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Contest ends November 30! Enter now! (Or as soon as you get yourself together.)
Orange Juice Blog is introducing — and NOT necessarily because we have our own entries to offer, so our friends and relatives should not take this personally — its 2011 Thanksgiving Holiday “Bad Dinnertime Conversation with Friends of Relatives” OJB T-Shirt Giveaway Contest!
The contest is simple: Orange Juice Blog invites entrants to submit a description (which can be anything ranging from a formal or paraphrased transcript to a limerick or haiku) of their most excruciating, awkward, infuriating or, if you prefer and are able, ennobling (but then don’t expect to win anything) conversation around the holiday table (or soup kitchen, whatever) with your relatives, friends, “friends,” “relatives,” or just fellow eaters and/or football watchers. The winner will be declared on Nov. 30 or as soon thereafter as we remember to do so.
The new Orange Juice Blog t-shirt design, with our new trademarked (by common law) slogan: "THE Orange Juice"! Note, actual t-shirt designs and character and essence may vary. See accompanying story for contest details.
At right, you will see an artist’s conception of our new t-shirt design, created not only to honor and remind us of our namesake fruity fluid, but also to mark the nastier orange-colored juice sprayed on protesters in Manhattan and at UC Davis, as well as to honor our new site logo, as well as our new additional trademarked (by common law, we’re cheap) slogan, “THE Orange Juice”! That’s a lot of weight to put into a t-shirt, but we think its can bear the weight. And, if not, you can use it for dusting.
To enter, compose a description of your worst Thanksgiving conversation (or what you would like us to think was your worst; we’re not actually going to check) and post is as a comment below. The winning comment will be selected by a panel, probably chosen ad hoc and possibly as small as one person, and declared winner of this year’s contest.
The winner will receive an genuine Orange Juice Blog t-shirt*, which we plan to be selling more broadly when we get our act together. Enter today — and as often as you’d like!
*IMPORTANT NOTE: The design at right is an artist’s conception of what the new Orange Juice Blog t-shirt might look like. We make no promise that this will be the actual design. For that matter, we make no promise that the “new Orange Juice Blog t-shirt” will actually have any design at all. We make no promise that it will be available in any particular size, color, and/or fabric, and we disclaim all warrantees, guarantees, pedigrees, apogees, and manatees. In fact, we make no promise that the “new Orange Juice Blog t-shirt” will actually be a new t-shirt at all, as opposed to one that has been worn by one of us and it probably stuffed in a drawer or garage or something like that. We make no promise as to how said t-shirt might smell — but we’re not animals, after all, and we do have a reputation to protect, or hope to have one, someday. We make no promise that said “new Orange Juice Blog t-shirt” will actually be a t-shirt at all; it may simply be the idea of a t-shirt, perhaps even the Platonic ideal of a t-shirt (wouldn’t that be nice!), or just the Platonic ideal of a “new Orange Juice Blog t-shirt,” which we recognize might be less nice. If the t-shirt remains an amorphous idea, its shadow in what we consider to be the “real world” will be transmitted to the winner digitally through this blog.
OK, OK … the worst case is that you’re doing this for bragging rights and to entertain your fellow readers. But we do plan, if we can, to make t-shirts, perhaps like this, before too long, and to sell them — and if so we will proudly proclaim that this site is “THE Orange Juice,” because we really don’t want to be confused with pepper spray any more than happens to us already.
So: have a great conversation and submit your entries! And Happy Thanksgiving from OJB. (THE Orange Juice!)
God dammit, all my relatives are liberal so I have no “worst” Thanksgiving conversation, just a lot of good old fashioned conservative bashing going on, it’s the best actually.
And I so wanted to win that t-shirt!
Well, so far you’re the only entry, so you’re ahead by default!
I’m surprised all your relatives are liberal. Your celebrated style on this blog suggests great familiarity with close hand-to-hand ideological combat.
Combat? No, I do think so. I would say it’s more like trying to instill some common sense into the senseless.
Now why would liberals have mostly liberal relatives. 1. They come from money. 2. All the relatives share the defective liberal gene. 3. California has its share of the really dumb and the ignorant.
I see that the Occupy center in Santa Ana did not have their little Anti-white Anti-Thanksgiving event this year? Oh, not enough space to put the racist Occupiers in?
Combat? No, I do think so. I would say it’s more like trying to instill some common sense into the senseless.
You’re right about Anonster, but you still have to admit she does that in a pretty combative way.
Now why would liberals have mostly liberal relatives. 1. They come from money. 2. All the relatives share the defective liberal gene. 3. California has its share of the really dumb and the ignorant.
You dope, most liberals do NOT have mostly liberal relatives, hence the expectation and experience of big fights over the Thanksgiving table. You take anonster’s anomaly and jump to “most liberals have…” that is such a good example of your illogic and distance from reality.
I come from a rightwing FOX News family; conversely Geoff Willis comes from a liberal teacher family. And we’re still waiting for you & your family to move to zero-tax Texas where you don’t have to worry about us California ignorami any more.
