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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/03/2010 : 08:21:22
We all love a cute cuddly penguin. No one more than our Se�n. So let's help them catch some fish with a catchy ditty as we join The March of the Penguins.
The Rules
The first line of a haiku poem has five syllables.
The second line of a haiku poem has seven syllables.
The third, and final, line of a haiku poem has five syllables.
The Movie Haiku Contest (MHC) is open to every member of the FWFR site.
To enter, all you have to do is think of a Haiku for the current movie, then post into the current thread. Simple as that. Also, haikus may be risque, but nothing explicit please.
Only one entry per person as per The Blevins Rule. However, you are allowed to edit your existing entry until 9pm Tuesday FWFR time. *
Voting.
If you have entered the MHC, then you have to vote. If you do not vote, you'll lose 3 points from your total. This could mean the difference between the adoration and envy of your fellow Fwiffers or being the feckless butt of our jokes!
You do not have to enter an MHC to vote. Vote away. It'll be like a lurker vote!
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For each round, you get to vote for your three favourite MHC. The voting is as follows:
3 pts Stalean
2 pts Conan
1 pt Benj (Gotta get a jab in here at Benj on account he confessed that haikus aren't his thing. Stay tuned for "movie limericks.")
not
1) AC
2) GHcool
3) thefoxboy
As I will not know if AC gets 1 vote or AC is your favourite for 3 votes.
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You cannot vote for yourself.
You can vote for the previous winner
You vote by sending the currently designated Haiku Meister your votes in a PM (Private Message) here.
You may vote only once.
When the voting deadline ends (9pm Wednesday FWFR time), the votes are tallied and the top three places are announced.
*After winners are announced, the floor is open for posting of alternate Movie Haikus under that topic heading.
The winner then gets to make an acceptance speech, and choose the movie for the next MHC contest. The winner will post the new movie as a new topic under Movie Haikus in this format:
Movie Haiku Contest: Movie Title
(Acknowledgement: FWTO after which these rules are modeled.)
Note for academic purists: I acknowedge that what we're doing here is not Haiku in its purest form.
Check FWFR time (assuming the server is in England?).
Thanks to Benj for giving Movie Haiku Contest its own folder under Games!
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/11/2010 : 15:40:25
quote:
Originally posted by Montgomery
quote:
Originally posted by MguyX
Per the MguyX rule, if Montgomery does not choose a film in the next 24 hours, she forfeits the win and that distinction goes to me. 
Hey, you guys, don't shoot me: those are the rules! 
Sorry. I didn't realize I had won. I didn't vote. Did you take off the points for me not voting? Do I still win?
I can choose a film, but give me a few hours here to find one.
I had forgotten I had even entered the haiku this time. Sorry.
EM :)
Yep, you still won!
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| Beanmimo |
Posted - 06/11/2010 : 15:23:39
quote:
Originally posted by Montgomery
quote:
Originally posted by MguyX
Per the MguyX rule, if Montgomery does not choose a film in the next 24 hours, she forfeits the win and that distinction goes to me.
Hey, you guys, don't shoot me: those are the rules!
Been there, well done.
Sorry. I didn't realize I had won. I didn't vote. Did you take off the points for me not voting? Do I still win?
I can choose a film, but give me a few hours here to find one.
I had forgotten I had even entered the haiku this time. Sorry.
EM :)
Been there, well done. |
| Montgomery |
Posted - 06/11/2010 : 15:11:50
quote:
Originally posted by MguyX
Per the MguyX rule, if Montgomery does not choose a film in the next 24 hours, she forfeits the win and that distinction goes to me.
Hey, you guys, don't shoot me: those are the rules!
Sorry. I didn't realize I had won. I didn't vote. Did you take off the points for me not voting? Do I still win?
I can choose a film, but give me a few hours here to find one.
I had forgotten I had even entered the haiku this time. Sorry.
EM :) |
| MguyXXV |
Posted - 06/11/2010 : 05:20:17
Per the MguyX rule, if Montgomery does not choose a film in the next 24 hours, she forfeits the win and that distinction goes to me.
Hey, you guys, don't shoot me: those are the rules!
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/09/2010 : 20:19:47
OK penguins, settle down! Moms, control those hatchlings.
Right! Just back from the ice floes of hell, we have a winner!
As customary, in reverse order. Take that fish bone out of your beak, and waddle up to collect your Third Place Prize ...
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
3*
With a perfectly respectable and pedantically correct 8 fish points = 3,2,2,1.
It's
MguyX
Let's hear those flippers!
Not too loudly, because with even more fish glop to spread around, in 2nd plaice
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
2*
With a dozen oyster points = 2,2,1,2,3,2
He's down with being downy
It's Clay! YAY! Hear what I say! It's Clay!
But, wait, Emperors and Empresses. Looking to impress. And succeeding gracefully, even as she belly-whops along the ice to the First Prize Podium.
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
1*
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in front of the flock with more fish than her beak can hold. 20! I said 20! = 3,3,1,3,3,1,3,3
Yup, It's the one and only Montgomery.
Brilliant! Now give us a few words before you head out to sea again and return with an un-haikued film. Yum!
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/09/2010 : 18:58:26
We're waiting for Beanmimo. I'll PM him. Maybe he got eaten by a seal.
PS MguyX - it's a JOKE ... as you said. BTW - I think you've got the mignon-est filet in town  
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 06/09/2010 : 18:14:49
Voted (after having a very poor entry). |
| MguyXXV |
Posted - 06/09/2010 : 16:50:41
Did you guys see this film?quote:
Originally posted by Sludge
Lonely 'top an egg
and also pretty darn cold
waiting for hubby
Um, no: it's the moms who run off and get fat while the dads wait with the eggs/chicks for mom's fatass to return. 
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Antarctic birds get
an anthropomorphic film -
in French, sans dancing.
Anthropomorphic? "Happy Feet" was, but I'm gonna have to disagree on "March": that's all penguin in the wild (unless the French version did penguin-character voice overs).  quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
"Open wide, Chickee?!
Mama's got fish glop." "Yuch! Where's
my chateaubriand!"
(1) See, Sludge, it's the mama with the fish glop (thanks BB  );
(2) Beebs!: I know it's a joke, but penguins don't eat cooked cows -- they love sushi! -- but if they did, don't you think they'd prefer filet mignon to chateaubriand??? 
All that being said, I know two three votes that I'm not getting, but I'm voting anyway.  |
| Sludge |
Posted - 06/09/2010 : 16:37:02
Voted with my happy feet. |
| bife |
Posted - 06/09/2010 : 04:36:59
voted |
| Sludge |
Posted - 06/08/2010 : 19:41:41
Lonely 'top an egg
and also pretty darn cold
waiting for hubby
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| MguyXXV |
Posted - 06/05/2010 : 17:25:28
They take a long walk.
Orderly Antarctic mob;
formal way of life. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 06/05/2010 : 13:04:22
Silly me, then. I'll fix it now. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/04/2010 : 16:42:49
quote:
Originally posted by Montgomery
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Why not?
ANSWER:
Penguins live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, mainly in Antarctica. There are no penguins living in the Arctic.
Thanks, Monty!
I'm sure you meant well, CL, but certainly the Emperor pengs in this film are southerners! In fact, if you investigate all the links you posted, you'll find they all confirm pengs do not live in the arctic. But I think you can re-jig your haiku ... in fact I'm sure you can! 
There are plenty of refs online, including:
http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-penguins.htm
Wikipedia
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| Montgomery |
Posted - 06/04/2010 : 16:38:32
If you have to march
for months, Morgan Freeman's voice
helps time pass faster.
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