Post Melon Watermelon Carving Contest
22Story time.
It was a dreary hot day on August 22nd. I brought up the idea of a pumpkin carving contest in advance so we could have time to plan. Needless to say, we got slammed in the CS department over the next week and all ideas for Halloween were forgotten.
Until it got closer to Halloween when @chadp had the idea of starting a pumpkin carving contest for the forum.
Queue the whip lash from me turning around from my desk so fast.
This has turned into such a huge joke in our CS department that if anyone repeats something, it’s automatically a pumpkin carving contest.
We never got the carving contest. This is all that I have now. Please don’t disappoint me.
It’s like a pumpkin carving contest, only watermelons…it’s a watermelon carving contest. It’s the perfect season to take a stab at making some art. You’ve got 3 days to participate! There will be prizes along the way.
EDIT Original post was 24 hour deadline. We’ll give you a few days. 
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Can I write into CS to ask to be reimbursed for the melon expense?
@medz
you shall not
So I can do it tomorrow? Because I’m tired now.
@sammydog01 Yes. Tomorrow is fine.
@ChadP Cool because I just bought a watermelon.
I expected there to be a Post Malone pun
@Pbull I mean. Post Melon is as good as we’re going to get.
or at the very least Post Mehlon
This is not a bookmark
I… Erm… Didn’t have a watermelon. And I didn’t want to buy one because watermelon sucks. So I present:
LIME-IRK!
For bonus points I’ll upload a picture of him enjoying a swim in a beer.
@brainmist
Your lime-irk doesn’t conform
To the usual rhyming norm
It is very cute
And a great use of fruit
I just hope that your beer isn’t warm!
@curtise
LIME-IRK is its own divinity
And it cares not for your affinity.
Instead it’s complete
In a nice margirite
With a rim of the correct salinity.
Alas! Lime-irk attempted to walk in IPA, and discovered it was a false God! And sank.
There may be video. What am I bid?
And should we seek a new god?
Also, I know what you’re all thinking, and you’re right. There is no god. Lime Irk is your god now.
@brainmist I beseech our lord to save us from scurvy.
@UncleVinny And lo did the citrus savior LimeIrk address his supplicant, saying “If you eat my flesh and drink my juice, surely your teeth shall never know the looseness of scurvy!” And they threw him in the Modelo and drank, and were thereafter immune to scurvy.
Lemon!
@brainmist praise be!
This was harder than I expected. I should be embarrassed to post it but I am too old for that.
Uch, I ate my watermelon last night! It wasn’t a great idea. Maybe I’ll pick up another one tomorrow.
I just cut up a watermelon yesterday and threw away all the rind. Rats
Well I don’t really have any creative or artsy talent to carve a watermelon especially into Irk but I thought I’d share a pic of the watermelon macarons I made the other day. It’s about as creative as I get.
@qwerty82 Oooh! I want the purple ones, please!
@qwerty82 Those are really impressive.
@cf1 Thank you! They can be a bit of a pain but I do enjoy making them.
@qwerty82 I’m guessing this is one of those “practice makes perfect” things.
@curtise @qwerty82 I love purple.
@metaphore cute!
I’ve decided watermelon Irks are terrifying.
Please post more; I didn’t need sleep anyway.
Oh shit… We just bought 2 watermelons to carve this weekend because they were on sale… Maybe we can do it by Wednesday instead…
I present, the original non kickstarter click face:
BTW: It’s a waterMEHlon
@lichme ew, zits and everything …
@CaptAmehrican ok it was a squash leftover from my imperfect produce box I will likely never eat
This was a lot of fun, and I have a whole bowl full of watermelon shreds to eat!
@sammydog01 Fancy!
@sammydog01 super cute
@sammydog01 I love the lighting!!
@riskybryzness It’s just a small white jar candle but the pink inside is kind of cool.
So despite having absolutely no requests, I have recreated Lime-Irk!
And also added Glen because of course.
I give you…GLENGER! What, it is really hard to carve ginger.
And, of course, the raft scene. Things started getting weird in Paint. Like even Paint had horror limits.
But I know what you’re thinking…is that it? Is that the end?
@brainmist Ahahaha of COURSE not! I think I fixed the raft image:
And, more importantly, have re-enacted that pivotal scene live:enter link description here
Finally, our couple romantically reunited!
And with that, I’m done.
FIN.
sip
Hope it’s not too late, @ValkyrieRed and I are carving ours now
I’m pleased
Lights on:
Lights off:
@Seeds spooky
@tinamarie1974 thanks!
@valkyriered made me get it out of the house.
@Seeds to be fair I am not a fan of waging war against fruit flies.
@Seeds @valkyriered Just in case you do ever have that problem, this is the best homemade trap I’ve ever used. Use apple cider vinegar in the jar.
