Doh!
I didn’t even get honorable mention for my submission to the latest caption contest.
Okay, now open up and say “aaaarrrrggghhhhh”…
I’m not saying it was the best, but seriously? You didn’t even think it was worth honorable mention at the bottom of the page?
Tags: jokes
March 25th, 2008 at 10:45 am
You’re right, It’s a funny line.
I meant to put in an explanation with the results post. And I forgot to.
We normally get an average of 400-500 submissions. And surprisingly, we rarely have duplicates. In a normal contest we might have one line duplicated in all the entries. In the pirate contest, over 20 people submitted jokes with “say arrrrrrgh” as the punchline. Good writing. I like the line. The problem with recognizing the line with so many duplications is that when you publish it, 20 other people are thinking “hey, that was MY line!” Or they’re thinking, “there’s my line, but they mixed up the words.” A second consideration, was that with so many people submitting the line, it was considered too obvious. In my opinion, however, it’s good writing and is funny. I had intended to publish one of the variations with an explanation. Arrrrrrrgh!