Halloween Goat (October 2021 goat nominations)
11Soon it’s October
And almost Halloween time
Which means a new goat
@replicacobra
The haiku goat’s month is up
Someone else gets blames
Or maybe unblames
Credit goes to good deeds too
So nominate now
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Waiting, Waiting and more Waiting. A bird can only wait so long.
@Walterbird Why not?
Meh already seems to be going to the birds.
And IMO, birdbrains already populate much of the fora.
Self nomination?
Well you won’t be the first one
@Walterbird for goat.
@narfcake @Walterbird
Walterbird’s no goat
Where would the cloven hooves go
He is passerine
I’ve taken the blame
For Walter not being goat
Don’t undo my work
@phendrick @Walterbird Clever use of “fora”.
I nominate @Walterbird.
A halloween goat is lame. We need a Rocktober Goat!
@mike808 I was that once, several years back. I enjoyed it.
Walter said if he isn’t the goat for October, he is going to poop on the floor all over the house. Wait he already does that. Never mind.
@Felton10
Nominate Felton
For scapegoat necromancy
It’s the month for it
I’ll nom Felton just so that Walterbird has competition. If Walterbird wins, though, I’m calling it Felton’s fault for not being enough of a goat. And if Felton wins, it’s still Felton’s fault. This logic is lofty and unassailable.
@werehatrack Felton has already been goat.
@RiotDemon @werehatrack Yes I have and I still have the scars to prove it.
@Felton10 @werehatrack yet you nominated your bird…
@RiotDemon @werehatrack He has always been a risk taker.
I nominate @werehatrack
@tinamarie1974
I support @Walterbird in view of @Felton10’s presumed ineligibility. Besides, I have a tradition of almost never winning anything to uphold.
There ought to be a slogan about giving somebody the bird here…
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Meh should be at the forefront of inclusivity by having the first non human goat in their history.
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 @Walterbird
Besides, I’ve already lost a popularity contest to an iguana, so losing to a bird would just be consistent with my record so far!
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 @Walterbird @werehatrack Alas, you won’t be the first birdgoat. November 2016 goat, aka scapepenguin. Or was that spacepenguin?
@Felton10 @Walterbird @werehatrack yeah but trying to push the vote has not worked well for other goats
And I think you are currently in the lead!!
I’ll vote for anybody but me!
@tinamarie1974 Since it’s a Halloween GoaT, which is important - My vote is for were-hatrack - for being slightly close to were-wolf.
Sorry, that’s all I got.
@narfcake
That was PlacidPenguin, who appears to be unpresent at this time.
@mfladd merci
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 @Walterbird @werehatrack
Threw me for a loop
Think about this for a bit
Then keep on thinking
/giphy calculations
@mfladd You’ve been absent for a while. Welcome back.
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 @Walterbird @werehatrack
Oh wait. Here you go
I am sure @carl699 has something to say about this…
@narfcake @werehatrack
Hmm a goat nominee who knows who goats were many eons ago (or knows where to look and then actually does)… your case is getting stronger and stronger to be goated.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake
Le sigh. Inevitability seems poised to descend upon me this week. And the household nyetwork is giving me fits, too. And my KVM switch died, and old-style PS2-connector types are scarce. Looks like I picked the wrong week to think about giving up procrastinating for 1983.
@narfcake @werehatrack I think it is fantastic that you are only up to using up through 1982 and earlier in your procrastination queue. That leaves you a number of years in reserve for the future. Your ability to procrastinate won’t be affected by supply chain issues. You have plenty of years stockpiled. Smart thinking.
PS Quick go to the goat thread and blame the current goat for you tech issues and that you haven’t gotten to you procrastination list for 1984 which is where you put to buy more updated technology. If you procrastinate that you will have no one to blame but yourself.
/image digging one’s blame hole deeper
@Kidsandliz Thank you. I’m just passing thru
@Kidsandliz @mfladd
Encouraging blame
Unhealthy but understood
None to blame but me
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @Walterbird @werehatrack
@carl669 You set your kid up to do that? He’s a cutie. And I just realized when I tagged you I got the made a typo in your user name. Glad you saw it anyway.
@Kidsandliz it’s an old one when he was younger and innocenter.
