Essay Contest for a Shure 330 ribbon mic

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Hmmm who were you supporting at the superbowl scrubs? ;)

Ok a couple of calls were on the borderline, but surely it wasnt that bad... :eek:
 
Yeah, who wants your stupid old stinky microphone anyway! (sniff.....)
 
"To all the "poetic" entries: guys, have you ever read an actual poem that was written, say, after 1900?"

Yes. But in this forum it would simply look like bad prose.

We don't need no stinkin' mic. for bad prose.

;)


A Haiku:

To express my thoughts
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic
 
Here lies the remains of a bad post... And I shall not mourn it's death!

P.S. This was voluntary....
 
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Concerning questions raised of my validity: Previous Post (edited)

I have said that I get donations only to indicate the forward momentum and publicly lauded plausability of my organization. Public radio touts donators. Museums, animal shelters, and not-for-profit organizations ALWAYS ensure that their donators are reassured by a constant reminder of a donation goal and its subsequent protagonists! I am merely comparing myself to a not-for-profit organization. I have worked for and donated to one or two not-for-profits in the past, and I am showing that I am attempting to model myself after these fine examples that were set forth for me through these experiences. The only difference being that I am still relatively small and have no 'board of directors...' yet.

As for self-riteousness, I try not to be. I try to be self-confident, not pious.

I don't understand the beef with my avatar and caption. 'Panic' has been my stage name for quite some time. It is actually based on my stage presence being compared to an ancient Wiccan/Pagan sub-deity, Pan. Someone said, "You looked Pan-ic up there."

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I feel akward even explaining myself, and I hope I don't have to do it twice. Yes, I think perhaps the lack of sleep is making you a bit too emotional. It might be a blessing, because all over-emotional experiences caused by brain trauma are actually based on seeds of reasonable thoughts and opinions!

Peritus, I respect you as a 'nice guy.' I think that you are one of the nicest guys on the forum, and for you to air such intense grievences with me in the most public of ways is very suprising to me. (Edit)

Also, if I was a con-artist I'd probably actually have money. I am one of the hardest working, yet most misunderstood people that I know of.
 
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I dunno what that is about, but if you read NS's other posts, you'll see he has a good fundamental knowledge about electronics, so I really doubt he made up the stuff about DIY.
 
Thanks for your reply and I would like to apologize for the public factor (I should have considered that). The non-profit modelling clarification helps me understand much better. If you would like me to delete and/or edit my previous post, just let me know and this post and the original are toast.

Thanks for helping me understand better.

-Joshua
 
mshilarious said:
I dunno what that is about, but if you read NS's other posts, you'll see he has a good fundamental knowledge about electronics, so I really doubt he made up the stuff about DIY.
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That was a flag to me. The main problem is my lack of knowlege (so as to verify his)... My error (or series of them).

I must apologize to you to for jacking your thread....
 
Dear umpire/mshilarious,
Thanks for the opportunity to air an unfinished piece of prose with an unrealised purpose in as yet unfinished competition for an unwanted microphone.
There's was a lot of goody good amongst the "other stuff" so I had a good laugh on many occassions.
I'll go on looking for the holy biddet someplace else.
Cheers
rayC
 
Part V: Hey, Hey, Goodbye....

So there I was, sitting in front of my TV, miserably whimpering about the $120,000 I lost on Apple stock in the last month, when I thought to myself, I wonder if that contest ever ended. The fog had left for a while, and it was dry and unseasonably warm, so I figured I'd walk down to the nearest Internet café and check the message boards.

When I got to the Internet café, a lousy little dive, though it was, there she stood, plain as day, and again her tongue was as biting as that of Shakespeare's shrew. And to think that I thought about kissing a mouth like that....

Before I could even speak, the first words out of her mouth were, "You leuuuzzzerrr."

I stared at her in silence.

"You can't even win a Shure 330," she said, her bleach-blonde head bobbing back and forth listlessly, as though the wind had caught its low-density spheroid mass by surprise. "Why would I trust you to win me a record contract?" she continued.

It was at that moment that it hit me. She was right. I couldn't make that girl sound good if I tied her to the side of a moving semi and buried her vocals with music from its horns.

So I said to her, "You're right. I can't. You suck."

And that's the last time Ashlee Simpson spoke to me. :D :eek: :D


(Next poll: who would YOU have picked as the butt of this joke?)
 
My Milli Vanilli cover band could have really used a Shure 330.
 
mshilarious said:
First I'll run through the posts I thought merited comments:

northsiderap #5: I like the DIY angle, that's a big part of my philosophy. Even if you can afford to buy stuff, being able to fabricate or customize means that your studio fits you like a glove.

northsiderap #11: This was the single best instance of writing:



Too many people seemed to forget it was an essay contest, which means that quality of writing counts too. Nicely done there.

Having said that, I didn't think much of your subsequent efforts :p

upfiddler #18: Clever, but I don't think the rules allowed binary, since Babelfish doesn't translate it.

To all the "poetic" entries: guys, have you ever read an actual poem that was written, say, after 1900?

rsolinski #54: Good, other than the stray apostrophe.

notbradsohner #56: Of all the begging posts, this might have been the best.

Marik #72: Tempting. Very, very, very, very tempting. But in good conscience, I'm not sure I can turn a donation into a transaction, even if it benefits all of mic-dom.

LeeRosario #134: I like how the pictures start out semi-related and rapidly degenerate into non sequitor.



And I bet you didn't know that I live in Dare County, where two towns are named after those Indians, Manteo and Wanchese :) But ultimately I can't reward plagiarism.

OK then, the finalists will be northsiderap #11, rsolinski #54, notbradsohner #56.

Everybody who has previously posted on this thread, and who is not one of those three, may argue about who you liked best, and I will consider your comments in choosing the winner.

In the meantime, I'm going to post some pics and spectral analysis, for posterity :)
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What....no honerable mention? And I essayed EZ style!! :mad: :D
 
mshilarious said:
Marik #72: Tempting. Very, very, very, very tempting. But in good conscience, I'm not sure I can turn a donation into a transaction, even if it benefits all of mic-dom...:
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You know, you are right. I did not think about this aspect.

Any of them
...the finalists will be northsiderap #11, rsolinski #54, notbradsohner #56.
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would be good a good choice.
Not that I could not use this mic, but since I have may be more than 20 ribbons, somebody needs it much more than me :cool:
 
OK, I've dawdled long enough picking a winner.

In the final analysis, this was a writing contest, so I have to award the mic to the best writer.

In doing so I reject this argument:

. . . in this forum it would simply look like bad prose.

We don't need no stinkin' mic. for bad prose.
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Verse is not prose, and bad haiku is not verse. :p

Also I ignore this post:

I am probably doing myself more harm than good by using a rap oriented name
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Thus the winner is northsiderap.
 
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