Starbeast – It’s like a slap in the face with a multitude of exquisite ideas, that just keep coming, a deluge of delights, from Monty Python, to crazy names to THAT last line; just where do you begin to look at it and say it makes sense as well? A great entry from someone we knew would deliver. Spot on.
Stephen4444 – There are, of course, many things that might be taken into account when you consider the size of dinosaurs and the impact they would have on the world around them. Of course one of those things would be warm and squishy and not smell very nice. What we have here is a story that has picked up on that fact and worked it into a wonderful little bit of nonsense, that works well, is constructed competently and delivers.
DEO – If such a thing could be said this is a little bit more of something that could be considered serious humour. We have the dinosaurs improving the world in a manner that could be considered a technological miracle, but in rejecting that path they leave themselves open to the oncoming asteroid. The final line is both sad and funny, in that slow burning sense that makes you smirk remorsefully, a joke of nature indeed.
PM - Dropping the poetry for a month we have a no less creative entry and one I just loved. It is not necessarily the advertisement format that works so well, but the words used to sell the wee beastie. The whole thing was laugh inducing throughout, but what really made it work, and got the biggest line for me was the small print at the bottom. A moment of reality in an advert so unreal.
Scott – In many way this works because it is presented as a straightforward story, but one with a terrific punch line. There is some mild humour at the start with the names, but really starts cutting loose when the time-hopping dinosaur arrives in the future. Great twist of having the human comparing the real creature to a fictional one, but then twisting it so the dinosaur actually knows Barney is the true stroke of genius.
