Voting in the Hitchcock Movie Titles Short Story Contest
Submitted by bertie on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 05:27
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VOTING IS NOW CLOSED in theThe Hitchcock Movie Titles Short Story Contest.
THE VOTERS WERE: Odysseus, grandpa_chum, RosieCotton, Jay BamBaLam, Wezzo, 1922, and Eve.
THE TALLY OF ALL VOTING WAS:
AJDaGreat - 3
grandpa_chum - 1
Odysseus - 2
Odysseus - 1
AJDaGreat is officially declared the winner.
MY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER AND MY THANKS TO ALL COMPETITORS AND VOTERS.
Actually I think that the voting was:
AJDaGreat - 3
0dysseus - 2
grandpa_chum - 1
0dysseus - 1
No need for a tie-break.
0dysseus, chapeau.
You show a lot of fairplay.
I suppose you're right. I suppose it is a particular story that must win, not a 'body of work' :-D
However, there is the consideration that RosieCotton didn't specify which of your stories she was voting for. That was, once again, a failure of foresight on my part - I should have asked voters for you to so specify. However again, it makes no difference - as it happens - to the proper result (but it might have done, so I was lucky).
Thanks for catching that for me. This contest has been better run by the contestants than by the contest holder. (And lbangs reckons I'm really smart :-D
So I provisionally declare AJDaGreat the winner. I say provisionally in case there's still some error I've made.
I'll make the final declaration on Monday (U.S. time) and the winner can tell me which Hitchcock DVD to send where, either by posting here or by sending me an e-mail at
bertie3001@hotmail.com
Honestly, it's perfectly all right with me if 0dysseus's stories just count as voting for 0dysseus. If I had the stamina and creativity to make not one but two entries to this contest, I might have. I think this very talented undertaking can be grouped together as one achievement for the contest, and votes can be recognized to be in favor of one brilliantly creative mind.
Obviously you, bertie, can be the judge of the rules, but I think it could be legitimate to count 0dysseus's stories together, and I would certainly not complain if that were the ruling you made.
It's great to see that you are both such good sports. I honestly think Odysseus is right - and I did originally intend that one story would determine the winner. I didn't think anyone would enter twice.
So I might as well declare you the winner.
Congratulations, and thanks for competing.
Which DVD shall I send where?
bertie3001@hotmail.com
Okay, bertie, I sent you an e-mail. My e-mail address is my Listology username at AOL dot com.
Bertie, I hope you got my E-Mail.
Because I voted too.
The Grand Inquisitor :)
Got it :-D
All entries rock, but Odysseus gets my vote.
Thanks for voting, Eve.
wow, i'm getting my butt kicked now... good to see others voting though.
Better to get your butt kicked than kissed. (sincere *smack*,)
don't worry about it... I secretly think mine is the best and a work of pure genius too.
They're all very good, but I do have a favourite. I'll e-mail you my vote, I think. To what address shall I submit?
Okay, and I'll do my best to keep your vote anonymous.
My e-mail address is bertie3001@hotmail.com
Voted. Thanks :-)
"Harry told me once he had a foreign correspondent who grew figs through caprification. I had to look up that word - it was in the dictionary right under capricorn."
'Vote for AJ. He's really creative.
Thank you for your vote - and for giving a fig :-)
I vote for Odysseus, because of the clever play on words.
Thank you for your vote - especially since you are the first non-contestant to do so :-)
I don't think I could possibly decide which is the best from that lot.
I have a feeling only the three(or 4 if bertie decides to) are going to vote... and I can't possibly decide.
I have a feeling your feeling will prove to be prescient. On 'tuther hand, your feeling and mine might prove to be optimistc. Only the valiant Odysseus has voted so far. Maybe I should have offered prizes for voting, not for writing.
Which is funny, because I was going to suggest that grandpa_chum, 0dysseus, and my votes shouldn't count. Maybe you should set up a poll, in the hopes that people will vote if they don't think they'll be hurting the feelings of the other two they don't vote for.
I admit that, at first, I wasn't going to allow contestants to vote, but it should be okay as long as one doesn't vote for one's own story.
I'm even going to allow myself a vote, but I won't use it unless it's needed to break a tie.
Voting will stay open for a week - I'll add this to the main post above, of course.
We are reasonably mature adults, and this is only a bit of fun, so I don't think anyone's going to get their feathers ruffled however the voting goes - or doesn't go. Speaking for myself, I'm happy to have gotten the stories we have got - which are probably more than I deserve, seeing how half-arsed my management of the contest was at first. It'll be interesting to see if I can bring it to a close without further disaster :-D
us not counting isn't a bad idea... but it might be hard to get anyone else to vote... or you could just scrap the whole competion because of lack of interest... whichever way you decide to do it, it wouldn't bother me any if there was no vote and no prize... it was fun enough just to try and write it.
I'll officially vote for 0dysseus... the first one...
Thank you, that's very generous of you, but I remain terrified of Moxie. I still like your piece better than mine... well, one of mine. I am awfully proud of simultaneously combining Sesame Street, a closing hat tip to Bert(ie) and having Elmo shot. (I actually think that's horrible... but I'm sympathetic to that view.)
I loved the "beautiful but freakishly short woman" line and I wish I'd thought to make the skin game about playing cards. That makes so much more sense... especially since my lovable cross-dressing pal Grover has blue fur. If ending on "heart" was an intentional card-playing pun then you're an intentional genius. If unintentional then you're an unintentional one.
"To catch a theif [sic] you need to be sneaky, but to catch a murderer you need to be trusted" is a line so great it could stand alone.
Cool! I noticed (and followed) your post in time to edit this one and say...
Prizes?
Let me vote again...
I vote for AJDaGreat. The "famer's wife, full of easy virtue," a slick use of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and an inclusion of James Brown shows the quality that shines through in spite of the spoilerizationalizing. Although the ending is a bit of a downer.
I also vote for including the stories above along with your preamble in order to avoid confusion. (Or at least linking to each specifically instead of making people click, read, highlight, read, lather, rinse, repeat.)
And I vote for anonymous voting/polling. The fact that grandpa_chum is a paranoid, crazy and insane (not to mention repetitive and redundant) member of the Moxie Brotherhood might intimidate potential voters. Not to mention the fact that I know AJDaGreat is hooked up with the Ukrainian mob.
Finally, I vote that you delete this post.
And I didn't jump the gun by counting your vote - where I am it's been the 17th for more than half a day :-D
That's one vote for AJDaGreat.
I'm not nerd enuff to link to each story.
I have allowed for voting by anon. - he'll be along soon.
I'm not nerd enuff to delete your post.
P.S. I grovellingly apologise to grandpa_chum for getting his username wrong. Hope he didn't see it.
D'oh!!!
I will gladly link to each story, and also re-post my story without the annoying spoiler tags now that the contest is over.
This is my story, 0dysseus's first story, 0dysseus's second story, and grandpa_chum's story.
Many thanks for the links.