The last contest of 2007
Yes, it's the this is not a postcard contest.
This contest is open to everyone except for Candy Minx and STAGG, because they were with us in Breaux Bridge Louisiana when Tuffy P found this item.
The mission: tell me what this is, when it might have been used, how one might use it, and precisely what is on the other side of this item.
The prize: I will make an artwork based somehow or another on this and send it to the winner.
The deadline: New Years Eve, midnight.
All answers are to be left as comments on this post. If there are multiple acceptable answers, the first to answer correctly wins. If no answer is 100% correct, the closest answer wins. I'm the judge, and the judge's decisions are final. Got it?
21 comments:
It's a ticket for a concert! NO! It's one of those tags for a line-up at a deli! NO! Salvador Dali! NO!
Shit this is hard.
Hmmm. It's something with numbers on. And on the other side it says, "Numbers rock!"
Yes...?
Hope you and Tuffy had a great Christmas, Mr Anchovy.
Jeez, I still don't know what it is...but I haver some good guesses I'll e-mail them to you!
Great! Forget about the whole weekend planned, we're back to googling for 72 hours straight...can't resist these puzzles.
Muppie
I wonder if Google can help with this one...haha
I think it's possible to think this one through, though.
You need to think? oh eck....
Happy New Year mate
A concert ticket with a seat number? Maybe the artist name on the back or the place it was held?
I don't know!! I'm sober!!
Card worn by contestant 75 of 100 in the Zydeco dance contest at the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival (reverse side). NO! Andy Warhol! NO!
Muppet
Pay no attention to "muppet," it's to do with trap (skeet) shooting, and the reverse has the numbers 25 and 50.
Muppie
Muppie, you are very resourceful indeed...but this item has nothing to do with trap shooting. Muppet, I'd love to be in Breaux Bridge during the crawfish festival, because it is after all the crawfish capital of the world. 4 Dinners, happy New Year to you too! Hey *asterisk, I hope you had a great trip! LM, there are no deli snacks involved, and I've retired Dali to the pasture (although I've been thinking about growing a mustachio on one side of my face).
It has to do with preservation of the Gulf Coast, land loss, regulations for coast line plantings, restoration. ??
none of those things, Gardenia...imaginative guess, though!
marathon or bicycle race distance marker???
Muppie
DOG RACING!!!!!! DOES IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH DOG RACING???????
(excuse me but I do get a bit over-excited)
nothing to do with bicycles or dogs. Am I going to have to give clues?
Auction card?
Muppie
Clue: ""the stories I tell don't just come out of my own life. many of them come to me from my elders. i strained to hear them through the roar of my own ego, my own needs and desires. but when i became quiet and open to the thoughts and feelings of my elders, i learned that my life-story deepens, grows richer, by taking in the stories of those who have led extraordinary lives, lives that can never be lived again. except in memory - through mine, through yours - as the fragments of our story - lives mix and blend into a common whole, the great river of our collective memory of which we are all a part and into which each one of us will, some day, dissolve." U. Utah Phillips, from the CD The Past Didn't go Anywhere (with Ani DeFranco) Maybe this cool quote will help.
Claim check for a squeeze box pawned by Tuffy?
Muppet
Well, well, well, it looks like there is no winner.....
We take so much of our technology for granted, but when I was growing up, my father still called the fridge the "ice box", remembering the day when ice boxes, cooled with ice delivered by the ice delivery guy, were used to keep our food cool. Tuffy P's dad remembers this too. The contest showed the picture of a card used for letting the ice man know how much ice you wanted that day. Muppie had correctly guessed that the other side had the numbers 25 and 50. Too bad she thought it was about trap shooting. Note that the bottom number is always upside-down and there are two holes in the card, so you could hang the card in such a way as to tell the delivery person that you wanted 25, 50, 75 or 100 pounds of ice on the next delivery. There exist two different versions of these cards. Another version has print on one side only but can be hung in any of 4 ways to show the amount of ice to deliver. Tuffy bought this card (um, I'm not quite sure why we needed it...) at a little junk/antique/musical instrument store in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, just down the street from where we had lunch that day at the fabulous Cafe des Amis. It was a delightful store. I bought a cowboy hat there, but it was the consolation prize.... they also had a number of beautiful music instruments there from accordions to guitars and basses, to a gorgeous Gibson lap steel, which I was beginning to think I needed (never mind that I have no idea how to play a lap steel). That morning, we had been on a swamp tour, and saw alligators and all kinds of wading birds, and later that afternoon, we visited the Savoy Music Centre and met accordionist and accordion-maker extraordinaire, Marc Savoy. What a day.
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