@Seeds and I both had fun making our melons. I went for my own Irkmelon complete with coif. ^_^
Light:
Dark:
@valkyriered cute!
@tinamarie1974 thanks!
@valkyriered Love it and welcome to meh! I see Seeds was a bad influence on you (in a good way).
@cinoclav Thank you very much! I finally gave in and made an account hehe. I’ll be around and abouts.
@valkyriered That’s fantastic!
@brainmist Much appreciated!
@valkyriered Irk has never looked so cute.
@RiotDemon I have to agree, though I may be biased.
@riskybryzness Any updates on this?
Irk didn’t age very well. I meant to post this a week ago but was waiting for an update on this contest. Here it is anyways.
@metaphore
RIP Watermelon Irk. And apparently RIP @riskybryzness. We’re going to miss you! Say hi to @matthew!
Everyone that submitted to the contest, check your e-mail. There’s a coupon going out today!
@riskybryzness Thank you!
@riskybryzness So, this"contest"… everyone gets the exact same “prize” which is effectively incentive to spend money? Sounds more like a marketing attempt gone awry than a contest
@riskybryzness So what about those of us that watched the contest? Nothing for us?
@valkyriered And you can’t even combine it with @Seeds. But at least you earned our appreciation for your hard work.
@therealjrn Yeah, and what about those of us who are now regretting that we didn’t watch the contest?! So unfair. I’m going to curl up under a blanket with my other 4 Meh coupons and have a little cry.
Oh come on, @UncleVinny. There has to be a dividing line somewhere.
@cinoclav @valkyriered haha I’d take both- we’ll share whatever they’re used on anyway
I’ll also take ideas for what to do what to do with a few bricks of frozen watermelon
@Seeds @valkyriered One word: Bedroom
@cinoclav @valkyriered no way I could fit a bed in there- it’s not that much watermelon!
@Seeds @valkyriered I’m not drawing you pictures dammit.
@cinoclav @valkyriered why not?
@Seeds @valkyriered Because if you can’t figure out what to do with some frozen watermelon in the bedroom, you shouldn’t be allowed to play in there anyway! Plus I really suck at drawing.
@cinoclav @Seeds @valkyriered Maybe @Barney will lend you her purple crayon.
@cinoclav @valkyriered but that’s where my toys are!
@speediedelivery where did you find purple watermelon?
/giphy purple watermelon brick
@riskybryzness Thank you!
Tell the buyers that I almost have myself talked into one of those tea things. If they find some, it will push me over the edge to tea snob and I will have to buy it.
@riskybryzness @speediedelivery me too and if it is purple, we may be able to win over @barney !
@Barney @riskybryzness @tinamarie1974 Definitely purple. I thought that was so obvious that it didn’t need stated.
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@cinoclav @Seeds @valkyriered I will have to search for the thread later…I have to run now
@cinoclav @Seeds @valkyriered frozen watermelon puree and mix with lime juice simple syrup and bodka
@cinoclav @Seeds @valkyriered
https://meh.com/forum/topics/barneys-goat-prize
@speediedelivery stay tuned, we may or may not have something planned for tea coming up.
@riskybryzness @speediedelivery
/giphy exciting
@riskybryzness That sounds like a definite maybe
@cinoclav @Seeds @speediedelivery @tinamarie1974 @CaptAmehrican @valkyriered
I have no idea what is going on with the above conversations and why you need my purple crayon, but I do have these which were sent to me by @thismyusername. However, I’m hesitant to consent to their use by you weirdos.
@Barney I like purple too.
@thismyusername And that, my friend, makes my day.
@Barney @CaptAmehrican @cinoclav @Seeds @speediedelivery @thismyusername @valkyriered ooohhhh I have never seen those. My niece would love a pack of all purple!
@tinamarie1974 I don’t think they make this bundle anymore.
Edit: They do have it on ebay. OR you can make the big splurge and buy them from Walmart for $89.99.
@Barney i will check. Thanks!
@tinamarie1974 You gonna buy the Walmart special? If so, I have some ocean front property in Kansas I’d like to sell you.
@Barney haha. For $90 I think she can do without!
@tinamarie1974 Meanie.
@Barney well, you can always fund her purple addiction
@Barney
wowza you could literally buy a whole full color pack of each type of writing implement and pull out the purples for waaaaaaaay less
Soo… anyone else unable to get their coupon to work?
@Seeds I have a code from @Targaryen from the Let’s play a game! thread that doesn’t work either.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Seeds Just checked and it looks like mine doesn’t work either. Had one from the twitch stream that never worked too.
@metaphore @Seeds So far, 2 of my coupons have worked. Not sure which games they came from.
@Seeds Yes.
@Seeds I contacted meh.
@metaphore sorry about that! the twitch stream coupons should be working now
@Seeds Should be fixed as well for WHATAMELON.
@riskybryzness thankya! For future reference, does it work on medocretee too, or just meh?