what's that on my nose?

[East Coast Hustle]

I wasn't going to bother with this silly contest. everyone knows what I think of the PD (and the miserably failed concept of Discordianism in general). everyone knows that when I drop a piece of writing, it's because I want to yell AT you, not WITH you. but I feel left out. Nobody is bending over backward to shove their nose so far up my ass they can see my teeth. no one wants to give my balls a tongue bath while going on and on about how cool I am and how much they LOVE my work. No fanboi love for ECH. But that's to be expected. after all, the few here who seem to actually "get it" are well aware that they don't need validation from anyone but themselves. see, you read the PD and you got the uproariously funny punchline, but you forgot that there was a joke attached to it. you spent so much time fawning over the people whose writing inspires you to think for yourself that you forgot to actually think for yourself. you forgot that the only person whose trip you can get in on is your own. No amount of approval for Roger's post-nihilism or Hugh's tequilosophy, or Horab's serious absurdism is going to confer upon you the insight and clarity of purpose (or lack thereof) that they posess. Read their words. Feel their passion. glean whatever nuggets of wisdom you can from what they have to say. Tell them when you think their work is worthy of praise, but for fuck's sake, people, no one likes a brown-noser regardless of which silly internet clique they choose to latch on to. You're not stupid and unoriginal (not most of you, anyway). The very fact that you have found this place and have chosen to stick around attests to that. Instead of spending your time (and Mgt.'s bandwidth) with endless puerile "IAWTC" posts, try dropping some of your own science on  the rest of us. The free market demands that you do so, nad since no one wants to work for free, I offer a bribe: only rants by those who aren't generally in the rant business will be considered, and the author of whichever fledgling rant I find to be the most promising (which is not necessarily the same as being the "best") will recieve an actual physical prize.

this is Friday the 21st. deadline for submissions is next friday, the 28th. late entries will be read and considered, but will be ineligible for the prize. now get off the sidelines and into the game, for the love of Sweet Baby Jeebus.

ECH,
still doesn't have a witty tagline for his rants.

[LMNO]

Wait, was that a PD Commentary contest entry, or are you announcing a new Rant Contest?


And if so (which would be very, very cool), am I eligible?

[Cain]

Who is considered in the rant business, out of interest?  I know I'm pretty borderline in that respect.

[B_M_W]

I may have to take you up on this...hmmm, what to write, what to write.

[fluffy]

Wait, was that a PD Commentary contest entry, or are you announcing a new Rant Contest?


And if so (which would be very, very cool), am I eligible?

i think it is very obvious that ech is running his own contest

cool

as for eligibility, who cares?
do you have to have a carrot to do something?
mmmmm
carrots
::runs off to tell gnimbley about ech's contest in hopes of getting some carrots as a reward::

[Bella]

Cools beans. Another contest.  
I'm loving all this stuff by people who normally don't do a lot of writing, as well as by those who do.

[Horab Fibslager]

excelent idea mr. turd.

[East Coast Hustle]

Wait, was that a PD Commentary contest entry, or are you announcing a new Rant Contest?


And if so (which would be very, very cool), am I eligible?

naw, it started out intending to be a PD commentary entry, but morphed into what it is now, which is the announcement of an entirely different contest.

and yes, you are eligible. everybody is eligible except for the following people:

Roger
Hugh
Verthaine
Horab
Me
Zurtok
LHX
Cain
Baron Von Hoopla

all of whom we already know can write.

[LMNO]

....... Implying that you don't know if I can write.......

[Doc Howl]

....... Implying that you don't know if I can write.......

Maybe he just forgot you?

[LMNO]

Never!  It is a personal slight!


[Shatner]

East Coast Huuuuustllllllle!

[/Shatner]

[Cain]

Or he thinks you should write more.

[Doc Howl]

Never!  It is a personal slight!


[Shatner]

East Coast Huuuuustllllllle!

[/Shatner]

You sound as excitable as that guy who thinks he's Hitler.

on edit:  Or was that this satire thing I've heard about?

[agent compassion]

It was that satire thing you've heard about.

[Doc Howl]

It was that satire thing you've heard about.

I always get fooled by sarcasm, too.