June Contest (Results)

 

Hey what do you know? It's actually the first of the month and we have a winner already. I wouldn't expect this kind of timing from us every month but we're trying (I swear). Anyway, let's get on to the naming and praising of June's contest winner.

Congratulations to Kebra Dotterer who had the best idea of the bunch. Here is what she had to say.

"Have a photo contest and see who can submit the best photo of someone playing disc golf. Make it a 4x6 or 8x10 format, and then you could even use the photo's as advertisement."

This idea was a popular one but Kebra came out with it first. For her efforts, Kebra wins a $50 Marshall Street coupon.

Thank you Kebra, for picking up our slack.

 

Back when Steve Dodge used to put this newsletter together in about 45 minutes, he’d call and ask me to come up with a contest for Marshall Street’s monthly newsletter, the very publication you're reading right now – and a very questionable one at that.

These were rare moments in our partnership. There were never any other times when both of us, on each side of the same conversation, remained speechless for over ten seconds. “Contest…contest…contest.” It was as if we were running out of a finite number of ideas.

After a couple years, just asking for a contest question would automatically wipe our brains clear of anything remotely resembling an idea. Most of them were pretty dumb, too. And lately it seems as if I’ve passed this special form of creative amnesia on to my staff.

“Contest question!” we’ll blurt at each other out of nowhere, during the two weeks of procrastination that lead up to this newsletter. This simple phrase has the effect of putting us in a hypnotic trance as if we were those brainwashed soldiers in "The Manchurian Candidate."

“Go vacuum the pro shop,” I’ll whisper, once their faces go blank.

But it’s gotten bad. Just referring to the dreaded monthly contest fills the room with an almost palpable sense of hopelessness.

We’ve completely run out of contest ideas, except maybe our dumbest contest idea so far:

This month’s contest is to see who can come up with the best contest for NEXT month. How’s that for moronic? Just when you hit rock bottom, you realize with a little more digging, you can descend even deeper.

$50 MS Dollars to the winner, and a brief moment of silence for the loss of our creative powers.

 

 

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