http://www.randem.net/blog/2008/03/25/doh Mostly photography from a somewhat photographer. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:02:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.randem.net/blog/2008/03/25/doh/comment-page-1#comment-2404 John Kinde Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:45:28 +0000 http://www.randem.net/blog/2008/03/25/doh/#comment-2404 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! 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!

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