Mom and I made loose plans to get together on Saturday so we could do each others hair and so she could choose the big winner of the 2008 Nathan Dodd Your Mama Joke Contest.
When I called her on Saturday, she did not sound like she was ready to get together. She sounded like she had gargled with gravel.
“Hello?” Just the sound of her greeting made me immediately parched and thirsty for water.
“Mom? You don’t sound like you care too much about your hair right now.”
“No. I don’t.”
Since my dear Mama has the plague, I have had to come up with a clever way to choose the winner of the fantastic t-shirt made by our good buddies over at Stitch Masters.
I loved so many of the entries that I have decided it is only fair that I simply do a drawing. But then to be really fair, some people put more into their entries than others. Don’t they deserve more of a shot?
Yes. Yes, they do.
- My dear friend Cat will get her name in the hat three extra times. One for having a birthday on the same day. And two for keeping my kids on Saturday night so Eric and I could go out. Oh! And one more for being first. So, that’s four for Cat.
- Kim Heinecke gets her name in three extra times. Once for putting the button on her blog and twice because her joke was really that funny.
- Susan’s parents get their names put in two extra times for each of them for clearly making their own jokes up, participation, making fun of Texas, and still holding on even in their advancing ages.
- Kevin gets his name put in six times because he is my brother and I never said I wasn’t into nepitism. Also? His offering was really funny.
- Shiloh gets her name in the hat twice for spreading the word about the contest. Thank you Shiloh!
- Little Dougie Arnold: Mama did take a short break from her recent routine of cough, sneeze, blow nose, repeat, to tell me that you get extra points ONLY if you follow through with your threat to come here to let us show you a fantastic time. Pending that understanding, Little Dougie Arnold gets four entries for his “threat” and two entries for making my Mama laugh.
- Uncle Lee and Aunt Avis get two entries each for being funny and four entries each for moving to Kwaj while the rest of us suckers stay here and buy gas.
- Susan gets her name in the hat four times for making the awesome button!
- Sarah gets two extra entries for trying harder than anyone else to come up with a joke that could be her own and for putting the button on her blog.
- Jeremy Pottberg gets an extra entry for the link. Eric liked it.
- To the uninformed observer, it would appear as though Ginger entered four times. In truth, it is more likely that four members of her nearly nine million member household entered. Ginger gets her name in the drawing ten times for being more Mama than the majority.
- And everybody else gets two entries just ’cause.
The official drawing, with pictures to keep it all above the table, will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 28th.
Good luck to everyone and thank you all for playing.