Monday, January 28, 2019

Tournament of Champions Day Two

For the next three weeks, I'll be posting the tournament of champions each and every workday. Here is today's match up.

Two Seed. I am so proud of this gag. Of course it would be the mom snowman that sacrificed her nose for the Jell-O salad. (The only strike against this is the fact that green jell-o is no longer as ubiquitous in Latter-day Saint culture as it used to be.) (First published January 7, 2010)

Fifteen Seed. For the first two years of this blog, readers had to endure a number of posts where I bemoaned the fact that the New Era consistently rejected my pinewood derby submissions. I probably sent the magazine a half-dozen variations on the same theme. Finally, the New Era published this particular joke. Seeing as how the Church is ending its relationship with the Boy Scouts at the end of the year, this joke represents my one and only published pinewood derby gag. I'm just glad that I was able to include so many great mustaches with it. (First published March 10, 2011)

Cast you vote now. And remember, you can vote for any first round match up until I post all of the match ups. See you tomorrow.

30 comments:

  1. 15 seed. . pinewood derby pit crew. (Got my Eagle scout at 12 with some assistance from my mom)

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  2. 15 seed. I watched a group of grown men discuss and plan their derby cars all through Stake Conference Leadership meetings the year our ward reintroduced the Derby after a long hiatus.

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  3. Pine wood derby pit crew...those mustaches!

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  4. Harder choice than last time, but I'll have to go with Fifteen Seed

    -Eric M. Aamodt

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  5. 15 seed: pinewood pit crew. My pinewood derby car had a theme song I played when it raced: the general Lee's horn honk from The Dukes of Hazard. :)

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  6. Though I totally agree with the mustache comment (they look good), you can’t bote against a comic including green jello

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  7. This is hard. I’m going to have to vote for the snowmen. Of course the mom sacrifices for the jello. I just relate to it so much more. Even though one of my boys was involved in a pinewood derby where two boys had dad’s who were brothers. Those boys didn’t get to touch their cars, the dad brothers were in competition with each other.

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  8. Snowman, just a shame the Snowman dad doesn't have an epic mustache too.

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  9. Voting for one of my all time favorites: "Mormon Snowmen" or is it now "Latter Day Saint Snowmen" or maybe "Ward Snowmen". Hmm.

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  10. The snowman joke is my all-time favorite gag of yours hands down!

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  11. The snowman is my favorite for sentimental reasons.

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  12. First one is my fave...it makes my heart melt :D

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  13. Tough vote! #1 wins by a slight margin! ☺ Chelsea Seal

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  14. 2 but it's good u mentioned the nose

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