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Prizes! We Got Prizes!

I think I’m going to let the Internet Challenge go to a full twenty challenges.

Are you already exhausted by them? If you are, you’re probably not doing them right.

Here are the prizes I will give to the people with the highest IC rating after the contest has completed.

Prize #1, Award For Highest IC Points:
A robotic bug from the excellent store Robot City Workshop!

Prize #2, Second Highest IC Points:
A DVD of Troll 1 and Troll 2 The Wicker Man!

Prize #3, Third Highest IC Points:
A bottle of spicy mustard!

Internet Challenge #13

Hi!

A new challenge.

Find me the most banal possible Tweets you can. I mean, I want them so dull that while I am reading them I will want to stab my leg with a fork to make sure I am still alive.

They can be celebrity Tweets. They can be non-celebrity Tweets. I will want you to provide the direct link to the Tweet, not just the text of it. For people who think everything about Twitter is banal, this link may change your mind.

Not valid: Tweets by people pretending to be celebrities are not acceptable. I still feel burned for laughing at (fake) Henry Rollins for folding clothes on his bed.

Also not valid: Tweets by me — besides, my Tweets are gripping, eloquent and have flowing hair like Fabio. How could I possibly bore you? That’s not an Internet Challenge question — that was rhetorical.

Only 3 Tweets per contestant, please. One IC point per Tweet, if I deem it suitably banal.

First contestant with valid entry/entries gets an extra sparkly IC point.

I’m picking up the award for 1st place in IC points tonight. I’m spending CASH MONEY for it. I have decided the top 3 point-earners are going to win prizes.

So what are you waiting for?

YOU WANNA PRIZE YOU GOTTA MOVE YOUR THIGHS™

UPDATE:

The Imaginary Reviewer scores 2 IC points for being the first with a dull tweet, appropriately enough from Twitter user dulltweets:
“Wanted to go comb my hair so I picked up a comb. Then I changed my mind so I put it down again.”

I imagine this Twitter user might have been trying to be dull, but I did not indicate that dullness had to be unintentional for this challenge.

Flannery Alden scores 2 IC points as well for these two “celebrity” Tweets:
First MC Hammer:
“Good Morning (PST)… have a great day !!! breakfast.. Time for the fish oil, protein, fruits and veg powder, glucosamine and I’m out !!!”

Just curious, was the timezone really necessary?

Dave Matthews
“I don’t have a problem with traffic. I like it sometimes.”

This can’t really be him, can it? I find it hard to believe that anyone would unironically say this. If this Twitter account is really used by Dave Matthews, I look forward to the inevitable Tweet:

“I don’t have a problem dumping shit on people taking boat tours. I like it sometimes.”

Flannery, I couldn’t count the Jeff Ashcroft Tweet — cheesy yes, but not banal enough.

Jin provided a series of Tweets. I have whittled them down to two for 2 more IC points.

joeva25
“lets roll tar heels get it going early and often and bring home a title”

This might not be so banal if I liked sports, but I don’t like sports.

Surferdan7771
“what happened to dakota”

Couldn’t give you one for skycity96, because I actually liked the accompanying pic in the Tweet.

Couldn’t read AnnetteSmieja Tweet — she has protected her updates, possibly to prevent being ridiculed on the Internet for her banality.

I liked the Tweet of melahknee — I might rip it off later.

And, the Tweet of canuckuk is funny if the “proof read” misspelling was intentional.

Internet Challenge #12

Hey.

Can you find any record of April Fool’s pranks/jokes from 1999 on the web?

This one might be hard. 2 IC points for each example you find, and 2 IC points for the first valid answer.

UPDATE:

Holy crap, The Imaginary Reviewer scores 4 IC points for this:

                   _____/—–\   / o\
                  <____>—
  +—–+              \ /    /______/
  | 10g |               /|:||/
  +—–+              /____/|
  | 10g |                    |
  +—–+          ..        X
===============================
               ^
               |
           =========

Keep those Olde Tyme pranks coming!

Internet Challenge #11

Hey, readers.

What’s nice about Vancouver, B.C.?

1 IC point for each nifty thing you can find about it (niftiness will be a subjective quality deemed by me, though you can sway my idea of it with the POWER of WORDS).

After four more challenges I will announce the award for the person with the highest IC point rating!

