Pioneer Press launches its annual Peeps diorama contest
Lots of papers out there run contests this time of year, asking readers to make cool, fun dioramas using those ultra-sweet Peeps marshmallow candies.
I have two or three pages in my collection of slides from the Columbus Dispatch. And last year, I posted a batch of entries from the Washington Post.
Ben Ramsden of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, however, tells us:
The Pioneer Press is the original Peeps contest pioneer.
His paper is gearing up for what I believe is their eighth annual Peeps contest. “Gearing up” defined as: Posting the first of what promises to be a series of funny-as-hell videos:
Readers, you’ll be glad to know, are already getting in on the fun. As a comment on the Pioneer Press video, above, one attempted to get creative by bastardizing Shakespeare…
Hath not a Peep eyes? Hath not a Peep hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer as a Person is?
If you **** us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you microwave us do we not explode? If you wound us with harsh words do we not cry?
…thwarted, as you can see, by the Pioneer Press‘ site filter. Which, apparently, converts the word “prick” to a series of asterisks!
Peep at the Pioneer Press‘ Peeps page here. Look through last year’s entries here.