» byron | One Dollar Jackpot - 25 Words or Less Competition

I was wrong last week when I said the conference for our country was called 20/20. Apparently it had nothing at all to do with getting your eyes checked for glasses - or vision. Apparently 2020 is the correct title and it’s a date. Who would have thought? I thought 20/20 was a pretty good idea! I think I’ll hold a conference some time called 20/20 - maybe in 12 years or so.

So what’s your big idea to make your country better? I was reading the other day of a company that have made Friday a part of the weekend. That’s right, for just 4 days of work you get 3 days of rest. I’m a big fan of that idea. Their reasoning is that in their area of the web industry, nothing is really urgent on a Friday. If it is urgent for Friday - you can probably wait till Monday to launch it. Apparently they also get as much done in a four day week as a five day week. Maybe I can do that too. Maybe I can do lots of things. I probably won’t though.

So on to your big ideas, well maybe just ideas. I don’t know if they’re big or not.

• Banning of cigarettes. This is the sole reason I hate the city. People smoking everywhere!
• I would run a fascist regime,
  I’d only have yes-men on my team.
  If you disagree then you get executed,
  Strapped in a chair and electrocuted.
• no war, no hatred,
  loving life,
  happy face,
  be good attitude,
  maybe that is good enough
  to make my country better
• To make the world a better place
  dismantle nukes, and set the race-
  s equal in the minds of all
  thus can we reverse the fall
• Fear not
  Fear not
  Fear not
• More trees
  Less cars
  More peas
  Less Mars ^(?)
• Love your neighbour as yourself.

Let me just say from the outset - Fascism reigns on this website. There’s no way you can win without my say so. You agree with me yes?

To those who think we can reverse the fall - good luck Really. Good luck - because in my fascist state of a website, you will find yourself strapped to the chair and soon enough you’ll have fuzzy hair.

More trees
Less cars
More peas
Less Mars

I like the sounds of Byron today though, his poem and word play was quite to my liking, even without an explanation it made much sense. Here’s what Byron says about his little ditty…

peas = peace vs Mars = god of war; also peas > Mars (healthy food over junk food). Cleva huh?

Yes very clever Byron, enjoy your dollar I’m sure you’ll know where to invest it best!

I’ve been watching Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares recently - I love that guy. He’s such a psycho!

But you know he’s right. The only thing is that he’s a little ‘over the top’ for me in the latest series, he’s in America so it makes sense that he’s a little bit ‘bigger’ on the screen than the UK series.

What does this have to do with today’s winner you ask? Well I’ll get to that in a minute when I work it out….

Meanwhile you may have noticed a new ‘Unsponsored Love’ link on the left for Munny4Hunny.com “the blog is about getting some extra ‘munny’ (cash, loot, moolah) to spend on ‘hunny’ (luxuries, treats)“. Jay, I hope you enjoy your unsponsored love.

Okay - so sorry for the interruption, I was talking about kitchens and food wasn’t I?

That’s right! The winner for today - he’s a popular man, he’s a great enterer of competitions. His name is Byron and he wins today’s competition with this little (and it really is little) entry for the question: “In 25 words or less cats or dogs?“. The reason this has to do with Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares is that I think he might say the same thing if he ever went to Byron’s restaurant (he doesn’t have one)

They’re both a bit too chewy.

That dollar is on its way mate - hope you enjoy it! And remember - don’t spend it all at once.

Congratulations Byron! You are sure excited with your 19 or so entries. Remember the task? In 25 words or less submit your own 25 words or less question. Byron successfully answered with the best entry of:

What’s the best thing in the world to hear when you wake up?

I’m a diabolical genius. Not only did I come up with a way for you to set my question for today - but I’ve also been able to condense my posts into one post instead of the usual two! Because the winner is tomorrow’s competition. I know, you’re right - I’m a genius.

More importantly than that, is the fact that I am currently writing this. Because it looked for a while like I wouldn’t get it done on time. What with meetings all day and appointments all afternoon - I haven’t had a chance to sit down and get this done. I’m in the carpark of Woolworths right now waiting on Lara (my wife) who is getting us stuff for dinner.

Sometimes I wake up on Monday mornings to the lovely relaxing noise of garbage trucks. They come down one street near me, turn the corner and go up another street. All the while making huge hissing noises and banging of bins. I mean it’s only 4.30/5am so who wouldn’t want to hear that?

On this conference I went to on the weekend, my room-mate (one of the tallest guys ever) and I spent about 10 minutes carefully chosing which sound from our phones would wake us up in the morning. After having predicted that most of the noises on a mobile phone would be rather annoying - we chose an mp3 that was calm and easy to wake up to.

My phone was on silent, we woke up late.

So the question for today, thanks to Byron again - What’s the best thing in the world to hear when you wake up?

Don’t y’know it’s all the rage
for those who tread upon the stage,
or wend their way across the page:
each an unconfessed alliaphage?

Now that’s more like it! Byron your winning entry is just what I’m looking for when I want people to send in entries. With something like this I reckon you could win any 25 words or less competition (and by ‘I reckon’ I don’t mean that it is possible - your entries could indeed stink like garlic for other comps).

Anyway the dollar is coming your way right now - you might want to buy some gum with it. Spend it on your wife or even put it away for a rainy day (today’s raining so why not spend it!?) but don’t spend it all at once.

“A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat”

On a side note how much is a nickel? I really don’t know. But I do know the value of sitting down on the way home from work! Eat on up you alliaphages, eat on up.