Kevin's Watch

Well, it's 3 weeks later... it's the end of a school year, so things have gotten busy for me- I'm giving everyone 1 more week - until next Saturday.

I'm thinking of using the poll again just because I don't feel like choosing.

Zorm- I found this so awful I don't even know what to say... so awful it's more like awesome!

Afore thy dulcetness wilt all the earth's roses
Into thy windward turn all the land's noses
To smell the mellifluous odor of thee in adoring poses
Ah, so intoxicating e'en in itsy-bitsy doses!

and the image of frolicking in a heart-shaped circle... even willing to be "knee-deep in mongrel-muck"!
Now that's getting poetic about the depth of ones love!

"Into thy windward turn all the land's noses," though?

Linna Heartlistener wrote:Well, it's 3 weeks later... it's the end of a school year, so things have gotten busy for me- I'm giving everyone 1 more week - until next Saturday.

I'm thinking of using the poll again just because I don't feel like choosing.

Zorm- I found this so awful I don't even know what to say... so awful it's more like awesome!

Afore thy dulcetness wilt all the earth's roses
Into thy windward turn all the land's noses
To smell the mellifluous odor of thee in adoring poses
Ah, so intoxicating e'en in itsy-bitsy doses!

and the image of frolicking in a heart-shaped circle... even willing to be "knee-deep in mongrel-muck"!
Now that's getting poetic about the depth of ones love!

"Into thy windward turn all the land's noses," though?

Thou sayest true, Lin. 'tis brilliance!

dids't i winnest yeth?

Ummm, err... could someone else* create the voting thread?

For some reason, nailing down the details like "what date should this poll finish" and "how do I make sure I get everyone" seems like a dreadful drudgery I don't feel up to? (or I'm intimdated for some reason!)

Also, it occurs to me to ask- Dr Gamgee and Ananda, do you want both of yours to be voted on separately?
Or do you want to pick one out of them?
(it's perfectly alright if each of you picks a diff option.)

* Ne'er fret ye thy souls... if nobody else takes me up on this, I'll suck it up and do the poll.

I can just pick a winner for you from the others.

And, like oh - my - god you are like so lazy! (did I nail the californiagirl or what??!?!?!) You broke your poll starting bone in the close thread I see.

Separate entries would be my choice. But why not just have the current master pick? Votes are fine, but seeking the wisdom of the master (as opposed to seeing who has more twitter followers) is a time-honored tradition...

Doc

Oh, fine, then... I declare this one of Ananda's to be the winner... glorious in the awful mis-match between the two parties thus conversing!
(It also got funnier each time I read it.)

Ananda wrote:Tech Support upon Avon

Ye Olde Tech Support - Good morrow, sir or madame, howeth mightin' thou be helpethed? For, I am the noble Sir Fixit!

Customer - What? uhhh.. my computer is broke.

Ye Olde Tech Support - Spaketh you thusly, for sooth! Tech Support, tech support I proclaim! Come, enjoin me with thou's cares and sorrows computer-wise!

Customer - What? Is this .. is this tech support?

Ye Olde Tech Support - Does not the crow cry in the woods at midsommar his lamentations heapethed up year round as to sayeth unto the world, heareth thee my tale? Verily it is so! I beg thee good sir, burden me with your woes.

Customer - Mmm... what? I uh... my screen is frozen?

Ye Olde Tech Support - Alas! Alack! Oh, more is the woes! Were the world less cruel and thou less its bitch! Verily and forsooth this is dire! What is the world but a stage and what this stage when the screeneth be frozen? And how come the players upon the set, joys, terrors, lusts on the sleeves thusly worn with utter conviction and lack of artifice if the set be'eth, as more is the pity, adjusted not in pitch and pith?

Customer - What?

Ye Olde Tech Support - Oh good sir, presseth the lowborn yet goodly button marked On/Off nestled upon the chassis of thy's nobleth device! What would a world be without the hand that hovers ever over the slate, ready to rubbeth, I say, all the travails, care and passions out with but a swipe? How deep our slumbers and how steady our dreams were it not so? But, press on, I say, good sir, press on!

Customer - Oh, that fixed it. Thanks.

Sorry for "faking you guys out" by being indecisive, saying I'd do a poll, etc... it's always awkward to pick one winner above the others!

Of course it is, Linna. As long as it is difficult, then the contest is working. If it were always one which was amazing and the rest dirt, it would be no fun.

And, speaking as a loser in several of these games, it just means I have to work harder to win. And that is the fun of competition. Otherwise, it is just "MY aren't *I* fabulous?" thread...and nobody wants one of those...

Congratulations, Ananda! Well done!

