January 17, 2007
Is it just me...
...or is it a VERY slow news day? It's very difficult to be BOLD NEW EDGY without stuff going on.
SO, maybe the best solution is to have everyone pitch in and let's put on a show! I've never done this before, so it's quite NEW, and I expect the results to be toward the peculiar range of things, marking it at once as both BOLD AND EDGY, so it should be good for getting people to chime in.
TODAY'S EVENT--the Semiannual Semiliterate Simile Contest!
(I know it's not actually semiannual, but I had some leftovers from the Annual Alliteration Altercation.)
ANYWHO, as Webster notes in his online dictionary, what we are talking about is this-- Simi"*le (?), n.; pl. Similes (#). [L., from similis. See Similar.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
So, I would like to ask you all to complete the completely self-centered simile given to you below:
"Possumblog is like..."
At the end of the day a winner will be announced and will receive a free autographed picture of Chet the E-Mail Boy!
Have at it!
UPDATE!! 4:25 p.m. Wow! An incredible response from the blogosphere, making it tremendously difficult to pick a winner. Based on the submissions, I think we might just have to declare first place a tie between Miss Janis and Stan the Ex-Gummint Man! I know the rest of you will probably be disappointed that your entry wasn't chosen, but with so many to pick from, surely you must know how difficult it was to not just give a prize to everyone! IN ANY EVENT, congratulations to Janis and Stan, and I hope they treasure their photos of Chet forever.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 17, 2007 11:27 AM... the scent of the papermill wafting through the dogwood blossoms.
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 17, 2007 11:45 AM...the best house trailer in Mountain Brook?
Posted by: Stan at January 17, 2007 11:48 AMI've been dozing under the influence of too much artificial heat. But where is everyone else?
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 17, 2007 04:46 PMSome of everyone else are in a different timezone and have just woken up. You might have waited and let the earth turn a bit more.
Plus your spam filter doesn't like me any more.
Possumblog is like a frisky puppy who hasn't learned to be patient yet.
Posted by: kitchen hand at January 17, 2007 05:04 PMTerry,
I do believe Mu.nu, your estimable host, was under a spam attack and they were blocking comments for much of the day. It would not offend moi if the contest was extended for another day or so, although that is your call. If I am awarded an autograph of Chet I will offer to have mine sent to Megabeth as I know she is Chet's greatest fan.
Posted by: Stan at January 17, 2007 06:31 PMNow Kitchen Hand, you KNOW you're supposed to get up in the middle of the night to play along! And the spam filter IS acting very wonky. But since I have an extra picture of Chet, I'll let you have one.
Stan, you needn't worry about Megabeth--she already has an entire wall of Chet photos.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 18, 2007 08:08 AMWe had an International Paper mill in Natchez up until several years ago. On some days the hills were alive with a smell something like boiled cabbage.
The community took a tough hit when it closed.
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 18, 2007 09:09 AMLuckily the community will not be nearly so hard hit should Possumblog be forced from the airwaves.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 18, 2007 09:45 AM