I came up with a bunch of ideas when I got the notion to use a road sign for the last photoshopping contest, so I'm thinking this might be a subject with a lot of possibilities. For this contest, either alter a photo of an existing road sign (street signs, historical markers, warning signs, highway signs, etc.) or create your own from scratch.

Judging will be done Monday night at midnightish (Stripcreator time).

Not much inspiration, but at least I have a bit of time tonight. Some old timers may recognize part of the first one.

If it wasnt for the naked man that last pic would win.

I'M SURE OF IT!

I remember the first picture, Spanks. It just plain rocks.

Due to the tragic events of 4-21, the deadline will be pushed back by 24 hours.

quote:

---

I remember the first picture, Spanks. It just plain rocks.

---

Variations on a theme...

These are pretty small, and a lot of them are only used in Australia, but there are some good ones:

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/road_safe/brochures/roadsigns.htm

Just reading through these is giving me more ideas than I can use. :)

quote:

---

---

Just for starters - many more to come yet.

Some more...

Okay, that's all for now...

quote:

---

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/road_safe/brochures/roadsigns.htm

---

Oh, I just laughed 5 minutes long at that, with me sister looking at me weird, and me having trouble reading because I was laughing so hard.
And I've jut read it again and laughed just as hard.

Too good, evil one.

I almost want to give this contest to evil_d since his contribution was the funniest, but I suppose I should pick an actual photoshopped image to win a photoshopping contest.

There are several worthy contenders, but I have decided to go with this one...

It's absurd, well done, and easily the most creative entry.

Take it away, boorite...

quote:

---

It's absurd, well done, and easily the most creative entry.

---

I had a naked man in my entry.
how can you not let the naked man win?

quote:

---

quote:

---

It's absurd, well done, and easily the most creative entry.

---

I gave you Kirk Cameron and Don Knotts head on Alf's body!

---

quote:

---

I had a naked man in my entry.
how can you not let the naked man win?

---

he was shaved. (his head not his gabe)

Aww, I thought I had it in the bag with Ricky's tattoo... oh well.

That's okay, I thought I was sure to win with the church one. I worked long and hard on it. *ahem*

quote:

---

I thought I was......long and hard on

---

quote:

---

I had a naked man in my entry.
how can you not let the naked man win?

---

We all get nude and lubed before photoshopping... it's traditional!

Jebus, I thought I didn't stand a chance on this one. I don't even know what I was thinking when I made it. Something like "sign... flood... camel!"

quote:

---

"Caution: Mr. T ahead"

---

Like I said, there were many worthy contenders. I had it down to one of Fuzzyman's, one of DexX's, and boorite's and finally decided to award boorite's because it was less obvious than the others. Being "not obvious" is not necessarily a criterion I would use regularly, but that was how I was feeling last night...

No hard feelings - I was just having a whine. I want to win the next one, because I have found a fun theme for it.

Incidentally, I couldn't help but notice that DCCVCT is alive and well...

*admits to not knowing*

Kaufman made me do it!

Skagg - DCCVCT is DexX's Comic Contest Victory Conditions Theorem, which states that an author's confidence of their strip (or, in this case, image) winning a contest is inversely proportional to its actual chance of winning. Hence, if you think you will win, you won't, and you will only win if you are sure you won't. One addendum I have made regards multiple entries - if you sumbit multiple entries, and one of them wins, it will be the one you thought was the weakest.

quote:

---

and you will only win if you are sure you won't.

---

You just used a logical fallacy, known as denying the antecedent. I stated that you can only win if you are sure you won't, which in proper logical form is: IF (you are sure you will win) THEN (you will not win), which can be transformed via modus ponens (denying the consequent) into IF NOT (you will not win) THEN NOT (you are sure you can win). That last bit in regular English is: If you win, then were were not sure you would.

In an IF...THEN proposition, you cannot assume that, because the antecent (the IF bit) is false (denying the antecedent), then the consequent (the THEN bit) is also false. Think about this: IF it is sunny THEN my clothes will dry. Let's say it is not sunny, and you throw your damp clothes in the tumble dryer. The antecedent is false, but the consequent is true, yet the proposition itself is still true - had it been sunny, you would have put your clothes out and they would have dried.

In the same way, looking at the proposition IF (you are sure you will win) THEN (you will not win) and deny the antecedent (I am NOT sure I will win) then the consequent is not necessarily going to be false as a result.

That probably made no sense, but my critical thinking skills have been going rusty, and I needed an excuse to exercise them.

x -> y

does not mean

!x -> !y

Just as

x -> !y

does not mean

!x -> y

Right?

We are also talking about "necessary" vs. "sufficient" conditions. Being sure you won't win is a necessary condition to winning, but it is not sufficient to ensure your winning.

quote:

---

DCCVCT is DexX's Comic Contest Victory Conditions Theorem, which states that an author's confidence of their strip (or, in this case, image) winning a contest is inversely proportional to its actual chance of winning. Hence, if you think you will win, you won't, and you will only win if you are sure you won't. One addendum I have made regards multiple entries - if you sumbit multiple entries, and one of them wins, it will be the one you thought was the weakest.

---

Kajun, you should of won at least 3 of the last 15 CC's

To be honest, I don't see the point in entering a contest unless you're confident you're going to win.

seems a bit silly to me.

quote:

---

I've only ever won two contests, a CC and a Photoshop one, both times I was very confident that I had it "in the bag".

---

quote:

---

DCCVCT is DexX's Comic Contest Victory Conditions Theorem, which states that an author's confidence of their strip (or, in this case, image) winning a contest is inversely proportional to its actual chance of winning. Hence, if you think you will win, you won't, and you will only win if you are sure you won't. One addendum I have made regards multiple entries - if you sumbit multiple entries, and one of them wins, it will be the one you thought was the weakest.

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

"Caution: Mr. T ahead"

---

I came so close to doing this one last night, but I couldn't think of a good way to combine Mr T and the sign...

---

I just go for the beanbag.

quote:

---

x -> y

does not mean

!x -> !y

Just as

x -> !y

does not mean

!x -> y

Right?

---