My Bloggy Fourth Birthday AND the FGES Competition!!!!!!!

So, this it is the moment you have been waiting for.... THE FGES COMPETITION!!!!! Fanfare.... singing.... flags.... bunting!!!! The UK really floats the boats when it's got something to celebrate.
It is a great honour for me to be holding the FGES competition on my 4th Bloggy Birthday.... there is other stuff going on today in the UK, but this is far more exciting.

The general idea of the 'Freakin’ Green Elf Shorts' Caption Competition is to post a photo of yourself on your blog, wearing "The Shorts".

Whoever comes up with the best caption wins "The Shorts".

The current holder of "The Shorts" then sends the winner "The Shorts" and a few souvenirs from their country.

So here we go, caption this...

 

Please note: Previous winners are allowed to enter AND, you can enter as many captions as you like.

The winner will be announced on Saturday 9th June 2012 @ 12 noon BST [British Summer Time]

Good Luck!!!!!!!

A link to a gallery of previous FGES winners, just to whet your appetites.

A Very British Affair..... The Freaking Green Elf Shorts

There is a lot going on in Britain today. As a nation we are being asked to run around with torches and an elderly lady is preparing to have a bit of a do. Oh, and most of us don't have much money, but we are still doing better than Greece.
Meanwhile, I have more important things to think about... such as preparing for the Freakin' Green Elf Shorts competition. I have props to acquire and a photographer's services to engage - when us Brits do something we like to do it properly... or not at all.

The legend of the FGES [Freakin' Green Elf shorts] began in Ohio, USA in 2004 when Andrea Knapp (a British ex-pat) bought a pair of novelty Elf Shorts for her husband George as a gag gift. For a laugh, Andrea took a photograph of George wearing the shorts and posted the pic on her blog. Andrea then decided to turn it into a caption competition, not thinking ANYONE would want to win them.... and the rest is Blogging history.

Put it this way, these shorts are more travelled, more photographed, more talked about, and more cultured than most of us, and as the current shorts wearer it is my duty to continue the caption competition... even though technically I shouldn't really have them... but less said etc, etc...

For a definitive history of the FGES please visit Infomaniac HERE

Please talk amongst yourselves whilst I prepare myself for the competition....

Blue Energy

It has been brought to my attention that EDF are now using a bouncy nipple to flaunt their wares. After much discussion with colleagues, cohorts, Geraldine at the bus stop and, Cybill Shepherd, I have discovered that the bouncy nipple is in fact a Zingy stress toy. So not a nipple after all, but a squeezy ball instead - an easy mistake for any of us to make, especially when sallying forth up a darkened alley way. Thankfully EDF is at hand with Blue Energy to light up the passage so that this type of unfortunate mishap should become a thing of the past.

When I first saw this footage I nodded sagely and thought to myself: how clever of EDF to utilise a naked flame to advertise blue energy... then I kind of twigged that they were advertising electricity... and not gas...

Anyhow... I can hear that my washing machine is nearing the spin cycle... who needs Electric Dreams when Good Vibrations are free.

I will be back soon with news of the FGES competition and hopefully MJ will have also returned.

The Comment Box is now Open....

This is not a post. This is an announcement to say that a new comment box is now open on the Scarlet Blue Blog. As ever, discussion will vary wildly and will feature in depth analysis on controversial subjects such as:-

Cheese - Is it simply dangerous or just another cost effective way to insulate the loft?

Pharmaceuticals - A healthy alternative to bar snacks or just a long word beginning with 'P'?

Knicker liners with secure fit technology - innovative, or just an expensive upgrade on a wad of loo paper?

The Freakin' Green Elf Shorts - Who? What? Why? And most importantly....
Where????

Many thanks to Mr Lax

I'm Still Alive... but only for the sake of a glance...

I am often made fun of for being over cautious. Ridiculed for my predilection for proper procedures; for my funny little ways that make me feel safe and happy. People say: Scarlet, why don't you throw caution to the wind, rip all your clothes off and go skinny dipping in the sea? No, I say, because I am wary of strong currents and of having blue knees. People say: Scarlet, why won't you climb the tallest tree and perform aerial gymnastics from a bushy branch? No, I say, because I am scared of woodland bugs and don't like snagging my tights. People say: Scarlet, why don't you throw caution to the wind, just every once in a while? Yeah, maybe sometimes...
But caution has its virtues, and if it wasn't for my habit of checking for traffic both ways even when knowingly crossing a one way street, then I would be dead right now. I was in Torquay yesterday and I am unused to the road layout. It looked like a one way system, certainly seemed to be behaving like a one way system, and in my heart of hearts I felt it was a one way system, so when the traffic cleared from the left I stepped into the road, but with a cursory glance to the right. Oh thank God I did. Otherwise today's local headline would read: Couple mown down by very large coach full of tourists.
My companion? Yes, indeed - one of those people who so often teases me for my over cautious behaviour... one of those people who often bounds ahead of me, throwing caution to the wind... one of those people who doesn't make the cursory glance to the right.

Anyhow, on a lighter note, I will mostly be wearing pink this summer.

Tittles.

I caught Mr Beastie gazing at my tittles the other day. What can I say, I can't blame him... sometimes they are impressively placed.... perhaps on occasion, too high... and sometimes I leave them out all night because I am forgetful.

Click to make tittles big.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, and may all your tittles be warm ones.

When Good Bloggers Go Bad.....or a bit smelly....

Has the blogosphere as I knew it, died? Have all Mr Coppen'sssss wild predictions come true??? Have we all perished under the weight of insipid self promoting marketing blogs? [Like Mr Coppens said we would] Have I been moving in the wrong circles??? Probably. Is there anybody left? Am I here? Have I gone completely barking? WOULD YOU LIKE A HOBNOB????? Custard Cream?? A VERY BIG MUFFIN?? Does Mistress MJ really need the pink ointment to cure her recent problems or just a rub down with some tea tree oil and a soggy flannel [this is a 'cure all' btw, don't ask me how I know]????

What the hell has been going on since I've taken a month off?? Should I become a troll? Should I write something? Should I come home and dust off my blog????

Oh dear.