Yesterday I ran a contest to see if people knew the significance of this photo. I was surprised so many of you did. Way to know cycling, or random facts, or geek trivia, whatever fits you. And then we opened it up for a second contest to see if anybody could come up with a funny explanation of the photo. Out of more than 200 entries, in which on more than one occasion I looked at Lucy and rolled my eyes, and on a singular occasion she did the same to me, we actually got one that came with a surprise chuckle. Mostly, perhaps, for the visual payoff. Sorry to keep you from working. It really is wrong, you know, to read this stuff while you’re supposed to be selling paper.
Regardless, the winner is, after much of the day spent reading the entries, Mr. Shane Bertou, an appropriately French sounding name. Congrats, Shane. The book is in the mail.
His entry:
ShaneBertou said,
He’s this guy’s cousin!
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I gotta admit, of the ones I submitted, I thought that was the least likely to get your vote. But I’ll take it!
Oh and thanks for what you do on a consistent basis. You had me at penguin sex.
Congratulations Shane. Read it in a day and send it my way?
The other 200 of us don’t want to wait either…so much so that we all broke down and tried to be funny commenting about a picture and ended up making the kinds of cheesy jokes that our parents and goofy aunts and uncles are always making.
I promise I’ll read it in a day and send it on to the next cheesy joke maker.
That really was funny Shane. As much as I would love to get the book early, you definitely deserved it.
PS – I’m stalking someone else who already is reading it. No name dropping of course.
But i told his wife, I would like to be 2nd in line.
If I had known images were allowed this would have been totally different.
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Hey Don,
I’m not sure if you’ll remember me or not. I was the guy who won one of the advanced copies of your book from your blog. Just wanted to say thanks again, I enjoyed it and have since passed it on to a number of people.
But I also wanted to thank you for much more than letting me read your book for free.
Reading it challenged me to live out a better story. But more than that … it helped me realize that as a parent, part of my responsibility in mentoring my children is helping them to tell the best possible story with their own lives.
I think my oldest boy has a good one going right now … I’d love for you to check it out.
http://www.josiahandfriends.com
Thanks for the part you played …
Have a Merry Christmas Don. God bless.