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Manicurists Beware – I am coming for you…

I’m not really big on entering competitions. I usually read the details, raise my eyebrows at the offered prizes, then forget to actually enter. Anyway, I usually figure the odds of winning are too slim to bother. Unless of course the competition is judged rather than just randomly drawn – then I am a little more likely to give it a go.

(I tried so hard to win a G.I Joe colouring-in competition as a child. I spent hours and hours on my entry, I used everything I could get my hands on pencils, textas, crayons, glitter – I even glued on a sheet of transparent plastic so I could add my own gun-sight modification. And I won. My prize was a giant G.I. Joe vehicle – somewhere there exists a photograph of me being presented with the oversize box of American military propaganda plastic, an improbably wide smile on my face…)

Anyway, I recently came across a competition in PCPowerplay that got my interest, firstly because the prize is FORTY computer games. That’s right, you heard me, FORTY. I could spread them all out on the floor, lie back on them and make a Game Angel. No, I WILL do that. But first I have to win.

Here’s what I have to do…

So far I have the train ticket and the party hat.

(Orc Raider included for scale.)

There is about a week until the competition deadline. I need to get moving. Number 3, the cane sugar one, worries me, I don’t spend enough time in coffee shops to know if such a thing is going to be easy to obtain. Number 7 SHOULD be easy, but where are those Jehovah’s Witnesses when you actually want their literature? Nowhere in my neighbourhood, that’s for sure.

And I guess Number 12 is going to be the clincher so I’ll need to start thinking about that.

If anyone needs me I can be found in my local grocery store looking for something priced $1.59.

Wish me luck!

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Of Baked Goods and Brawn

Who knew that I’d be writing about He-Man again so soon. But this particular page from the salvaged Colouring/Activity Book was just too good not to post.

It is the last page of a three page comic feature where you got to fill in the blanks in the story. I have left them blank so as to preserve the mystery and wonder of the unaltered version. (But feel free to print this off and write in lines as you see fit.)

Why do Teela and Skeletor look like they were sharing canapés and polite conversation until He-Man came roaring up in his Attak-Trak and interrupted?

And did He-Man really just say ‘Torte’? Oh yes. Yes he did.

Behold He-Man’s cake hurling prowess and sleep safely and soundly in your beds citizens of Eternia!

Skeletor’s nefarious dessert-based schemes will trouble you no more.

‘night all.