LitWit Challenge 4.4: The Yucch-meter has a request.
The Yucch-meter finds that they are paralyzed with dread at the thought of reading the submissions for LitWit Challenge 4.4. They are simply not in the mood. To force the Yucch-meter to evaluate the entries in these circumstances would place the contestants in dire peril. How dire?
Ever seen one of our favorite childhood movies, Marathon Man, adapted from his own novel by William Goldman, directed by John Schlesinger, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider and Laurence Olivier? Olivier plays Dr. Zell, “The White Angel”.
“That nerve is almost dead. We’ll just drill into a healthy tooth. Is it safe?” Drill. “Is it safe?” Drill.
He is almost as cruel as Darren Aronofsky (The Black Swan) is to his protagonists.
If a precedent is set it would have to be followed. That might be funny, but most certainly unpleasant.
Therefore the Yucch-meter has requested that on this occasion you, Reader, do the heavy lifting and decide which entry deserves this week’s prize. Post your choice in Comments, and explain why it is more worthy (or less bloodcurdling) than the others. Your votes will be accepted until tomorrow, Tuesday, at 11.59 pm.
There being no set criteria in these contests we cannot fault you for choosing a winner on the basis of looks or for selling your vote for Chickenjoy. However we may yet see if there is such a thing as “the wisdom of crowds”.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
January 17th, 2011 at 20:33
So this episode’s trophy books go to the darling of the crowd? I go for wickedmouth’s Leon entry first. And then chronicler’s entry, next, because of the Sailor Moon, Mortal Kombat, and Basket Case references.
Meanwhile, if the Meter has no employment for the point system, then my vote goes to Wickedmouth.
January 17th, 2011 at 21:04
Funny, hip, contemporary and the use of zit was just so brilliantly spot on. So yes my vote goes to angus25, whatever their zitface may be…
January 18th, 2011 at 01:13
I go for mastericky. There’s no other entry that felt more real and relatable, that I’m provoked to go back to my high school just to check if the blackboards had been replaced
January 18th, 2011 at 11:13
yaong kay wickedmouth din ang boto ko.
nakakapikon dahil totoong buhay pala ang istorya, pero pulido at nakakaaliw ang pagkakasulat. panalo!
January 18th, 2011 at 14:39
My choice is “Flagged” (#22 Cacs). It was funny, engaging, and honest, yet brief and straight to the point (unlike most of the other entries, unfortunately).
January 18th, 2011 at 15:54
I am rooting for Wickedmouth’s entry because it was easy to read, didn’t require as much thought, it was real (or it sounded like it), and it was funny. I still remember Leon’s name even as I am writing this a day after I read his entry. Poor little thing.
January 18th, 2011 at 17:10
Cacs. Cacs. Cacs.
I like flagged.
Very much.
January 18th, 2011 at 21:26
I root for Cacs. Hall of Famer na!
January 19th, 2011 at 09:29
Chickenjoy, anyone? Haha. Thanks for the votes! The Yucch-meter still has the last say, I suppose. May the best story win!
(I like iamdowa’s story only because there was a brief mention of what happens inside girl’s locker rooms. The voyeur in me got piqued.)
January 19th, 2011 at 18:03
Fist bump, 2Qt2BSTR8. Thanks! :)
I would’ve voted for Cacs if I weren’t in the competition. Kudos! Or is it too early? :)
January 20th, 2011 at 21:43
Drat, angus25, I think you just ruined your chance with your Pinoy humility…;) Ugh!
January 20th, 2011 at 23:31
@# 11 2Qt2BSTR8:
Haha, I am just saying. I foresaw it when I read the entries prior the casting of votes. Thanks again, I owe you a Chickenjoy, haha.
January 21st, 2011 at 02:43
You know I’d be deadmeat anytime soon for shooting my mouth, but attaheck, you know, just between you and me, “Flagged” felt way contrived… Now, make that a bucketful of chickenjoysesses… LOL!
January 22nd, 2011 at 21:32
# 13 2Qt2BSTR8
I feel icky talking about it here. Let’s talk it over chickenjoysesses, haha.