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CONTEST: All about strokes.





One of my cousins just had a massive stroke and is in a coma.
This got me thinking. Why not write me a FUNNY poem about strokes
and heart attacks and maybe hypertension too? Nothing gloomy.
Cheer me up with a fantastic flight of fiction in these sad days.



PS: He's dead and buried now, so extra humour would be good.
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Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on February 11, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 300
  • Final notes:
    The winner was streets ahead of all the others. Read it.

Contest Winners

  1. Error: Unable to find finalist item 3803763, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  2. [Mum is in her cups again (another bloomin' rant)
    by cafegroundzero 71 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 9 8:52 PM 2008. In Adult, Abuse, Humor, Hope, Life, Love, Pain, Personal, Adult humor, Beat, Some of me
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

Entries [5]

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  • Attack Of The Heart
    by tigress3737 8 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 23 9:20 PM 2007
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite
  • The Streak
    A streak ran wild down the street,
    he flashed all as he flew,
    by Poetess12 28 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 13 9:40 PM 2008
    • Commented on by judge.
  • Conehead
    Warning: Profanity! This is ridiculous and sick-minded, but it made me laugh writing it.
    by BermudaHighway 29 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 13 11:12 PM 2008
    • Commented on by judge.
  • 361 Cholesterol
    Don’t wanna know don’t care!
    by fanniesson 16 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 14 6:09 AM 2008
    • Commented on by judge.

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  • cherche -d -ame
    January 14, 2008
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    Having read your "tongue in cheek bio" , I am not quite sure if you are pulling legs even now with this contest, but be it as it may.....if it is true I do want to say that I am sorry to hear about your cousin. If it is not , may you have a succesful contest that will give you a heads up on others sense of humour<-----see, I even used English English . As for me , I could not write anything funny at this present time [as my own life has been anything but funny] and I have decided to wallow in "poh lil me" mode. Also want to say...if you were in hospital as bio says , welcome back and enjoy this site in any way you wish to do so,
    reenie


    • Barry Hodges silver member
      January 14, 2008
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      As it happens it was true. He died yesterday. Never mind, keep on smiling, that's what I always say. Thank you for entering this into my contest. Would you like me to dedicate one of my poems to you? Let me know where you live and if one of my relatives got killed there I can write a poem about that sad event.


  • ----michael----
    January 15, 2008
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    My sincere condolences regarding your cousin and I hope that if his stroke was in any way bought on by incidents that took place whilst holidaying somewhere with you that you write a poem for the world to share. Seriously though, sorry for your loss.


  • Mari Goes gold member
    January 29, 2008
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    I have high blood pressure and was sure I was having some kind of heart attack, if there is something like 'some kind of heart attack' at all, but it turned out to be only bronchitis. Between coughs that sound as if my lungs want to come out through my mouth, I say "it isn't a heart attack, it's flu and bronchitis".
    Too bad, it could have inspired me to write something for your contest.


    • Barry Hodges silver member
      January 29, 2008
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      You could always write about a combination of hypertension and bronchial infection. Finding rhymes for penicillin, codeine, candestartin and beta-blockers will be a challenge.

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