This is an even more unofficial contest, sponsored by me. Jon & Phillip will deny all involvement with it, and burn me at the stake at the next barbeque. (I'm tasty with chili and lime)

The Contest:
This is a fill-in-the-blank word-listing kind of game. It’s like that copyrighted game that I won’t mention by name, where one person has a book with some paragraphs in it, with missing words. The other person is told what type of words are missing, and supplies replacements. Then, the paragraph is revealed with the missing words, and oh! The good times do follow!

Except that instead of doing this with a paragraph, I’ve chosen a Goats comic mostly at random, and removed certain words.

To enter, please supply words to match the following “clues”:

1. Quantity
2. Plural noun
3. Noun
4. Plural noun
5. Noun
6. Pronoun
7. Time period
8. Pronoun
9. Noun
10. Verb phrase
11. Noun phrase
12. Noun
13. Noun
14. Noun
15. Location
16. Exclamation

Eligibility:
This contest is also only open to registered members. Es gibt kein Erarbeiten von Scheiße in dieser Küche. But do remember that registration is free, and fun!

The Prize:
The winner of this contest will win an item of their choice from the Goats store valued at $25 or less including shipping (with a little slack to cover international delivery if needed).

The Deadline:
You must submit your entry by 12:00 pm (Midnight) Monday October 11th, 2004.

The Judging:
Entries will be judged on how much they make me laugh when I look at the filled in comic.

It's been awhile since grammar, what exactly do you mean by verb/noun phrase.

1) 42
2) sheep
3) beer
4) senators
5) bar
6) it
7) 68.9 months
8) he
9) ficus tree
10) running with scissors
11) poop flinging monkeys
12) horseless cairrage
13) beer
14) pumpkin
15) Peculier Pub
16) By the unholy bowels of Martha Stuart's and Oprah's love-nest!

In Response to GeminiCrash (#20660):

I mean "a phrase that acts as a noun/verb". It may not be a grammatical construct at all.

So a verb phrase might be "stand around" or "go towards", and a noun phrase might be "cheap prosititute" or "first class jerk".

In Response to Dynedain (#20662):

Did you want to check your grammar and spelling, and try again?

I have a poor record when it comes to the contests, but I'll give it a shot anyway.

Quantity - Eleventy billion
Plural noun - Bunnies
Noun - Pez
Plural noun - Bunions
Noun - Weeble
Pronoun - Amadeus
Time period - Ice age
Pronoun - Drunken uncle
Noun - Whoopie cusion
Verb phrase - Pogo sticking
Noun phrase - Bitchin’ wig
Noun - Protractor
Noun - Sticky goo
Noun - Rolodex
Location - Fallout shelter
Exclamation - Yo mamma!

1. a quantity not to exceed four
2. donkeys
3. spatula
4. Libertarians
5. face of poop
6. it
7. breakfast
8. they
9. zombie
10. might indemnify
11. to knock down that damn convent
12. pope
13. pamphleteer
14. petard
15. Burma, oh sorry, Myanmar
16. Nazis!

I blame this list on the fact that I'm re-reading those Discworld novels I have. (That is, a complete set from The Color of Magic to Small Gods, or approximately half.)

1. 8
2. assassins
3. disc
4. thieves
5. library
6. it
7. Ians
8. she
9. wizard
10. falling down
11. hat labelled 'Wizzard'
12. orangoutang
13. grimoire
14. banana
15. Nanny Ogg's house, Lancre, Ramtops Mountains, The Continent
16. Oh, shit.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#20665):

Pronoun - Amadeus

Bastard. Now I have Falco stuck in my head.

In Response to sakuruth (#20667):

Did you mean "eons" where you wrote "ians"? Or is that "lans"?

What is that #7?

In Response to sakuruth (#20668):

Bastard. Now I have Falco stuck in my head.

I do what I can. Why should I be the only one suffering?

In Response to jettaboy20 (#20671):

Every time someone mentions having a song stuck in their head around us, my wife turns to me and says "No, don't."

This is because she knows that my cure is worse than the disease...

Every time I get a song stuck in my head... I sing a bit of the Gilligan's Island theme song. It completely replaces the other tune - which isn't a good thing, necessarily.

In Response to zamphir (#20669):

1 Ian = amount of time it takes Ian to tell another one of his damn boring stories!

In Response to deerboy (#20675):

Dang.

There's a few of those I haven't read any time recently, because of some holes in my collection in that range.

I don't think you like me much anyway, but I'm going to try.

1.Pi
2.Platipi?
3.Urine
4.Kidney stones
5.Proctologist
6.She
7.Fortnight
8.They
9.Bathtub gin
10.Playing with fart fumes
11.Bug fucking communists
12.Pubic hair
13.Lawn mower
14.Ball gag
15.Dark side of the moon
16.Flaming nippless tits!

Ok, I tried my best. I'm sure in a day or so I'll think of better things that I could have written, but then, it will be too late.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#20679):

I don't think you like me much anyway, but I'm going to try.

And yet, "Entries will be judged on how much they make me laugh when I look at the filled in comic."

So even if I don't like you, and I'm making no statement here one way or another on that, if your entry is the funniest, it will win.

In Response to zamphir (#20680):

I'm not gonna win; completely based on the fact that I don't think I've ever been good at these "fill in the blank" things. I always liked doing them but they always came out funny in a "well that doesn't make sense" kind of way. And when you're young you're always using words like poop, pee, and other assorted "dirty" words that make you laugh no matter what context they're in.

And my luck has never been that good.

WOW! I'm little Miss Optimism today aren't I?

3
fingers
pot
sugar
cancer
they
an entire foot amputation operation
they
biscuit
making tea
that... guy... with the stick...
clothes horse
12 inch black rubber dildo
pity
Fort Worth, Texas
Ding dong, the witch is dead!

In Response to unFalln (#20706):

When accused of being a Size-Queen, unFalln protested innocently: "Not at all! Ten, twelve inches... they're all wonderful!"

In Response to Teledildonix (#20707):

unFalln is refferencing Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, another very good movie that you are missing out on because of your proclaimed aversion to violence.

In Response to zamphir (#20664):

fine.

10) run with scissors
11) poop flinging monkey
12) horseless carriage
15) The Peculier Pub

and a change:

7) one unit of time

In Response to Dynedain (#20711):

You missed the apostrophe problem with Martha and Oprah... ;-)

I was just poking fun, really.

I'll take either set of answers, or a mix of the two ... as you prefer.

In Response to Dynedain (#20709):

I might miss out on some movies because i often think i'm skipping entertainment options with potentially violent content.

You might hypothetically miss out on some movies because you thought you'd skip entertainment options with potentially explicit dildo content. I think we probably have different tastes when we're in the mood to watch videos. But whatever makes you happy, i'm happy for you; and i hope you'll be happy for me and my fanciful entertainment options.

I would have been second on the list, had I actually finished my thoughts earlier. Anyway...

1. a half-dozen dozen
2. kumquats
3. pickle
4. sporks
5. hefeweissen
6. we
7. an epoch
8. thou
9. echidna
10. overclocked lemon
11. porking a platypus (conjugate as necessary)
12. lemonade
13. swatch
14. horse manure
15. Jalalabad
16. Excelsior!

In Response to zamphir (#20673):

I actually have a similar technique. But for me, the song is "Come Sail Away" by Styx. I can easily drive that song out of my head without singing any other song.

And, I don't have to sing it aloud. I just run it through my head until it replaces the offending tune. So, no one else has cause to suffer.

In Response to Clan_Hanna (#20716):

no one else has cause to suffer

And that is fun... .... how?