It's Worst Diary Contest Day.
Please read to get a handle on the rules and to learn about a minor rule change.
First the change. The judges in an effort to please everybody are requesting that if your diary is a entrant into the contest please preceed your title with WDC. This will help those who think this contest sucks, drives them nuts and believe it takes away from the intellectual mountaintop that is DKOs the ability to avoid them.
OK onto the rules
The first and most important rule, the diary must be submitted Thursday by 11:59 EDT. You miss the deadline you are shit out of luck and no amount of whining will help. However the usual applies -cash, cases of a good wine or craft beer might sway the judges. ( just saying)
So let's review the other rules -
Must convey a true sense of peril or failure.
Opinions over facts are looked upon favorably. In fact it's a must. FYI the farther away from rational or logical thought your opinion is the better.
A basic understanding of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation or any such nonsense is not a requirement. In fact, we'll think you trying cover up your idiocy, not to mention showing off your higher education. Then again your higher education should stop you from writing the diary in the first place, unless you just want to prove the tuition money was wasted.
While you might think quoting someone from HuffPo, Poltico or some other blog will help your score, it won't. We want your whacko opinion not theirs. In fact be sure to have an opinion that has no back up sourcing.
Getting on the Rec'd list is blatant pandering and is highly frowned upon. Do it at your peril.
Extra Credit:
Commenting saying we are the fools and we must hang on your every word: +5
Accusing Obama of being Bush II: +7.5
Burying in your diary, "but I'm a Democrat and I voted for Obama": +10
The Hat Trick: -20 ( we'll think you just trying to suck up)
PRIZES
A general collection is now underway that will assist you to get you back on your meds or to send you off to Betty Ford which ever is more appropriate to cure your condition.
Finally, the judges are not, by any stretch of the imagination, omnipresent. As hard as it might be to believe we do have a life. So if we miss a diary ( we haven't commented on it in the thread) give us a heads up. We would truly hate to miss a worthy diary.