UPDATE:

p0nk is walking the razor’s edge with these challenges. It seems like he is using MEMORY instead of THE INTERNET. Memory Challenge is next month, p0nk. For your noting of celebrities being listed on Wikipedia I give you 1 IC point (and another one for being first). Ah hell, okay, another one for the hockey team. And I find your vague memory of a childhood visit to a mysterious garden somehow poignant — another point. +4 for p0nk.

Beckeye gets a point for the 3737 restaurant factoid.

Comrade Kevin scores a point for the crazy Vancouver street pronunciation.

This is highly unusual, because Gifted Typist is Canadian and probably didn’t look ANY of her facts up on the Internet. Still, they were nifty. +8 IC POINTS.

Jin gives us three cool things about Vancouver:
Woman-Owned Tattoo Parlor
Vancouver Punk Scene
Severed Feet

The Imaginary Reviewer find this enchanting description for an IC Point:
“Majestic mountains, sparkling ocean, rainforests and beautiful foliage all four seasons make Vancouver one of the most beautiful cities in the world.”

Internet Challenge #10

Find me the metalest band in the universe.

Please feel free to show your work.

UPDATE:

Jin gives us GWAR for 2 IC points:

Beckeye gives us Morbid Anal Frog for 1 scary IC point:

Domboy gives us Judas Priest! As Rob Halford says in the clip, “Breaking the what?!” Did all their concerts involve pop quizzes?

Randal Graves says Manowar. Hey, they will DIE FOR METAL.

p0nk says Metallica. Here they are with the MOTHERFUCKING SAN FRANCISCO MOTHERFUCKING SYMPHONY.

So, it looks like

+2 IC Points for Jin
+1 point for Beckeye, Domboy, Randal G and p0nk.

Internet Challenge #9

Find me some awful fan fiction!

The worse, the better.

I’ll be judging entries based on a variety of traits, including but not limited to:

Grammar/Spelling mistakes
Narrative logic problems
Inappropriate erotic subtext
Frequent use of sound effects
Purple prose
Retardedness

If you submit a particularly bad entry, you may earn extra IC points.

As with the other challenges, you can’t cook up one of your own pieces of fan fiction to submit — you have to find one already floating in the Internet, stinking up the place.

UPDATE:

Flannery Alden scores 2 points for being first, and finding Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy in a moment of tenderness:

Harry Potter Erotica
“No,” I edged my lips closer to his and gently kiss them, loving the taste of chocolate it possesses, probably from those chocolate frogs he loves and I felt him responding instinctively. Both of us pull away at the same time.

“I’m sad and miserable because I think…I’m in…in… love with you,” the words came out in a rush from my mouth. His face contains shock and his stormy grey eyes ask me to repeat what I just said.

“I’m in love with you although I shouldn’t be. You’re my best friend’s enemy and so you are my enemy too,”

Beckeye serves up a slab of:

American Idol erotica
“Jesus,” David groaned, sinking his fingers deep into his friend’s soft black hair.

Michael gripped David’s ass as he fell into a rhythm, in and out, in and out, in and out. Faster and faster. Tighter and tighter. Until David couldn’t think or breathe. He could barely stand. His whole body started to quake under the strain as he tried desperately to hold onto the moment.

“God, Mike, I can’t… God!”

SamuraiFrog dials into an interesting spin on Heroes. I am going to have give him an IC extra point for this entry’s ridiculously vile clunkiness (I didn’t know clunkiness could be ridiculously vile — thank you fan fiction!).

Heroes Erotica
Peter felt ashamed and dirty and excited when Nathan talked like that to him, and no matter what had happened between before Haiti and now, he had not forgotten: Nathan never failed to deliver when it came to their forbidden sexual relationship.

And now Nathan was giving him Claire. The last piece of the puzzle to this unattainable incestuous love triangle that Peter had only even dreamed about. He had been in love with Claire since Odessa. His mother, Angela Petrelli, must have dreamed it, must have told Nathan, because he’d never breathed a word of it to anyone. But he was still angry. Nathan shouldn’t have had her first. Nathan didn’t love her the way he did. If anything, she was Nathan’s possession. Just like he had been. Just like you still are, Peter reminded himself.

Peter felt that white hot anger churning in his belly, beneath the ache of his body’s demand for release: the last time he’d had sex was also with Nathan, before Haiti.

Jin gives us a tender Gore V. Bush (the man, not the slang word for vagina) moment
Gore V. Bush
“Whatever. Smarty-pants. You’re supposed to be helping me, here.” George interjected. “Offering bi-partisan support or whatever it is that you liberals do when you’re not chaining yourself to trees and whatnot in protest of stuff.”

