A Few Of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-02-03...Holiday Contest Thread: Rumsfield Doll

12/02/003 | FreeTheHostages

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HARK! Welcome to a holiday contest thread.

The prize is a talking doll. But wait, it gets better!
	Secretary Rumsfield is doing the talking! Ah, Rummy, he tells it like it is.  Click here to see a sample of things the doll can say!

Santa sees all, knows all.     Cool Christmas gifts for Rumsfield?   You betcha.  But here’s a more perplexing question: Whatever will Rummy get for the press corps?


How does Donald Rumsfield really feel about THEM?  He probably can't say.   The press corps, being the inexperienced, naive, childlike people that they are, may determine how much Rumsfield really loves them by the Christmas gift he gives them.


So, let's do some fictitious shopping for our beloved Secretary of Defense.  Pretend the President has given you leave to get them what you *really* want to get them.  Best answer wins the doll!

Examples of Gifts From Rummy, To Press Corps, With Luv
Recompense for their thoughts	A Texas snowglobe?
A good gift for Sam Donaldson	Remember, it's the thought that counts . . .
Got the idea?  Good.  So it's your turn: what should Secretary Rumsfield get for his beloved crop of youngsters in the Pentagon press room?

The Rules
1. There are no rules! Everything is subject to change on the merest whim. Needless to say, this contest is not affiliated with the ownership of Free Republic and is run by just me.


The Guidelines
1. Post by 22:00 hours (10 p.m. EST --Rumsfield-time!) your description of what Rumsfield should get for the Fourth Estate.  In this fictious gift-giving contest, you can use words, graphics, sounds, and/or an unlimited ficitious budget.  Your contest entry can describe a gift to the entire press corps or you can select one member to receive Sec. Rumsfield’s gift.

2. Winner will be announced on this thread at 23:00 hours.

3. Humor counts.   Conservatism counts.   Picking on the artwork of The Thin Man counts.   In short, everything counts.   Including how much alcohol I have imbibed at the time of judging.   Oh, and if you have to ask if bribes count, then you don't know me well enough to get me the perfect gift anyway.

4. As always, no complaining that the judge (me) is a raving lunatic.   Everyone already knows that.   Bor-r-r-r-ing.   As per last year, no whining if you lose just ‘cause your entry was clearly better: remember, when the judge is an idiot, there’s no shame in losing.   So enter once, enter often, have a ball.

5. The possibility exists of runner-up prizes and awards.   The possibility also exists that if you don’t want a the Rumsfield doll and would prefer a Coulter doll, I just might have access to one for ya.  Or not.  Depends on my mood, really.

6. Don't post anything that our President and First Lady would disapprove of.


7. Oh, and no not entering because you're afraid of embarassing yourself.  That's the entire point of these contests and you'll have plenty of company!  Ho ho ho!





Just in case you're not motivated and somehow have lost the dander you usually put up when you see a member of the press corps, consider the fact that the ne'er-do-wells just yesterday gave TONS of cnn.com frontpage publicity to a "foot-in-mouth" award for Rumsfield given by a couple of unknown British quacks.  Unbelievably, the press corps is riding herd on the theory that the man can't talk no good!  We, on the other hand, understand perfectly this gem:

We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.   But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.

It makes perfect sense to everyone except a Liberal and we recognize the Rumsfieldian humor and truth in the statement.  I personally hope this contest has many unknown unknowns!

And Merry Christmas, Secretary Rumsfield!  We understand you and you've been a very good boy this year!

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[Calpernia]

Please take it easy here. I may not sleep tonight. I don't know what I would do if I actually won the Booby Prize. To have you following me around correcting my grammar and spelling all day ****shivers****

[dixie sass]

Rotfl, Leni! That is the funniest...

[dixie sass]

Welcome to FRee Republic, Thumper!

[The Thin Man]

Since I didn't even make an honorable mention

LOL! I thought everyone received honorable mention. Even I received it despite not even bothering to submit an entry. You must just feel horrible. :-(

[Calpernia]

So, I must live with Officer Spellgood looking over my shoulder!!!!!!!

Free! how could you do this to me???!!!!!!! Tell me it is not true! Did I really win the Booby Prize???

[dixie sass]

Am I the only one that caught the The Thin Man's typo?

[Calpernia]

Goodnight to the Finest!

[dixie sass]

Good report Mountaineer. Wonder where Badray was. Thought that he would be there with bells on!

[The Thin Man]

Am I the only one that caught the The Thin Man's typo?

Nope! You missed it. You better start from the beginning again.

[The Thin Man]

Good night, Calpernia. Too bad about the booby prize. Don't let it get you down! :-)

[dixie sass]

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh, and I thought that mine was so clever: "ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE"
Learn to speak, understand and write English in one semester. 1/4 credit.

Gee, it really is a gift that the fourth estate could use. Next year I'll learn to do graphics...

[dixie sass]

Congrats y'all! This was a side splitting thread FTH. Thank you for posting it and thanks to everyone for all the laughter!

[dixie sass]

Naw, I'll take your word for it! Went to the local Townhall.com Meetup here in Charleston and met two FReepers in person that I only knew from Paltalk and the SC Board plus three other new conservatives. One of whom does talk radion.

Nice bunch of people and everyone was talking a mile a minute. Then came home and went on to Paltalk for the Patriots of the Republic Radio Webcast. GOD in Government was the topic and I had to hold my temper with a grade A, no. 1, ---hole, so I'm tired and am going to bed - maybe...

Hugs TTM.

[Molly Pitcher]

Loved the report, mountaineer. You did an excellent job countering those nutty leftists, and it was wonderful to read about the college students you were with, and, NO, You are NOT an oldtimer, in comparison!! -:)

[MinuteGal]

Thanks for the fun contest and all the work you put into it, Free.

Congratulations to SpookBrat and xp38 for such terrific entries.

I chose the Rumsfield talking doll, of course. To this Rummy fan, it will be like an Oscar statuette displayed on my shelf of Freeper memorabilia. Hot diggety!

Leni

[dutchess]

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[Calpernia]

I haven't even been using the new spell check button FR put in on posts. Now I'm doomed to live life with you as my spell check button! Oh the humanity!

[FreeTheHostages]

Aw, but your entry WAS funny. Pretty direct -- not the sort of thing Rumsfeld would say -- but very funny.

[FreeTheHostages]

Booby prize? LOL, there's no such thing. All the entries were really good. I picked the ones that were most Rumsfeld like funny.

Straight jacket is funny. A little too direct, but funny.

I'm still not sure if spookbrat or Minute Gal's performance was better, but the fact is that they each wanted a different gift as their first choice, so all's well that ends well.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Booby prize? LOL, there's no such thing.

That was a joke from the thread. jwfi entered TTM as a gift to the press. After a few rounds of jokes between him and TTM, I declared him a Booby Prize in post 147.

That is what TTM was responding to me on at the end of the thread and we got into teasing about the Booby Prize.

I thought it was funny. Doesn't seem too funny when it needs to be explained though.