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Satire Wire's New Spam Poets Crowned

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the enlarge-your-boss dept.

Yorrike writes: "With over 600 entries, the winners of Satire Wire's Second Annual Poetry Competition have been announced. I guess my adaptation of Rime of the Ancient Mariner didn't make the cut ;)" Nothing like some howling laughter to cut through one's baleful bellows of pure spam-related rage.

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  1. Re:Winner's Prize by cicadia · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yep, prizes galore!

    From the Contest Rules:

    PRIZES

    • 1st Place, "Strictly Spam": two SatireWire T-shirts, one each SatireWire hat, coffee mug, and mousepad.
    • 2nd Place, "Strictly Spam": one T-shirt and a hat.
    • 1st Place, "Freestyle": two SatireWire T-shirts, one hat, and a mousepad.
    • 2nd Place, "Freestyle": two T-shirts and a hat.
    • Third place gets nothing. And fourth place is even worse!

    Now don't you wish you'd been paying attention when this thing was announced?

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  2. You might also enjoy... by lines · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...the Bulwer-Lutton Fiction Contest, which consists of reader-submitted snippets of godawful prose.

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