Silly Putty Comic Summer 2005 - (Winner posted!)

I've been mulling an idea for a non-serious contest. Basically, you and your opponent are given a sentence. The object is to come up with the best joke using said sentence as a punchline. Contestants will be judged on originality, wit, and simple "laughability." The only caveat is that it would have to be Eric's Grandma-friendly. Beyond that, you can pretty much do whatever you want.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? If enough people are interested, I was going to invite some folks to judge along with myself.

Anyway, just been in my brain lately.

Judges:
reveal
Rel
JD

Contestants
Round 1:
FireLance v. Bront - Judgement
warlord v. DungeonmasterCal - Judgement
diaglo v. Renton - Judgement
demiurge1138 v. DaveMage - Judgement

Round 2
FireLance v. Renton - Judgement
demiurge1138 v. DungeonmasterCal - Judgement

Final round
FireLance v. DungeonmasterCal - Judgement

Rules
1. This will work like current Iron DM and Ceramic DM contests.
2. Each contestant will be paired off.
3. When both contestants are good for it, a punchline will be posted.
4. The contestants will have 72 hours from the time of posting to put up their joke.
5. Once posted, do NOT edit your joke in any way. We're not looking for English majors here, but if things are spelled wrong and/or grammar is poor, the joke may suffer.
6. If you want to post critiques of others jokes, use the spoiler tags.
7. Judgements will be posted soon after the deadline.
8. Plaguerism will not be tolerated. This is a contest for creative, original people, not people who can google for funny stuff.
9. Judgements will be posted within 72 hours of each deadline.
10. Have fun! Think about it this way: You may end up writing a joke that gets passed around the Internet for years to come.

I'll give it a try but I'm sure that the fact that I'm willing to do so will virtually guarantee that I'm un-funny when I do it.

Sounds like fun. Count me in.

No, THEY think I'm funny. But what they don't understand is that I'm being COMPLETELY SERIOUS when I tell them there is a penguin on top of my television set....

Er....anyway, no thanks.

Rel said:

I'll give it a try but I'm sure that the fact that I'm willing to do so will virtually guarantee that I'm un-funny when I do it.

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Me, as well. Same caveat.

Says one zombie to another: "Hey, what d'ya think, do maggots have souls, too?"

Grumbles the other: "Don't have a job or something? How in the rotting pit do you come up with this stuff?"

Replies the first, sulking: "I knew you wouldn't be interested in capital philosophy ..." It shrugs. "Anyway, just been in my brain lately."


/first thing I thought of

Cool. Actually, Rel, I was going to ask you and JD to judge with me.

Ok here's my entry: Frukathka's a sexy beast!

cool idea, reveal.

i think i'll even subscribe to this thread just so i don't lose it.

diaglo said:

cool idea, reveal.

i think i'll even subscribe to this thread just so i don't lose it.

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Thanks.

If I can get a few more people to do it, we'll try it out and see how it works. So far we have 6 people, 5 if Rel agrees to judge. I would like to have at least 8.