Sometimes, I have to laugh at AFP news stories. The Agence France-Presse news agency cums up with some fun titles to beat off the competition. Refer to the UrbanDictionary.com’s definition of “beat off.”

Japanese pastry chefs
beat off
international competition
Yahoo! News, Mon Jan 22, 4:17 PM ET – LYON, France (AFP) — A team of Japanese pastry chefs won the 10th world patisserie cup staged at food salon in eastern France.
Yukio Ichikawa, Toshimi Fujimoto and Kazuya Nagata shared the gold medal, a trophy and a cheque for 12,000 euros (15,500 dollars), having beaten off with their whisks and spatulas competition from pastry chefs from 20 countries….more…

But leave it to Japanese to invent a wanking robot, called the “SOM.” There’s boring engrish SOM website, but the Japanese website has videos and wacked sic pictures like these…
SOM VIDEO SHOPPING