Another good week! Thank you @abh12345 for putting on this contest once again. I hope you enjoyed your week off.
It looks like the sponsors are generously putting more into the pot as I see a lot of people are getting bonus prizes. That's great! Things have gotten very competitive at the top and it's nice they can still win something. And it looks like 11 people got prizes for engagement this week. Thanks, Asher!
I'm once again in awe of how much content @glenalbrethsen can produce. He has been an unstoppable force of engagement since he joined. I think those first weeks had him in the top 10, but when he realized what would be needed to take the top spot, he kicked it into high gear and hasn't looked back since then. Congrats on another week as king, buddy!
Congrats to the other winners as well. You're a quality group of engagers. I'm proud to stand on the (very large) podium with you all again. :)
@lynncoyle1, @gillianpearce, @bashadow, @maverickinvictus, @leeart, @johndoer123, you've all been here before, so welcome back. Please don't take my spot in the lounge area.
@melvadg, @mhm-philippines, @creyestxsa94 welcome to the club! You did great out there and helped make Steemit a quality place to be! Thanks for being awesome. :)
certain people who shall remain nameless (but not the "me" kind of nameless) are the ones sewing the jackets. ;)For those of you who have not received your winner's circle jackets, please contact @glenalbrethsen. As king, he owns all the fabric in the land, so he controls when and where jackets get made. Also, I'm trying to distract him so I can take the crown. We have very bloodless coupes around here... except when
Have a great week everyone!
Thanks for the mention my friend. And how was your horse doing? ☺ And I think if we're going to take down@glenalbrethsen it may take a team effort. I almost wonder if he is truly Unstoppable. 😁
You are welcome! Horse is doing well. I'll be honest, I cheated and let him do some of the commenting this week. There were some rustlers that were causing trouble and Horse was tired, so his cousin and I broke up the rustler ring. ;) There's a mini-story for you right there.
It's going to be a lot of work. Unfortunately the more we do to distract him with comments, the more he replies back, so we're going to need to send Milk Dud ice cream to @glenalbrethsen's house so he gets caught up in trying to chew that stuff and he'll be too busy to type. Although, I'm fairly certain that he's just been gaming us into sending him free food, The Office-style.
Okay, so that video clip was pretty good, if not kind of gross. I mean, showing up and finding tons of meatballs all around your desk. Then, we find out it's all a ruse and Stanley's in on it!
I don't know how well I would fare eating milk dud ice cream and trying to type, so that might be your best bet. I wouldn't be able to use voice recognition software very well either. Double whammy. You'd have to weigh the amount of awards you might be able to get versus how much you might have to spend with the milk dud ice cream, though. And since it might not even exist yet, you'd probably have to take the time to invent it (thus taking you away from commenting while you're whipping up the delectable concoction), so there's that.
I'm afraid that comments don't distract from the game. They are the game. :)
Yeah, I wouldn't want to eat those meatballs either. They've been sitting out (and getting sat on by Dwight). Doesn't seem healthy.
Yeah, the process of creating the ice cream is going to be difficult. I'm not sure that's my best plan right now. I'll have to think of something else. Maybe @lynncoyle1 can help. :)
Well said, my friend. Well said.
Okay, that's beyond funny! I was thinking maybe we could send him a bunch of Chinese handcuffs with a fake information package stating that putting them on will help increase how fast he will be able to type after using them!😁
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I don't know if that will work. It's probably less expensive than the ice cream truck I sent to @lynncoyle1's house. I never did get that back. :/ Do you know how much money I had to pay for in gas to get the truck to Mexico? Yeah, let's just say I could have bought all of Steemit. Oh, well. ;)
A team effort? Okay, now this is getting serious. How would that work exactly. @themanwithnoname is already trying to distract me with winner circle's jackets (which I didn't even know we had, just like I didn't know about a cape or a crown until @lynncoyle1 mentioned something several weeks back), and I'm always being told to watch my back, so I can't get more swivel headed than I already am.
I don't think I'm unstoppable, so no one else should think that, either, as far as I'm concerned. These leagues are meant to be wide open, so in any given week, people's placement can change dramatically.
Hey...you want to go fishing?😁
Nice try. Not much of a fisherman. Travesty, I know. Blame it on the rivers I fished in. All they served up were rocks and floating branches. :)
Oh yes...the elusive rockfish and stick fish as we used to know them. Caught many of those in my day. Largest Rockfish I ever caught was of the concrete variety, fishing down below the dam and Alton, that sucker weighed 6 1/2 pounds. Thank goodness we were fishing for spoonbill so I had about a 50 pound line on it and I was able to pull her in. And the largest stickfish I ever caught was an Elm stickfish, that son of a gun was about 32 lb and about eight and a half feet long! She fought for a good hour and a half before I got her to the bank.(I had to take it slow on this one because I only had about a 15 pound line on the pole this time and I didn't want to lose her.) I pulled her up and got her on shore, and wouldn't you know she slipped out of my hands and got loose before I got to picture.
