Mental Magma

The voting this week was tighter than a Japanese commuter train (please watch that link).  Your winner this week is Mrs. Sara.  If we had offered a prize for Circumtranslations, she probably would have won that too.  Let’s give a hearty congratulations to our most victorious winner.

If a real Dark Knight emerges and the press is furiously trying to figure out the man behind the bat, we can scratch one name off our lists:

Ron Jeremy. There’s no way he’d fit in that tight rubber suit.

Mrs. Sara will receive a $25 Amazom.com gift certificate for her winning entry.  Stayed tuned tomorrow when we announce our 2nd merch contest. I wonder what it will be.

Our first week having a guest judge went smashingly.  I guess everyone enjoyed Brendan’s contest, since we received nearly 250 entries.  It took some time, but we’ve narrowed the field down to 5.

Like usual, I’d like to to acknowledge some of the stupendous entries that didn’t make the final five.  The following people’s answers were clever (as judged by us), highly rated (as judged by MM users), or both.

Garrett’s George Clooney, Dan’s Heath Ledger, James’ Dave Chappelle, Padma’s Woody Allen, Emily’s Wilford Brimley, Kurosh’s Bruce Willis, Tiago’s George Bush, Jay Bryan’s Mike Tyson, and Matt’s OJ Simpson.

The 5 finalists this week are made up of 4 we at MM chose and one that guest judge Brendan picked.  Brendan’s pick was user Keely.  Our four picks were answers by Han5nah T., Mrs Sara, R.E.D., & Spazdreamer.

With Christian Bale’s newest Batman flick rocking the box office, it got one MM user thinking about who might or might not really be Batman. That user is Brendan, winner of last week’s contest and this week’s guest judge. He pitched an idea for this week’s contest, and we loved it. That means he’ll get to nominate his favorite entry to be in the finals.

This week’s contest is: Name the celebrity least likely to be Batman in real life. You must give a short (no more than a few sentences) argument for your answer. You can interpret the word celebrity loosely here; anyone who is well known qualifies, but we are limiting the answers to males celebrities. Also, unlike most weeks, you can only enter this week’s contest 3 times, so make them count.

You can enter the contest by clicking on Contest Entries (also located below) and leaving your answer there. By leaving an entry you are agreeing to the contest rules and terms. This week’s prize is a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com.