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11/10/2007:

FINAL VOTE TALLY!

“Borat” edged out “Stewie” 103-102 for third place, and the Hellish Parking sign blew out Xiaolin Monk in the fourth quarter to seal first place. I’ll email the winners individually to arrange for prize choices.

Thanks for playing!

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11/9/2007:

Just in time for Thanksgiving.

Vote for the best picture out of the final 8. Top 4 receive the prizes. See pics after the jump. When I get back from going out tonight, the poll is over.

Here are the final eight pictures from all groups (in order of votes received). Poll at the bottom.

Picture 1:

Crazy Borat. ‘Nuff said.

Picture 2:

Xiaolin Monk (distant cousin of Wong Fei Hong)

Picture 3:

The infamous (and hellish) Hoboken “Temporary No Parking” sign.

Picture 4:

Not even sure what these are, Teletubbies?

Picture 5:

“Towlie” is exhausted at the Path station.

Picture 6:

Jason & Balle dressed up as Smurfs while they were out at Duffy’s and Mikie Squared.

Picture 7:

“Stewie loves Qdoba”

Picture 8:

Fortune teller and “Head in a jar” – at Oddfellows

FINAL VOTE TALLY!

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19 Responses to ** Halloween Pictures – Final Round **

about 15 hrs left to vote..

It’s neck & neck for 2nd place now.

What’s in towelie’s shoe?

I can’t see the finalists, is McCann hacking the server and supressing the vote?

am i missing something? why is #2 winning? please someone enlighten me!!!!

thx

I like the monk costume, borat is good but kinda disturbing. how ’bout those teletubbies? where’s the purple one’s purse?

#2 must have a lot of friends

I thought the photos had to be in Hoboken.

Since when is the ninth street path station Hoboken?

homeworld wrote:

#2 must have a lot of friends

Standard hoboken politics, its not how you perform, it who you know!!!

Now get out the vote and Choose Stewie!!!!

9th street is an all too familiar place for fools from Hoboken… 20 minutes waiting for a train can feel like DAYS!

Trick for late nite path rides.
Before passing thru the turnstiles, pick up the curtosey phone and ask when the next train to Hoboken is.
If 20 mins or more, go back up and have another beer.

Repeat if necessary.

That is truly GENIOUS! Vote for Towelie and his crusade back to the ‘boken!

wow RON is my favorite person!!!!

Derek and I spend many a hours passed out on the floor of the path station

Your welcome young grasshopper, you are well on your way.

Organizer of this event, and all those who voted: This contest is a fun contest, right? Why do we need someone to cheat to become the winner of this contest? If the administrators/coordinators of this contest just view the dem_pol logs, you will see that that picture# 3 voted on him/herself on the same Computer over and over again (we’re talking 100’s of times here folks!). Just look at the hostname and/or IP address of those who voted and you will see multiple votes for picture#3 from the same PC. I thought this was supposed to be a fun event. Pix# 3 is awesome and should not need to revert to cheating to winning. Using modern technology tricks to vote many, many, many times for yourself is cool- if nobody finds out about it. But somebody did. Shame on you Pix#3 person. Enjoy your prize…loser!

FYI, I simplified my poll system to reduce load on the server. Yes, you can cheat, if you really felt like it. Most people wouldn’t take the time to stuff the ballot box for prizes like these (it wasn’t “A NEW CAR!”), but what can you do.

Next time, I will announce the groups, but have an “independent panel” of judges to make the determination, or just have a “raffle” where I assign each entry a number, and video the drawing, etc.

Was just trying to involve all the readers on both sides of the contest.

Live and learn.

Towelie says: “Aw man, I really screwed up this time. The rent’s due at the end of the month, and I don’t have any money. I need to shape up and find a new job, quick. But first, maybe I’ll get a little high. Wait. Here it goes. Good ideas comin’. Yeah. Hey yeah! I should become a blogger! If I just write a blog about my life, I can get it published on the interwebs and then make plenty of money to pay rent.”

I thought Baby Doc Russo would have won for sure:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=77935016&size=o

Recall election!

typical hoboken citizens to blame a no parking sign.
there were as many signs as votes. NO?

