Time to announce the new name of my chicken and the winner of my amazon.com giveaway.
Remember that movie, “The Never Ending Story”? Where the dorky little kid is reading a book about an enchanted world being destroyed by “The Great Nothing”? All that’s needed to stop it is to give the Princess in the ivory tower a new name. “My mother had the most WONDERFUL name!“, said dorky kid, Sebastian. (And we ALL knew that the Princess was going to get the mom’s WONDERFUL name as her new name.)
But, what WAS the name? Dunno!
So, you watch, and watch until the very end when Sebastian clues in that the Princess is talking to HIM through the book and he throws open the window and screams the new name into the wind and that name is….”MA-BLAH-BLAH-SOMETHING-SOMETHING-BLAH”!!!!!!
WTF?!
I just watched this movie for two plus freaking hours, waiting and wondering what Sebastian’s mother’s name is and you totally can’t understand it? WHAT A GYP! I was pretty peeved about it and remained so throughout puberty and beyond. (I tend to hold on to bitterness. It’s a curse.)
Years later, I watched the whole movie again with Closed Captioning, JUST so I could see the name at the end typed out, since I obviously sucked at interpreting thunder-drenched babble. Sebastian throws open the window and yells out her name and THIS is what is written
“Yelling NAME INTO THE WIND AND THUNDER”.
Yup. You guessed it. Still bitter.
To put you out of your misery, I am going to get on with this whole “What is the chicken’s new name?” business. I would love to fight the cliche and NOT say it, but DANG! This was tough.
To be honest, I was totally hoping someone would come up with “Neville”. I don’t know why. Alas, no one did, but there were many that I liked just as much.
Things that must get recognition:
“Best Trackback Title”: JESSIE for ” My friend is a whore…Traffic whore that is”
“Biggest Laugh That Caused Snorting and Damn Near Caused Peeing!” : DAVIE aka “Photoshop Dave” who not only had me dying with his inside jokes, but he also came up with THIS fabulous creation: 
(Would it be too obsessive and weird to make my chicken this pullover? Wait, don’t answer that.)
Next:
Honorable Mentions
(In no particular order)
OCCIDENTAL GIRL: “CLIVE”
SPARKLIE SUNSHINE:” EDGAR”
CRAIG: “CORNILIUS”
MICHELLE- “RANDALL”
CRICKET: “RUFUS”
I bounced back and forth for a very long time on them all but after 4.5 hours, I have it! The chicken’s new name is:
“MA-BLAH-BLAH-SOMETHING-SOMETHING-BLAH!!!!”
Kidding.
There are two winners today, folks!!!!
I finally picked a first name winner, but the name seemed incomplete. Since it wasn’t a link back entry I had a bit more money to play with. I’m known to be a bit free-spirited and rule-bendy, so I created a 2nd place winner ($10.00 gift certificate) and gave the chicken a last name as well. It’s perfect! Perfect for me, anyway. Some of you will probably want to throw things at me and think I’m way off base, but that’s ok. As I said, I understand bitterness.
The chicken’s full name is:
Hector A. MacCluck
I liked Hector. It fit his beady eyes, solitary nature and quirky, mismatched socks. But “Hector Chicken” just wasn’t enough. I liked “Angus MacCluck” because when DON’T I go for the Scottish? But “Angus” wasn’t quite right. “Hector A. MacCluck”, though?” PERFECT!
Congratulations to first place winner: ERIC (Linking to his girlfriend’s blog) for his contribution of “Hector”
And to second place winner: Macpipergirl (Who thinks her blog sucks so she never puts her damn url on here) for her contribution of “Angus McCluck”.
(Make sure to confirm your emails in the comments so I can get in touch about your certificates.)
I had so much fun doing this and there was such great response that I will have to do it again with a much more significant prize (aka-When I’m not about to leave on a trip to Europe and therefore saving every penny I have.).
Thanks for playing.
Aw, well at least my suggestion included a Mac in the surname… that means I was close, right?
Would you e-mail me your address (or p.o. box)? I’ve the the funniest mug here for you. It’s got a pigeon called Maggie on it and she looks strikingly like Hector A. MacCluck *and* Feathers McGraw! They really need to be together.
Vx
DAMN IT! And I was on such a streak yesterday. Until THIS.
Moon child. Her new name was Moon child.
I got an honorable mention!!! Woo! I should do a giveaway on my site. You and Jill would have to battle each other out. Hehe.
I can’t believe your trip to Europe is almost here!
yay! i got recognized!!! :)- now i just wonder what kind of traffic the word “whore” is going to bring to my site. hahaha! i don’t want to know…but anything for you, babe.
love ya,
j.
‘Tis a great name, for sure!
I have seen the Neverending Story a billion times (OK, maybe twenty)
Is it bad that I want to make a Diet Coke pullover for Emily? Or maybe myself?
:)
What a good very first giveaway. I am intrigued to see how many people would peek through my blog if I was giving something away…hmm…
This is WAY better than the Ricky Martin concert tickets I won 6 years ago!! And remember, “if it’s not scottish, it’s CRAP!!”
Ha! That’s awesome. Eric’s at work right now, so he doesn’t know yet. I’ll find out from him if he wants the prize sent to his email address or mine, and get back to you.
