buddyh
05-03-2006, 03:29 PM
Hi Everyone,
Here’s the winners for the April Contests.
This is the hardest part of the job. Much harder then coming up with the contest ideas.
Coming up with the ideas is easy, I just sit here, thinking, picking my nose, scratching various areas of my body, eating snacks and just type what comes into my head, plus Unicorn sends me ideas and I get to think up some things during the month.
But for picking the winners. I generally don’t look at the contest threads during the month.
I wait until the end. I wait until the day I have to post them and it’s always so hard.
Folks do a real fine job at the entries and with Uni’s help I do my best to be fair, honest and impartial. I don’t always stick to my judging criteria, the rules or entires that are in my personal style or liking. There are some entries that go against my grain, but are really good entries and deserve to win.
But in the end, I’m only a human being. You’ll find me next to the mashed potatoes.
And, as always, barring any cataclismatic (SP?) catastrophe (SP?), there's always next month.
So, if you’re on the list, make sure you send me your mailing info by the 14th of this month.
Thanks
J
BC Boxes – Elysium
Ed Rosenthal – This one was a lot tougher to judge then I thought it would be. A lot of good entries from a lot of good songs. But I have to give it to…..DankDude I have a collection of different versions of Comfortably Numb. Love that song
FS Books – My Pick was ‘Reefer Maddness’ and the winner is Jethro Mull
Laplaya Glass – The Idea for this contest, I got from Douglas Adams (Miss ya Doug). It came from a talk that he gave on the ‘Four Ages of Glass’ in his Posthumous (sp?) Book , “The Salmon of Doubt”. It’s a book well worth the read if you can find it.
So, I had a different criteria in mind for judging when I started then what I wound up doing. Anyway, Enjoy your pipe Storm Crow
One Drop Design – I just couldn’t pick this one J So I went with Unicorn’s choice - ayahuasca
Skunk Magazine #1 – Lucy Just under the word count and she was lying on the floor in a public toilet
Skunk Magazine #2 – The number was 14 and Quagmire was the random choice of the two correct guesses
Skunk Magazine #3 – remunification???? Very interesting. I found it used on some webpages, but in searching 922 online English dictionaries, none of them had it in them.
But I did find
‘Munify - Mu"ni*fy To prepare for defense; to fortify.
Or
Munificate - Mu*nif"i*cate (?), v. t. [L. munificatus, p.p. of munificare to present with a thing, fr. munificus..] To enrich.
Or
Munificent - Mu*nif"i*cent (?), a. [L. munificus; munus service, gift + -ficare (in comp.) to make. Cf. Immunity (http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?word=Immunity), -fy.] Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor. -- Mu*nif"i*cent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Bounteous; bountiful; liberal; generous.
So, I’m thinking that ‘Remunification’ would be the act of doing one of these things again. Anyway, Raton wins!
Skunk Magazine #4 – This was a tough one. I have direct ties with one of the entries mentioned, but the winner actually picked one of my favorite movies. Enjoy the magazine ‘Q’
Skunk Magazine #5 – Now this works out well. Since the only two people to post in this contest have already won a subscription this month, I’m going to give this subscription to my second choice in Contest #4. Some of the troma movies where filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up and I’m a big fan of many of the Troma Movies, so this one goes to kractor.
Vaporstore – Deluxe hands free vaporizer – OK, now I know that I’m going to get a few PMs on this one, so I figured that I’d just preempt them. Yes the person that I chose to win did not write I have read the rules in this entry. But they do and have written it in other entries. And it’s not like this was a run of the mill entry. I will and do make exceptions like this if I feel that the entry warrants it and I see that the member uses the ‘I have read the rules’ thing in other entries. This was a very emotional entry and I can see and understand the oversite. This entry also personally moved me. I know what it’s like to be in this situation and I also know how hard it is to share info like this with others.
If anyone has a problem with my decision, I don’t want to hear about it. Go tell Marco on me if you want. If you don’t agree that rules can be bend or broken on occasion, go turn yourself into LEO, I’m sure we’ve all broken them at times.
With all that said and out of the way, I hope the vap helps you to extend your meds and gives you a enjoyable smoking experience – Artful Dodger
The Edit
Damn I forgot to pick the wongbong winner !!!!!
Farg!!!!
