Contest Directions:Create images of something that happened in the news from October 16, 2006 through October 22, 2006.
An example of a recent news story that could be used can be found here:
October 16, 1758 hardly seems like a current event but this date marks the birthday of the great man of dictionary fame, Noah Webster. Where would we be today without this great American. Mr. Noah Webster is probably the only American ever born who knew when to use 'who' and 'whom'. He was so confident in his ability to know the difference he wrote a book about it. As good as he was, he was terrible at identifying animals. I have an old "Webster's Dictionary" that was printed in 1894. Poor old Noah couldn't tell the difference between a chimpanzee and an orangutan. In fact he thought an orangutan was an orang-outang. This is the man that also included etymologies in his book. For those of you who/whom don't own one of his books, etymology is the history of a word. I guess history changes from time to time. I still don't know when to use who or whom. I looked it up in his book. It says whom is the object of who. That's a good question. Who is the object of what? I'd say Noah Webster was more confused than I am at this moment.
In the Author's Comments, it is extremely important to link to a news story. You should use this format to make a link: [URL="http://www.SomeNewsLink.com"] news title [/URL] [ browse best gallery pictures ] [ browse this contest gallery in high resolution ] Tag funny pix newsoctoberoctober Jackpot: 1st place: $20, 2nd place: $12 , 3rd place: $8 Started: 10/21/2006 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 10/23/2006 6:00:00 AM
Nancy Pelosi will be the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, third in succession to the presidency, after the elections. Better scare the people real good about that.
School officials consider radical moves to cope with school shootings.
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An Oklahoma candidate for state superintendent of education has proposed supplying students with extra textbooks to be used as body armor, and a hat tip to an earlier move by a legislator to arm teachers.
Following her grandfathers last wishes, Jennifer takes his dog for his daily walk to his gravesite. She always wondered why he wanted to be buried next to a Yankee fan, now she understands.
With victories over the Yankees and Oakland in his two starts in the baseball playoffs, Kenny Rogers of the Tigers has been one of the best performers of the postseason, and no player in the World Series seems to be enjoying himself more.
Fright nights Hollywood may be consistently spooked by the dip in movie attendance, but the horror genre has become a big bag of candy, especially around Halloween. If the summer belongs to the big blockbuster action movies and December is for Oscar-worthy films, then October - and, increasingly, much of fall - is for ghouls and maniacs and things that go "bump" at the box office. Last weekend, "The Grudge 2" scared up $22 million, enough to make it the top movie, and earlier this month "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" carved up $18 million in its opening weekend.
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A lot of news takes place in any given week. We select stories each day that we think would generate good entries. This is your chance to select any news story from this week and create an image / parody photo. Remember to include a link to the news story in the Author's Comments section.
Create images of something that happened in the news from October 16, 2006 through October 22, 2006.
