CBS Recognizes Me for Fourth Time

Probably many of you don't realize that while I created HumorQ because I wanted to play the most ultimately fair caption contest, that I don't actually play HumorQ myself.  After all, I'm the database programmer, and I could cheat.  The day will come when I can hand the programming over and then I will play and see how well I do.  I need to warn you though.  I've just been validated for the 4th time in CBS.com's late show Top Ten Contest ...

Ladies and Gentlemen. HumorQ Champion, Dustin Gettel

So, you’re a HumorQ champion. To what do you credit such an impressive sense of humor? 

I fully credit the success I've achieved at HumorQ to my steady diet of inexpensive government cheese and boxed wine. 

Do you have some sort of ritual that you do that helps you submit champion caliber captions?

Well, I get to work around 8:30 every morning, and by 8:32 I'm at HumorQ.com thinking about the latest caption contest. After my second cup of coffee and some additional non work-related web browsing, the captions normally come to me in an unsteady haze of caffeine and Baileys Irish Cream. 

I should ask if you're still working.  Anyway, are there certain people you’d like to approach and say "Remember that day you said I wasn’t funny? Well my humorq is (fill in your humorq here)"?

Pretty much every teacher I've ever had from kindergarten through college made it clear (some more abundately than others) that my humor was not appreciated in their classrooms. Head teachers and principals frequently got involved.

Let’s say you realized a tiny goat family has been living in the glove compartment of your car, what would you say to them?

Do you see my insurance card and registration in there anywhere? This cop looks pretty mad.

Fair is fair. Do you have a question for me?  

I have one question and a related follow-up: What percentage of submitted captions actually make you laugh, and do you have a favorite all-time submission?

I don't ever laugh because people already think I'm a bit off. A couple html tags short of a working web page some say.  But there's a number of them I secretly enjoy.  One of my recent favorites was the guy staring at the clothes dryer, and Avis Rawlinson's winning caption... "Alvin suddenly had the urge to see what he´d look like after a  "fluff" cycle."  What a great place for Avis's brain to go.  That was awesome.

Is there another website (besides HumorQ.com where we put a number on how funny people are), that you would like the world to know about? 

Well, surprisingly, there is. My friend and I write a professional wrestling blog and would love to shamelessly promote it here, thanks: www.invertedatomicblog.com.

Finally, is there anything else you would like to share with the people learning about HumorQ? 

Please don't let the glamour of becoming a HumorQ champion ruin you. Sure, the weekly champagne parties and private jets are nice, but your soul will soon become bitter and empty ... until you fill it with more government cheese.

Another Champ Interview - Meet Chris Rowen

So, you’re a HumorQ champion.  To what do you credit such an impressive sense of humor?

 

Low expectations

Do you have some sort of ritual that you do that helps you submit champion caliber captions?

 I start with a dictionary and gradually erase all the words that aren’t funny

Are there certain people you’d like to approach and say “Remember that day you said I wasn’t funny?  Well my humorq is (fill in your humorq here)” ?

Well, let’s just say that my wife’s cat will never hear the end of this.

Let’s say you realized a tiny goat family has been living in the glove compartment of your car, what would you say to them?

There’s much more space in the trunk.

Fair is fair.  Do you have a question for me?

When you sell your site to AOL / Huffington Post for a billion dollars, can all contributors sue you for unfair labor practices, or just us past champions?

I'm hoping you all sue me.  I will insist your cases be heard in HumorQ order for which AOL / Huff post will agree to restore my pre-litigation fortune.  As Yukon Cornelius said many times "We'll all be rich!!!" .

Finally, is there anything else you would like to share with the people learning about HumorQ? 

Once you learn the HumorQ champions’ secret handshake and see the clubhouse, you will realize that it’s worth the effort.

A Discussuin With HumorQ Champ and Artist Amy Sherman

So, you’re a HumorQ champion.  To what do you credit such an impressive sense of humor? 

Highly developed passive/aggressive tendencies and a desperate need for the adoration of others.

Do you have some sort of ritual that you do that helps you submit champion caliber captions?  

Absolutely. I stare at the panel until something comes to mind. Christian Bogle does a great job setting the scene for quirky ideas.

