Morons Get Results

This morning, I was worried that "F*** You, Penguin" (that's how it's listed in the nominations, I haven't developed an aversion to the f-bomb overnight) was trailing those corporate suck-ups over at "I Can Haz Cheezeburger" by a couple hundred votes. I don't know why I bothered. Now that the Moron Nation has been notified that the awesomest pet blog ever in the entire history of civilization is in contention for Best Pet Blog of 2008, "F*** You, Penguin" has picked up 45% of the approximately 1600 votes cast in this category.

You guys & gals are great, but don't think this thing is over just yet. It's a long road stretching out from today to January 13, and you NEED to vote as often as you can for this visionary blog. Vote from home, vote from work, get to work a half hour early so you can log onto all your co-workers' computers and use their vote as well. If your grandma is sort of clueless about what the *** symbols on the nominations page mean, you might consider telling her that the blog's called "Find You, Penguin" and that it's a spinoff of "Where's Waldo" where kids can go to find the penguin hidden in a big cartoon picture. Tell her that the guy who runs the site is really cranky about copyright infringement, and he wouldn't let them use the full name of the site in the awards process, so they HAD to use the asterisks. She'll vote for it fer sure - grandmas are susceptible to cute animals used as learning tools. And she probably won't go there anyway. Old people rarely use the internet. They're too busy telling people about how, back in their day, postcards cost a dime and you were lucky if you could get your milking machine parts ordered from the Sears & Roebuck's catalog before Uncle Art used that part of the catalog for his outhouse paperwork.

(...and while you're at it, you might want to vote in some of the other categories too. You know, as long as you're already there and all that.)

posted by Russ from Winterset at 12:39 PM

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