February
results - this past month the TownDock.net creative writing
department asked:
What's your Caption for this Pamlico County picture?
One
person's pleasure is another's pain. In this month's Pamlico
Caption Contest it was our pleasure to ask for your takes on
pain.
A store in Grantsboro has a missing letter on its outside sign,
leaving some confusion over just what it sells inside. Your
challenge this month was to come up with a caption that either
helped promote the store, or explained further just what WAS
being sold inside.
An advertising slogan, from Bob Clyburn of Aiken, SC, takes
our top honors:
"Ours are the only ones worth talking about."
Bob Clyburn
Aiken, SC
We'd be curious to hear what the jingle sounds like.
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The judges here also like Patti Higginbottom's astute business
sense:
This store could not possibly stay in business long;
not when most people I know are happy to give it away without
cost.
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Which brings us to the deal -- SUCH a deal -- that Bill Deighton
of Dayton is offering:
Buy two teenagers, get two free.
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Some of our contestants figured that customers would welcome
what such a store had to offer.
Ben Casey came up with the slogan..
For the elite Pamlico masochists!
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..... while 'soulrebel' presented a poem that might have tempted
the Marquis himself.
Handcuffs, Whips and Chain
It's all here at the store of pain
Whatever fetish you do like
A tickle of fancy sure to strike;
Stop on in and give us a try,
Painful bliss is what you buy
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The Pain Store
We only have blue and yellow inside. Only one Letter "T"
as well. So it was either Pain Store or Paint Sore, pick your
poison (in yellow or blue).
Bill Sage
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We raise a cuppa to a few other suggestions:
A green "tea" should help ease the pain.
Rose Peterson, Vandemere
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...while Carolyn Howell, part time resident of Green Bay Marina
offered this explanation for where the "T" went.
To any History buff, it is as plain as can be.
It was dumped into the harbor to float out to sea.
Carolyn also took up the challenge of telling us what, in her
world, a Pain Store would carry on its shelves.
Thread, needles material items you need to sew
I wouldn't even wish such a store on my foe.
I'd much rather dig a ditch
Than to sew a single stitch.
You can bet your dough into a Pain Store I will not go.
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The concept of 'the customer is always right' takes a hit in
this entry:
If you like our service tell your friends. If not,
bite your tongue!
That's from Bill Deighton, of Dayton who hopes to be at Dawson's
Creek someday soon...
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And what's a contest with out some haiku...
Affliction, distress
Misery, anguish, torment
It's a store of woe.
Carolyn Howell
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Empty spaces steal
My name
Leave me pain
Gene Greathouse
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It only hurts when I laugh.
Pat Byrnes
Thank you
for contributing to Pamlico Captions - this one was a little
harder than most. Maybe painful.
Send
in your comments, captions, and Pamlico Poetry to captions@towndock.net
Previous Pamlico Captions
TownDock.net
readers have some brilliant creative minds - check out previous
Captions winners:
December 2002
November 2002
October 2002
September 2002
