Comments on: Carnival of Satire (#100)

By: LOBO

LOBO — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:28:59 +0000

I forwarded the copies again … did your email filter snag ‘em? There may be LOTS of submissions in there …

We can have a C.O.S. 100.1!!!

By: Mark A. Rayner

Mark A. Rayner — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:16:22 +0000

Bummer LOBO — I did not get the submission. And they would have been great additions.

By: LOBO

LOBO — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:58:08 +0000

But I submitted! I submitted It's a Funny Thing's "Jumping the Shark" and Angry Seafood's Polygamist Cult Not Attractive Enough to Join. Was I disqualified?

By: Mark A. Rayner

Mark A. Rayner — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:41:47 +0000

Don’t worry about it folks — I was hoping more people would get in the spirit of the thing, but this is the danger of an automated form. Way too easy to miss this kind of change. Next one is back to normal — self-promote away! m.

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:16:28 +0000

Hehe I didn’t realize it wasn’t supposed to be our own content. At least I picked my best essay. Thanks for adding me to the carnival

On a side note, I wrote that thing a year ago and I still get people asking if I was serious. Yes I am and don’t call me Shirley…

Punching out Maverick..

By: C. Fraser

C. Fraser — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:09:55 +0000

Thanks for the addition to the carnival. It’s my first carnival, I’m very excited.

I though you had mentioned in a post that submitting your own post was OK, but I think you alluded to the fact that you would prefer submission of posts you found.

My other excuse is, I’m terrible at self-promotion, so thought I would work on my skills.

In the future I’ll work on submitting other peoples work rather than my own, unless someone wants to form a Mutually Beneficial Carnival Submission Cabal and then we can just go around submitting each others stuff and corner the market.

I like Brent’s suggestion about writing something satirical about self-promotional blindness. I’ll double submit it.

By: Mark A. Rayner

Mark A. Rayner — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:35:07 +0000

Don’t worry about it. Way back in the early days of the carnival I had a few generous souls who found all kinds of interesting stuff and submitted it, and I was just nostalgic. m.

By: Brent Diggs

Brent Diggs — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:36:13 +0000

Sorry Mark, I didn’t see the Not Your Own Work part until right after I submitted.

Someone should write something satirical about self-promotional blindness.

I’d submit it for them.