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zenbabe
10-07-2002, 04:31 PM
Ok Ze,

We haven't had a new contest in a while!!! Please people, let's come up with some idea's for a new one!!

:confused:

:p
zefrank
10-09-2002, 01:19 PM
sounds good to me....I haven't been able to think up one thats good enough...it takes a decent amount of time on my end to curate a contest so the concept has to be pretty tight....feel free to suggest some ideas...

some that have come up:

playing with food (maybe but needs to be a bit more specific, as a lot of food is unrecognizable in a low res image)

uses for old digital media- Cd's etc... (also a possiblity but it restricts the audience to people that have CDs to play with)

dressing up animals (not possible - people tend to take that stuff too far and I don't want any pets hurt.... or embarrassed for that matter)

alternative super hero contest (too vague I think - would require text)

fake crying (I really like this idea - might be a possibility)

any more?
tekbone
10-09-2002, 01:40 PM
tortilla art

marshmallow construction (building stuff)
Frieda
10-09-2002, 03:06 PM
alternative super hero contest (too vague I think - would require text)

why not office super heroes?

and so what if it'd require text? sounds like fun to me!
Reg Barkley
10-09-2002, 05:12 PM
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Frieda
10-09-2002, 05:21 PM
well i think that the average user on this board doesn't know what computer parts look like.. and maybe there are even some who don't know what pasta looks like. ;)
zenbabe
10-09-2002, 06:01 PM
I like the idea about the uses for old digital media, but you could even go further and include old cassette tapes as well, Lord knows, I could dig up an old Debby Gibson tape, and I think I can dig up an old Whitney Houston CD that could serve no greater purpose than to be entered into a fabulous new contest!
AllegroNg
10-09-2002, 09:33 PM
Fake crying! Fake crying! Do it do it do it!!!

Or.. there could be the "Unusual way to feed chicken to ducks" contest!

Or or.. the "Make over w/products found in kitchen" contest!

Wow, I'm really terrible at this!

-Angie
Frieda
10-09-2002, 10:06 PM
how about a cheese sculpture contest?
bealeblues
10-10-2002, 05:47 PM
or 'clever ways to disguise the fact that you are constantly on message boards while you are at work' contest
AllegroNg
10-10-2002, 05:50 PM
I know right?! This is sadly addictive.

Oh! I know! We could tell everyone what we're wearing - but only in Haiku form!:D The one with the coolest threads wins a dollar.
bealeblues
10-10-2002, 06:02 PM
i'm up for that
Frieda
10-10-2002, 06:14 PM
hmm haikus.. well ok.. but my cheese sculpture's almost finished!
zenbabe
10-10-2002, 06:56 PM
A dollar??? No way, I want a digital camera!!!!!


I WANT AN OOMPA LOOMPA NOW DADDY!!!!
AllegroNg
10-10-2002, 07:05 PM
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker!


I'm wearing a shirt
The shirt is grey and baggy
I win a dollar
bealeblues
10-10-2002, 07:07 PM
beige slacks on my legs
my shirt of pale olive green
give me my dollar!
Frieda
10-10-2002, 07:17 PM
what are the haiku rules again please?
bealeblues
10-10-2002, 07:29 PM
17 syallables, sometimes in the 5-7-5 format
zenbabe
10-10-2002, 07:33 PM
I think it should definatly involve taking pics though, like the other contests, so ze can post them. Text is so drab....
Frieda
10-10-2002, 07:36 PM
that's why i say, let's go for a cheese sculpture contest..

no one with me here?
zenbabe
10-10-2002, 07:45 PM
MMMMMM, Cheese (in best homer simpson voice)
Frieda
10-10-2002, 07:52 PM
Originally posted by zenbabe
MMMMMM, Cheese (in best homer simpson voice)

now watch out, or i'll take that one as a Yes ;)
zenbabe
10-10-2002, 08:09 PM
BRING ON THE CHEESE!!
Enqrypzion
10-10-2002, 08:11 PM
well i may be in... but it's very plausible some dutchman will win isn't it? lol *grins evilly while not many understand*
saskuoch
10-11-2002, 05:30 AM
You guys! You have to stop talking about cheese! There's no cheese in this damn country...just process cheese food. I actually managed to find some of those little round cheeses wrapped in wax that come in the mesh bag. They almost count as cheese, and as close as you get here. I at two and put the rest in the common room fridge. Went to get them today, and they're gone! If these Chinese people like cheese, why don't they sell more of it rather than eating mine that I have to search for? Damn common fridges.
Molly
10-11-2002, 12:14 PM
my messy blue hair
i am all in gray like clouds
still in my pj's

can i have a dollar now?
bealeblues
10-11-2002, 01:02 PM
not bad molly, not bad
red
10-11-2002, 01:31 PM
Ohmigod!
How much longer must you be there? No cheese. No Tex-Mex. You poor suffering thing. This is all character building stuff you know.