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1. hoboken411
November 9th 2007 - 11:32:14 |

about 15 hrs left to vote..

It’s neck & neck for 2nd place now.

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2. magicpete
November 9th 2007 - 11:33:00 |

What’s in towelie’s shoe?

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3. ron mexico
November 9th 2007 - 11:48:30 |

I can’t see the finalists, is McCann hacking the server and supressing the vote?

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4. chacha17
November 9th 2007 - 12:23:22 |

am i missing something? why is #2 winning? please someone enlighten me!!!!

thx

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5. sullyx
November 9th 2007 - 12:36:25 |

I like the monk costume, borat is good but kinda disturbing. how ’bout those teletubbies? where’s the purple one’s purse?

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6. homeworld
November 9th 2007 - 12:57:58 |

#2 must have a lot of friends

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7. homeworld
November 9th 2007 - 12:58:49 |

I thought the photos had to be in Hoboken.

Since when is the ninth street path station Hoboken?

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8. ron mexico
November 9th 2007 - 13:59:51 |

homeworld wrote:

#2 must have a lot of friends

Standard hoboken politics, its not how you perform, it who you know!!!

Now get out the vote and Choose Stewie!!!!

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9. DerekWilbar
November 9th 2007 - 14:27:53 |

9th street is an all too familiar place for fools from Hoboken… 20 minutes waiting for a train can feel like DAYS!

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10. ron mexico
November 9th 2007 - 14:54:03 |

Trick for late nite path rides.
Before passing thru the turnstiles, pick up the curtosey phone and ask when the next train to Hoboken is.
If 20 mins or more, go back up and have another beer.

Repeat if necessary.

Login or Register to reply
11. DerekWilbar
November 9th 2007 - 15:00:45 |

That is truly GENIOUS! Vote for Towelie and his crusade back to the ‘boken!

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12. krankjigga
November 9th 2007 - 15:04:10 |

wow RON is my favorite person!!!!

Derek and I spend many a hours passed out on the floor of the path station

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13. ron mexico
November 9th 2007 - 15:16:34 |

Your welcome young grasshopper, you are well on your way.

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14. kclarson
November 10th 2007 - 01:44:20 |

Organizer of this event, and all those who voted: This contest is a fun contest, right? Why do we need someone to cheat to become the winner of this contest? If the administrators/coordinators of this contest just view the dem_pol logs, you will see that that picture# 3 voted on him/herself on the same Computer over and over again (we’re talking 100’s of times here folks!). Just look at the hostname and/or IP address of those who voted and you will see multiple votes for picture#3 from the same PC. I thought this was supposed to be a fun event. Pix# 3 is awesome and should not need to revert to cheating to winning. Using modern technology tricks to vote many, many, many times for yourself is cool- if nobody finds out about it. But somebody did. Shame on you Pix#3 person. Enjoy your prize…loser!

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15. hoboken411
November 10th 2007 - 03:23:16 |

FYI, I simplified my poll system to reduce load on the server. Yes, you can cheat, if you really felt like it. Most people wouldn’t take the time to stuff the ballot box for prizes like these (it wasn’t “A NEW CAR!”), but what can you do.

Next time, I will announce the groups, but have an “independent panel” of judges to make the determination, or just have a “raffle” where I assign each entry a number, and video the drawing, etc.

Was just trying to involve all the readers on both sides of the contest.

Live and learn.

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16. HansBrix
November 10th 2007 - 14:39:07 |

Towelie says: “Aw man, I really screwed up this time. The rent’s due at the end of the month, and I don’t have any money. I need to shape up and find a new job, quick. But first, maybe I’ll get a little high. Wait. Here it goes. Good ideas comin’. Yeah. Hey yeah! I should become a blogger! If I just write a blog about my life, I can get it published on the interwebs and then make plenty of money to pay rent.”

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17. bri777
November 10th 2007 - 15:37:20 |

I thought Baby Doc Russo would have won for sure:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=77935016&size=o

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18. homeworld
November 11th 2007 - 09:49:02 |

Recall election!

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19. comet09
November 12th 2007 - 12:06:21 |

typical hoboken citizens to blame a no parking sign.
there were as many signs as votes. NO?

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