2006/11/03 11:03
Mock the Vote
Election season is in full swing, and The Morning News recently proposed a contest to create campaign signs for fictional characters. Now, there's nothing I enjoy more than engaging in some graphical tomfoolery. (Except for food, band, and events that are not suitable to the tone of this blog, especially if my mom is reading it.) However, the contest required you to actually post your sign for your entry to count.
My neighbors are not known for their senses of humor. Right now there's a battle regarding some cats that live in the nearby woods. One household is feeding them and allowing them to propagate, which encourages them to stay close while vastly increasing their ... well, to maintain the aforementioned tone, let's just say the end of the street smells like a giant litterbox. To me, it's a minor inconvenience -- when I don't want to smell cat ... output, I use a startling new technique called "going inside." But the rest of the street is ... uhm, urinated. Reactions have varied from calling animal control to sitting in driveways with pellet guns, waiting for little Fluffy to squat in the flower bed.
So I didn't want to evoke a reaction (or a broken window) with a sign. I very carefully flew the U.S. flag a week before I hung out the Jolly Roger for the same reason. But when the submission deadline was extended, I thought I might as well at least PhotoJob up some signs, if not to enter then for my own amusement.
This one was the most obvious. Actually, I thought of the Hardy Boys first, but couldn't figure out what Joe would run for and didn't need to start a sibling war when all the Bayport ladies started flocking to Frank's side, Callie Shaw be damned.
After I'd already saved and uploaded it, I realized this sign would have been funnier with a much higher district number. We're talking about school in outer space here.
The very first idea I had when I read the article, though not technically for a fictional character, had to come out too.
And you know something? Between Charlie "Jesus Now" Crist, Jim "No-Show" Davis, and good old No. 13, I think we might have a shot at something here.
My neighbors are not known for their senses of humor. Right now there's a battle regarding some cats that live in the nearby woods. One household is feeding them and allowing them to propagate, which encourages them to stay close while vastly increasing their ... well, to maintain the aforementioned tone, let's just say the end of the street smells like a giant litterbox. To me, it's a minor inconvenience -- when I don't want to smell cat ... output, I use a startling new technique called "going inside." But the rest of the street is ... uhm, urinated. Reactions have varied from calling animal control to sitting in driveways with pellet guns, waiting for little Fluffy to squat in the flower bed.
So I didn't want to evoke a reaction (or a broken window) with a sign. I very carefully flew the U.S. flag a week before I hung out the Jolly Roger for the same reason. But when the submission deadline was extended, I thought I might as well at least PhotoJob up some signs, if not to enter then for my own amusement.
This one was the most obvious. Actually, I thought of the Hardy Boys first, but couldn't figure out what Joe would run for and didn't need to start a sibling war when all the Bayport ladies started flocking to Frank's side, Callie Shaw be damned.
After I'd already saved and uploaded it, I realized this sign would have been funnier with a much higher district number. We're talking about school in outer space here.
The very first idea I had when I read the article, though not technically for a fictional character, had to come out too.
And you know something? Between Charlie "Jesus Now" Crist, Jim "No-Show" Davis, and good old No. 13, I think we might have a shot at something here.
To me, it's a minor inconvenience -- when I don't want to smell cat ... output, I use a startling new technique called "going inside."
Haha! I use that too!
Although you did use the joke technique twice already, so...
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Haha! I use that too!
Although you did use the joke technique twice already, so...
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