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The Procrastinet Contest: Just How Bored Are You?

filed under: Idle Chatter

I've been hearing lately from regular readers about what they do when they come to Procrastinet, expecting to have their time pleasantly wasted, and instead find only the same old thing that was posted days ago. Not, mind you, that that's been happening a lot lately, or anything (whistles, looks at the ground, shuffles feet a bit...)

E-Fren, flatteringly, reads back through the archives and recently enjoyed the story of Max eating spicy pizza all over again.

Beeg enjoys poking around in the GoogleAd links, looking for strange products (like the Pope John Paul II you could get on eBay for a while). This is an activity I encourage, as it creates a tiny revenue stream to help defray the costs of the site.

La Beeg then had an idea which I liked so much that, faced with another post-less day, I figured I'd spread the love. So I am proud to announce:

The Procrastinet Online Boredom Contest

...which will crown the Kingdaddy Bullgoose Boredest User of These Here Internets.

As anyone who has spent truly bored time online knows, killing time succesfully often involves salvaging entertainment from the non-entertaining. So here's how it works:

Contestants must click around in the GoogleAds on the right side of this page (under "Support P'Net) to discover the weirdest, most entertaining or WTF-inducing item or concept or product or person they can.

As an example: this week Beeg found her way to a site that sold life-sized cardboard cutouts of Christina Aguilera. So that is currently the standard to shoot for.

You can follow links to other sites from the original advertiser, but it has to be an intact daisychain of links - you can't just randomly jump somewhere else, that's cheating.

There is no limit to what can be submitted - it just has to be entertaining enough to take up at least one unit of bored-into-a-coma "hey look at this" webtime.

Submissions are due by Friday noon - email them to me here and I'll adjudicate. The winner will receive a free memorial post about their submission and... um... a t-shirt or something.

Full disclosure: hells yes this means Procrastinet gets a commission from those click-throughs. If somehow the revenue thus created manages to exceed the cost of even a single month of webhosting, I'll use the excess to buy the winner that t-shirt.

May the boredest motherf***er out there win!

Posted by rjt at May 25, 2005 04:33 PM