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Announcing Wonkette’s Political Book Contest Winners!

by Ken Layne  11:54 am October 6, 2008

Wieners!You people are fast! We announced our contest with Hachette Book Group less than an hour ago, and we’ve already got about a hundred entries. So, let’s pick some winners now and get this over with, because otherwise we will have to read through a THOUSAND seven-word poems about why you need 11 political books.

Thanks for playing, everyone!

  • Need box they come in as house. — Alex Winnett, Washington DC
  • Books alight warm hobo beans, whore diamonds. — Paul Roberts, Philadelphia PA
  • My husband’s been on unemployment since December. — Bridget X., Atlanta GA
    [Is this too sad? --Ed.]
  • With books, I’ll start Detroit’s first library. — Christopher B. Schneider, Detroit MI
  • I hate my family, need Christmas gifts. — Pete Gaines, Lawrence, KS

{ 42 comments }

ManchuCandidate October 6, 2008 at 11:58 am

Poor wiener doggie. I haz sad.

JeffGoldblum October 6, 2008 at 12:00 pm

I would have wrote “kill kill kill kill killin’ the poor” except that I don’t read books because they’re for teh gayz, so don’t worry about it.

Guppy06 October 6, 2008 at 12:01 pm

I’d have to vote for the second to last. It’d be the Kwame Kilpatrick Memorial Library.

Bagglio Ordonez October 6, 2008 at 12:01 pm

I finally won something, it’s going to be a fantzy christmas in the Bagglio Ordonez family.

jinmoom October 6, 2008 at 12:02 pm

These were way better than mine.

facehead October 6, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Which of the winners is Vigilante?

azw88 October 6, 2008 at 12:04 pm

Busted Wonkette-ing at work! Need New entertainment!

JadedDIssonance October 6, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Itsjustme October 6, 2008 at 12:07 pm

[re=122184]facehead[/re]: His was, “My D*ck is smaller than my brain”

The Rev. Yevot October 6, 2008 at 12:09 pm

I am concerned by a woeful lack of references to TRUCK NUTZ! in the finalists’ works.

Godot October 6, 2008 at 12:11 pm

I can’t believe I didn’t win with “Because I’m just an average hockey mom”.

Chicken Smack October 6, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Kansas Hate FTW

TJBeck October 6, 2008 at 12:13 pm

[re=122201]The Rev. Yevot[/re]:
Did not enter, but greedy. TRUCK NUTZ! – TJBeck

Tommy Says Soooo October 6, 2008 at 12:13 pm

“Gawker layoff, Ken Layne no gay sex.”

S.Luggo October 6, 2008 at 12:13 pm

Now I know whom to pity.

“Remaindered books, the new Thansgiving Day stuffing.”

facehead October 6, 2008 at 12:15 pm

[re=122201]The Rev. Yevot[/re]: Clearly, Wonkette has been compromised.

dekko October 6, 2008 at 12:16 pm

Contractions? That’s cheating.

Gopherit v2.0 October 6, 2008 at 12:17 pm

THat dog on a bun is gonna start looking pretty tasty in a few weeks.

[re=122203]Godot[/re]: Hockey moms can read?

Chicken Smack October 6, 2008 at 12:17 pm

[re=122201]The Rev. Yevot[/re]: Seriously, Truck Nutz! was not the meme everyone thought it was. Cute for a day or so, but seriously… we’ve had Sarah Palin as her own built-in meme for over a month, but we still grab the Truck Nutz! callback at every opportunity? How come we haven’t extrapolated the Palin bubble into ass-sex jokes, yet still we keep ringing “TRUCK NUTS!” like it’s a cardboard bell?

That’s just like writing a country song. How soon before Alan Jackson starts singing about Truck Nutz, so that our interest will also wane in its unimpressive popularity?

Platypus October 6, 2008 at 12:21 pm

That badger hound looks too good not to eat.

facehead October 6, 2008 at 12:21 pm
facehead October 6, 2008 at 12:22 pm

[re=122222]Platypus[/re]: are you German?

hemlockecho October 6, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Bridget’s entry isn’t sad. Her husband hasn’t had a job for negative three months. That means they have time to save up before he’s pink-slipped. No worries, enjoy your Huckabee.

The Rev. Yevot October 6, 2008 at 12:31 pm

[re=122218]Chicken Smack[/re]: Because TRUCK NUTZ! is a powerful symbol of everything that we love to hate and mock about Fly-over country, while Sarah Palin ass-sex jokes would be sexist?

HuskyMescan October 6, 2008 at 12:33 pm

That poor, silly looking son of a bitch.

MISTAHCOUGHDROP October 6, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Screw that! Buy my book, MISTER ROSE’S ABC BOOK. We’ll have to get back to the basics, people (P.S. There’s plenty of “drinking” letters here!) Get one for your kids, and then one for yourself:

http://lalandedigitalpress.blogspot.com/2007/12/mister-roses-abc-little-book-for-little.html

capitol hillbilly October 6, 2008 at 12:37 pm

meet our new savior, mister dinty moore

Godot October 6, 2008 at 12:39 pm

[re=122215]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: You betcha! *wink*

PeteJayhawk v2.0 October 6, 2008 at 12:41 pm

Woohoo!

I won something!

shoeho October 6, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Alas, I tuned in just as the prizes were being awarded.

Need books. Brother In Law is fundy.

Books make family members nuts, except Bible.

I just thought I’d write for the hell of it. Nothing else to do except wait for call that my broker/nephew has a)jumped from window at GS or b)absconded to Rio with what is left of my/rest of families money. I’m betting on “B.” That kid always looked shifty to me.

Mistah P October 6, 2008 at 12:59 pm

I could have maybe sorta won with…

“I win! (Unless you’re in the tank.)”

nurple October 6, 2008 at 1:02 pm

I miss 70s, Erin Grey.

serj! October 6, 2008 at 1:04 pm

[re=122177]JeffGoldblum[/re]: That’s why us gayz will dominate the world bub (short for bubba) cause we are readers of things and stuff. Oh and I didn’t enter the contest cause I have all those books, even Huckabee’s and McCain’s which I will use for kindling in the cold winter days to come.

Platypus October 6, 2008 at 1:04 pm

[re=122226]facehead[/re]: Nein, aber ich spreche ein bissien Deutsch.

Enough of this stupid book larnin’ shenanigans, can I win the dog-flesh?

Tequila Face October 6, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Those books look boring! I won the American Wife book contest a few months ago and it was the most engaging, thoughtful, and original story I ever read. Thank you, Wonkette.

graceless October 6, 2008 at 1:24 pm

[re=122169]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I just got that. It’s a sick outfit.

bush'sbunghole October 6, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Did you just pick the first five you read?
Sincerely,
Sore loser.

Joey Ratz October 6, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Finished already? I was about to submit “Arizona needs more right wing political publications”, but it is too late now. Apparently, I need to get out of bed earlier.

[re=122201]The Rev. Yevot[/re]: Books or Truck Nutz? Free books = both!

PedestrianMe October 6, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Weak! It wasn’t even 9am on the West Coast when you started the contest.

TJBeck October 6, 2008 at 3:15 pm

[re=122415]PedestrianMe[/re]: Oh boo hoo. Do you know what time I rolled in to work this morning? 7:12 AM!!!*

You see, we on the eastern seaboard aren’t like you lazy left coasters. Try getting up and actually participating in this great political muck-slinging debate we’re having.

*Pacific

Anita Cocktail October 6, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Is it really a “prize” if all you get is the Paultard Manifesto?

More Dirt Please October 6, 2008 at 5:15 pm

Pat, can I buy a gerund, please?

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