Comment from pierre poote'

Exceptional

Your poem is so funny. my favorite line is "The piece of rubbish that won was drier than a dead dingo's donger! What's your criteria for success? Who do I have to sleep with to get a win around here?". I voted for your poem

 Comment Written 29-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 30-Sep-2015

Thanks so much, Pierre, for the wonderful review, the six star rating, and the vote - all of which are greatly appreciated!

Craig.

Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose

Excellent

Hello :)

LOL your entry for the 'Loser's reaction to contest result' is really funny. Your list of grievances is very sarcastic and angry. Good job!
gypsy

 Comment Written 29-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 29-Sep-2015

Thanks, Gypsy, for the kind review. I'm glad you got a laugh out of it :)

Comment from scd41

Excellent

You have expressed your strong feelings for not winning. The secret of winning is known only to the winners and committee members. If others knew, they would have won by now. About grammar and spellings, if you know the tricks to bend rules, any number of mistakes would be appreciated as your creativity. Sorry, they don't refund the entry fee. Take it as money lost.:)-

 Comment Written 29-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 29-Sep-2015

Well damn, they don't? This is an outrage! I will be contacting my lawyers, post haste. Thanks for taking the time to review my entry :)

Comment from BeasPeas

Excellent

Good humor fiction is the way you described your piece. That fleeting moment when we read the results and see that person won yet AGAIN! Oh barf! Of course our write is always better.

 Comment Written 28-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 29-Sep-2015

Thanks, BeasPeas, for stopping by and reviewing my poem. Much appreciated :)

Comment from l.raven

Excellent

who do I sleep with to get a win around here???LOL...were on the net...LOL...but there is phone sex....LOL...loved this...made me laugh...very well put...no hard feelings...well written

 Comment Written 28-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 29-Sep-2015

Thanks, I.raven, for the great review. Glad you got a laugh out of it :)

reply by l.raven on 29-Sep-2015

you are so welcome...xxoo luff

Comment from Lovinia

Excellent

Hi Mystery Writer

LOL, ROFL ... I've enjoyed your sense of humour, and boy are your cocky feathers ruffled. :) Creative use of good ole Aussie grammar and spelling. So, you offer sex to win ... all I demand is a lousy few buggars or chocklit bars. Well, nice ta meet ya, fellow Aussie ... unless you're pretending, just to get the Oz vote. I think you should get your entry fee back. Gosh, damn ... you could have tricked them altogether, by not entering at all ... that would 'stick it to 'em. Well done, very funny. I wish you the best of luck in the contest, even if your get dishqualified. Warm Regards - Lovi xoxo

 Comment Written 28-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 29-Sep-2015

Thanks, Lovinia, for the great review, and thanks for the good wishes too. Glad you enjoyed it :)

Comment from Eternal Muse

Exceptional

I loved this. Your first paragraph, especially the last sentence, had me laughing out loud.

Extremely humorous, benighnly satirical and entertaining to the core. I loved your pathos:

"You and the rest of the no-talent hacks around here can take your jumped-up, hootin'-tootin', high-falutin', namby-pamby, haughty-taughty competition and bury it up your colon!"

Woohoo! lol.


Loved the part about your "impeckable" spelling. ROFLMAO


The whole thing is a prize. I think, we may have a winner here.

 Comment Written 28-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 28-Sep-2015

Thanks so much, yeltel, for the wonderful review, and the super generous sixer! I can only hope you might be right in your assessment - otherwise I might be reusing my entry! (just kidding....)

Thanks again, you've made my evening :)

reply by Eternal Muse on 28-Sep-2015

I added to the review. I forgot to mention the part about your "impeckable" spelling. lol.

Comment from --Turtle.

Excellent

I thought this lashback on contest entry losing was poking great fun of typical emotions... indignation, insult, the delusional hold on greatness and inability to recognize ones own potential flaws. Also the tongue and cheek semitruthes of disbelief that the winning entry was better... or bafflement on how it could possibly be better. The constant conspiracy undertones that the only way a particular piece could have won... by some underhanded means of being 'in bed' with the judges, so to speak... all implied without literal stating in a tongue in cheek. Very nicely done. I was greatly amused with the alliterated dead dingo's donger...


criteria for success(consideration?)? Who do I have to sleep with to get a win

The contest committee wouldn't know a perfect piece of prose (again, alliterated phrasing to a key highpoint of the sentence, strikes a resonance in the mind's eye, with good taste, even throwing in a pov-depreciating humor in the face of standoff on the committee capabilities by doing the opposite of each stated proficiency. Love that. I can only wonder if anyone tried to correct your spelling and grammar here... really hope not. Though it would be amusingly sad.) if it

Can I please have my entry fee back?
(I thought here May I? ... though that's not a big deal, I don't even know why I mentioned it. I don't know why I didn't unmention it.

Nicely done here,

 Comment Written 27-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 28-Sep-2015

Many thanks, Turtle, for the fantastic review.

No one has attempted to correct the spelling and grammar in that sentence, (yet), but like you, I've been waiting for it to happen.

I'm pretty sure that in all except for the most formal contexts "may" and "can" are interchangeable these days when asking permission to do something (I actually checked this, as I was taught early on to say "may"). Given that either can (may?) be used, I thought "may" sounded overly formal.

Much appreciated!

Comment from lancellot

Excellent

Very nice. These satire entries are funny, and do a lot to show what actually happens to some contest entries. We rarely see our own errors in writing. Well done.

 Comment Written 26-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 26-Sep-2015

Thanks for the kind comments, lancellot. Much appreciated :)

Comment from Spiritual Echo

Excellent

I love your paragraph on grammar. a TRUE CLASSIC!!!

I PREFER YOUR ENTRY TO THE NAMBY-PAMBY competitors in this contest that dish out a lecture on good sportsmanship.

Very funny.

 Comment Written 26-Sep-2015

---

reply by the author on 26-Sep-2015

Thanks, Spiritual Echo, for the lovely review. I'm really glad you liked the bit about grammar - it's something which what that I was quite proud of, too! Much appreciated :)