Tag: comment contest 2023

We’ve Got ‘Em–100,000 Comments!

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We have a winner of our once-in-a-lifetime 100,000-comment contest!

As the suspense mounted, “Re-Farmer,” in western Canada, posted No. 99,999–a very sweet number, don’t you think? And just two minutes later, Ina came in, from Scotland, with 100,000. I am elated. So much so, that I’ve decided to give prizes to both.

Winners, you have your choice: an autographed copy of my latest Bell Mountain book, Behold!, or a cool red T-shirt with the motto by yours truly, “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.” All you have to do is provide me with your current mailing address. You can do that here; I’ll delete it after I copy it on paper.

And tomorrow we’ll launch our annual Christmas Carol Contest. I’ll post the rules tomorrow–we already have the first two entries.

May the Lord bring us all safe, happy, and healthy to Christmas 2023!

Only 13 Comments to Go!

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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.

Comment Contest: Absolutely Last Call

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Baluchitherium

(Never mind the elephant; they’re just friends.)

What to do, what to do? We have just under 200 comments left to get to 100,000–certainly a milestone that deserves to be celebrated.

But it’s also getting close to the time for opening our annual Christmas Carol Contest; and if I try to manage them both at once, they’ll find me gibbering under the bed.

How about it? Wouldn’t you like to be compared to Baluchitherium, the largest land mammal ever to walk the earth? Just post Comment No. 100,000 and you’ll be promoted instantly to the rank of Baluchitherium. You’ll also win a prize–either an autographed book, or this cool T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.”

So… I think I have to open the carol contest either on Thanksgiving Day or the day after. That doesn’t leave much time to wrap up the comment contest. But we shall see…

(No, I am not going to pretend to be a mob of new readers all posting comments. We don’t do that sort of thing around here.)