LJ-Balderdash Religion and Culture round wrap-up

So it went down like this:
The big winner was jackbabalon23, who got 5 votes for his mojo shop jingle answer (I suspect that the energy drink made of powdered Shoggoths was at least partially responsible).

Next, adammaker picked up three points for the CB cross-talk of the gods, and malvito snagged three for the unfortunate troubles of Gerald Gardner's cat.

At two votes apiece were saffronhare's invocation of the Rock Lobster, ceruleanst's explanation of the secret alphabet of the Anglo-Saxon witches, catvincent's condemnation of the horrible bastardization of different cultural memes, and fionnabhar's pseudo-Proto-Indo-European scholarship.

Also, hekatatia got a vote for the bit about the embarrassed priest who tried to cover having shouted "ECHO!" down the well, and 8elements picked up one vote for her haiku-like answer about the beginning and the end.

tryst_inn also wrote in with an answer that was one of the more believable explanations I'd discovered in my research on this question, which I quote below: ( This might well be the actual answer )

( Total points after six rounds: )

LJ-Balderdash Religion and Culture round wrap-up

So it went down like this:
The big winner was jackbabalon23, who got 5 votes for his mojo shop jingle answer (I suspect that the energy drink made of powdered Shoggoths was at least partially responsible).

Next, adammaker picked up three points for the CB cross-talk of the gods, and malvito snagged three for the unfortunate troubles of Gerald Gardner's cat.

At two votes apiece were saffronhare's invocation of the Rock Lobster, ceruleanst's explanation of the secret alphabet of the Anglo-Saxon witches, catvincent's condemnation of the horrible bastardization of different cultural memes, and fionnabhar's pseudo-Proto-Indo-European scholarship.

Also, hekatatia got a vote for the bit about the embarrassed priest who tried to cover having shouted "ECHO!" down the well, and 8elements picked up one vote for her haiku-like answer about the beginning and the end.

tryst_inn also wrote in with an answer that was one of the more believable explanations I'd discovered in my research on this question, which I quote below: ( This might well be the actual answer )

( Total points after six rounds: )

FYIs

1. With Regard To LJ-Balderdash. I have decided that the first player to reach 30 points will win an unspecified prize. Will it be cheap plastic crap harvested from my house? Comic books? Porn? Bad art? A pie? A much-coveted merit badge? Stay tuned.

2. I've been deeply irritated with my cellular phone lately (mostly because I bent the hell out of the antenna the other week and now it's all crackly, but also because it's slowly losing its ability to do neat things like hold charge or respond when I push the power button). So I tried to go through my current provider, who offers this sort of 'trade in your phone for credit on a new phone' plan. Somehow, this was not workable via the web or the telephone, but required going into the store (even though the website says you can do it via the web, and when that failed, it directed me to a phone number and assured me I could do the thing that way). So I jettisoned my current provider in a fit of pique, and signed onto a new provider, taking advantage of their free phone with signup deal. The important part of this is that there may be a few days this week during which I can't be reached on my mobile phone due to the switchover. My number, however, should be the same.

FYIs

1. With Regard To LJ-Balderdash. I have decided that the first player to reach 30 points will win an unspecified prize. Will it be cheap plastic crap harvested from my house? Comic books? Porn? Bad art? A pie? A much-coveted merit badge? Stay tuned.

2. I've been deeply irritated with my cellular phone lately (mostly because I bent the hell out of the antenna the other week and now it's all crackly, but also because it's slowly losing its ability to do neat things like hold charge or respond when I push the power button). So I tried to go through my current provider, who offers this sort of 'trade in your phone for credit on a new phone' plan. Somehow, this was not workable via the web or the telephone, but required going into the store (even though the website says you can do it via the web, and when that failed, it directed me to a phone number and assured me I could do the thing that way). So I jettisoned my current provider in a fit of pique, and signed onto a new provider, taking advantage of their free phone with signup deal. The important part of this is that there may be a few days this week during which I can't be reached on my mobile phone due to the switchover. My number, however, should be the same.

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