I see that the Occupy center in Santa Ana did not have their little Anti-white Anti-Thanksgiving event this year? Oh, not enough space to put the racist Occupiers in?
WTF? Are you claiming that in previous years Occupy Santa Ana put on an anti-white anti-Thanksgiving event? See above. And give just one example of the Occupy movement’s “racism” if you want to be allowed to keep blabbing your mouth here.
Actually, apart from the fact that they’ve only been around for six weeks and can’t possibly have done any “anti-Thanksgiving” thing in the past, I believe they were busy with food drives and such. You?
This is embarrassing. Vern is currently winning the contest for his own sites t-shirt based on a conversation with another member of our own blog-family.
When debating Anonster, she give me insight of what its like to have a conversation with the prom Queen. I hear, cheer leaders can get rough but of course it’s far from combat, more like having a conversation with a girl who watches Glee and loves her BFF’s.
Like I said, “money, defective gene, dumb and ignorant”. I would say there are more liberal families who are white in this state, than conservative ones. In fact I will bet on it! And then of course you have your LIBNOTS who are mostly Mexican.
If you come from a mostly conservative family Vern, then you will surly pass that defective gene somewhere.
As we have seen from the Occupy NY types, mostly black, white, no love lost between them and the Jews. And I am just stating with our Mexican occupy types, they hate all white’s because of they’re supposed stolen land. The bottom line is the Occupiers are just liberals, CHE, socialists. Liberals don’t like being too white, they love racists and they hate the jews. And of course they want everyone to pay for them to sit on their a## and complain!
I can give you more than one! Would you like something from California?
Vern,
Not ALL my relatives are liberal, but my immediate family is. As for “combat”, you don’t grow up a liberal atheist in a small conservative/religious town without doing a little hand to hand.
Michelle,
Don’t assume things you can’t possibly know, you ALWAYS end up being waaaay wrong and just expose yourself for the angry, bitter, little bigot you are.
Angry, bitterness and bigotry is a liberal thing. I am just stating the obvious.
I bet your family has money or are mostly public workers? And I bet you grew up liberal/atheist, cause your world was nothing but sheltered. The only reason anyone would be an atheist and liberal, is because you despise the norm! And one thing I have learned is that white rich kids, can’t stand the norm. You see, you have never known anything else but your protective bubble!
MQ,
You don’t even understand what being “bigoted” means.
I once heard a guy on BBC1 (Robertson) state, “All catholics should be burned” I lived in a segregated area, was target practice for British troops etc….I know very well what bigotry is.
But of course you have no idea, living in your hippy bubble. I believe that being truthful and honest is the right thing, while you like to save face….Makes you popular, cheer leader!
Funny, one would think that if you you were a victim of bigotry, you wouldn’t practice it so much.
What ugly little fantasies you cook up in that festering crap-hole you call a brain.
And FYI, those erroneous, ignorant and hateful assumptions you’re always making about everyone and everything, that’s BIGOTRY, idiot.
Oh and by the way, what does a “hippy” “cheer leader” look like in your fevered and disturbed mind (and I use the term, mind, loosely, very loosely)?
Let’s not rule out that our “conservative” writers and readers may have had what they considered unpleasant conversations getting confronted with reality.
One of them could be a winner.
Everybody gets to play for a chance to win the hypothetical t-shirt!
I talked to my next door neighbor yesterday, and he continues to espouse the virtues of Richard Nixon. He is quite old and suffering from Alzheimer’s, so it wasn’t much of a conversation.
I could have despised him in his younger years.
YEAH i tried to have a conversation with a liberal . but then they found out he escaped from the looney bin . where they all hang out .. thanksgiving was great we gave thanks that the folks have figured out this fraud in the whitehouse and say good night to him in nov . calif is a lost cause until it gose b/k or sinks into the ocean TAKING ALL THE SOCIALIST LIBS WITH THEM .
Grating Juan….
Do you live next door to me ?
Note to contest participants: Just as not watching news at all leaves you more informed than watching Fox News, GREAT ONE’s entry in this contest can be beaten with “no entry.”
i dont know did you escape from the lonney bin
You know, I had sucha a hard time keeping up with all the alias’ I forgot what what I was going to say. Because of course, anyone who disagree’s is: SEAN MILL!
But, my entry is this:
“The Liberal OC where anonymous comments are ridiculed, but anonymous packages are encouraged”
Hows that for a conversation starter at the Cunningham household?
This is confusing kenlay. And not just because of the crazy name you used today – any intelligent person can tell you’re not Sean Mill or Edwin Marinez. It’s just, what do you think you’re “disagreeing” with?
Your entry is a fine idea for a Liberal OC shirt!
DIAMOND TURN OFF MSLSD THE FOUNTAIN OF MISINFORMATION YOU GET YOUR NEWS FROM .
How about a Orange T-shirt with a navel, plus an orange ball cap? And for the adventurest, a orange speedo.
YOU are the adventurest, Cook!