Pointless Prize SOCK Competition! FS2020

[Jessica Hirschhorn]

FS2020 SOCKS: The JUDGES have decided. Many thanks to my co-judges, Nadine B. & Lynn Schoen. Among the 3 of us we barely figured out the Forum and FaceTime for 3.

AND… THE JUDGES have decided.

There were so many entries, that we divided them into 11 categories.

AND….

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ANIMAL: Purple Sloths. (AWitt)

FOOD/DRINK: Chili Peppers (BikesNick)

DULL: Wet gravel & Plain White (Josh)

MESSAGE: Death before Decaf (JRenaut)

COLORFUL/ARTISTIC: MultiColor shot of legs and shoes (Chuxtr)

PLACES: Canada/Moose (Kwarkentein)

MAGICAL: Toe socks (NovanoobGa)

CURSE/SASSY: Ringmaster Shit Show (Elizsnyder)

BEST PHOTO: Reflective Randnneur (Boomer2U)

MUSIC: Color Piano/B&W Piano/ Blues socks (Steve O)

and, for SHEER VOLUME of Entries (He BROKE TapaTalk!) as well as Furthest Away Socks (Accra, Ghana): Boomer2U

I have a gift for every winner, and am happy to send via SnailMail.

WINNERS, please contact me via email or text, as I need your HOME ADDRESS.

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[drevil]

@Jessica Hirschhorn 199618 wrote:

FS2020 SOCKS: The JUDGES have decided. …
and, for SHEER VOLUME of Entries (He BROKE TapaTalk!) as well as Furthest Away Socks (Accra, Ghana): Boomer2U

Note to self: Boomer2U’s Denial of Service technique is an effective way to win prizes

[Nadine]

@Jessica Hirschhorn 199618 wrote:

FS2020 SOCKS: The JUDGES have decided. Many thanks to my co-judges, Nadine B. & Lynn Schoen. Among the 3 of us we barely figured out the Forum and FaceTime for 3.

AND… THE JUDGES have decided.

There were so many entries, that we divided them into 11 categories.

AND….

[emoji328]

ANIMAL: Purple Sloths. (AWitt)

FOOD/DRINK: Chili Peppers (BikesNick)

DULL: Wet gravel & Plain White (Josh)

MESSAGE: Death before Decaf (JRenaut)

COLORFUL/ARTISTIC: MultiColor shot of legs and shoes (Chuxtr)

PLACES: Canada/Moose (Kwarkentein)

MAGICAL: Toe socks (NovanoobGa)

CURSE/SASSY: Ringmaster Shit Show (Elizsnyder)

BEST PHOTO: Reflective Randnneur (Boomer2U)

MUSIC: Color Piano/B&W Piano/ Blues socks (Steve O)

and, for SHEER VOLUME of Entries (He BROKE TapaTalk!) as well as Furthest Away Socks (Accra, Ghana): Boomer2U

I have a gift for every winner, and am happy to send via SnailMail.

WINNERS, please contact me via email or text, as I need your HOME ADDRESS.

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BTW… Jessica named the category Josh won (& basically created) “dull”, but I thought it was also creative and hysterical. I laughed out loud at the “classic plain white” socks. I probably like em better without the Nike swoosh showing. [emoji1]

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[sszibler]

@drevil 199622 wrote:

Note to self: Boomer2U’s Denial of Service technique is an effective way to win prizes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8kCQQUjHM

Whoa! I don’t know what this sock thing is all about, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen Real Genius! Back when Val Kilmer looked less like Marlon Brando.

[drevil]

@sszibler 199673 wrote:

Whoa! I don’t know what this sock thing is all about, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen Real Genius! Back when Val Kilmer looked less like Marlon Brando.

So if you haven’t seen Real Genius (and it’s been a while since I have), the character Lazlo has a machine that fills out a million+ entry forms for a Frito Lay prize contest. I later found out was based on a real story:
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The Frito-Lay Contest Scheme Was Real

One of the subplots of the movie features Jon Gries playing a mysterious genius who winds up winning 31.8% of the prizes in a Frito-Lay sweepstakes by submitting 1,650,000 entries. “No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want,” he explains. This storyline was inspired by two real-life schemes by students at Caltech. In 1969, there was an attempt with an actual Frito-Lay contest, but the more famous ploy was 6 years later, when Steve Klein, Dave Novikoff, and Barry Megdal used an IBM computer to help submit 1.2 million entries with their own names and those of 23 schoolmates in a McDonald’s sweepstakes (in the original script, McDonald’s is the company named in Lazlo’s plot). Their story made the headlines and was met with complaints from other customers. In the end, they ended up winning only 20% of the prizes, including a car, which they expressed suspicious disappointment with. “Mathematically it’s feasible, but it seems like a low figure,” said Becky Hartsfield, one of the participating students.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/5-brilliant-things-you-should-know-about-real-genius-63733266c9ec/

Another mention on page 8 here: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=scschcomart

[Boomer Cycles]

@drevil 199622 wrote:

Note to self: Boomer2U’s Denial of Service technique is an effective way to win

Whatever it takes to win… but Tapatalk did indeed shut down my freebie account and oblige me to fork over $9.99 to continue sharing my socks with you’all;-)

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[Boomer Cycles]

While I’m on the subject of sock sharing, thanks @jessica for my prize that just arrived in today’s mail. It just so happened to coincide with personal delivery by @FastFriendlyGuy of my #coffeenuering cycling cap on which he stitched up my Coffeeneur badge! Lucky me!!

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[bikesnick]

@Jessica Hirschhorn 199618 wrote:

FS2020 SOCKS: The JUDGES have decided.
…
FOOD/DRINK: Chili Peppers (BikesNick)

Wow! What a surprise to find a really nice pair of socks in today’s snail mail! It is definitely a non-pointless prize.
Thank you Jessica!
/glenn

[Boomer Cycles]

The Afrisock pointless prize in action earlier today, on their first metric century ride

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[Jessica Hirschhorn]

Will someone please tell JOSH I have his Prize for winning his category (and well earned, I must say) in the SOCK Competition.

Please have him contact me with his address.

Regards, Jessica

[Nadine]

@Jessica Hirschhorn 199796 wrote:

Will someone please tell JOSH I have his Prize for winning his category (and well earned, I must say) in the SOCK Competition.

Please have him contact me with his address.

Regards, Jessica

He wrote me back & said he responded to your pm on the forum with his address. Check your pms!

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[Jessica Hirschhorn]

Just did , and YUP , he did, and DUH.

[Steve O]

Got my prize and my gold-embossed certificate. Yay! And thanks Jessica for a fabulous game.

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[kwarkentien]

Apparently I forgot to post my prized socks here so here they are:


Thank you Jessica and the judging team! I am wearing these with pride!

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[Steve O]

Freezing Saddles may be over, but we can still wear our holiday-appropriate socks:

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