You’re not only a HumorQ player, you’re a HumorQ cartoon artist too.  Can we hope to see more of that from you?  

As long as I can find the time between all the interviews that are flooding in.

Let’s say you realized a tiny goat family has been living in the glove compartment of your car, what would you say to them?   

Eat all the tickets you can stomach.

Fair is fair.  Do you have a question for me?

 

Is there any way you can talk more about me?

Actually, the goats from your glove compartment and I have spoke at great length.  They’re all like “She should pay those tickets.  It’s her civic duty.”, and I’m all like “She’s a HumorQ champ.  There should be recognition for that.” And then there’s this one goat that has paper in his teeth that says “I’m with Bob!.”.  It’s really never ending.

Is there another website (besides HumorQ.com where we put a number on how funny people are), that you would like the world to know about?  

Well, I just got a job writing horoscopes for go2.com beginning May 16th. They only trusted me with Mondays through Thursdays, so don't blame me for any bad weekend advice. (Note: Go to their Entertainment page and scroll to bottom for daily horoscopes.)

Finally, is there anything else you would like to share with the people learning about HumorQ? 

Great site for exercising your grey matter and staving off Alzheimer's.

The Humor Experiment Continues

You remember that I started a crusade to make judging humor something that we all do together, right?  Well, for now, I guess I still want to play in some of the contests judged by the few, so I went and threw my standup routine out there.  The truth is what I appreciate most is the laughter.  I hope it brings you some...

Remember,  I love feedback.

HumorQ.com Host Uncle Bob at Cap City Open Mic Again

HumorQ Goes International

This week HumorQ meets with Avis Rawlinson, a frequent HumorQ champ from North of the border.

So, you’re a HumorQ champion.  To what do you credit such an impressive sense of humor?

Hmmm....well, I think firstly it's due to the fact I'm originally from the North of England (if you watch Coronation St. you'll know we're a funny bunch!) Plus I was bullied as a kid, the only Protestant on a street filled with Irish Catholics in the 60s...and learned that I could cut my enemy down to size by making them look silly and having their own group laugh with me! Saved my skin I can tell you! My mother was also a bit like Lucille Ball, red hair and all! Genetics?

 

Do you have some sort of ritual that you do that helps you submit champion caliber captions?

No...I do some of them when I've just got off night shift...I think being sleep deprived helps! Other times I grab a coffee, stare at the cartoon and wait for inspiration to strike! LOL!

Are there certain people you’d like to approach and say “Remember that day you said I wasn’t funny?  Well my humorq is ..." ?

Oh yes! A few of my teachers that used to give me a detention for cracking up the class.

Let’s say you realized a tiny goat family has been living in the glove compartment of your car, what would you say to them?

"Good God...I wondered where that smell was coming from!  And which one of you ate my Map of Ontario?"

Fair is fair.  Do you have a question for me?

Yes. Are you ever going to offer Tim Hortons gift cards for us Canadians? Nah just kidding...let's see...um...are you ever going to publish a book with all these cartoons and our captions so we can all get rich someday?

Well I'll answer both questions since it's my blog and all.  I'll investigate the complexity of international prize giving.  I make it to Vermont every summer, so I'm practically in Montreal there.  I'll get back to you on that one.  I have published a book.  It's titled "Don't Hide When Your Pants are Full" available at Lulu.com.  No pictures or captions in it though.  Eventually we will figure out how to create products from the goings on here, but right now it's not about the money making.  

Is there another website (besides HumorQ.com where we put a number oh how funny people are), that you would like the world to know about?

Yes, thanks for asking! I have a store on Zazzle where I sell my designs, ideas, artwork etc. on a variety of products....(and yes, AvisNoelle is my real name!)

http://www.zazzle.com/avisnoelledesigns

I also have a store where I sell my photography and designs/artwork on greetings cards...

http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/AvisNoelleDesigns

Finally, is there anything else you would like to share with the people learning about HumorQ? 

I think it's a great site in which you can be creative, say all those funny things you've always wanted to say but never had the vehicle to do so, and possibly ward off Alzheimer's Disease by staying mentally agile! Plus it's just plain fun! :0)