Two people picked it and in the drawing TNTMed was picked, enjoy it!!
Here’s the winners for the April Contests.
This is the hardest part of the job. Much harder then coming up with the contest ideas.
Coming up with the ideas is easy, I just sit here, thinking, picking my nose, scratching various areas of my body, eating snacks and just type what comes into my head, plus Unicorn sends me ideas and I get to think up some things during the month.
But for picking the winners. I generally don’t look at the contest threads during the month.
I wait until the end. I wait until the day I have to post them and it’s always so hard.
Folks do a real fine job at the entries and with Uni’s help I do my best to be fair, honest and impartial. I don’t always stick to my judging criteria, the rules or entires that are in my personal style or liking. There are some entries that go against my grain, but are really good entries and deserve to win.
But in the end, I’m only a human being. You’ll find me next to the mashed potatoes.
And, as always, barring any cataclismatic (SP?) catastrophe (SP?), there's always next month.
So, if you’re on the list, make sure you send me your mailing info by the 14th of this month.
Thanks
J
BC Boxes – Elysium
Ed Rosenthal – This one was a lot tougher to judge then I thought it would be. A lot of good entries from a lot of good songs. But I have to give it to…..DankDude I have a collection of different versions of Comfortably Numb. Love that song
FS Books – My Pick was ‘Reefer Maddness’ and the winner is Jethro Mull
Laplaya Glass – The Idea for this contest, I got from Douglas Adams (Miss ya Doug). It came from a talk that he gave on the ‘Four Ages of Glass’ in his Posthumous (sp?) Book , “The Salmon of Doubt”. It’s a book well worth the read if you can find it.
So, I had a different criteria in mind for judging when I started then what I wound up doing. Anyway, Enjoy your pipe Storm Crow
One Drop Design – I just couldn’t pick this one J So I went with Unicorn’s choice - ayahuasca
Skunk Magazine #1 – Lucy Just under the word count and she was lying on the floor in a public toilet
Skunk Magazine #2 – The number was 14 and Quagmire was the random choice of the two correct guesses
Skunk Magazine #3 – remunification???? Very interesting. I found it used on some webpages, but in searching 922 online English dictionaries, none of them had it in them.
But I did find
‘Munify - Mu"ni*fy To prepare for defense; to fortify.
Or
Munificate - Mu*nif"i*cate (?), v. t. [L. munificatus, p.p. of munificare to present with a thing, fr. munificus..] To enrich.
Or
Munificent - Mu*nif"i*cent (?), a. [L. munificus; munus service, gift + -ficare (in comp.) to make. Cf. Immunity (http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?word=Immunity), -fy.] Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor. -- Mu*nif"i*cent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Bounteous; bountiful; liberal; generous.
So, I’m thinking that ‘Remunification’ would be the act of doing one of these things again. Anyway, Raton wins!
Skunk Magazine #4 – This was a tough one. I have direct ties with one of the entries mentioned, but the winner actually picked one of my favorite movies. Enjoy the magazine ‘Q’
Skunk Magazine #5 – Now this works out well. Since the only two people to post in this contest have already won a subscription this month, I’m going to give this subscription to my second choice in Contest #4. Some of the troma movies where filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up and I’m a big fan of many of the Troma Movies, so this one goes to kractor.
Vaporstore – Deluxe hands free vaporizer – OK, now I know that I’m going to get a few PMs on this one, so I figured that I’d just preempt them. Yes the person that I chose to win did not write I have read the rules in this entry. But they do and have written it in other entries. And it’s not like this was a run of the mill entry. I will and do make exceptions like this if I feel that the entry warrants it and I see that the member uses the ‘I have read the rules’ thing in other entries. This was a very emotional entry and I can see and understand the oversite. This entry also personally moved me. I know what it’s like to be in this situation and I also know how hard it is to share info like this with others.
If anyone has a problem with my decision, I don’t want to hear about it. Go tell Marco on me if you want. If you don’t agree that rules can be bend or broken on occasion, go turn yourself into LEO, I’m sure we’ve all broken them at times.
With all that said and out of the way, I hope the vap helps you to extend your meds and gives you a enjoyable smoking experience – Artful Dodger
The Edit
Damn I forgot to pick the wongbong winner !!!!!
Farg!!!!
Two people picked it and in the drawing TNTMed was picked, enjoy it!!