What?? I won? That's a shock- I thought I would be in last place! I loved the other entries. Thank you, Linna! I'll try to come up with a new theme and whatever winnings I get shall be passed on to the next winner!

Linna Heartlistener wrote:Oh, fine, then... I declare this one of Ananda's to be the winner.

About TIME! It had been so long, I got a PM from a KW member asking if another was EVER going to be run [OK, it was someone fairly new, and I'm discontextualizing it a bit...]
Still...way to go Ananda. Now come up with a good contest for the newb to play with [or at least read along]...he sounded enthused, and god knows we can always use our thus-es en-ed.

Vraith wrote: About TIME! It had been so long, I got a PM from a KW member asking if another was EVER going to be run [OK, it was someone fairly new, and I'm discontextualizing it a bit...]
Still...way to go Ananda. Now come up with a good contest for the newb to play with [or at least read along]...he sounded enthused, and god knows we can always use our thus-es en-ed.

arg... point...

Also, good point, Gamgee!

Sorry, peoples... including people who haven't played yet but are considering it... or reading along!

(I remember how it felt like forever to me for a different round... I would "never" do like that, I thought!)

New Round

Scenario
It's crush time in the greeting card factory and the entire card writing staff has been diagnosed with a terrible food poisoning! They can't come up with a single greeting card! The owner of the greeting card factory gathers her workers together for an inspirational talk. Among them are the janitors, the mail room clerks, the secretaries, the accountants, and, of course, you. You are one of these of the lower caste in the card factory. But, you have dreamed for this chance! You have dreamed of this great opportunity to let your words flow out to the world to greet them!

The factory owner puts her hands on her hips in an all business manner, tilting to one side so that her mauve polyester skirt rises just above the knee on one side and you can see her stocking (thanks, Deer!) sagging there. "You know the situation- all our Imaginarians ate the cake *someone* brought to the office party and the only thing that is coming out of them is not creative! It's greeting card period out there and we need to get our cards printed. Without this income, we won't be able to keep the factory afloat." She sighs and shifts her stance, running a hand through her hair. "I'm calling on you, the doers of our great family, to come to our rescue. Who among you has not dreamed of writing the greeting card that saved the factory? Who? Who? So, it is up to you, the filthy janitors, the drooling mail room clerks, the uninteresting secretaries, the accountants who, hereto, have shown not a single wit of imagination to save us all! You can do it! I believe at least one of you isn't a complete moron! Save our company!" She turns to her secretary, "I'll be in the tanning bed. Call me if someone doesn't screw up."

Assignment
Create the world's worst greeting card for any occasion.
The card will have a cover and an inner page as a minimum
You may add art to your card
You may add music to your card

Rules
Max two entries per contestant
Entries will be posted here
Last day to submit an entry is 16 june
Winner receives 500 WGD and is the host for the next contest

I am providing a template for people to use if they want to use them. I do this since not everyone is inclined with image editors. With these, you can use a basic image editor and at least still have a card format. If you know your way around an image editor, feel free to make your own.
The most basic image editor that comes with most OSs will do for this.

**If anyone needs help hosting an image, just let me know.
**If someone is no good at all with image editors, you can always hand draw it and take a photo or scan it. All manner of entry is acceptable (and I didn't mean that to sound as dirty as it did)

Templates
Cover for Card


Inside for card

Was this a bad idea or are you all quietly thinking of how to save the card factory?

I have an idea but got tangled up in the webs of a 10-page dissection spider. Help help, someone get me sharp scissors!

Plotting and Scheming... (not so good with the visuals...but will work on it!).

DoctorGamgee wrote:Plotting and Scheming... (not so good with the visuals...but will work on it!).

The visuals are just a bonus. it is the words that matter most. I was just trying to come up with something we haven't done yet but maybe I overestimated how easy it should be for people to use a simple image editor, even with my templates.

can do the writing - no idea the graphics. i will find something.

Here in the U.S., we have Father's Day this June.
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Front:
(Picture of two cars zooming towards each-other on a dirt road.)
"Every time I play chicken I think of you."

Interior:
Dear Dad,

Thank you for always loving me, with all the caveats and reservations you attach to your expressions of love!

Through the years, I really have benefitted from that performance boost that pretty much only dysfunctional people trying vainly to please their dads can get.

I won't tell you that the unintended consequences of that are kicking me in the pants right now, because if I said that, you'd feel like I'm trying to guilt-trip you.

But nonetheless...
Here's wishing you a Happy Father's Day! (sort of!)
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If anyone loves this a lot, please tell me, either on-thread, or pm me if you don't usually respond on-thread.


Thank you so much for this contest choice, Ananda!
It was PERFECT!

sent ananda wgd's and tokens to award whoever wins her contest.

arg, you beat me, sarge!