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HEY LISTEN
(Did you read that as Navi?)

I'm taking over this thing. And from now on we're going to be doing things MY way...which is basically the exact same way as before, but with a slower response from the guy in charge and also Dave can enter.

edit!
I'm dropping the funny tweet portion.

SPOOKY TWEETS ALL THE WAY!

I will make a new thread (for organizational purposes)** for a 140 WORD or less spooky mega tweet contest.

Keep 'em at 140 characters or less. I will probably check. I may not though! I'm kinda lazy. Maybe having the balls to stand up to authority will pay off, or maybe your own hubris will be your downfall. WHO KNOWS?!

Prize is TBD*

Cut off date is November 1 at 12:01 am Central. I think that's GM-6 or something. I LIVE IN TEXAS.

* Probably something Halloween themed. Walking Dead season 1? Severed head of a loved one? Bring my roommate's dog over so she can give you little puppy kisses? Dunno. Probably a real thing and not like "I prayed for you, while making a donation in your name to charity"

**With Dave's permission because I don't want to spammify this

I apologize for this. Phil and I discussed it and I just don't have the $$ for a prize. I'm still trying to figure out what I am going to give as a prize for the 3rd annual Anniversary Contest.

I'm sure someone would be willing to donate something.

These are horrible entries, guys. Let's step it up a bit.

Oh man, what if instead of the funny category we had a 140 WORDS or less category. Oh man that sounds like fun. Would people rather do that instead?

That would be very challenging so it could be like the advanced category

Did I miss the thread? I don't intend to spam this one, promise. I'm mostly in it for the reading this time.

He's got to figure out the format before we can start spamming him.

And spamming the contest is actually not a bad thing. Trust me.

Aw sorry phil didn't mean to get all chatty in your contest. Maybe for every thread we need a topic thread and that thread's off topic version lol. That might take care of a lot of problems around here.

When I said spammy I didn't mean people talking in here or anything. I meant having 1 thread for little tweets and 1 for larger ones.

But I actually like this way better so it'll be easier to read the submissions when that time comes.

Show some love for the little tweets.. they do the best they can.

And so it begins...

Last year's prize, courtesy of Dave!

And it only took a year to get them to you.

Fuck I have to actually get prizes now!

Dave said:

And it only took a year to get them to you.

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Hey, this way I didn't have to pack them in boxes and move them with me! :-P

I came in here to give some apparently disingenuous compliments. Unfortunately, my complete inability to be competitive and compliment at the same time was seen clear through! Woe is me.

So I guess I have to plug them all into not only twitter to make sure they're 140 characters long, but also google to make sure they're not from either Edgar Allan Poe or Steven King.

You've got about 24 hours to get your submissions in.

MY JUDGMENT SHALL BE SWIFT AND DECISIVE

JUDGE DREDD STYLE, YO.

WELP

The contest is over! I've poured over the tweets, all fuckin' 11 or so of them. I eliminated 3 right off the bat. 2 for strait up theft (seriously, you didn't think anyone would notice that was from The Raven?) and one 'cause running out of beer isn't really spooky.

The remaining 8 were submitted to my friends, whom I asked to tell me the number that corresponded to their favorite one. They had a surprisingly hard time following those instructions though. Here are some highlights of the gmail conversation:

First from a friend of mine who I guess reads a lot of spooky tweets, and has high expectations of the genera.

#4 is best. These are all pretty trite though.

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Next my friend who works on Wall Street but not in a way that is making it occupied right now. Giving me just a number that indicated which one he thought was the best was, I guess, too simple?

#1 and #4 are the 'spookiest' 8 is more of a 'rape inclined creeper' than spooky. #2 #3 #5 and #7 just describe bad situations.
And #6, well, it just is a thing.
So 1 or 4.

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THIS GUY WORKS FOR GOOGLE. FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS SHOULDN'T BE THAT HARD FOR HIM

I vote for the one with the arm turning black.

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GOD DAMN IT D-LO GET IT TOGETHER

Anyway Funsize and Enresshou won.

So tell me where you live and I'll make a thing appear there that you may or may not like as a prize. I guess PM me a thing you may like too, like if you have an amazon wishlist or something. I never really planned out the prize portion of this thing.

I sent you a PM. I would have sent you my Amazon wishlist, but that's really for family. I think if you're going to ask for sex toys, they should really come from your in-laws.

I feel like I should explain the Raven quote...I spent a couple hours trying to come up with something creepy and short and had no luck. So I looked up famous spooky poems to try to get in the mood. Then I posted what I thought was the best line as kind of a baseline of what I should shoot for in an actual tweet. The actual tweet submission ended up more creepy than spooky, I guess.

Probably shouldn't have left the original line up there, though, but you noticed before I could change it anyway, so I just added another one.

Also, congrats Fun Size and Enresshou!

Imma call you Edgar Allan Piotyr