As stated prior to this thread, VOTING is worth points.  If you vote and did not enter this contest, you will get 3 points towards the overall 5 year standings in the Artistry contest.  When you vote as an entrant in this round, you receive 5 points for voting. . .that means no one who votes ends with no points. . . .

Anyway, the rules are pretty similar to other contests.  This is round 36 so please know that ALL rounds will count EQUALLY toward the final standings, and NO rounds will be omitted from the final total.

1. All participants must comment on all entrants and vote by the deadline, which for this rounds is November 20th, 2008.  Failure to vote will forfeit all points from this round, and if that is less than 20 points, the difference will be forfeited in the following round (No Disqualifications)

2. Voting will take place by replying to this thread

3. If a person withdraws from an Artistry Round prior to the end of a round, all entrants who voted for that person's entry will be permitted to pick one new song to earn a bonus point, all other songs will be realigned accordingly.  There will be no penalty on those who don't change their vote.

4. Once a vote is posted, it cannot be changed UNLESS rule 3 applies OR there was a double-vote by accident.

5. Late entries will be accepted until the 1st vote has been posted.

6. The deadline is a strict deadline, the moment the date has reached the day after the deadline, no votes will count, this is to reduce last minute voting, or sympathy/favoritism towards different entrants.

7. We ask that any entrant who posts a link to his/her original song (source of parody) not be DKTOS for the contest.

8. All other basic competition rules as applied in other competitions are generally followed.  The rules may not be changed or altered unless two/thirds of those voting in a round where a rule change is requested agrees.  Rules may be added by host (Below Average Dave) if it was a rule in the ABC or SOTM contest that was thought to be common knowledge, but not known by a particular entrant.

Deadline:
EST (New York) November 20th/21st at midnight
Central (St. Louis): November 20th at 11pm
Mountain (Denver): November 20th at 10pm
Pacific (Los Angeles): November 20th  at 9pm
Sydney, AUS: November 21st at 2pm
The UK: November 21st at 5am

1. Buy Me a Condom by Agrimorfee
    Buy Me a Condo

2. Dare to be Hungry by Jack Wilson
    Dare to be Stupid

3. Rob the Most Wanted Man in the World by The Conqueror of Parodies
    Bob

4. My Yard by Rex Ungericht
    Spy Hard

5. Contact Sports by 2nz
    Hardware Store

6. Jungle Cruise by Matthias
    Hardware Store

7. I'm Out of Luck by Below Average Dave
    Truck Driving Song

Took you long enough  ;) (I'm just busting your balls Dave... I know you had a good reason for the delay)

5 Points: Below Average Dave's Steroid Ducks
4 Points: The Bloody Mess Which Is 2nz
3 Points: Conqueror of villains
2 Points: Rex's Yard
1 Point: Agrimorfee's Condom 

5pts=Matthias (he inches just a few paces beyond 2nz/Glen S. in giggleworthiness for this scarifyingly difficult OS)
4pts=2nz
3pts=Below Average Dave
2pts=Rex
1pt=TCOP

1 point to Agri's Condom
2 points to BAD Luck
3 points to Rex's Gardening Nightmare
4 points to Walt Matthias
5 points to Glen the Undertaker*

*He's a wrestler, m'kay?

1 point to BAD
2 points to Agrimorfee
3 points to Conqueror
4 points to 2nz
5 points to Matthias

HM to Jack Wilson (Good Idea, just needs some tweaking)

1 Point to Agrimorfee (Pretty Fly, for an old song)

2 Points to Rex (Awesome job with what you had to work with)

3 Points to TCOP (Great job on a very tough OS)

and the battle of the Hardware Store's play out on my vote as close, but

4 Points to 2nz (Amazing write and technically perfect, but. . .)

5 Points to Matthias (. . .this one was a little bit higher on the "Funny" scale)

Seriously--both Hardware Store writes are deserving of a gold in my book--it was really tough to choose which one won. . .good round guys

Here's mine:

5 points: #6. Jungle Cruise by Matthias

4 points: #7. I'm Out of Luck by Below Average Dave

3 points: #4. My Yard by Rex Ungericht

2 points: #3. Rob the Most Wanted Man in the World by The Conqueror of Parodies

1 point: #1. Buy Me a Condom by Agrimorfee

HM to Jack. Tough draw, watch that final check before submitting.

And the long await WAY results are. . .


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1st Matthias with "Jungle Cruise" earned 29 points!

2nd 2nz with "Contact Sports" earned 26 Points!

3rd Below Average Dave with "I'm Out of Luck" earned 20 Points!
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4th The Conqueror of Parodies with 17 Points (3 3rd Place Votes)

5th Rex Ungericht with 17 Points (2 3rd Place Votes)

6th Agrimorfee with 11 Points

7th Jack Wilson with Forfeit (Sorry buddy-you forfeit your 5 vote points for this round. . .and of course less than 20 so a 15 point penalty in Blondie, but hope it's not the last we see of you, you've been gone for awhile)

So BIG Congrats to the Hardware Store Champions, big win Matthias, and Explosive kick off for your Artistry debut Glen. . .thanks everyone for putting the truck that delivers to the stores in 3rd, and good luck in Blondie!

Thanks for all of you who voted for Amazon Ed, all of my fellow 300 skippers in our small dock house will be happy. I live in the basement, on a water bed, I wake up every morning finding Nemo. I have a wet bar and a pool table down there... But I digress.

Thank you all for the kind words. Congrats Matt for only slightly trouncing me, and well done Dave. I'll remember not to take sandstone for granite next time. It's a bad pun after all.
-Glen

Pretty close at the top this time. Congrats to Matthias, 2nz (second place for you first round - you lucky bugger!) and BAD! And thanks for the votes into fourth place, guys.