16 June 2010

Today’s word is anonymous


The above definition comes courtesy of Richard, whose competition-winning suggestion gave us a delicious case of the creeps, although we couldn’t quite put our fingers on why. In other words: perfect MFD material! I can’t wait to find out how Uglifruit of the Very Us Artists will set it to music but, luckily, we’ll only have to wait a week or so before the resulting song is magically posted here... Isn’t creative genius marvellous?

Richard, please get in touch using this contact page and we’ll pop your prize in the post once the CD’s been created. For the rest of those who entered, thanks for making it so hard to choose a winner. It really wasn’t easy. I loved the cleverness of Harrod’s “Gram-Gram is delusional. She thinks she is not in the facility” (talk about thinking outside the box there!) and lostophile’s “Johnny wears a uniform. His uniform helps him catch his victims off-guard” had an understated malicious streak to be proud of.

Jack Bush gave his definition a sly double-meaning in “Scout William wants to help Mrs. Billings with her shopping. He’s going to help himself to her bakery basket”, while bee’s “Scooter puts the cat in catering” line nearly made me LOL till some PP came out (“Scooter’s catering company makes the best appetizers. His paté is the talk of the town. Scooter puts the cat in catering”).

For sheer yuck-factor, I’m not sure you’ll beat: “The kitties smell food, but Aunt Maud has not been to the fishmonger’s today. Aunt Maud has questionable personal hygiene” (thanks to Fugitive) – although swishyhair certainly tries: “Charlie helps Aunt Agatha to carry her groceries home. Soon she will be carrying Charlie’s baby. Unfortunately, Charlie is also carrying syphilis”. Finally, Miscellaneous Fugitive offered an equally droll take on the scene with: “Mrs Rout always meant to read Scouting for Boys. Lord Baden-Powell was one of her heroes and she is proud to follow his example. She may have misinterpreted his intentions”.

Thanks again to everyone who entered. If you fancy a good laugh, have a read through the Comments on both of the previous posts and check out those submitted via Facebook... It’s even more bang for your MFD buck!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are Anonymous.

Anonymous said...

Oh, how sad. I didn't even get to get a mention. Congrats to Richard!

Jellybean said...

OMG so funny.

Do you have a MFD book out?? B/c you should...I would definitely buy it! If not, pay attn, publishers!

uglifruit said...

Congratulations Richard. That made me laugh (out loud), as the internet kids say.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Richard! That was awesome.

Richard said...

Today's word is Golly. Not the jam label kind, but a prefix to Gosh!

Can't wait to hear the results on the phonograph :) Contact details should be coming off the teletype machine shortly.

Ross Horsley said...

Thanks for getting in touch, Richard, and congrats again. I've heard a preview of the upcoming song and doubt you'll be disappointed... It definitely does your clever caption justice.

And thanks, too, Jellybean. There IS a book on the way! Peterconiglio, you were up against some stiff competition but thanks for entering :-)