I liked the cheese sculpture idea.
amanda
10-11-2002, 01:52 PM
Originally posted by saskuoch
You guys! You have to stop talking about cheese! There's no cheese in this damn country...just process cheese food. I actually managed to find some of those little round cheeses wrapped in wax that come in the mesh bag. They almost count as cheese, and as close as you get here. I at two and put the rest in the common room fridge. Went to get them today, and they're gone! If these Chinese people like cheese, why don't they sell more of it rather than eating mine that I have to search for? Damn common fridges.


He speakth the truth- China is a desert for cheese. Japan isn't all that much better. I feel your pain....

When I was living in Hainan, we had a special cheese man come and make deliveries to our apartment. Straight from Oz- it was the real stuff. Sort of felt like we were making a drug deal- "We need cheese, man! Can you come in two hours?" But it was so worth it.

And these people are talking of sculpting with it.....sigh. I wish.
Molly
10-11-2002, 02:56 PM
thanks, bealblue. i try. haiku is very hard!!!

so confusing. why
did they invent it? i think
too much time on hands
red
10-11-2002, 03:01 PM
Maybe we should sculpt out of something different, like Spam.
zenbabe
10-11-2002, 03:40 PM
You have got to be fu$%#@g kidding me!!! I wouldn't be able to survive in a country without cheese, I thought I was going to die when I went to paris and found out they don't have any ranch dressing there!!!
red
10-11-2002, 03:43 PM
NO RANCH DRESSING! EEK! I'm going there in November. I'll have to remember that. I guess I'll have to settle for blue cheese.
zenbabe
10-11-2002, 03:54 PM
Well, my suggestion would be to take some of those packets and make it, they don't have ranch in germany either, so I always have to send those packets to my friends that live there.
red
10-11-2002, 03:58 PM
I guess Hidden Valley really did invent ranch dressing and it didn't catch on in Europe either.
zenbabe
10-11-2002, 03:59 PM
Maybe that's why the french never win?
Frieda
10-11-2002, 05:32 PM
what's ranch dressing?
AllegroNg
10-11-2002, 07:01 PM
Oh. My. God.
AllegroNg
10-11-2002, 08:19 PM
How do they squeeze the flavor out of Italians?
amanda
10-12-2002, 07:34 AM
Originally posted by zefrank
sounds good to me....I haven't been able to think up one thats good enough...it takes a decent amount of time on my end to curate a contest so the concept has to be pretty tight....feel free to suggest some ideas...

some that have come up:

alternative super hero contest (too vague I think - would require text)


Au contraire. I do a multiple-day activity on occasion for teaching the use of the words "can" and "can't" with my kids- create your own Superhero.

My requirements for the activity:
1. A name
2. Five things it can do (i.e. Superman can fly.)
3. Five things it can't do (Superman can't see through lead)
4. Something that makes it weak (kryptonite)
5. An arch nemesis (um...evil Superman in Bizarro World?)
6. An image of some kind of the costume (drawing, picture of someone dressed up as the Superhero, etc. Since kids only have a few resources, it's usually a drawing.)

This is my most favorite activity- kids come up with the greatest stuff. One was a hippo that could swim forever, but couldn't marry. Pickled Herring made him weak. (I still have NO idea how they found out about pickled herring).

I really love my job sometimes. Even without the cheese.
bealeblues
10-12-2002, 02:03 PM
well, we know how they squeeze the flavor from the french-- they just surrender
red
10-13-2002, 11:23 AM
I was trying to come up with an adequate desciption to give poor Frieda some idea of what it might taste like and I can't.
I can describe what it looks like, it's white and creamy, about the consistency of blue cheese dressing without any chunks in it and it has speckles of seasonings. It's very popular and you can buy dry seasoning packets to add to sour cream to make dip for potato chips and/or fresh veggies like carrots, celery, broccoli and little cherry tomatoes. (YUM)
Maybe I will taste something similar to it when I'm in Amsterdam and I can say, oh it tastes sorta like that thing at FEBO.
zenbabe
10-15-2002, 05:09 PM
Does writing all over someone that is passed out in my living room with a sharpie pen count?
Frieda
10-15-2002, 05:29 PM
post the pic!
zenbabe
10-15-2002, 05:40 PM
He did pass out first...


http://www.zenmedia.gogman.net/Pics/House%20Antics/DSCF0012.jpg

http://www.zenmedia.gogman.net/Pics/House%20Antics/DSCF0010.jpg
Frieda
10-15-2002, 06:48 PM
looks like those "priceless" pics!
AllegroNg
10-15-2002, 09:57 PM
Mmm.. he's kinda cute, Zenbabe..

Is that.. hair gel?
AllegroNg
10-16-2002, 12:05 AM
(I was talking about you, MasterofNone;))




Was that a good save?
zenbabe
10-16-2002, 04:53 AM
hahahahha, NO!! He actually passed out here the other night and was recieved a puple unibrow compliments of Sharpie. I was already asleep though and didn't get any pics...
zenbabe
10-17-2002, 04:15 PM
No, its shaving cream and dill weed. You know that old trick where you put a bunch of shaving cream in his hand and then tickle his face with a feather..well, we didn't have a feather at the time, but we had some fresh dill weed...lol...