Wanna send me the chickens measurements? I’m thinking of fashioning something…
hangs head in shame Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.
That is fine, he will always be Your Chicken Lac Lavon in my eyes. I may have missed the prize, but I got the trophy!
Speaking of trophies, when are you gonna make some Looneytunes gear for your blog posse? What better way to show your love for all things looney than a Looneytunes Koozie to keep our diet coke cool. That is almost poetic!
Say the word girl and I can hook you up.
Vanessa-I actually loved Feathers MacChoate! I’m thinking about changing my surname…Whaddya think??? :) Sure thing, I’ll zip it off to you in an email!
Erika-Yes, I tend to have a way of throwing the wrench into winning streaks. :S
Holly-REALLY? MOON CHILD??? Sebastian’s mom was a hippie????! Wow. Who’d of thunk? I’m glad it wasn’t “Messiah” Like I thought. :)
Sparklie-I know! It’s in a week and a half! ACK! I loved Edgar. It was really hard to pick towards the end.
Jessie-It’s always good to shake things up a bit. I seriously snorted DC up the nose when I saw it.
Angella-Heck, no! That sounds normal enough to me (Which probably means you should use extreme caution, then!) I am totally mystified why I have no Diet Coke gear as of yet. Diet Coke. MMMM….
Camille-Thanks! I loved swinging by your place. You and your fiancee are too cute for words.
Macpiper-I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT YOUR RICKY MARTIN PHASE. BWAHH HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Amber-Sure thing! It was a pretty awesome contribution.
Charli-Ha! That would be hilarious. Impossible because of his arms, but hilarious none the less!
Davie-But you look so fetching in peach chiffon!!! I think that I stopped breathing with that Chicken Lac Lavon thing. Seriously!
I played around with it, but I think that I need to be “Bigger” before doing shirts. When that time comes, Oh, yah.
Well it was more about Fantasia being the dream world, you sleep at night, moon child.
How much do you love me? Well according to the scrip. Yes the movie script. Her name is, get this. MOONCHILD. that was his mom’s name? What the? Well here’s the excerpt:
Call my name ! Bastian, please ! Save us ! Bastian: All right, I’ll do it. I’ll save you. I will do what I dream! He climbs up to the window and opens it. He leans out into the storm and calls out the name he had chosen for her. Bastian: MOONCHILD!
NEXT SCENE-Darkness, pure and black as night. We hear Bastian speak. Bastian: style=”mso-tab-count: 2″> style=”mso-tab-count: 1″> style=”mso-spacerun: yes”> Why is it so dark?
Zac! I wuv you tons! Seriously? I’m still freaking over the whole Moon Child thing, but it makes total sense.
(And the quoting? KILLS ME)
Oh, it’s possible- I’m thinking velcro.
Yay! Thanks Loralee. Can I be Hector’s unofficial godfather? Also, do you have any sort of clause stating that any one person can’t win more than one contest in a given amount of time?
just wondering.
Eric
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WTF? I dont’ know what happened there, sorry!
Charli-Now THAT would be funny. (What is the WTF? I don’t see anything wrong????)
Eric-Absolutely! You can be the official chicken godfather!
If I start holding them regularly, I’ll probably implement some such something. I’ll shoot off your certificate in the AM (I have a severely barfing boy I have to go take care of right now! Ta!)
Charli-Your comment just got caught into spam because of the link. No worries, I obviously found it !!!
I couldn’t even remember what I named it.
I just want the chicken.
Wow, I missed out! But my philosophy on giveaways is it’s yet another chance for rejection. :-)
No,no, sorry! It didn’t send the right link- that was stupid, sorry- it was a funny Hasselhoff thing… going to go hide now… again. sorry. Feeling silly- maybe you can just delete that link message?
Well Hector works–And I want to see you making a tiny little Coke t-shirt for your chicken :)
very cool. i was just kidding about the clause thing though.
i’m excited to have hector as a godchicken. now i have someone else to leave my junk to when i kick it.
*wipes away tear*
i’ll always have caillou…
I think Hector is an excellent name for a pumped up greek fightin’ chicken such as yours.
Btw, I’ve gone wordpress, so my blog has rss now so you can rest easy.
(not to steer the conversation away from the naming rights of plastic chickens or anything)
You are one clucking funny girl.
Holli-Isn’t he fab? BEST toy ever in a kids meal. Can you believe my kids didn’t want him???!!!
Charli-Oh, don’t worry about it. It’s cool. I accidently linked to a porn site once. That was worse. :)
Michelle-I know. The thought is intriguing.
Eric-I’m sure Amber will be thrilled! Hey, let me know if it emailed safely!
Pink- There, there… Hugs. :)
Froyd! YAY! FREAKING YAY!!! Running off to stick it on my reader.
Jen-You came by! Welcome. I love your blog. Really, I do.
loralee,
emailed beautifully. thanks! now for the long and arduous task of deciding what i want…
Moon Child is his mother’s name I guess. It is what he named her per wiki.
Nice. You have a couple of good points The problem with the law system is that it sometimes doesn’t work to the advantage of the victim. It is a failed system and needs to be fixed.