Song Challenge!s from the past

Subject: SONG CHALLENGE!S From The Past
From: Áine
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 03:44 PM

Just wanted you Mudcatters to know that I've added a Song Challenge!s From The Past page to the SONG CHALLENGE! WINNERS PAGE. It lists all the past Song Challenge!s, so that anyone who has missed an opportunity to write a song can find any number of great ideas to choose from, and can join the Challenge! fun.

So, take a look and have fun! And while you're at it, write a song -- Everyone's a winner in the Song Challenge!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Amos
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 04:57 PM

Oh, my god...the memories! How huuumiliatin!!! :>)

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Áine
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 09:34 AM

I just thought I'd refresh this one, in case anyone who's a 'worker lurker' missed it over the weekend. Don't forget the Official Song Challenge! Policy On Late Submissions - "We'll take anything, anytime!"

-- Áine

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Hyperabid
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 09:41 AM

Now when did I join Aine m'dear about 12 or 13... Does dis mean I gets to do anudder dozen!

Is the world safe from my hammerring square lyrics into round rhymes?

Hyp :-)

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Áine
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 09:43 AM

Hammer away, dear muggle, hammer away!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Trapper
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 02:29 PM

Refresh!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 02:17 PM

Refresh! I have to get busy.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 06:24 PM

Aine:

Can we have the search page back??

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: MMario
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 08:54 AM

The Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes again!

stopped to buy gas last night, and staring at me from the newspaper on the counter is an article on garden Gnomes apprehended playing a game of baseball in Newark - dozens of garden gnomes - both spectators and players were discovered at the baseball field after an anonymous tip on the 911 line. The Garden Gnome Liberation Front claims credit.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: SharonA
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:10 AM

Hooray! Everybody sing: "We shall under-come..."
MMario, was this in Newark NJ or DE? Does the newspaper have a website on which we can bring up this article? Or can someone link us to the article directly??? (please?)

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: MMario
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:16 AM

I can't find it on the web - it may have been Newark NY! will have to go back tonight (I don't get a paper at home...)

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: MMario
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 11:21 AM

But I did find this - seems the GGLF is active again in France...

Reuters | ABCNEWS.com
Thursday July 12 6:15 AM ET

Garden Gnomes Gather in Shadowy Operation

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - More than 100 garden gnomes and other gaudy statues were discovered on Wednesday assembled on a traffic circle in eastern France, a police spokesman said. Some of the statues were set up to spell out `Free the Gnomes.'' No one claimed immediate responsibility for the stunt, but police said it bore all the hallmarks of the shadowy Garden Gnome Liberation Front. The kitsch little creatures were reported stolen from numerous gardens around the town of Chavelot overnight and subsequently gathered together on the roundabout. It was a bit like a giant creche. Everything had been carefully set up,'' a police spokesman said. The Gnome Liberation Front rose to prominence in the mid- 1990s following a series of raids on gardens to `free'' gnomes and `return them to the wild.''

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: SharonA
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:05 AM

Mmario, did you go back yesterday and get a paper with that Newark article in it? I'm dying to read this article; please post it! BTW the France story is a riot too!! Gee, does the Garden Gnome Liberation Front have a website?!?!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: SharonA
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:07 AM

MMario, were you able to go back yesterday and get a paper with that Newark article in it? I'm dying to read the details of this story; please post it! BTW the France story is a riot too!! Gee, does the Garden Gnome Liberation Front have a website?!?!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: MMario
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:15 AM

I forgot to stop! sorry! and yes, there are multiple sites out there about the GGLF!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: SharonA
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:49 PM

Oh, NOOOOOOOOOO

Any GGLF sites that anyone cares to "blueclickey" would be appreciated!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: MMario
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 03:21 PM

articles on gnomes

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Aidan Crossey
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 06:48 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Áine
Date: 06 Nov 01 - 11:41 AM

As promised, I am playing 'catch up' with the Song Challenge! Catch Up Club (all you 'relative' newbies that have gone back to the old Challenge!s and written new submissions over the past months), and instead of posting your awards in each and every old Challenge! thread, I'll be posting them in this one. So, all you 'Catch Up Clubbers' keep your eyes peeled for this thread to pop up every once and awhile announcing your acquisitions of even more mantle decorations! ;-)

Here's the first 'CUC' installment. The number of the relevant Song Challenge! is in parentheses after the title/author listing. Cudos and congrats to each of you!

