This will interest and delight all the internet public, but it will especially rivet two of you.
You know who you are. One of you has the initials "TT." The other, "SN."
Both of you submitted wonderfully helpful answers to the questions I posted a few months ago. You each scored 11 points. Congratulations for that.
Because no one triumphed, we had a tiebreaker. Please, I asked you, write some verse and send it in. The rules were very simple:
- All entries must comply with the strongsmell.com poetry policy.
- All entries must address the "Chutney" v. "Dill Bits" debate.
- That is all.
- Entries from the public at large are encouraged.
- But the public at large will begin with an 11-point handicap.
- Because the public at large did not frickin' participate in the previous round.
- That is all.
Only "TT" submitted verse. Here is that entry:
When you're old and think you're sweet
Take off your shoes and smell your feet
(especially if you are Swiss.)
You will all agree this is a very fine piece of verse indeed.
However. It fails to comply with rule #2. It is not down with #2. It wants nothing to do with Number Two.
This is really too bad for "TT," whose entry must suffer immediate and total disqualification.
"SN," if you are still a regular visitor here at this hot sandwich, congratulations. You win.
Please send me five dollars.
Posted by Bret at June 10, 2003 11:28 AM
Comments from you, the internet public:
Post a comment of your own:
While my initial reaction was shock, a deflated kind of down-trodden, soul-sapped feeling when I was disqualified from your pottery contest, I am in fact quite relieved that I don't have to give you five dollars.
And in the end, of course it's a condiment. What was the question again?
Posted by TT at June 13, 2003 04:07 PM