3000th Comment Contest
(Before I get going on the 3000th comment contest, I'd like to say a quick word about the 2000th comment contest. Yes, Glo won, and she was "rewarded" with a part in the first ever omarphillips.net movie, that was supposed to be out 3 months ago. The fact is, funding fell through, there were some creative differences, and it's possible that the movie may never happen. I'm as disappointed as you, but stuff happens. Anyway, Glo will receive some sort of yet-to-be-determined prize for winning the previous contest. It may be best if, in the context of reading about the 3000th comment contest, you just forget that there ever was a 2000th comment contest.)
I noticed this morning that this site was dangerously close to receiving its 3000th comment. I had the marketing team work overtime to come up with some sort of worthy prize. Due to time constraints, we skipped right past the legal and financial teams, and went right into production. The end result? omarphillips.net: the card

Credit limit? Nonsense! omarphillips.net believes that credit should be limited only by your imagination!
Can't afford interest payments? Interest can be paid in cash OR food!
Bad credit? Who am I to judge?! Be honest with yourself, haven't you made some serious mistakes in your past? I thought so.
I've removed the comment tally from the sidebar until the milestone is reached. Good luck to all commenters!
Contest rules
Card may or may not be valid everywhere Visa is accepted. The contest is not valid in West Virginia, Hawaii, or Djibouti. Winner must be over the age of 18 on the date of the 3000th comment. Food received in place of monetary interest payments must be fresh and taste good, or else all future interest payments will be doubled. Food/interest conversion rates available upon request. Rate of interest can and will be changed at the discretion of the omarphillips.net credit card department, without any warning or other form of communication. We reserve the right to track all purchases made with the card, study your purchasing habits, and sell any and all of that information to the highest bidder. If things get tight, we also may use the information provided to sign up for the card to steal your identity and use it to open additional lines of credit to help pay the bills. Those in any romantic relationships with voles are ineligible. Anyone who uses the blog name of "Cate" is also ineligible, as are any other previous omarphillips.net contest winners.
Update - Family of Omar Phillips are not eligible to win. omarphillips.net Gold Club members, however, ARE eligible, regardless of whether or not they won previous contests.



Comments
Radioactive Vole-loving Cate said:
Consider this a rash, hastily-conceived protest comment. I. Can't. Believe. You're excluding Djibouti.
zoe said:
family included?
zoe said:
on second thought...as usual, only read the fine print after the fact, and now regretting my participation. since i'm doing it again, just shows you how much of a risk taker i am. alright, with all that talk - I'M BACK IN!!! did i win?
demosthenes said:
I don't remember if I've ever won anything before... here, anyway. Remind me? Does the Olympic Quiz count? Because I rocked the Jamaican bobsled team's runners off on that thing.
Viking said:
And I would settle for a cheeseburger...
Katie said:
Can I pay you in pie? Everyone loves pie! And I'm with RVlC - What's with the Djibouti hatin'?
Syar said:
am I destined to NEVER win anything on this blog? I'm only turning 18 in august and since you've clarified that we're DANGEROUSLY close to the 3000th comment.....*groan*....
Nobody comment until August ok??
cadiz12 said:
dude, seriously? previous winners excluded? as much as i love my shiny engraved op.net plaque, i had to wipe the drool from the idea of unbridled credit.
sigh.
Sarah said:
I've never won anything... In fact, people don't even like to sit with me at events where door prizes are given out - I doom the whole table.
Nadia said:
May, May! Wait till the 8th of May, everyone!
Pleeeaaassseee.
Nadia said:
Oh fudge. I forgot I'd already won the techno-free CD. Sigh.
Cut a girl some slack, won't you Omar?
Cate said:
Those "Contest Rules" suck. Hard. See if I ever comment here again.
Cate said:
Do you hear that?! I'm not commenting here ever again!
Seventeen Syllables said:
***** 3000th Comment!!! *****
Teeny problem: *everyone* is a winner at Omarphillips.net. We are all disqualified by definition.
Ah well, I was just going to use the card to buy some property in Djibouti anyway.
Zoe said:
i'm cheating...just wanna win
cadiz12 said:
congrats, seventeen!
i think you're right. the rules work against all of us. yet we keep coming back for more.
I said:
Congrats to Dr. Seventeen Syllables for being the 3000th commenter! Details to follow soon.
And sorry about Djibouti, there were some legal issues that we just couldn't work out in time.
jasmine said:
and of course, i missed the whole damn thing!
shoot!!!
i will win this one next time...i will...
Radioactive Djiboutian said:
Cate missed not winning by *one* comment? There are some powerful forces at work here.
Glo said:
So - the only contest I'll ever win and the prize gets cancelled. *harumph* Figures.
Onj said:
I am outraged that all the comments on this blog have compiled themselves in such a manner that they would collectively reach the 3000 mark during the first week of the 2006 baseball season, wherein I would be unable to participate due to my intense involvement in fantasy basball. I’m filing a grievance with my blog union rep. No offence to the winner is intended; I just feel that the rules were not adequately structured so as to make it all but impossible for me not to win. I mean, I comment here on a semi regular basis. Some people kind of know who I am. AND I post on my own blog nearly once a month! If I’m not qualified to be predestined to win these things, who is?
X said:
... so as to make it all but impossible for me not to win.
Holy triple negatives, Batman!
Don't mind me, I just make snarky comments then leave. I'll show myself the door.
---X
Onj said:
What? There’s no way you can’t not have nobody know that I couldn’t never produce no nothing sentence like that…