Limerick Contest

The annual Limerick Contest was announced in the Richmond Times-Dispatch this past Sunday. If you followed this blog last year you might recall that I entered and shared my creation. If you want to enter you can get an entry form from the paper or the local R-TD offices.

A Limerick, as defined by the R-TD is a humorous five-line poem. Lines 1, 2 and 5 have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other. The challenge is to create your own Limerick using the at least 2 of the words provided by the R-TD. I'm not sure who the knuckle-head is that selected the words, but I think they have spent too much time sucking on that Blarney Stone. If you're interested in giving it a stab, the words are (and I'm providing the Miriam Webster definitions):

1. Schism - formal division in or separation from a church or religious body
2. Quixotic - foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
3. Ablution - the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite)
4. Tocsin - an alarm bell or the ringing of it
5. Cosset - (noun) a pet lamb; or a (transitive verb) to treat as a pet, pamper
6. Zeitgeist - the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
7. Stolid - having or expressing little or no sensibility

Are you freaking kidding me?

Entries are due on March 9, 2009

Game on you inebriated word selector!

Blackjack II

Think back to August and the Olympics. Samsung had a Medal Mania contest. They hid gold medals around the internet and you had to find them. I was hoping to win the $100,000.00 Grand Prize, but that seems to have eluded me. But I did win this cell phone: The Samsung Blackjack II.
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Now that I have it I don't know what to do with it.
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I'm sure you just raised an eyebrow or something akin to that. Let me help you understand. Before I received this, I did not have a cell-phone. Well that's a 1/2 lie. I do have a pay-as-you-go Virgin "whatever" phone that I keep in my car and hardly ever use. I tend to be a land-line guy that writes letters to family and friends (well mostly family). The car-phone is more there for emergencies and has mega-minutes on it. It's a comfort item for those "I'm in a pickle" moments. Kind of like the time I was shot at on I-64 (window got blown out) and needed the Virginia State Police to come.
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It's not something I really need. A cell phone was not an item I was jones'n to have. I'm not a gadget guru. The novelty of it is nice and fun to think about. I could sell it, but I don't really know what kind of price to put on it. Not having bought a cell phone before, just reading on the internet I see all sorts of combinations of phone and plan. The phone alone seems to be worth about $300.00 and I admit the plans just confuse me. Maybe that's because I just don't have the patience at the moment to want to think about it. Heck it took 10 weeks to get to me, I figure I can take a few more to figure out what I want to do with it.
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Durn, why couldn't I have won Jason Lezak? Now him, I could work.

The Silver Fox

In this corner - Kelly !!

The Silver Fox

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He needs your votes on Gay.com to win the contest for the Silver Fox category.

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No log-in is necessary, but you are going to a Gay friendly website.

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Vote as often as you like and frequently.

1:6 Wins

If Jason Lezak were a 20 oz bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper I would gulp him down. Kudos to him for bringing up the rear twice in men's swimming, bringing home the Gold!!!

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And that's saying alot because I really can't stand the taste of Diet Dr. Pepper or Dr. Pepper for that matter. The above picture is the very lame 1:6 prize that I won by playing the Indiana Jones IV - Dr. Pepper bottle cap code contest. Whoopdie doo! How lame is that. So I sent the picture to Jadielady because she's big on the little guy in the picture. It's meant to be screen wallpaper. I'll pass.