A Blast From The Past
The Poster Contest Without The Toenail Fungus
Several months ago, I wrote a post about a really fun contest my friend Jason and I have been doing the past several years, but I preceded the funny stuff with a whole story about toenail fungus.
As time has gone on and I’ve looked at my post stats (and as Anne has reminded me there’s not really anything funny about toenails or fungus), I’ve realized maybe people don’t want to read about toenail fungus, but I bet they would want to read the whole part about a ridiculous competition two middle-aged men are wasting time on!
A couple notes:
If you already read the toenail fungus post and got all the way to the good stuff great! I’m honestly shocked!!
If you like reading about toenail fungus, you can always head over to that post and get the whole story. For the rest of you, read on!
So, my friend Jason and I got an idea! We both love to make people laugh and we both love making ourselves laugh, so what if we started a clandestine operation to make people in our community laugh, we’d crack up in the process, and we could make it a competition.
Here’s what we came up with. We would create and put up ridiculous posters all over town and whoever got the most people to call and leave voicemails or post about them on social media would win.
I’m happy to say, I’m currently in the lead, but we don’t really have a way to end this thing, so fortunately it has the potential of going on until one of us dies.
How It Began
It all started with Doug, my lost hamster, which I’m happy to report, catapulted me into the lead and I haven’t looked back since.
Note: You gotta zoom in on the small print of all these.
Let’s just say this one appealed to the best and worst of several pre-teens sensibilities.
The first voicemail I received was from a sweet little girl who swears she saw Doug outside her bedroom window. I’m pretty sure that girl actually has rats in her attic and she saw one of them scurry away one night out on the hunt.
Next came the barrage of voicemails from middle school boys who went from tough sounding to giggling back to tough sounding all mid-sentence. All the calls were basically the same!
Hey! We found Doug! (he he he he) Yeah! We found your hamster and if you ever want to see him again, (he he he he) you’ll give us $1,000,000! (he he he he)
Jason followed up my Doug poster with another animal, but this one had been found and he was looking for the rightful owner! I first saw this poster as I was pulling out of my neighborhood. He had strategically taped it to a sign near house. Well played, Jason!
Jason followed up his cat poster with a dog poster, or should I say posters! Gotta love the two pieces of paper. Forget making the font smaller, just roll with it, man! This was also taped to the sign in my neighborhood.
I guess Jason got tired of appealing to the sensibilities of animal lovers and instead turned to the music crowd. Who could resist making money while listening to this guy?
Then I got back in the game. I know, I know. I’m not sure what it is about me and rodents, but that’s where my mind was. And I confess, I sort of plagiarized, Jason’s whole possum/cat thing, but we don’t really have any rules against that.
Y’all! I got so many calls about Drake! If you haven’t noticed, I didn’t mention any calls for any of Jason’s posters. That’s because he hasn’t gotten any and I point that out to remind you that I’m winning this thing big time and my posters are better!
While this next poster didn’t receive any calls or social media posts (none of our posters have received any social media posts that we are aware of) I am very proud of it because it’s the one that still makes me laugh the most.
And, that’s it so far! In all honesty, I wrote rewrote this post to get a response because I want some motivation for Jason and me to keep it going! It’s so much fun and I feel like we keep getting distracted by less important things like work and ministry and our wives & children.
A little encouragement from you to get back at it would be nice!