Meet us down at the crop circle and save a dance for Piltdown Man and the FeeJee Mermaid.  This contest is all about hoaxes, the people who perpetrate them, and the people who fall for them.  Bonus points if you inadvertently reveal that you yourself believe in a hoax (note: the bonus points are a hoax).

I'll give it a week or two before judging, and the winner will run Comic Contest 710.  Good luck!

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That's not a hoax, that's a conspiracy.  And if I were capable of organizing a conspiracy, I'd want to do something a lot more interesting than win a comic contest.

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Happy New Year, Gang!

Enjoy:

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I'll judge this over the weekend.  The time to desparately brainstorm for a last-minute stroke of genius is now.

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"I'm grasping at straws here!"

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The story about me judging this contest over the weekend was a hoax.  But now I'm going to judge it for real.

The runner-up is Makin_d_bacon for taking some pokes at making hoax jokes.

But the winner is Neo11 for this:

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I really like the premise of "which hoax would I be" as a question on a dating show.  Congratulations!

I promise not to come back tomorrow and say that declaring Neo11 the winner was a hoax.  This is genuine.  Scout's honor.  You can start the next contest.

Thanks for the selection evil_d, the next competition will be up and running before long.

Haha, saying I wouldn't come back today to change my mind was another hoax!

No, I'm just kidding, Neo11 is really the winner.  Seriously.  I promise.