I guess if you're not catching the fish of the eating variety, you might as well have the mighty fish tales for the inedible variety when it comes to the one that got away. :)
I can't say I ever fought that long, even to have a fish story to tell, so true or fishy, that's awesome right there. I usually just broke the light tugging too hard or cut it on purpose and moved on. :)
Congratulations @themanwithnoname! Glen really is an unstoppable force :)
And, umm, I hope you're not too upset, but I traded my winner circle jacket for an ice cream truck here ;)
Oh, that's totally ok. As the king, @glenalbrethsen is obligated to get you another one. Just file a "lost/stolen/traded-for-ice-cream-truck" claim and he'll have another one made up for you right away! :D
Um. Now we have claim forms for winner circle jackets that are lost/stolen/traded for ice cream trucks? This place keeps getting stranger and stranger. I thought we were trying to get away from monarchies and bureaucracies with this decentralized blockchain stuff.
Obligated sounds so final. Like I have to do it, like it's fate or something. A done deal. Nothing I can do about it.
If I truly am the king, which I'm not claiming to be (and have been trying to do away with the title from the beginning), shouldn't I be the one saying what I'm supposed to do? Or are you my right hand man, in charge of telling me my itinerary and my duties (even if it's a little after the fact? :)
hahahaha Glen, apparently @themanwithnoname is your press secretary and he just makes things up as he goes :)
And sorry...you fought for the crown, it's yours now!
Well, see, that's another thing I didn't know. I didn't know I had or needed or frankly would ever want a press secretary or a herald/ambassador/prime minister, whatever he is. He's good at making things up as he goes, though.
I mean, did you have a herald? And winner circle jackets? And so on? Is there really a circle of winners? It always appears as a list of winners, in a rather organized manner. I'm not sure how that's a circle.
Ha ha, yeah, I just come with the crown. You don't even know and then BAM, press secretary.
You can add other positions as needed, or as people appoint themselves.
Twice a year we get together for a BBQ and we get in a circle and take a panoramic selfie. It's tradition. :D
So... either you've been slacking off for the first three weeks that I was on top, or this is a position that only pops up after the fourth week, which I'm being told hasn't happened before. Which means, this is your first go being press secretary for the engagement league.
The BBQ sounds great. I think you should host it and organize it. I'll bring the chips and salsa. :)
Yes, I'm making it up as I go, but don't tell @glenalbrethsen. ;)
You know, I've been learning this the hard way, but if you mention someone in a comment, it at least gives them the opportunity to see what otherwise could have been hidden forever. Now, I know that's not a guarantee people will come running, because they think they have better things to do and all, but when it comes to being a part of an engagement league, it's nearly a foregone conclusion.
And, anyway, it wasn't much of a secret that you're making this up as you go. 😬
I only tag people when I want them to come see what I'm writing about them. And when I talk behind someone's back, it's in front of their face. Wait... sure, let's go with that! :D
Yeah, I like shooting from the hip. It's hipper than planning things out. Hopefully it's at least entertaining.
Nah, we have to have a way to help people get their jackets back. If someone's account is stolen, we help them get it back. If their jacket is stolen (or purposely trader for an ice cream truck to distract the king), then the king is obligated by "fair play" rules to help them get it back or get another. Part of the job. :D
No, there's nothing you can do about it... except resign. Don't make me get @abh12345 in here to tell you that you have to replace her jacket. It's in the fine-print of the League. ;)
Yeah, you're the king, but I tell you what you have to do as the one holding that position. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. Ha ha.
See, this is one of the big reasons why I've never been keen on holding power. It sounds like that I really don't have that much power at all. And if it were truly like that, I'd be the most powerful man on the face of the planet because of my wife (telling me what to do). So, sorry, man, I ain't buying it. 😬
Asher makes the rules, so if he wants to enforce something, he'll enforce it. In the meantime, everyone is free to do whatever they want within the rules of the leagues, which, if that includes having winner circle jackets in the first place, or trading them for ice cream, go for it.
Thanks for trying to distract me with all this, but I think it's having the exact opposite effect. :)
Sorry, @lynncoyle1, it looks like you aren't going to have a champions jacket at the reunion. Unless you get out there and win another week! ;) Ha ha
Since she's the one who traded in the champion's jacket for an entire ice cream truck, she can bring the truck to the reunion. :)
Also, when she wins again, she gets the crown and cape back, which I'm guessing she thinks, just guessing, is waaaaaaaaaaay cooler than the jacket because she traded said jacket for the ice cream truck. :)
Thanks a lot, buddy.
You're welcome! And you earned it. Keep up the good work. :)
I certainly will not. I just rested my finger spirits and cracked my bones to start another round of keyboard wars lol!
There you go! You're going to be a contender this week. :D #keyboardwars
I'm not the only producing the content. The two of us get going and we just keep going. I think it's great, so thank you for your part of helping with the content production.
As far as my placement history goes, I debuted somewhere around No. 25, 26, woefully unprepared for what was going on here. The next week, I came in third place, mainly because all numbers were down. Since then, I've hit the No. 1 spot.
As for this winner circle's jackets—everyone's on their own. This whole concept of owning all the fabric in the land is so 12th century. There's actually places called stores where everyone can go and purchase all kinds of fabrics. Everyone can literally make as many winner's circle jackets as they want, without my involvement, whatsoever.
Nice try, though. :)