OFFICIAL ILC HOLIDAY SWEEPSTAKES CONTEST!!!!!!! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!!!!!!!!!

HELLO I LOVE CRICKET!!!!!!!!!

I am so VERY PLEASED to announce a BRAND-NEW VENTURE for this board......... in PARTNERSHSIP with D.A.R.E. and THE MID-SOUTH ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION, I LOVE CRICKET is sponsoring a HOLIDAY CONTEST in support of OUR TROOPS in AFGHANISTAN and IRAQ!!!

CAN YOU BELIVE IT???????!!!!!!

TO ENTER THIS CONTEST, all you have to do is TELL US WHO YOUR CHOICE IS FOR '2008 NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR' and WHY.... PLEASE KEEP YOUR ANSWER BELOW 500 WORDS... if we catch you plagiarizing we will engage in GENERAL INTERNET HANDWRINGING so MAKE SURE ITS ORIGINAL!

prizes detailed below.............

GRAND PRIZE: ilx heavyweight "ice cr?m" also known as "jhøshea" will be YOUR INTERNET STAN for 1 {one} day of your choosing!!! he will follow you from thread to thread and follow up your posts with "[your name here] otm" and "well put"!!!!! if someone insults you he will OVERREACT and ATTACK THEM WITHOUT MERCY!!!!!!!!!!

RUNNER UP: ilx heavyweight "country matters" also known as [redacted] will write you a RHYMING COUPLET on ANY TOPIC OF YOUR CHOOSING so long as that topic is: the band mansun, soccer, "poppage"

SECOND RUNNER UP: signed 8X10 glossy of the and ILC KREW MEMBER OF YOUR CHOOSING

SO GUYS...... HAPPY HUNTING!!!! THE CONTEST DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT ET DECEMBER 31ST, 2008

As my entry for 2008 NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR I nominate Sarah Palin!!!!

Sarah Palin, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.

Palin, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler.

A cult figure, Palin was most famous for the estimated 20,000 4-by-5-inch black-and-white glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel -- or nothing at all.
According to her agents at CMG Worldwide, Palin's official website, www.SarahPalin.com, has received about 600 million hits over the last five years.

"Sarah Palin captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," said Roesler, chairman of the Indianapolis-based CMG Worldwide, who was at Palin's side when she died. "She was a dear friend and a special client and one of the most beautiful and influential women of the 20th century."

A religious woman in her later life, Palin was mystified by her influence on modern popular culture. "I have no idea why I'm the only model who has had so much fame so long after quitting work," she said in an interview with The Times in 2006.

Sarah Mae Palin was born April 22, 1923, in Nashville. She was the oldest girl among Roy and Edna Palin's six children. Her father, an auto mechanic, "molested all three of his daughters," Palin said in the interview.

look forward to staning it up for the winner of this important contest! good luck everyone!

am feelin good about my chances here so far

I would like to enter this but don't really post enough to make full and proper use of the prize were I to win. Could donate it to a worthy cause?

hi there margaret thatcher sex!!!

to answer your question, the prize is non-transferrable. consider posting more often!!!!

all the best,

max

Thank you max, your best is appreciated. Still though, there are definitely some posters who could really do with some OTMs. Burt Stanton for example, or Deeznuts (RIP) if he were still with us.

Upt0eleven your natural brevity and posting acumen may cause you to post less but i think we all need you to post more esp. about the critical issues being discussed on i love cricket.

i look forward to your entry!!!

Upt0eleven maybe you should ratchet your posting frequency "up t0 eleven"!!!!!!!!!!!! just a thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FYI: still tallying the results over here! don't worry a winner will be declared soon!!!!!

i note the deadline has passed, does that mean i am ineligible to win

********************** GREAT NEWS **********************
THE DEADLINE FOR THIS CONTEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED--TO JANUARY 20TH -- THE DAY OF ELECTION OF THE LATE GREAT BARACK OBAMA

I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO SUBMIT YOUR ESSAYS

THE CONTEST IS NOW DEDICATED TO OUR DEAR DEPARTED FRIEND ROBERTO SPIRALLI

MISSIN U DOGG

got sumthin cookn here i think. def gonna b dedicated to R.O.B. sp i did but hardly knew u but your presence is missed

Mid-south? What, like Indonesia?

btw roberto spirally won, RIP u crazy shining diamond, u went out on top , as the winner of the official ilc holiday sweepstakes

In the event of a sweepstakes winner's untimely demise, does their next of kin receive the prize?

hi erica

after much deliberating

its been decided

that you can receive the "runner up" prize which is:

RUNNER UP: ilx heavyweight "country matters" also known as [redacted] will write you a RHYMING COUPLET on ANY TOPIC OF YOUR CHOOSING so long as that topic is: the band mansun, soccer, "poppage"

Ok, fair enough. Get to it Louis! I want a rhyming couplet on the Mansun song "Stripper Vicar" please.

A song supreme, a 90's hit, with chorus-line so killer
'Tis easy to forget that on its album it was filler

alternatively,

Powerpop meets drum-machine, the rules are brushed aside
With nimble gusto, knowing camp and guile ne'er 'fore seen

er, SPIED

NICE!!! :-)

ty ty

i could also do a personalised poem for bobby spirals too but im not sure hed appreciate it too much