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Win One Of Two 8GB iPod Nanos With Your Limerick
Thursday, February 26, 2009 / PowerMax Culture
Would you like to win yourself a new 8GB iPod nano? For free even? If you know PowerMax at all, you’d know that we have a cherished tradition - the Limerick contest. Well, to be honest, this is our first one ever… typically our St. Paddy’s tradition includes varying amounts of hop-based green liquid. But we’ve already declared our Limerick contest a cherished tradition because we think it’ll be pretty fun, and because we said so.
So from now through the 15th, everyone is encouraged to submit an original Limerick in the comments below, and we’ll have two winners!
Win me!
How it’ll work is on March 17th all Limericks will be read aloud from atop our own version of the Blarney Stone in front of an esteemed panel of experts (or whomever we can bribe to get to read them all) and we’ll select the one we think is the best, PLUS, we’ll pick one at random from the list of comments in this post. The winners will receive the handsome prize of one green 8GB iPod nano!
How To Enter
This is one simple contest - write us a limerick that explains your thoughts on the Pacific Northwest, anything Mac - or frankly, anything your li’l ol heart desires - and submit it in a comment below. While we know you’re all familiar with the, uh, racy aspects that can sometimes be found in limericks, anything deemed objectionable won’t be posted or entered in the contest. We’re a family site, after all. Here are some examples:
Raining in Pacific Northwest,
That’s indeed what the weather does best,
But when the grey skies go,
You’ll hear someone crow,
But for the cold weather I am dressed!
or
There was a nice company named PowerMax,
Whose base in Oregon precluded sales tax,
We love it that way,
What can we say,
We love the lack of tax in our sacks when we sell Macs!
What Is A Limerick
The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth having nine syllables and rhyming with one another, and the third and fourth having five or six and rhyming separately. But forget the syllable thing, really, just have fun with it. Obviously for the random winner, the form isn’t that important - and you certainly won’t be disqualified if you throw form right out the window. Just have fun and enter to win yourself that nano! Proper Limerick-ness and entertainment value *will* be factors for the Best Limerick selection.
To win you must be at least 18 years of age, submit your limerick before 8:00 AM PST Monday, March 16th 2009 and be a resident of the US. One entry per person. For full eligibility details, we suggest you read our official rules. Good luck! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter!
03/16 - Update: A big thanks to everyone who submit their limerick! We’ll commence reading these from our Blarney Stone and pick a pair of winners tomorrow.
03/17 / Update: Congrats to Peter on winning the judge’s choice & Tim, our random drawing winner! We’ll be in contact and ship these out ASAP. Thanks to everyone for your entries!
Peter’s Entry (Judge’s Selection)
“My boss, god help me, is cunning
to this site he has sent me running
“go win me an ipod,
you overpaid sod,
or your salary I will be dunning!”
But the last laugh will be mine.
If I win an Ipod, that’s fine.
But to make this ditty
he’s spent 350,
cause I surfed for 4 hours online.”
Tim’s winning entry:
“Most limericks I’ve heard are obscene
indecent, if you know what I mean
I’ll try to do my best
In the PowerMax contest
But the trick will be keeping it clean.”
February 26th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
If you’re looking to play MP3’s
A Nano is certain to please.
To get one of those
Call the PowerMax pros,
Then you’ll play vids and movies with ease
February 27th, 2009 at 5:20 am
Throwing limerick form right out the door?
Oh say it ain’t so! What a bore.
But limericks done right
Are a wonderful sight:
(Go to oedilf.com to see more.)
February 27th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
lovely green ipod
haiku I write, limerick
too hard for me.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
As Portland gears up for St. Patrick’s,
I’m honing my prosody tactics.
I’m desperate to glean
a green music machine
like the Winter Hawks want to score hat tricks.
February 27th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
There was once a ipod in green
Given by a company that was keen
Power Max hear my plea
and give it to me
that would make me extremely happy
March 1st, 2009 at 1:25 pm
There once was a blundering suitor
Who bought his true love a computer.
But it wasn’t a Mac,
So she said, “Take it back!”
And she left him for someone much cuter.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Rejoice when that sad PC dies,
And go visit those PowerMax guys:
It’s a site you can trust.
(I admit, this is just
One more shameless Mac plug for the prize.)
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
What with feeding and diapering three,
I’m lost to technology.
For best or for worst,
my children come first.
There’s nary a podcast for me.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
It’s rainy then snowing then sunny,
My sinuses begin to feel funny.
A virus lurks near,
I try to persevere.
In the end, my nose becomes runny.
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I had to stop in my tracks:
We’ve entered the season of tax.
The government’s pawn,
my money is gone.
Please send me an Ipod, Powermax!
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
‘Tween kids and diapers and rent,
The budget is certainly spent.
Though I’ve often adored it
I cannot afford it;
An Ipod would be heaven sent!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
To an ipod Touch my dreams did soar
Alas! the price was too high,what a bore
Now I enter this contest
In earnest,not in jest
Because green is a colour I just adore!
March 4th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Twin Siamese brothers would scuffle
“My music’s better” they’d each muffle
With surprise in their eyes, they obeyed their Mom’s cries:
“Just put the damned iPod on shuffle!”
March 4th, 2009 at 9:08 am
My boss, god help me, is cunning
to this site he has sent me running
“go win me an ipod,
you overpaid sod,
or your salary I will be dunning!”
But the last laugh will be mine.
If I win an Ipod, that’s fine.
But to make this ditty
he’s spent 350,
cause I surfed for 4 hours online.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:22 am
You said you wanted a limerick in time
For a chance at a Nano the color of lime
Now if only a Mac
There’d be no look’n back
Though the Nano I’d be proud to call mine
March 4th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Some years ago I switched to a mac
And never did want to look back
Now I’m stuck with XP
And I want to flee!
So please let me back on a mac!
March 5th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
damn. so lame I am…
I haven’t got a good one
yet. Limerick feh!
March 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
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March 7th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
There once was a cat from Peru
Who was sitting inside a worn shoe
He liked it so much
He sat there for lunch
But all he could have was boot stew!
March 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Flat broke when he married Theresa
Charged the cost of the rings to his Visa
Take his wound, add some salt
To avoid a default
Sold his Newton, two Cubes, and a Lisa
March 10th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Most limericks I’ve heard are obscene
indecent, if you know what I mean
I’ll try to do my best
In the PowerMax contest
But the trick will be keeping it clean
March 11th, 2009 at 10:33 am
A teenaged iMac was desirous
Of ridding itself of a virus
(or else it from him)
And boosting its DIMM
So it could stream live Miley Cyrus
March 11th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
A couple from Northwest Seattle
Broke up with finality that’ll
Require a ruling
That looks to be grueling:
A long Ipod custody battle.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I’d really like to win a Nano in green
To be that hip cat on the scene
If you do me this favor
I’ll say iPod has flava
And that would be peachy keen!
March 12th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Limericks are usually not clean.
In fact, oftentimes they’re downright mean.
But PowerMax deserves only props.
Either that or a visit from the cops,
depending upon just what they mean by “green.”
March 14th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Win an iPod Nano on Monday?
That would be the most amazing day!
I’ve wished and dreamed for weeks
And begged so many geeks
How I hope that my name you will say
April 16th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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