I wanted to start our annual Christmas Carol Contest, but I just can’t abandon the race to 100,000 Comments this close to the finish line.
There are only 13 comments to go! Thirteen! We could do that by lunchtime!
A celebration for lasting long enough to have 100,000 comments will not come again. Will you be the one to make history?
Note to <Thewhiterabbit> I am saving your carol to be the first one entered in the carol contest.
We’re looking toward 54 comments today, which will bring us up to 100,000–a milestone that will never occur again, so I don’t see how I can ignore it.
Above is pictured the S.S. Zavoody, described in the brochure as a “maritime fixer-upper.” I am sorry to report that this will not be the prize for winning the contest. The winner will have to be content with an autographed book or a cool T-shirt. Or maybe something to do with elephants.
But what about the annual Christmas Carol Contest? Well, I can’t run two contests simultaneously or I’ll wind up in the booby hatch. So the carol contest will start as soon as this one’s finished. We always have a lot of fun with the carol contest, and I mean to put my heart into it.
May the Lord bring us all safe and sound to Christmas, 2023, and on into the new year. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Eat your heart out, Cal Ripken! I’ll show you a streak!
Would you believe it? I have blogged on this site for 3,000 consecutive days! Ai-ya, how did I ever do that? Actually I did it yesterday but didn’t notice till bedtime, and my last look at my stats page.
(Uh, Lee… couldn’t you find anything else to do?)
(Yeah, I could and I do! It’s called working your tuchas off!)
I don’t know what good I’ve done, but I like to think I’ve done some. I pray my work is of use to Christ’s Kingdom.
I’ve just noticed that we have less than 1,000 comments to go to reach 90,000. I wonder if I can drum up any interest in a comment contest.
Well, sure–if the prize is gaudy enough. I’ve got T-shirts and books. No one gets excited. I briefly considered “Win a date with Joe Collidge!” Very briefly.
Didn’t I once offer a little bag of army men? How did that turn out? I’m guessing it didn’t.
Oh… suffice it to say that the reader who posts Comment No. 90,000 will win something. (You can always use little army men to decorate a big cake.) I’ve got some time to think it over and I’m always willing to take suggestions. If I can get any.
G’day! Byron the Quokka here, urging you to take part in the comment contest. To that end, let me introduce my cousin Feezy.
Everybody thinks she’s irresistibly cute… but she will plotz if we don’t have a comment contest winner soon. Save Feezy from plotzing!
We’re shooting for a milestone, 85,000 comments, with less than 400 left to go. And oh! the prizes!
–Autographed copy of one of Lee’s books
–Spectacular red T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost”
–Some plastic army men
Don’t blame me if Lee’s too cheap to offer real prizes that’ll get people so excited, they won’t know what to do with themselves–like a bicycle, for instance. Or a catapult. I’d love to have a catapult. But he never listens to me.
G’day! Byron the Quokka here; and as you can see, I’m incognito. I don’t want to get stuck managing another contest! Crikey, I’m not the only Quokka here. Why can’t Feezy or Foozy take on some of this work?
Anyhow! We are shooting for 80,000 comments, a glorious milestone, we’ve got just 350 to go, and oh, brother, do I wish we’d get them up before Thanksgiving! Because the day after, I have to start the Christmas Carol Contest. (You can’t beat it for alliteration.)
If you are the lucky winner who posts Comment No. 80,000, you will win a prize of your choice: either a high post in the government of Bulgaria, an autographed copy of one of Lee’s books, or this cool T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.”
But it’s all up to you, O readers! Only 350 comments to go–you can do that standing on your heads (maybe another contest here, do ya think?).
Before anyone around here dives into any nooze, I’d like to make a plea for more comments.
Byron the Quokka here, in charge of contests. Closing in on the magic milestone of 80,000 comments, we have less than 500 to go. Five hundred! You could do that in ten days.
And I really wish you would–because I’m gonna have to launch our annual Christmas carol contest the day after Thanksgiving, and my brains’d fall out if the comment contest was still going and I had to manage both of them at the same time. My Uncle Roogie tried that once and it made him bald.
Prizes? We have these cool T-shirts, in MAGA red, that say “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.” Also autographed copies of Lee’s books.
Oh! And the right to identify as Napoleon Bonaparte and make everybody else “celebrate” it. But let’s keep that between you and me!
G’day! Byron the Quokka here–and pardon me for eating my breakfast while I deliver this announcement; but if I don’t chow down on this crunchy yellow leaf, someone else’ll get it.
We have now more than 79,000 comments in the bin, and we’re shooting for that glorious milestone of 80,000. This time last year, we would’ve easily collected 1,000 more comments in half a month. This year? Well, let’s see!
The lucky winner who posts Comment No. 80,000 will win either an autographed book or one of those cool T-shirts that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.” The King of Rottnest Island wears one.
Ah! And how do you suppose he got to be king of Rottnest Island in the first place? Eh? He won a bloomin’ comment contest, that’s how! He was universally admired for that: everybody demanded he be king.
All comments are eligible, except for the following: comments abusive to anyone else at this site, f-bombs and other profane expressions, ads thinly disguised as comments–which means someone thinks we must be really stupid–and comments just too dopey to bother with. Beyond that, anything goes.
(Special bulletin from Byron the Quokka, whose job it is to keep up with these things.)
G’day! Big news about the current comment contest–the push for 75,000 comments.
We have less than 100 comments to go, to reach that milestone! Do we really need all week to come up with 100 comments?
The winner gets an autographed copy of one of Lee’s books–or a cool red-and-white T-shirt that says, “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.” You get to choose.
Waddaya say we wrap this up in just another two days–or even less? Show the Big Tech censors that they can’t stop us!
I cannot wait to hand out this prize!
All of us quokkas here on Rottnest Island are puzzled! In fact, we’re so puzzled, they put us in a puzzle!
We’re shooting for Comment No. 70,000, a major milestone, with only 32 left to go–that’s right, just 32!
And today we have eight comments. You’d think all you snowed-in humans would be here commenting. Don’t tell me you’re all just sitting there watching Super Bowl pre-game blather. (We’ve already seen the blinkin’ game. Well, we thought it was the Super Bowl. It might’ve been a commercial for Geritol.)
Look, the winner gets an autographed copy of Lee’s book, His Mercy Endureth Forever, or else one of those giant stone heads from somewhere in Turkey, they make ideal lawn ornaments, so much more impressive than that little jockey with the lantern. But there’ve got to be 32 more comments posted for someone to win!
So just buckle down and give us a knuckle-biting race to the finish line.