Thanks, Frank and John. I had cremation on my mind after the Speccie "When I'm dead, cremate me" competition."
It's nice that the WP prints honorable mentions (and rewards them with trivial gag prizes), unlike the Speccie. But Frank overlooked that another of my entries finished in second place:
Your mama's so ugly, the French made her wear a burqa. I also had an honorable mention that Frank overlooked:
Your mama’s so stupid, they gave her a Rorschach test and she answered “ink blot” to every question.
At the WP, they say you "ink" when you get an entry in the paper, though for statistical purposes (they actually keep statistics) it's not "ink" if your entry is printed in the blog because it was too dirty or tasteless for the paper. I'm liking this contest because right away I've done something I could never manage in the Speccie, i.e., inking two weeks in a row.
I hope you guys are sending in disaster poems. I think you'd have a very good chance of inking, since apart from two brilliant limerick writers, their regulars don't seem to have many serious poets (though there are certainly a lot of clever people with good ears who can come up with funny stuff). And though it's not poetry, why not try the new contest on neolgoisms? It's described
here.