A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day...07-15-03...Tagline Contest (ANN COULTER BOOK PRIZE!)

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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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ANN COULTER, ANN COULTER, ANN COULTER!

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What’s the funniest tag line you’ve seen? The funniest you’ve thought of – or is there someone else’s tag line that you want to plagiarize and call your own for contest purposes?

Post your entries – AS A TAG LINE – in this thread today and I’ll give, to the Funniest Tag Line, a great conservative gift!: a copy of Ann Coulter’s new book.

What I like about this contest is that the winner may have no idea that they entered!

Post your entry on this page by 10 p.m. EST, winner announced by midnight. No complaining that the judge is insane, easily bribed, and wholly lacking in judgment – we all know that already.

Bribes are welcome. Comments on your opinion on which is funniest are welcome.

Don’t be ridiculous! Everyone knows my judging is absurd. If you enter and don’t win, it means absolutely nothing! Trust me, around here, as a Judge, I get –

Some tag lines go with the post. Others work with any post, such as “ No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.” Others just have delightful humor, such as the wish that Sharpton should be the Democratic presidential candidate: “RUN AL, RUN!!!”

It would be fair to say that whatever your tag line, it’s going to get points with me, the judge, for being funny and having a conservative bent to it.

In sum, we’re looking for funny here. I’ve long been a fan of Chad Fairbank’s use of tag lines. He’s currently sporting a somewhat mysterious one (“There's no place like 192.0.0.1 There's no place like 192.0.0.1 There's no place like…”), but his tag lines are often a hoot. Whose your favorite tag author?

Speaking of authors......remember, this is what you're playing for!

Are you as surprised as I was? This has to be some kind of record. Never has Freezie said so little in so few words, and as such, we wanted to show our appreciation with this Award of ExcellenceBrevity. :) We also felt there was no more fitting a presenter than the Skinny One. ~ Billie

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 07-14-03 Military Monday

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[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Bumperooni.

[Billie]

Good afternoon, Ghost - have you been working on your submission for Dansy yet? :)

Just trying to keep being a pest. :)

[FreeTheHostages]

Yup, looks like I need a translater for 364 too! Hee hee. I'm posting a "finalist so far" post in just a few secs

[FreeTheHostages]

That's a close cousin to one of my favorite comebacks at FR when dealing with an idiot who challenges me to an argument: "I would never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person." :)

[FreeTheHostages]

Yup! I'll be posting a "finalist so far" post soon.

[FreeTheHostages]

"If you're judging, then why did Billie post?"

Because friends don't let friends post drunk.
Which, by the way, is another good tagline I've seen here at FR.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment

That is a great tag 4mycountry!

[The Thin Man]

(( Exist - but do it well ))

I'm rooting fo you to win, LadyX. Unfortunately, your tag line is far too sophisticated for the petulant pettifogger. :-)

[Billie]

Come on over BIllie, I go squeeze some lemons. DO you want mint or lemon verbena in yours?)

Mint, I think - never tasted lemon verbena before - it is related to that pretty little red verbena that makes a nice ground cover?

[FreeTheHostages]

To: Finalists So Far; All
From: The Drunk Judge
Re: My Initial Drunken Thoughts as a Judge Upon the Arrival of Post 400, or, in the department of "I could stop judging this contest any time I wanted to. No really."

Well, it wasn't funny, but it is significant to remember what brought us to the contest today: the first tagline in the thread was posted by Support Free Republic and it read: "Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!" Let's all not forget the location of the donation thread.

Here's some ones I like so far. If you don't see your tag name on the list, it's because, well, you're a loser. So far. Take no offense: that would assume winning one of my contests was actually prestigious or based upon merit. Hee hee. Freeper's Finest regulars no better.

But thanks for getting this far in the thread and DO remember to come visit Freeper's Finest again!

at post 16, we encounter g'nad's first of may good entries: "this is my tagline... there are many like it, but this one is mine..."

at post 22, iceskater (Everyone has the right to be stupid, some just abuse the priviledge (especially most democrats)"

Calpernia at post 25 provided a link to jigsaw's collection of clever taglines. Thanks so much! I took a look at those and although none are official entries, I was particularly impressed with Constitution Day's tagline in that thread: "Have *you* taunted a liberal today? "

post 37, Chad Fairbanks' "DEATH to all fanatics"

posts 20 and 30: Forgiven-Sinner's two-part limerick/ode to Ann Coulter

post 47, Chad Fairbanks' "One by one, the penguins steal my sanity..." is funny, but not really about conservatism.

post 55 and 57: .45Man's graphic efforts in two-dimension were, err, um, interesting, but, um, a little two-dimensional

post 56, nullandvoid's "Who cries for the krill?" is serious competition in my book

post 59, Tooter's:"God made us Freepers; Prozac made us friends"

post 72 is Pippin's self-portrait: " Pippin: Republican Warrior Hobbit: With an Atitude!"

