to the hallowed halls of awfulness right next to ripvanwinkle...

[60] I was trying to figure out how to get "This is" from the word "twenty", the digit 8, and the 5-dollar bill. I guess they're just part of a pretty puzzle then.

How do we post our puzzles here?

EDIT: Oh, I see.

Here's the explanation:

There's a Spanish flag in the background, so you will be getting a phrase in Spanish, which you will need to translate into English. (I mean, that should be OBVIOUS, right? :) )

The first clue is a tea cup, and the text above asks, "Is coffee?" The response should be, "No, IS TEA."
The next clue is an EASEL.
The next is the scoreboard from the 1916 Cumberland - Georgia Tech football game, which Georgia Tech won 222-0, so it was a ROMP.
The next clue is just an 'A.'
The next is a taxiCAB.
Next is a pair of ACES.
Next is 'P' + EEYORE from the Winnie the Pooh universe.
Finally is 'C' + 'M' + a child PRAYing.

So, put it together to get "IS TEA EASEL ROMP A CAB ACES P EEYORE C M PRAY." Phonetically, this makes "Éste es el rompecabezas peor siempre," which is what AltaVista Babel Fish gives as the translation for "This is the worst puzzle ever." Notice that it isn't actually how you would translate the phrase, which makes the puzzle that much worse.

[71] Forgot that part of the explanation in my haste to post it - fixed now.

[72] Are the clues in Spanish?

[63] In reference to your comment towards [18], I like your method acting as a bad puzzlemaker. A lesson to everyone: adopt the mindset of the emotionally unstable, illogical, and most importantly, terrible puzzlemaker.

[66] Explanation up! Do I need to send you aspirin?

Threehojos, it seems you're leaving out the "this is" portion of the puzzle. While your efforts thus far are admirably awful, if they don't include all the answer words in the solution, they can't be eligible, although a puzzle with a solution that doesn't match the answer would be pretty damn awful.

[74] The sounds are in English, but the phrase they make up is in Spanish. For example, a picture of a hose plus an A would be José.

[78] "Este rompecabezas es peor siempre?" which, I believe would be "this puzzle is worse always." This is awful on so many levels! Will you please post the solution?

[79] Done. You solved it quite well.

[77] Both are now edited appropriately badly I think! I don't want to be disqualified since my worst comment ever received started this whole contest!

Dang, there goes ALL our chances, lol!

here we go again...

[revels cd] = reve elz
{an up arrow} = up
[2 t-shirts] + [row] = tsrow
[Bad cd] - [bee] = ad
[Si cd] = si
[sid and nancy picture] = sid
but the picture is flipped... so is the answer!

the answer is in fact "THIS IS THE WORST PUZZLE EVER". Solvers are meant to understand that since the picture was flipped to solve it, the answer is to be flipped back

***EXTRA ENTRY - JUST FOR FUN!**

Okay - final entry tonnight - I need sleep!
The front cover of a THESIS - appropriately about Monkeys = "THIS IS"
Homer Simpson with blank bubble ("DOH!") = "THE"
Picture from "the Way We Were" with "nothewaywe" = "WERE" = St. Nicholas Book Cover with St. blanked out = "ST" Put it together for "WORST"
Puss n' boots with a picture of boots crossed out - "PUSS" = picture of EL Trains - Put it together for "PUZZLE"
Spongebob Squarepants CD cover from "The Best Day Ever" with "Ever" blanked out = "EVER"

OK...here we go: All have the same answer, but only one is correct.

[86] LOL. even though I don't know what is in the blue area. :)

[86] Haha! There's a winner in that puzzle!

After reviewing the rules of the crypto, can I have a redo on the monocle tribute?

Here is my worst puzzle ever.

The clock hands tell you that you need to read the clues clockwise.

Tea
Hisus, a small province in Peru
a Daiwa spinning reel
Hurst shifter
J.J. Putz of the Seattle Mariners
An "El" train
EveR Korean robot

T + Hisus + Daiwa + Hurst + Putz + El + EveR

[87] It's the clue/link to the video puzzle we did at the top of this thread. Yup, that's Hope in the video.

[86] Metas suck. You win. I give up.

[86] Whaaaa! I got left out of the meta!

My last attempt was so feeble I had to give this challenge another shot. This one still can't hold a candle to those above, but I hope it's worth a chuckle at least. If nothing else, I think the girl's face will creep you out. Try a Russian accent for the first half (and be grateful I did't use the "disease" pictures instead--some of them had cysts AND pus!)

DIZZY – Z = THIS
EASY – Z = IS
THE VERSE + T = THE WORST
RAPUNZEL – RAN = PUZZLE
EVERLY BROTHERS – LEE BROS. = EVER

[91] I was grabbing them left and right. I thought I got most of them.

[92] thanks... anyone know how to get throw up off a lap top? that girls face was nauseous... causing me to become nauseated. (did I use them correctly?)

[93] don't worry... [91] is always complaining about something. LOL

[72] That is so good! It looks so sincere. As if the puzzlemaker really believes that he is giving the best clues. And that switching languages is not a big deal. Plus that child praying... tugs at the heart strings. Iss goood!

[92] Yup, 2 overlapping sets of eyes, 2 lips, 2 Zs, 2 curved arrows, 2 pairs of brothers, I'm freaked out! :) Your category should be "Most Riveting, Compelling or Hypnotic".

[92] That's what I call interactive.

I have one day, and one entry left...but how to top what we've already done? How can we do better than cysts, squirting pus, phonetic Spanish, praying children and confused cows?? I mean, about all that's left is a blank square with nothing in it. Hmmm....

[96] Thanks--doeas that mean I get points for diversity, since my first entry [30] could only qualify for Most Boring?

[92] Sorry about that! But did it make you dizzy before you threw up?

Robrizob - I know our limit is three and I put up four - you can just throw out my wor..err best...err...I'm so confuuuuuzed! Anyhow - just ignore the fourth one! I had too much fun working on them and couldn't resist submitting the one with the Monkey Thesis cause every time I see a monkey I automatically think TANGA! Ooooh, that sounds a little wierd huh?!?