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1. No purchase necessary to enter contest. Entries are limited to one (1) per person.  To enter, post your entry in the "Contest Entries" thread under "To End All Wars Giveaway" located at the http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=11044. Entries received by any other method (phone, fax, courier) or in any other format, will not be accepted. Contest commences on August 27, 2014 and closes on September 13, 2014 at midnight Eastern Standard Time.

2. This contest is open to all registered members of Grogheads.com, who are over eighteen (18) years of age. Employees, agents, representatives and members of Grogheads, LLC, as well as members of their immediate families and households, are not eligible for contest participation. Membership at Grogheads.com and participation in the contest is free. No purchase necessary.

3. There will be one (1) grand prize winner of the contest. The grand prize will consist of a free download key for one copy of "To End All Wars" as provided to GrogHeads.com by Slitherine, Ltd.  Winner will be notified by email and/or via private message through the Grogheads.com forum. If the winning entrant cannot be reached, or does not claim his/her prize within 48 hours of the selection date, or does not meet all the contest conditions, another entrant(s) will be selected from the remaining eligible entries.

4. The entrant who receives the most votes for his/her entry in the contest, as recorded with the "poll" feature in the GrogHeads.com forum, will be declared the winner.

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bayonetbrant

We're giving away a Steam Key for "To End All Wars"!

Here's the deal:

Sum up WWI in a tweet.  You get 140 characters, including spaces.

Post your entries in the thread for contest entries.

Limit of ONE ENTRY per person!  If you post multiple times, we will use the most recent entry.  So you can post multiple times, but you only get one entry.

We will collect all the entries and put them up for a vote among the GH forum members.  Highest vote total wins.  In the event of a tie, we will eliminate the non-tied entries, and let everyone vote on just the remaining entries.

ENTRIES MUST BE IN BY 10PM EDT, as date-stamped by our forums, on September 4th.
Voting will start on 9/5 and continue until 9/13, and we will announce the winner of 9/14.

You want more details?  Go read the legalese!
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bayonetbrant

Post your contest entries here:

"Sum up WWI in a tweet"

Contest entries posted anywhere else will be ignored.

GOOD LUCK!
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

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bayonetbrant

You have to be a registered member of the forums to participate!  O0
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Asid

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"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

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Boggit

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Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 27, 2014, 01:39:36 PM
"So the poor ol' ostrich died for nothing."
                                              -Baldrick
Very funny :2funny:, but you should have put the youtube link up to give it full effect... and dammit, I can't find it for you - it was there....

This is the best context I could find at short notice -

[discussing how the war began]

Private Baldrick: I heard it started when some fella called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cos he was hungry.

Captain Blackadder: I think you mean that it started when the Arch Duke of Austro-Hungary got shot.

Private Baldrick: No, there was definitely an ostrich involved.



Whilst I loved that clip, this one is rather more poignant...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM&list=PLwCd_jgvjTjQzP7Q9REbcqJNJuyzhJzC0
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

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