-- Áine

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Harp Ribbon (The Harp Ribbon is given for being able to make The Keeper of the Book fall on the floor laughing OR make her short out her keyboard with tears):

Land of the Moose, Home of the Hide by derrymacash (12)
Shopping In The Nude by derrymacash (13)
Underwear Jambalaya by Jack the Sailor (11)
Yippee-Yi-Yo-Ebay by SharonA (6)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Guinness Crest (The Guinness Crest is awarded for causing both Harp Ribbon conditions within one song):

Cast Off Your Undies on Carnival Day by derrymacash (11)
It's Been Hard To - Night by Jack the Sailor (13)
Que Están, Están by SharonA (7)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Memorial MMario Silverplated Spittoon (The GCCWMMSPS is awarded to the Challenge! entry which evokes an instantaneous bubbling up of frothy mirth from out of the lips of the Keeper of the Book and onto her monitor screen):

Drop A Pound by SharonA (13)
'E Wrecked a Happy Bee by SharonA (3)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip with Doo-Lyn Ditty Digger Decoration (The Doo-Lyn Ditty Digger Decoration is awarded for the best cow chip chunking Country version of a song in a Challenge!):

In the Land of Ikea by Jack the Sailor (12)

Winners of the Super Special Sandstone Sheila-Na-Gig Ocarina Award (The Super Special Sandstone Sheila-Na-Gig Ocarina Award is given to the Challenge!rs who warm the cockles and create a special warm and fuzzy feeling in the heart of the Keeper of the Book in a song):

Chips and Malt Vinegar by Jack the Sailor (9)
A Groom I'm Try'n to Love by SharonA (4)

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Amos
Date: 06 Nov 01 - 11:52 AM

Wow!! TGG sweeps the backlog with a vengeance!! Waytago!

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE!S FROM THE PAST
From: Áine
Date: 07 Nov 01 - 02:38 PM

Here's the next Catch Up Club installment -- I have to say that I'm having a blast reliving all these golden oldies ;-)

-- Áine

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Shamrock Cluster (The Shamrock Cluster is awarded for a very high level of imagination, imagery, and/or creative use of language in a song):

Such A Funny Thing by Gareth (10)
Sympathy For the Devil (2001) by Jack the Sailor (18)
Who's So Dull Now by SharonA (16)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Harp Ribbon (The Harp Ribbon is given for being able to make The Keeper of the Book fall on the floor laughing OR make her short out her keyboard with tears):

Boring Man by Jack the Sailor (16)
Can You Cut My Hair? by Jack the Sailor (17)
Easy Come and Easy Go in Canadee-i-o by derrymacash (17)
The Limerick Anti-Rake by derrymacash (16)
My Bold Engineer by derrymacash (18)
Sam Hill, the Weasel-Keep by derrymacash (10)
The Wild (Winged) Rover by derrymacash (14)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Guinness Crest (The Guinness Crest is awarded for causing both Harp Ribbon conditions within one song):

Fish Was Not The Dish by Jack the Sailor (15)
For Paddy's Day by derrymacash (15)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Cleigh's Blue Fume Shield (Cleigh's Blue Fume Shield is given to the best blues rendition of any challenge topic):

Ferret Prison Blues by Jack the Sailor (10)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Memorial MMario Silverplated Spittoon (The GCCWMMSPS is awarded to the Challenge! entry which evokes an instantaneous bubbling up of frothy mirth from out of the lips of the Keeper of the Book and onto her monitor screen):

Early Morning Beer by Jack the Sailor (14)