Mental Magma

For the third week in a row, it’s been an extremely tight race until the last minute between two finalists.  This week it was evil pun mistress, Sherry Baker, and returning champion, Mrs Sara.  In the end, it was the new kid on the block who claimed the win.  Congrats Sherry, sorry, no cake and balloons this week, but you have earned yourself a $25 Amazon.com Gift Certificate and that fabulous Executive Desk Gong you’ve had your eye on all week. :)

So, when the internet gets around to having its own Olympics, don’t be surprised to see the headline:

GOOGLE HACKED. INTERNET GAMES POST PWNED.

Thanks to all who entered the contest; see you tomorrow when we announce contest #9.

For anyone not familiar with the term, see the definition of leet here.  This week’s entries raised a point we’ve debated on MM before.  How far can people stretch each contest’s specific instructions before they’ve gone too far to be in the running?

The short answer is that we’ll have to decide on a case by case basis, mainly dependent on if we feel the entry is within the spirit of the contest.  So entries this week that wrote more than just a headline are fine.  The entries that wrote a headline but didn’t include something about an Olympic internet event are not really considered.  My best advice is that if your entry is pretty good, and just bends the rules a little bit, go ahead and submit it.

With Michael Phelps on all media (including a venomous version coming in second place in last week’s contest), we’ve got the Olympics on our minds.  We here at Mental Magma are probably not going to be medaling any time soon in any real world events, so we started wondering what an Olympics of the Internet would look like.

Your assignment this week is to think up Internet-themed Olympic events and write news headlines for them. Let me give you an example: Americans take gold in pop-up event with 83 windows closed in 60 seconds. Your headline can be about anything as long as it looks like a newspaper headline and includes your made up event.  Leave your headline in the Contest Entries section.