The Game

I need your help. I was violently ill yesterday. I was supposed to be getting people to sign up for the blawgger game that MIM and I came up with. I need law students and lawyers to submit something to help us make this game uber fun. This game will be a good way to increase traffic on your site and a great way to waste some of that precious time you've been hording.

Here's what MIM has to say:

Anonymous Law Student and I (Moonlighting in Misery) are starting a contest, sort of a blawger scavenger hunt. You come up with a question involving your blawg, all of them are compiled once a month, we post them and our readers collect the answers. The winner gets to pick the next month's theme and a topic for all of us to post on. Also, this month since I am starting it off I'm giving away a free t-shirt.

So far we've got LegallyBlonde, NambyPamby, LawSchoolVirgin, LittleTortFeasor, Amicus Curiae, and of course Anonymous Law Student and Moonlighting in Misery.

All you have to do is submit a question about your blawg according to the e-mail included below by this weekend. And if you don't want to read the whole e-mail right now, just read the first and last two paragraphs to find out what kind of question and what the theme is we're looking for.

Please e-mail me back and let me know if you want to join. And if you know anyone else who might be interested.

So here is the deal: It’s a scavenger hunt, so we need questions that will cause the player to do at least some searching on your blawg BUT not so difficult that they will have to read 14 months of archives to find it. In order to actually have an archive from which to pull, you must have been blawging for at least 3 months to participate.

How it works:
1. Each month a new blawg will take lead. That blawger is responsible for collecting the questions and answers, putting those questions together, and sending them all back to each participating blawg.
2. The questions for that month are to be posted on each participating blawg on the first Monday of each month.
3. The contest shall last from the first Monday of each month for one week until the following Monday at noon. Only answers that have been received by noon will be eligible.
4. Players are to be given the e-mail address of the lead blawg for the month and encouraged to send their answers to that blawger. But each blawger can accept answers if they want and just forward those on to the lead blawg. The lead blawger will use the date/time on the e-mails to determine the winner. If a blawger fails to forward an e-mail by the deadline not sent directly to the lead blawg, the player is S.O.L.
5. The winner is the player who gets the most of the questions right the fastest. The lead blawger has final say-so on who the winner is according to the e-mails received.
6. The winner then gets:
a. A .jpg of a trophy with his/her name expertly inscribed by paintshop pro, Anonymous Law Student.
b. To choose the theme for the next month’s contest.
c. To pick a topic that each participating blawger must write a post on. (A majority of the participating blawgs can overrule the winner’s choice on “b” or “c” and force the “pervert” to pick again)

Rules: (according to aLs)
1. DON’T CHEAT
2. Have it back within a week
3. Winner gets to pick next month’s theme and a topic for posting
4. There is no 4
5. Who knows

Please go to MiM's website and enter your blog into the competition. You can still compete, even if you are entered into the competition, so don't let that dissuade you from helping out.

Also, for your pleasure, a musical about those silly "support the troops" ribbons. Supporting the troops isn't silly, but thinking that a sticker on your gas guzzling SUV helps to support the troops is hypocritical and annoying.



Thanks to Elle for showing me the link.

aLs