brownie points to hoosiermama's tagline observation at post 97: "the drudge is junk"

at 109, we observe jwfiv's " Substantiality is inversely proportional to ponderability" – a tagline accompanied by a big funny picture of penguins. Hmmmm. I'll have to ponder what this means . . . .

at 122, Chad Fairbanks again with "Some of my best friends are middle-class white males" LOL!

at 128, 141, 143: cuz_it_ain't_their_money chimes in with a two-part:
There's no "I" in "Team".
Then again, there is no "I" in "Useless Smug Colleague" either.
However, there are four in "Platitude-Quoting Idiot".
Go Figure!

for which, at post 130, chad fairbanks responds with " There may be no "I" in "Team", but there IS an "M" and an "E""

at 146, TheBigB (Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll buy a stupid hat.)

at 194, hoosiermama's If you have a job, thank the rich person that hired you!

at 210, kevkrom (You can't spell "dumb" without "DU")

at 219, mhking ("Noah, how long can you tread water?") (OK, I'm not even sure I get this one, but MHKing kicked Butt on MSNBC's Scarborough country last night, so he got MAJOR brownie points and vaulted into a finalist spot with this one

at post 232, RedBloodedAmerican's "I am logged in, therefore I am."

at post 239 (and elsewhere), Helms (If California is the Future, I will live in the Past)
at post 246, A_perfect_lady (I'm an Ann Coulter soul trapped in a Janeane Garofalo body.) Wait, you say, that's conservative and all but my tag was funnier than that! Yeah, but this tag has 2 things going for it. First, it really goes after Garofalo, which your judge likes to hate, and second A_perfect_lady later in the thread insulted the French, which again your judge approves of entirely. Besides, the post was accompanied by expert pandering, to wit: " Allow me to enter my tagline as I desperately want Ann's new book but, as a college student, am broke till next month when the next financial aid check comes and sinks me further into debt. ;^)"
I judge as serious competition Diver Dave's post 301: "Liberals are the speed bumps of life....Ya just gotta drive over them...again and again and again..." That's the idea, people.

at 304, Flyer posts "My dog ate my tag line" as a tagline, pretty much ignoring the conservative bent rule. He's not going to win with this one, and he knows it, but he gets honorable mention for rehearsing a lovely insider's joke. Flyer's fake excuse in life is that his dog did it. And he has a cute dog. So that's how he got this far in the contest. deal with it!

and by invitation at post 310, we have a quintessential FR tagline by Lazamataz (PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)

at 318, another various series contender: dansangel (Have you read my #1 bestseller? There *will* be a test. ~ God)

at 336, someone's read the rules carefully and realized they could plagiarize. No problem. We like the entry by thrcanbonly1 ("I like sunsets on on the beach, long walks and belt-fed weapons.")

at 361, Forgiven_Sinner (This tag is composed of wholly organic, domestically grown, dolphin-safe, electrons.)

at 381, we have another entry not to be trifled with: RadioAstronomer (Never argue with leftists. They only bring you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)

at 392 and several other places, dansangel (Don't make me come down there. ~ God)

at 397, with a very appropriate bribe, we have JulieRNR21 (Candy is dandy but freeping makes me frisky!)


At this point, let's take a breadth and here some of those "But what about me?" Or "Did you have to put in every single one of Chad Fairbanks as a finalist?" Well, first, it's not about you. It's about me, the drunk judge! Second, I did not use ALL of Chad's: For example, his post 181, "Either that girl is flirting with me, or my paranoia is finally trying to do something positive," is very funny, but it's not about conservatism. Again, for example, some of 4mycountry's were funny, others were conservative, but not the two in strong combination. So if you don't see your name yet on the list, you have until 10 PM, and maybe my "finalists to date" list is helpful in seeing the world through my twisted vision. But wait, you say. SURELY YOU JUST MISSED MY PRIOR ENTRY. Word: I did not. If I said "LOL" I was just being polite about your pathetic loser entry. If you're not on the list and you want to win, you have until 10 p.m. EST to try again. Hey, I think I'm taking on a hard edge here, so I'm switching over from scotch to vodka for the final judging. (And no I'm not actually drunk: that's just a lame excuse for my lame judging.)

[The Thin Man]

"Humble" is your middle name...."The Thin *Humble* Man"

Wow! How did you know?

[FreeTheHostages]

Well, actually, my objection was that it was too short! ;)

[Calpernia]

>>>>>Dull women have immaculate houses!

My new doormat! Thank you :)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Here - I made this tagline just for you - consider it a gift...

[TheBigB]

Hey, I'm a finalist! :-) I'm honored and humbled. Does the swimsuit competition come before or after the evening gown category?

Let me work on my interview answer: "I think good things are good and bad things are bad. I want to someday run a fortune 500 company while working with children as a hobby."

[JustAmy]

Okay, FReezie!!
This is it! No more bribes from here,!

[Feiny]

Since the judge is drunk.....

[Feiny]

Since the judge is drunk.....

[RedBloodedAmerican]

It's fixed!

[Feiny]

sorry about the double post...had a typo....poster is drunk too!!!