Ha! New Things!

Dear Contestants,

As things kinda settle down around here (and elsewhere, more on that in a bit) we can actually get back to some of the fun stuff we used to do. You may have noticed the return of The Question. For the uninitiated, my Lovely Writing Partner and I started the thing while we were working at the 27th Largest Marketing Firm In The Known Universe (by billings, or whatever). I posted The Question here, she sent it out to a mailing list that got silly large for a while.

One of the fun things about it for us was that we asked people to vote on which option they would prefer of the two unchoosable choices we presented. The members of the mailing list had it easy though as they had simple voting buttons to click. Readers here had to send me an email response in the old days, submitting a comment later in this site’s evolution. As a rule, the commenters here had the edge because they could not only hold their noses and answer today’s question, but also had a forum for suggesting the next one. Maybe not a complete question, but a thought, a thread, something we could work with. Some of our favorite questions grew out of suggestions so we’d like to continue the tradition now that we’ve brought it back.

Once again, we’ll produce the thing week-daily and we look forward to your feedback. Give us a week or so to work out the kinks (we’re kinda rusty) until we really get back into the swing of things. Our hiatus was long and during that time we had hit what you might call a rough patch. Okay, really rough. Now that things appear to be sorted out, we can get back to some of the fun bits which for us are the luxury items that made us and our friends laugh (or gag).

Besides, the schedule keeps me honest! (like all those times you say “more later” and you don’t write anything for a week? – ed Erm, yeah, like those times. – Bob)

Your best pal in the whole wide world,

bob

P.S. Oh, more new additions at Jaunty Central coming up. I have to work out the bugs in the gizmos, but it’ll be BIG! (or fairly good sized, at least!)