@carl669 In other words he is now a teen and would be less likely to cooperate… LOL
@Kidsandliz well… not quite a teen, but he IS more likely to know what that gesture means
@carl669 @Kidsandliz or more than happy to do it, and take liberties to do it at will lol
Although super cute, it does not add to the fuck count
So to give you all the fucks I got left this week
Fu…
Sorry running low over here! Digging DEEP
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
OK that is all I can muster this late in the week
@carl669 @tinamarie1974 How about fuck to the funckingith power? That should raise the count a fucking lot.
@carl669 @Kidsandliz
/giphy genius
@carl669 @Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974
Would that be a GoogleFuck?
@carl669 @phendrick @tinamarie1974 As in after googling you say, “fuck google!”? (
)
I nominate @speediedelivery. Maybe being goat will make her have enough notoriety that mehtizens will stalk her to figure out her address and send her Halloween candy.
@Weboh She’s a fan of @Koolhandjoe’s creations so she might be an appropriate candidate for a spooky month …
@Koolhandjoe @Kyeh @Weboh Yes, I am a Koolhandjoe fan and I like Halloween decor but I don’t need any candy. I would not be a creative goat.
I think @Riotdemon should the change the username just enough to qualify for an encore Rocktober. I will be backing the Weregoat for October.
@Weboh
On possibly the most inapproptiately quasi-serious note, I’ve unvoted for this nomination because nobody deserves stalkers. (Yes, not serious, I know, but it really isn’t a joke for a heck of a lot of people. Needed to be said, not trying to monsoon on the festivities.)
Also, not trying to win.
@werehatrack in most cases the nominated goat is doing anything but trying to win
And then there’s the ever elusive @njfan…
@Kyeh oh I forgot about @njfan…
@Kyeh
@njfan has my vote by default.
@njfan
@sammydog01
/image Andy I don’t know meme
Scapegoat nominees
I voted for all of them
Outbound sadism
@replicacobra
You do know there is
no effect to your actions
(voting for all), yes?
@mike808 @replicacobra
It’s also known as
Equal opportunity!
Everyone gets stars!
Thursday looms ominously
Will more votes appear?
The lycanthrope becomes wary.
@mike808 @narfcake
One clear leader’s fine
Fewer nominees can win
So I spread it out
More uncertainty
You tingle with antici-
/giphy rocky show
@mike808 @narfcake @replicacobra
@narfcake @replicacobra @Thumperchick
We have 3 good nominees and a tight race between them (if you remove all that have voted for each one of them that is).
Hey all - step right up and get your votes in before it is too late.
Those who don’t vote
Can’t complain about the goat
Not a Haiku
@Kidsandliz
Those who fail to vote
Get the goat the rest vote haut
Silence is a choice
And the race has gotten even closer, down to one vote away from a tie. (I haven’t been keeping track, but it looks like I lost one somewhere. Not my fault (yet?)
Inevitability
It is a long word
But the day is not yet done.
@werehatrack
A half day is left
So get those final votes in
On who’s the next goat.
Walter said he is going to stay up until the wee hours of the morning waiting for the election results.
@Felton10 will he demand a recount if he is not goat-ed?
@tinamarie1974 He has Cyber Ninjas waiting in the wings regarding a recount.
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974
@Walterbird is bird
Not biased politician
The results will stand
Besides, there’s next month
Complete with a different bird
Be careful, Walter.
I’m not in the lead anymore! Yay! [does happy dance]
(Yes, okay, I admit that I broke the tie myself. This may be cause for a raised eyebrow or a raised glass of favored beverage, or a raised dinner roll, and I will take a half dozen of the latter, with lots of butter, if any are left.)
@werehatrack
Since the lead had widened, I unvoted again to preserve the reason for having done that earlier. @speediedelivery now has a two-vote margin. Yay!
@speediedelivery @werehatrack I played with my likes. Ah-hem, back to a tie!!!
@speediedelivery @tinamarie1974
Curses! Foiled again! But not for long!
Go, Clock! Go!
@werehatrack You have only yourself to blame…and everyone else who voted…
But don’t we have to wait for the absentee and overseas ballots to come in via snail mail?
@Walterbird You’ve been hanging with Chad over in Maricopa County, haven’t you?
@mike808 Hanging chads are from Florida which is where I live.
@Walterbird You’re right! I meant Broward County.
Arizona is nowhere near y’all.
@mike808 @Walterbird Being named Chad is a hanging offense in parts of Texas.