CreditCovers Contest: WINNERS
A comedy article
by John Hargrave | 11/05/2007 06:24 AM | 360 views
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 In conjunction with US National Credit Cards and CreditCovers.com, we recently ran a contest where we challenged ZUG readers to come up with the funniest credit card "skin," an adhesive sticker that fits over the front of your credit card, making it look much cooler than MasterCard ever intended. The three winning entries receive the cover of their choice from CreditCovers.com. The grand prize winner gets his/her design drawn by our in-house ZUG artist, Al Natanagara, then mass-produced and available for sale. Which looks great on a resume.
As rated by ZUG readers and our international panel of judges (i.e., me and Al), here are the winners.
THIRD PLACE: ZUG reader I'm Original suggested a credit card with the inscription, "CANCELLED. Usage of this card will be prosecuted by law, carrying fines for the payee of up to $10,000 for agreement to process this card."
The grammar was slightly off, but that just makes it seem more realistic, since lawyers generally aren't that bright.
SECOND PLACE: ZUG reader Sassy Cow wrote, "Draw a picture of a card stuck in, or being swiped through, butt cheeks, with the words "Theft protection" tattooed on one of the cheeks."
 Al and I had a long discussion about whether this should be the winner, since Al has long been a fan of drawing the asscheeks, as pictured at right. You might say that butt is his specialty.
In the end, however, we have to award the winning entry to...
FIRST PLACE: ZUG reader Neophyte suggested, "Have the card display a plump juicy strawberry. Add a large, easily readable 'Scratch 'N' Sniff' emblem. Then somehow make it smell like ass."
What was funny about this one was the prank aspect: convincing your friends and family that your new credit card has scratch 'n' sniff technology, then getting them to take a long, deep whiff ... of ass.
While Al works on the design for this new prank credit card cover, which will be available for sale everywhere, we thought it would be fun to brainstorm all the ways that you could make a credit card stink. For instance, you could smear it with gorgonzola, sprinkle it with curry, or store it in some bodily orifice. We basically want you to list all the ways to make it smell like something other than a strawberry, good or bad. Click "GAB About This Article," below.
So congratulations to our winners, and stay tuned -- things are about to get a whole lot smellier.
Sir John Hargrave is a speaker, performer, and author of the bestselling Prank the Monkey. Click here to read past articles >>
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bigDummy
09/29/2007 08:02 AM
Nuthin' smells worse than smegma, but that crap that collects under your toenails after a long, sweaty game of basketball comes close. So use your card to clean out under your toenails to give it that freshly ass-swiped smell.
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M-O-O-N, that spells Jane
09/29/2007 08:28 AM
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I'm original, really
09/29/2007 11:39 AM
Hey I won, I better say something funny
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Robots Can't Love
10/05/2007 12:37 AM
DEER PHEROMONES
that Shakespeare STANKS
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peoriagrace
10/06/2007 11:34 AM
Wipe it on the glands of a skunk.
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Neophyte
10/07/2007 08:09 AM
I quite like Trae's idea because a bottle of Liquid Ass
could easily be shipped with the skin as a package deal.
It also negates the need for all that inconvenient deer/skunk disassembly.
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mielke
08/20/2009 10:05 PM
Just print the design on a Kraft cheese slice and the joke will get better with age.
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A Summer Sweaty Ass......HAT
08/21/2009 12:11 AM
I think we should combine our second place and first place people.
Second place had a picture of a credit card swiping in an ass...
First place is of a card supposed to smell like strawberries, but smells like Emerson.
I say each cardholder should have a nice healthy Taco Bell dinner, take a healthy wet Shakespeare and wipe with their credit card.
A wet Shakespeare isn't as messy Shakespeare smearing) to the card.
Then again, who wants an ass smelling card in their wallet..... OTHER THAN TRIXXXIE?!
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