Shameless Self Promotion
I am not a good loser. I know that I’m supposed to compete "for the fun of it" and that "winning isn’t everything" and that "it’s an honor just to be nominated", but I’ve been nominated a couple of times now and have won exactly ZERO TIMES! Part of me says, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, therefore entering this contest again would be insane." But another part of me says, "If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!", and, "Just keep swimming!", and other annoyingly perky epithets. It kind of makes me want to vomit.
What contest, you ask? Why, it’s the weekly caption contest over at Mattress Police. Each week, Diesel doctors up a pictures from a recently released movie by placing himself somewhere in the scene. Then the readers get a chance to assign that picture a witty caption. Diesel’s wife then picks out her ten favorite captions, and a voting post is put up so that all of the readers can vote for their favorite. The winner receives a copy of his book, Antisocial Commentary: From the Secret Files of the Mattress Police, along with a badge to put up on their blog and hitherto unknown internet fame. Now, it just so happens that I am a fairly witless witty person, so I submit a few suggestions for the pictures from time to time. This week was no different. Something else that is not different is that fact that I have exactly two votes so far, one from my husband (mostly because I sent him the link and told him to vote for me OR ELSE) and one from myself. This means that I am falling behind in the polls by quite a bit.
And so, despite the fact that I have already asked one GINORMOUSLY HUGE favor of you guys this week, I would also like to ask you to head on over to this week’s contest and click on the little bubble next to the name of my blog. My caption may not seem very funny to those of you who don’t regularly read Diesel’s blog, but trust me, it’s HILARIOUS!
So please, go vote for me. Iwould like to at least get more than 2 votes this time!
DON’T FORGET! All video submissions need to be sent to me at foldmylaundryplease@gmail.com by July 20th. Please put "Where On Earth" in the subject line and be sure to include name, city and state, and your site name (if you have one) in your email.
Don’t forget to click here, too! That wasn’t hard, now is it?


I really liked your caption. I think it was my second favorite. Maybe I’ll change my vote though.
Comment by diesel — June 25, 2008 @ 7:48 pm
Okay, I will head on over and vote if I am not too late.
I will pass along your video contest info but I am wayyy to camera shy to perform in one!!
Comment by Heidi — June 29, 2008 @ 2:14 pm
I tried to vote, but I think because I am on a work computer, I keep getting blocked. I will try from home. Good luck.
Comment by Heidi — June 29, 2008 @ 2:25 pm