What would the Runners bring with them if the apocalypse came? A lot of really crazy things, apparently. Here are the results for Operation: Stayin’ Alive.
Our winner, Dave-O Boy, would keep himself company with some pretty awesome plush toys. Can you identify all three?
Congratulations, Dave!
Here are our Runners-Up, including Emperor Gum, Tom Brend, ThrashJazzAssassin, and King Kool.
What can you do with a severed sheep’s head?
A lot of things, apparently. Some common suggestions included soup or cereal bowls, lawn decorations, stew ingredients, ammunition for trebuchets or catapults, or stylish helmets.
A few people came up with truly unique suggestions and went beyond the requirements of the challenge. Our winner even went so far as to mutilate adorable stuffed animals!
Yaxley's winning entry!
Congratulations, Yaxley, you sick, sick man.
This is what Yaxley did with the remnants of the sheep he mutilated.
We also got some interesting suggestions from a couple of Runners Up.
Gordon Fearman suggests planting the sheep’s head in the ground (within 6 hours of removal!) in order to grow a sheep bush. Where did you think sheep came from?
Jackrabbit provided an elaborate plot by which you could use a sheep’s head to bluff your way through customs and smuggle things into New Zealand. Apparently if you wear a sheep’s head and say “Baaa” a lot, New Zealand customs won’t know what to do with you and will just let you through. (If anyone tries this, we want video proof!)
Mad Madam Mimm provided this illustration (along with a few others) to accompany her idea:
An idea from Mad Madam Mimm.
Finally, Gamefanatic offered some art, as well.
Some suggestions from Gamefanatic.
Thanks for the entries, everyone! Now it’s time to put them into practice!
We asked you to Fill in the Lobster, and man is that lobster stuffed. There were a ton of entries, many of which were very clever, some of which made reference to other areas of the LRR universe, and some of which disturbed us a little. (It was the rose–so many unconsidered implications…)
Operation: Fill in the Lobster
In the end, one caption really made us chuckle, and so we’d like to award the victory in this operation to The Stolker. Here is his entry:
PAUL: What do you mean you can’t finish your mission?
LOBSTER: It’s because I’m in love!
PAUL: Then the communists have won…
We’re also offering Runners Up status to baggins_of_41, King Kool, and sk8sheep24.
sk8sheep24’s Runner Up Entry:
Paul: Ahhh! A talking lobster!
Lobster: Ahhh! A talking human!
Paul: Ahhh! Where?!?!
King Kool’s Runner Up Entry:
Paul: I hope my date isn’t allergic to seafood.
Lobster: So you’re Paul! What are you making?
Paul: Sssssssalads?
Here are some of the other entries that were sent in, including baggins_of_41’s Runner Up entry:
Edit: Thanks to Vigafre and King Kool for whipping up graphical versions of the winning and Runner Up entries which were just text-based! I’ve added those to the gallery.
In today’s LRR video, “Magicland”, the Li’l Warriors make an appearance and many “squee!” and “chortle!” and “high-larious!” moments are had.
At the end of the Li’l Warriors segment, Krull suggests that there are a variety of interesting things that can be done with the severed head of a sheep. Unfortunately, Magicland’s oh-so-stingy producers got to the footage before it went to air, and they cut Krull off before he could communicate his ideas.
But cutesy, knitted, hardcore, supernatural, medieval villains aren’t the only creative people in the world. The Aztecs were also very clever, as are the Dutch.
Runners, we can’t let these groups get ahead of us in the technological sheep’s head arms race! If you have an idea for what a sheep’s severed head could be used for, let us know!
Send your ideas to operations@loadingreadyrunners.com! Be sure to include your forum name so you can be rewarded if your idea is chosen as the most creative, and so that you can be added to the ranks of the Runners if you aren’t already a member.
Submissions close on September 4, 2009, at midnight PST.
Operation: Accomplished Accomplice drew some pretty diverse submissions, but in the end we decided to award the victory to:
Luinie
The thing that really made her entry stand out was the use of a pot lid as a weapon, which is a reference to the LoadingReadyRumble.
We also wanted to offer a Runners-Up designation to Mad Madam Mimm, who provided a short ventriloquism video on the Accomplice theme. Rather than posting the video there, I thought I’d link to her YouTube channel.
Here are the submitted photos:
Thanks for participating, everyone!
It’s fun to reinterpret things, isn’t? Taking something that was used in one way and doing something entirely different with it is one of the great triumphs of the human creative mind! Or at least, that’s what my mom told me after I showed her the Sock Hat I made once…
We want you to do something along the same lines. Jer threw together a comic strip-style page using screenshots from the LRR video “Ways to Stay Awake”, and it’s up to you to fill in the blanks!
Here’s the image:
Fill in the blanks and win a forum medal!
Right-click here and choose Save As for a full resolution version.
You can edit your text into the image directly, or just send us the words themselves, with directions as to which panel they go in. For example, it might look something like this:
PAUL: I love radishes!
LOBSTER: I love radishes too!
PAUL: We’re best friends forever!
Send your entries to operations@loadingreadyrunners.com by midnight on Friday, August 21. If you’d like to be added to the Runners, be sure to include your forum name with your submission.
In the video posted on LoadingReadyRun.com today, our hidden cameras caught an awkward confrontation between a disgruntled, murderous, yet considerate ex-employee and his intended victim’s mildly annoyed wife.
What you didn’t see was the accomplice we found outside. Naturally, since it was Ken’s first time, he had acquired the help of a friend, someone who claimed to “know the ropes” a bit when it came to exacting economy-driven revenge.
We’re hoping to do a dramatic reenactment of that portion of the evening’s events, so we’re extending an open casting call for people to play the part of the accomplice.
If you’re interested, send us a picture of yourself in your own murder accomplice costume, lurking outside a door or window like a murder accomplice would. The most convincing, creative, entertaining picture will win!
Entries must be in by midnight PST on Friday, August 7, 2009.
Note: The winner will receive a forum medal, not a role in an actual LRR video.
The results are finally in for Operation: Corporade Lemondentity!
There were a lot of great entries, and you can see them all below, but in the end the winner we chose was: Tensen01.
The Runners-Up were Vicious and Genghis Ares.
Congratulations guys, and thanks for the submissions!
Click “Read More” to see all of the submitted images. Read the rest of this entry »
Two men enter; one man leaves. Or does he? To be honest, we don’t actually know what happens after this.
If you have an idea on what will happen next, send us an email and let us know. We’ll take one or more of the best ideas and film them!
UPDATE: Remember we’re filming these, so we’re looking for simple suggestions or a script, not a short narrative. I mean, they’ve been well written, but that much character development isn’t going to come across. Just saying.
Submissions must be in by midnight on Friday, July 24.
