# SDMB Flyting Competition Voting Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 27, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789 "2011-09-27T19:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/1 "2011-09-27T19:06:14Z")
This is where we vote on, critique, and otherwise have fun with the [SDMB Flyting Competition, Part 1: Limericks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=624729). The poll will be up in a few minutes, and that’s where the official voting takes place. Feel free to add all of the commentary you wish, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/2 "2011-09-27T19:30:25Z")
You’re welcome to vote for yourself, of course. I made it a public poll, though, so everyone can SEE that you voted for yourself and mock you for it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/3 "2011-09-27T23:06:40Z")
It’s flyting. Aren’t we \*supposed \*to vote for ourselves? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/4 "2011-09-27T23:14:18Z")
On review: Malacandra, for disdain that could make tall buildings wilt. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/5 "2011-09-28T12:34:34Z")
Looks like **Malacandra** is well in the lead so far! Had to go for his response to [c]Annie-Xmas\*\* - yes, it’s an old joke, but it was done so well and scans/rhymes much better than most of the rest of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![JMLVT68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@JMLVT68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMLVT68)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/6 "2011-09-28T12:53:20Z")
Never having participated in something like this previously, I guess I was ass/uming that we would be voting for people, not specific limericks. I’ll still cast a vote, of course, but wonder if the outcome would be any different. ---
**Author:** ![JMLVT68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@JMLVT68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMLVT68)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/7 "2011-09-28T13:03:08Z")
So, \*\*Malacandra \*\* definitely demonstrates a sustained level of quality throughout, and would therefore be my vote for individual winner. For an individual post, though, have to go with **Hamster King** ’s ‘stinky fish.’ The meter and rhyme are perfect, and the “kimchi knish” finisher is excellent. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/8 "2011-09-28T16:13:46Z")
> [@JMLVT68](#): > > Never having participated in something like this previously, I guess I was ass/uming that we would be voting for people, not specific limericks. I’ll still cast a vote, of course, but wonder if the outcome would be any different. I waffled back and forth over whether to select a person or a specific poem. Picking a person encourages everyone to post as many as they can in hopes of hitting just the right nerve with everyone at least once. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing. If everyone wishes it, I could start a second voting thread to pick the winning participant, too. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/9 "2011-09-28T18:19:33Z")
I voted for **Hamster King** ’s riff at the expense of **cornflakes** as I thought his “generative part” zinger was quite witty. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-flyting-competition-voting-thread/597789/10 "2011-09-30T15:41:16Z")
And on the evidence, it seems to have been mostly for the amusement of the participants. Not that an excuse for making up insulting limericks about each other is ever a _bad_ thing. 😃