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Play the Kazoo and Win a Jigsaw Puzzle
After I retired, I made wooden jigsaw puzzles for twenty or so years and sold them monthly at a Portland craft fair. I’m now done with all that, but I have a few puzzles left over. Here is one of them: I call it Democrats Gather for Photo Shoot Before Debate. I’m giving it as a prize to the Ricocheter with the most talent.
Here are some suggestions:
Respond with a photo of a tea cozy in the shape of Peter Rabbit you made ten years ago. Or perhaps a quilt you made.
Write an ode to your mother. Or write a rap to your muther.
Perhaps you baked a really fancy cake and took a photo of it. Send it in.
How about a two or four-line poem, perhaps in couplets, that satirizes Donald Trump’s hair?
Can you play the flute or kazoo? Play a little ditty on video and post it.
Respond with a photo of a painting you did a few years back.
Can you touch your nose with your tongue? Take a photo and post it. You could win. I like human oddities.
Play a song by blowing into your cupped hands.
Film yourself doing an Irish jig? Moxie counts a lot in this contest.
Can you sing? Sing the scale or a short song in an interesting way.
Recite a soliloquy from Macbeth. “Life’s a tale told. . . .”
Take off your shirt and pat your head and rub your tummy in a circle at the same time. You probably won’t win, but you will win the hearts of all Ricocheters.
It doesn’t have to be new. Dig up some old thing you did when you were 16. Who’s to know?
Anything you call a talent is a talent. Who am I to judge? Wait, I am the judge.
Here are the rules.
- No poems over the length of a sonnet. That’s 14 lines.
- No prose pieces over 30 lines.
- No videos over 30 seconds. I don’t want to listen to your mouth harp rendition of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony or a recitation of Milton’s Paradise Lost.
- Multiple submissions are not just permitted but encouraged.
At the end of three days, I will announce the winner and send the lucky person the puzzle.
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That corrupting ended long ago. I think this was in 1970.
So, so bad.
I can see @bossmongo doing that in his kilt.
Ricocheters, I underestimated how much interest there would be in this contest. I need to cut this off after three days, not a week.
So three days from now I’ll announce the winner.
I missed it until you pointed it out.
Well, for the love of Pete, who can compete with that. Outstanding. I’m jazzed.
Awright. Kilt. Here we go.
I got no drawing, photography, Jell-o (that was freakin’ awesome), sonnets or limericks.
But I decided at/about the age of 14 that I wanted to be a soldier, and on learning a little more about it, that I wanted it to me my choice whether I was the irresistible force or the immovable object. In a kilt.
[Aside: I have mind, too, y’know.]
I love it! I’d hate to wrestle the Mongo.
There is so, so much talent on Ricochet for bad puns, a talent, alas, so widespread among us and so well-matched that picking a single winner would prove quite difficult.
But pickling a punster or two might be a worthy goal.
But where is your attack cat?
I think Boss is still gonna win there, G.
Kent are we limited to the size of our project?
This is the first building project from the basement. It has been flying since 2011
This is the current project in the basement:
Don’t ask me when I finish it, that is a sure method to jinks the schedule.
I think you are right, but how many guys can do an immediate kilt retort?
Not I. I’m a Sassenach.
That’s just one of his hobbies. You should see the bread he bakes. Or the satellites he sends into orbit in his day job.
Or the cars he maintains, for that matter.
Yes with a matching mailbox, complete with solar power nav and landing lights
Yes just don’t ask me to do any of this stuff, it will be truly awful….
My renaissance man activities will never intersect with the literary form….
Ask Arahant how bad it can get.
I don’t play the kazoo, but I live fairly near, and have visited, the original kazoo factory, where they have been making them for over 100 years:
http://www.edenkazoo.com/
That’s gotta count for something.
These are Khmer cakes. I did not make them, but I wrapped them. Do I qualify?
What the? That’s a cake?
These are bite-size cakes. There’re about 100 cakes in that bucket.
I think wrapping them qualifies. Good luck.
Does one eat the wrapper?
We eat banana blossom and the green fruit. We also eat the young tree, but we do not eat the leaves.
What a fun thread. IMHO (and I do have one), we’re all winners! (Yeah, I know that smacks horribly of “participation trophy,” and when the actual winner is picked I won’t mind at all, but there isn’t a loser on this thread.)
Is there a group where we just brag on ourselves? There should be.
Not. Very. Many. Och aye the noo!
She, what’s a “noo”? It’s not a portmanteau word combining “new” with “loo,” is it? A new loo. It’s not one of your Britishisms, is it?