Since no-one else has leapt at the opportunity to create a rod for their own back by volunteering to produce a
weekly roundup, I guess I now have to try and bring it myself (gulp!) To give me a faint chance of success, my
week goes Sat-Fri so I have the weekend to get it done. Guest contributors
welcome!!
In Brief
This week sees the HalfBakery in a productive and benevolent mood with 70 ideas submitted and relatively
few fishbones on offer. The success of poetry and playful twisting of the familiar indicates that flights of fancy
are in the ascendancy, while rants, overextended jokes and derivative-sounding concepts were in the firing
line. Military history and puns drew the most annotation activity, supported by vigorously exasperated
commentary on the youth of today.
Most Popular:
Bubbawocky +11 (8th of 7)
Electric Gorilla +10 (skinflaps)
Giant Spitfire +10 (8th of 7)
Deathday Cake +10 (UnaBubba)
Floating hitchhiker +9 (erenjay)
Least popular:
Internet campaign to get Brian Sewell's Wikipedia article deleted as 'not notable' -7 (Loris)
Large Hairy Butt Collider -2 (UnaBubba)
iPedal -1 (UnaBubba)
Rudimentary Time Machine -1 (doctorremulac3)
TSFY Website -1 (not only but also)
Most polarising:
The 8th Earl of Severn +8/-5 (UnaBubba)
Deathday Cake +14/-4 (UnaBubba)
Rudimentary Time Machine +2/-3 (doctorremulac3)
Greece De Fault Zones +2/-2 (UnaBubba)
Triple-Encrypted CCTV +2/-2 (idris83)
Most annotations:
Giant Spitfire 69 (8th of 7)
Large Halibut Collider 58 (not morrison rm)
Deathday cake 45 (UnaBubba)
Pizza, and Pie 37 (christjan08)
Load the Internet With Bad Bomb Plans 37 (doctorremulac3)
Internet campaign to get Brian Sewell's Wikipedia article deleted as 'not notable' 32 (Loris)
Logish 31 (Inyuki)
(There has to be an automated way of compiling these numbers <wipesweat>. This is a tough category for
ideas posted on a Fri)
User stats
Most ideas: UnaBubba, 11
Highest average score: skinflaps, 8.5
Highest total score: UnaBubba, 32
Lowest total score: Loris, -4
Lowest average score: Loris, -2
My favourite annotations:
OK. Now, I want you to imagine your "dream girl", popping out of a Deathday Cake.
— UnaBubba, May 14 2012
It'd be a little late though, wouldn't it?
— RayfordSteele, May 15 2012
Cleverest/most excruciating puns:
Looking for The Cod Particle, I presume.
— UnaBubba, May 14 2012
What started out as an innocent idea has caused some kind of fish pun reaction that is headed for smelt-
down.
— bigsleep, May 16 2012
Genuine learning (and unfortunate TMI):
Little known fact - The average human emits 14 farts per day, on average.
— sqeaketh the wheel, May 16 2012
Then I must be significantly above average.
— Alterother, May 16 2012
"Speechless" award, sponsored by blissmiss:
Pinworm Containment Mechanism (oscil8) (Hey I had to get myself in there somehow)
Let's see if I'm still up to it next week!