Outside Lands 2011 limerick contest: The Winnahs!

I am pleased to announce that the winners of Boing Boing's Outside Lands 2011 Limerick Contest are MANDELBEN and CJHOWAREYA! Competition was fierce. MANDELBEN and CKHOWAREYA each score a pair of 3-Day Tickets to the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Part, August 12 through 14! A very limited number of 3-Day and Single Day Tickets are still available for purchase. And now, the winning wordplay:

mandelben:

I just earned me a bachelor's degree, and then moved to the Bay by the sea. Now I find that I'm broke - and my learning's a joke - so I'll take anything I can free.

And a chance just to see those folks play? That would make any poor mutant's day. So I'm letting you know that I do want to go (more than Cory hates DMCA). There are Phish and Stone Foxes and Mi5e; "Are they furries?" I ask, thinking twice. But dear Xeni's cat gifs have awakened my yiffs, so I shrug, nonchalant, "could be nice."

Oh can't I attend Outside Lands?
I've already made costume plans:
Wearing only pop tarts
I'll spew rainbow farts,
and spend all three days singing Nyans!

(If nothing else, pity my plight: I lost my left arm in a fight. If my buddy and I could catch tunes 'neath the sky, why, I'm sure I'd soon feel *all right.*)

cjhowareya:

OutsideLands, you wonderful beast!
Each year, a musical feast!
A balding Mick Jones
Would delight my old bones,
As would beats by Zigaboo Modaliste.

Outside Lands 2011

• [Trevor (KVB)]

  There once was a contest, two Boing
  Whose winners, to a concert were going.
  That my ‘rick didn’t win
  Seems like less of a sin,
  Since these two better entries were showing ;)

• [daemonsquire]

  Congrats to the limerick winners,
  Whose poems ate everyone’s dinners!
  It looks like my plans
  For next weekend are sans
  Any need to keep coming up with rhymes.

• [cjhowareya]

  ^Limerickus Interruptus.  Now that’s funny.^

  And: Woo to the Freaking Hoo!
  Huge thanks to the most esteemed panel of arbiters. I am beyond grateful and am indeed amped to be digging BAD and The Meters (and Beirut! and Mavis Staples! and The Black Keys!  … and, and, and ..!)

  I’ll patiently await details. Thanks, thanks, thanks!

  PS: Jefferson Airplane reference in my first limerick?  Too forced?

• [Adrian Mercylist]

  Oh sh*t, I couldn’t have won..
  When asked for some words.. i had none
  my poem lacked conviction,
  tone, prose, and diction
  Next time…a haiku, or a pun?

  Congrats to the winners! those are gold!