Congrats, Kadi!

There was a firestorm of controversy regarding this week's caption contest. Why does controversy always come in firestorms? Has there ever been a thunderstorm of controversy? A sandstorm of controversy?

The controversy revolved, tornado-like, around the question of how much shameless self-promotion is appropriate when competing in this little contest. So let me clear this up, once and for all: If you win, you've done about the right amount.

Kadi did about the right amount this week. Actually, she was fairly restrained this time around, which evidently got her the self-deprecation vote. Nicely played, Kadi! You win a copy of my book, Antisocial Commentary. Send me your address and I'll get it in the mail to you.

You also get the coveted In Your Face Award. Again.




Bee took second place, with:

Trimming my fingernails with your teeth shows your loyalty to the family.

And the bitterest of good sports, stushie, took third:

Your first task, Luigi, will be to shoot the James Caan dwarf that's clinging to my right shoulder.

Have a great weekend, everybody. Especially those of you meeting Bossy in San Francisco tonight. It looks like I won't make it, what with work and a bad cold kicking my ass this week, but I'm sure you'll carry on without me.

I'll be back on Monday with a post in which the author of that "Footprints" poem gets buried alive under a mountain of Precious Moments figurines.

But not really.

But maybe.

Humor-blogs.com once stood by while a family of chipmunks perished in a firestorm of controversy.