Caption Contest 60 Winner!

I am happy to announce that the winner of Caption Contest 60 is ... Niall Mor!

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The other entries that I thought were particularly good this week were:

  • Hakoon: Ok, ok, I’m sorry. You have a lovely tan.
  • Hammerknight: “I do”
  • Ben Trafford: “Jocasta? But I thought you were a -good- guy?!”
  • Danny Beaty: My head isn’t the only thing she shaved!
  • marx: I believe you about the dolphins, but really, I’ve NEVER been able to see those 3-D posters, no matter how I focus.

Those were all original and good takes that I'd not have thought of, so hats off to you guys. Extra bonus points (not currently redeemable for anything) go to Ben Trafford for "Best Comic Book In-Joke". I also really liked Halloween Jack's version of the lubricant joke, but didn't think it was appropriate for the space. Funny, though!

As the winner, Niall gets to pick either any one item or a caricature of his face to be part of HeroMachine 3's final release, so congratulations to him!

I'll also take this opportunity to note that if there's a pistol you really really wanted to go in (say, the Desert Eagle, which I still don't see making a separate slot for since there's something very very close already), winning a contest is the best way to go. So start thinkin'!

Thanks to all our entrants, and good luck with the next one, which should be posted shortly.

Poll Position: Sweet rides

The Poll Position for this week is pretty straightforward:

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Discussion to follow ...

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Random Panel: And he hates barristas!

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(From "Amazing Man" number 24, 1941.)

META: We’re back!

Sorry for the outage, folks, a combination of a changed DNS table and a vacation at UGO HQ resulted in a site outage -- the main host couldn't communicate with the MySQL server, in a nutshell. How they got computers in a nutshell is beyond me, but there you have it.

Random Panel: Emergency backup redundant plan, GO!

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(From "Amazing Man" number 24, 1941.)

Random Panel: Words fail me again

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(From "Amazing Man" number 24, 1941.)

Random Panel: Great moments in oversharing

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DragonCon update

This rivals anything I have ever seen ... The geekage goes to eleven ...

META: Out at DragonCon

I'll be out til Sunday night at DragonCon in Atlanta, so posting will be very light. I'll be keeping loose tabs via my iPhone but no promises on how quickly I can approve held comments and such.

I have scheduled "Daily Random Panel" posts for each day so you'll have that, and by all means consider those "open threads" where you can talk about whatever you like. Otherwise though you're on your own.

Have a great Labor Day Weekend! And if you're going to be at DragonCon too, drop me a line and maybe we can say howdy.

Random Panel: Very random indeed

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(h/t "SuperDickery.com")