Winner!

by gallagher on Jan 28, 2009 11:48 PM CST

Again, thanks to everyone who submitted an entry, all the finalists and to everyone who voted.

Now, bow down before Barc and pay homage. He is in our rafters. He is watching our Blues.

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ALL HAIL BARC!!!!

This has my complete approval (not that anyone gives a shit).

Used to be Aaron, but some douchebag Celtics fan has that one already.

by Fuck Detroit on Jan 29, 2009 4:52 AM CST reply actions

I voted for in your crease, stealing your cups, but I made sure to get this one in the finals.

Congrats. Don’t let the fame and fortune change you, Formerly Poor College Student.

by Brad Lee on Jan 29, 2009 9:44 AM CST reply actions

I'll have to admit . . .

It’s about as classy a picture as you could make on ROFLbot.

Glad it became a winner, even IF my two entries took a bloodbath in the voting procedure. It’s coo.

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile." -- Vince Lombardi

(No, I'm not a Packers fan)

by Donut King on Jan 29, 2009 10:26 AM CST reply actions

Having two entries in the finals may have hurt your chances to win as they were “outbidding each other”. Of course, that doesn’t seem to have slowed Poor College Student down at all (yet another use for Facebook – it’s nearly becoming the duct tape of the Internets).

It’s too bad we were only able to vote for one entry each. I wonder if there is a way for the voting process to rank the entries. Then there would be a way to determine who wins 2nd place. Perhaps the voting on contests should be restricted to SB*Nation members only, too.

"It was one thing to know your heart, another thing to admit it. And something altogether different to allow yourself to follow it." ~R.A. Salvatore

by Gene_STL on Jan 29, 2009 10:36 AM CST up reply actions

Probably a lot like . . .

the 2004 National League MVP vote. The Cardinals had three deserving candidates (Pujols, Rolen, Edmonds) . . . who ended up finishing 3-4-5 in the voting (in that order), but because there were three top candidates from one team, they got slaughtered by the guy who ended up winning the MVP award (Barry fucking Bonds) and the second place guy (Adrian Beltre, who has done nothing since).

Yeah, sorry for the baseball reference . . . but that’s the best comparison I could come up with on short notice.

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile." -- Vince Lombardi

(No, I'm not a Packers fan)

by Donut King on Jan 29, 2009 10:46 AM CST up reply actions

I thought about that too when we were putting the finals together,

but decided that in the end, people are voting for a picture, not the person that came up with it, so it wouldn’t be like splitting your votes.

SWYD

by gallagher on Jan 29, 2009 2:39 PM CST up reply actions

Congratulations.

Now can these things stop popping up all the freaking time in Fan Shots and threads (I’m looking sternly in your direction, spectre)?

I mean, not to be a downer – I do commend the creativity and all and almost…almost….chuckled at the net-lifting one from the Boston game – but am I the only one who thinks this LOLZ-craze on the Internet is a sign of growing idiocy and flagrant disrespect for the English language? Yes, I understand the Internet is a different medium and therefore different writing ettiquette may apply. We’ve all heard, “If you can’t think of anything nice to say, don’t say anything.” Well, I think if you can’t type something out fully, clearly, and with proper spelling, don’t type anything.

Keep in mind this rant applies only to this absurd LOLZ phenomenon and to none of our general quick-typing and TWIs (Typing While Intoxicated) in threads. Maybe it’s just me, but everytime I see one of those stupidly-tested pictures, I just want to slug it’s creator…and my 11-year-old cousin, because she’s the biggest perpetrator of this crap that I know (and I’ve got evidence in the form of seven separate, 50+ photo LOLZ Cats e-mails as proof

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Jan 29, 2009 10:47 AM CST reply actions

Perhaps...

THIS will restore your faith in the internet

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Jan 29, 2009 11:32 AM CST up reply actions

if you were next to me in person

I would take a stake and stab it repeatedly between your ribs and making sure I punctured the aorta.

I swear to god if I get a virus from that thing… I mean it took me about 10 minutes to get rid of it because it kept jumping around on my screen so I couldn’t catch it.

FUCK DETROIT IN EYEBALLS

"Go to sleep bitch! Die motherfucker die! Times up bitch close your eyes!" ~Eminem
"Turned into a monster I'm a motherfucker!!!" ~ Static X

by Carnie on Jan 29, 2009 2:49 PM CST up reply actions