Dec 15 2009I'm On It!: Make Up A Funny/Sob Story About How You Lost Your Data And Win Bacon!
As part of a campaign promoting Norton Online Backup, Norton is running a contest giving away free bacon-of-the-month memberships simply for lying your ass off and making up a story about losing important computer data. Piece of cake bacon. The rules:
1) You tell us your data-loss horror stories - like that time you actually lost your Macbook to a pack of rabid squirrels - and how you either used online backup or wish you had. (Everyone who enters gets a free trial subscription to Norton Online Backup)
2) We review your submissions, maybe laugh at your foolishness or cry at your misfortune. Then we pick our favorites to be featured each week. For your entry to be featured, you must include either a photo, a link to a video or an awesome cartoon depicting what went down (but it's not a requirement to enter the contest drawing).3) We promise not to cheat while randomly choosing 12 grand prize winners, split between two drawings -- first in January and then in March. The luckiest of the lucky will receive a one year delicious gourmet bacon-of-the-month club subscription (or, for our vegetarian friends, the cash equivalent). They'll also get bacon soap, bacon dental floss, bacon lip balm, bacon mints and, of course, a one year free subscription to Norton Online Backup 25GB.
So check it -- one time I was using my laptop to watch porno physics lectures on the city bus when the bus driver passed out from heroin. Like any good looking Samaritan, I took the wheel before realizing IF THE SPEED DROPPED BELOW 55MPH RUSSIA WOULD FIRE NUKES AT THE MOON! To save the Mooninites I sped up, hit a ramp, skipped the bus across the Atlantic, AND THEN CRASHED THAT BITCH RIGHT INTO THE KREMLIN! At some point during all this, somebody stole my computer. Also, I may have hit Big Ben instead of the Kremlin. Goodbye moon! (where's my bacon?)
Thanks to Cantara, who agrees there should be more bacon-related contests.
Reader Comments
1. AaronZZZ - December 15, 2009 2:01 PM
FREE BACON???? Thats the tastiest promotion I have ever heard of.
2. ChainSm0kerTM - December 15, 2009 2:02 PM
FIRST!
3. AaronZZZ - December 15, 2009 2:02 PM
Fuck you Firstards!!!! lolz
4. Terry - December 15, 2009 2:02 PM
Bacon is gross.
5. ChainSm0kerTM - December 15, 2009 2:03 PM
FirstFail! Damnit!
6. AaronZZZ - December 15, 2009 2:06 PM
LoLzzz Chain smoker.... Keep tryin... and maybe one day you can proudly proclaim your firstitude.
7. Closet Nerd - December 15, 2009 2:08 PM
@2 Nice try Firstard
http://de.acidcow.com/pics/20091215/gif_02.gif
8. David - December 15, 2009 2:10 PM
Here is another contest for some actual good over the holidays. Any help does make a difference. http://www.meetfidel.com/mojomagic
9. ciao - December 15, 2009 2:24 PM
would they buy it if I said:
"I had converted my pc into a hybrid coffee & gaming machine, became successful. Over the few weeks it went very well, I've enjoyed a few cups a day while pillaging the interwebs. One day like today I was reading the good o' Geekologie posts. I reviewed something about this contest provided from a very popular anit-virual thing. It provided bacon as a reward...so I browsed at the comments. Now here's where the situation becomes rather violent. Firsttards and anti-firsttards were just being themselves. I've notice just one comment that caused an unfortunate end for my beloved coffee-pc. I chugged the machine @4 for his horrible comment." :D
10. Hi-Def - December 15, 2009 2:31 PM
LOLLL GW's story was the best. i'm not even gonna try and top that.
11. Tiger's Bastard - December 15, 2009 2:42 PM
Goddamnit, I love bacon. I'd sprinkle bacon on 10-day old cat shit and eat it!
12. Closet Nerd - December 15, 2009 2:47 PM
Bacon is soooooooooo good.... Allah just doesn't know what he's missing.......
just sayin
13. Mike Bolton - December 15, 2009 2:52 PM
@ 11.. obvious you haven't smelled my cat's shit, but under normal circumstances I totally agree with you. If bacon were currency I'd be the poorest man on earth.
14. sithjoka - December 15, 2009 2:52 PM
@4 you hate bacon but LOVE DONKEY BALLS in or around your FACE
15. Samir N. - December 15, 2009 2:58 PM
@ 12 Yes, they know what they're missing, this is why they blow themselves up, because they know they can't have the one best thing on EARTH (other than poonanny, which just might tie for 1st place)
16. naas - December 15, 2009 3:38 PM
HehEHehe...Since I believe myself to be the funniest person, except for GW to whom I would nibble on the foreskin of his penis (yes, I'm obsessed enough to know that), I would simply not write a funny story and campaign for GW to win the prize
LAWLZ! Somebody compliment me on this funny post
17. Drew (my testicles on my legs b/c I don't have any) - December 15, 2009 3:41 PM
@16 I believe your post could of used a "MLIG" at the end..... just sayin
18. naas - December 15, 2009 3:44 PM
@16 there you are, I was wondering where you'd gone or what time school got out today. THANK YOU sincerely for capitalizing those I's this time, much better
For once you don't have me sounding as stupid as you actually are and for that good sir, I salute you
19. Closet Nerd - December 15, 2009 3:46 PM
@18 I assume that is not the usual "one finger salute"......
20. naas - December 15, 2009 3:48 PM
@19
Of course not! If anyone knows that I only use my "one finger salute" in men's assholes, It'd be you. Silly
21. Closet Nerd - December 15, 2009 4:09 PM
*cheeks blushing* (and not on my face)..... just saying
22. naas - December 15, 2009 4:29 PM
*cock hardening* Hopefully I will be able to penetrate your butt this time...or at least reach the anal sphincter!
Did you want to cyber via Geekologie post comments or via skype? Seriously
23. heftyjake - December 15, 2009 5:59 PM
.......................................
Time to play a little game called "just the tip"?
Nice post btw GW.
24. naas - December 15, 2009 6:22 PM
I like children.
25. pissy old man - December 16, 2009 5:35 AM
all this bacon themed stuff is getting annoying. It wasn't funny to begin with, now it's beyond irritating.
26. ChainSm0kerTM - December 16, 2009 5:52 AM
@3-25 (with the exception of 5) I SHALL BE THE FIRSTEST! But for now, alas, I am the lastest, until of course someone posts after this.
27. Jaded Icon - December 16, 2009 9:31 AM
I am conflicted.....I love bacon, but dislike Norton.......hmmm....
28. o.0 - December 16, 2009 10:46 AM
so, this one time, in Jerusalem, I left my laptop unattended and some guy shot right through the porn part of my computer's brain.
yes, that's how computers work.
29. G - December 16, 2009 12:24 PM
One time, I accidentally the whole data.
30. Davo - January 26, 2010 11:29 PM
I just wanted to post again on this...I got emailed and called today saying I won one of the grand prizes! A year of bacon! PEWPEWPEWNOMNOMNOM!!! Thanks Geekologie!
-Davo
31. oktay usta - March 5, 2010 7:17 AM
believe your post could of used a "MLIG" at the end. just sayin..