This is starting to sound like a PSC cliche, but at least the Sydney contest wouldn't be so familiar with it...

Or maybe you could make an entry that included clothed squirrels - in raincoats maybe?

Maybe a shield from a very sick person sneezing, spit and snot shoot'n right at ya..

So... what didya come up with, Fugue?

And did you win yet?

Yeah, Fugue. Did you win YET?

Cos you know.... it's only a question of when, not if.

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Erm, well... you see... the thing about that is... I became unable to enter - and ironically this is because I became too able to vacate. Yes, I've been suffering from a dire rear. For 5 days! I'm only just getting over it now.

I stupidly poisoned myself by means of reheating chicken left-overs... and I've been "spray-painting the bowl" as we say in Australia, and doubled up with cramps ever since. Want more detail? I'll have the results of my stool-sample by Friday. Could be salmonella or bottylism or something. Regular food-poisoning lasts just 24hrs, so this was pretty special. I'm honoured.I do have the results of my removed mole biopsy - all benign. Hmmm, what else can I send out to be tested - toe-nail cuttings?

Anyway, I missed the deadline, but I'd like to thank everyone for their good ideas. Sorry I let you down. Hopefully there'll be an umbrella contest on PSC soon so you can reuse them. In a heroic effort though, I did all my reunion-contest voting between cramp-sessions. What a freakin' legend I am!

So will you be doing a pebble-dash effect tutorial any time soon? ("pebble-dashing", is what we call "spray-painting the bowl")