“George,” the other man’s voice was so cool, so measured, that it gave the President pause for a moment. “You are this close to getting the remainder of this now-cold latte poured down the front of your shirt.” He smiled a smile that was anything but sweet, and severely lacking in his customary Southern charms. “Make one more ‘tree hugger’ crack. I dare you.” George promptly muttered something under his breath. “What was that, dear? I didn’t catch it.”

“You look real handsome tonight,” was George’s offhanded reply. “That’s all I said.”

“That’s what I thought you said.” Al said, not without triumph.

The two meandered along, ducking a strand of crudely-hung, multicolored lights, and continuing on up between two long rows of tall, full Balsam firs. “This one’s not bad.” Al gestured to one of the tall evergreens. George wrinkled his nose.

Jin, I kind of liked the Scooby Doo and Cthulhu piece — can’t give you a point for that one.

Internet Challenge #8

Pics of celebs eating hot dogs. Get going.

(corn dogs are also acceptable)

UPDATE:

Beckeye scores two IC points for Vanessa Hudgens.

Bubs scores 5 IC points for this challenge!

John Kerry!

Nicole Richie

Obama

Some Guy scores a single IC point for another Obama pic

Another Obama pic from Bubs, raising his IC points for this post to 6!

Beckeye scores 4 MORE IC POINTS!

Jerry Lewis

Taylor Swift

George Clooney

Kelly Clarkson

Randal G sneaks in for an IC point for NYC Mayor Bloomberg

Holy crap, Mommy Lisa found this awesome Sigourney Weaver photo – 1 IC point for you!

p0nk scores two well-earned IC points for the following:

Martha Stewart

Fidel Castro

Chef Cthulhu scores three impressive IC points with the following:

Paris Hilton

Nikita Khrushchev

Marilyn Monroe

Flannery Alden serves up a pic of former Chicago Bear William “The Fridge” Perry (WTF is he doing eating at Nathan’s? Chicago dogs not good enough for you, Mr. Perry?!!!)

Three more from Jin!

Pam Anderson

Drew Barrymore

3 more pics from Bubs!

Vanessa Hudgens, Part 2

John McCain

Jason Mesnick (“The Bachelor”)

KEEP THOSE HOT DOG PICS COMING

Internet Challenge #7


Nora at Casa De Bubs is a semifinalist in the Fangoria Spooksmodel contest.

Please find her on this page and cast your vote!

Report back after voting and you will be awarded an IC point. You will get an additional IC point if you promote her on your own blog (just include your link in a comment and I’ll add it here).

UPDATE:

Beckeye scores 2 IC points for being the first voter to report in!
SamuraiFrog scores 2 IC points, 1 for voting, and 1 for doing his own post in support of Nora.
Jin gets two more IC points for voting/posting.

SamuraiFrog’s post
Jin!

Congrats! There’s still more IC points to be had, folks! Get going!

Internet Challenge #6

Another challenge for you. Provide a link to a positive online review of the film Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.

It doesn’t have to be by a professional reviewer — it can be a blog, whatever.

UPDATE:

The Imaginary Reviewer improbably found a gushing review of the movie here.

What a great movie!…The movie was 100% pure adrenaline. The action sequences were well done and very plentiful, but what was equally impressive was the plot. The storyline wasn’t always obvious and you had to figure out what was really going on. It was enjoyable to be entertained by the relentless action and simulaneously be challenged by the storyline. While the action was good, it was not bloody, and did not merit the R. One swear, no nudity — it’s definitely a PG-13 experience. Lucy Liu’s character wasn’t emotionless…, but was driven. She had something she desperately needed to do and she was focused. Rather than being emotionless she was in control of emotion, and rather than sobbing like some wimpy character, she took charge and channeled her emotions with butt-kicking flair. This is a movie that I am going to see again – worth every cent of the $9 admission – and I will buy as soon as it comes out on DVD.

2 more IC points to the IR! And “One swear, no nudity” should be put on the US $1 dollar bill.

Internet Challenge #5

Another challenge for you. In this case, there is only one entry allowed per person.

Provide a link to a cool video of something in slow-motion.

UPDATE:

Some Guy scores 2 more IC points for submitting the first entry with an awesome slow motion video.

You can still win your own IC point. Simply provide a link to a cool slow-motion video.

SamuraiFrog, with the slow-motion ass slap for an IC point: