The Swag Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// The Smart Rewards Challenge VistaPrint Typo Winners Posted: 14 May 2015 06:30 AM PDT In 2007 humor columnist Gene Weingarten came up with something he called the Googlenope, which is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. Examples in 2007 include “Squid Meringue Pie,” “What adorable garbage,” and “Please Play Your Bagpipes some more.” In this weeks challenge we want you to use Swagbucks Search and come up with some SwagNopes (No, its not a term for being DQed in a Survey). A SwagNope is a Swagbucks Search, the word combinations of which have never been found in the searchable online swagiverse! In other words, Swagbucks searches that show up no results at all. Now listen to what I have to say here because it is very important. Anyone can come up with a SwagNope c888ilokkkioptra!55 is a SwagNope, or at least it was before it showed up here. But a really good SwagNope whether it makes you snort milk out your nose, peer deeply into the human condition, and/or cc: everyone in your address book is a much rarer find. Thats where you come in. Were looking for the funniest, wittiest, most clever Swagnopes by the best Swagnopers. Yup, that is what we are calling you this week, so deal with it. For those of you that like to follow steps: 1. Go to search.swagbucks.com (or default your browser to Swagbucks Search, or search from the SwagButton or search from the mobile app) 2. Come up with a witty, funny or clever phrase that you think will yield zero search results. 2.5 There are a few technical notes here, the first of which is the most important. You dont win for just finding a SwagNope; you win for being funny, witty and clever. All phrases must be in english, use standard english letters and be able to be found in a reputable english dictionary. A list of several words (piece, antler, wet, fortune ), keyboard blaber (jkshakl dsjf; ksdjafalksd), made up words (I told the jonge not to sifcer the neeper) and misspelled words (Swabnucks is for suckers) will result in an immediate disqualification. Oh, and to make you think a little harder, the use of the word Swagbucks is absolutely forbidden. 3. Betwwen quotation marks, type your witty, funny or clever phrase into the search bar from which your are searching. For example: I came out of the darkness with a sponge on my horse. If you don’t use quotation marks you are almost certain to get a bunch of hits. For instance, if you type Squid Meringue Pie without quotation marks, believe it or not, you get over 43 thousand hits. The reason is that Swagbucks Search will return any page that has any of those three words. 4. Hit the search button. 5. If your witty, funny or clever line comes up with zero search results (see into the comments below. Dont worry, the search engine creepy crawlers cant find comments on the Swag Blog, so it will stay a SwagNope until next week (if you are a winner). 6. Search engines try harder these days. So even when something is a nope, they will still try to show you something. And since Swagbucks Search is powered by Yahoo, a SwagNope looks a little bit different than GoogleNope. Both search engines will always try and show relevant content. What matters is what happens above that content. A SwagNope will result in a message that says Including results for (whatever you swagnope is). Search only for (whatever your swagnope is). The first example is Swagbucks Search. The example after is Google. We only care about the Swagbucks Search result, but in either case, these results confirm that This is what a swagnope search result looks like is (or in this case was, a SwagNope. To make it clearer once again (and without un-swagnoping a swagnope): This is a SwagNope. This is not a SwagNope PRIZES The Grand Prize Winner gets the 4000 SB. Second place receives 2,200 SB (enough for the first $25 Gift card of every month). Third Place gets 1000 SB and the person with the most likes gets 500 SB. If there are any honorable mentions, they will each receive 15 SB. The rest of you have to live with the disgrace and shame of not being chosen. RULES Write your entry in the comments below.• Winners will be selected on the basis of humor, originality, wit and cleverness.• Submissions are capped at 11. Why 11? Because it’s one number better than 10. That’s why. • Please include hometown and State. • Please, only one submission per comment. So if you want to make 11 submissions, you’ll have to comment 11 times. • Judges reserve the right to alter entries for taste, appropriateness or humor. • No purchases necessary. • Employees of Prodege LLC and their immediate families are not eligible for prizes, but they can still enter. • The due date for submissions, unless stated otherwise, is always at exactly 11:59pm (in the time zone you are in) on the Sunday following any post. In this case it’s Sunday, May 17th 2015. We need the week to review all your Swaganigans! So, if you are in Prescott Arizona on a Sunday at 11:59pm, then the opportunity for you to enter has sadly passed. But look, we don’t take ourselves too seriously here. So if you absolutely must squeeze one in between the due date and the next post…you may. We may read it. Then again, we may not. LAST WEEKS TYPO WINNERS Last week we asked members to choose a sample from VistaPrint.com or from VistaPrints Pinterest or a Headline from their blog, and then create a “typo” by adding, deleting or substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing the spacing or punctuation. The typo should change the meaning of what is being said. 4. The Jury of Your Peers Prize Selected by last weeks winner, EvilScottsman1978 (500 SB): From VistaPrint blog headline: 5 Unusual Ways to Thank Shank Your Customers (YITB, Owosso, Michigan) 3rd place and 1000 SB: Laurels Wines Wives The best selection of Hungarian wines wives. (nowahjacobs, Bloomington, IN) 2nd place and 2200 SB (your first $25 gift card each month): From custom clothing section on vistaprint. Captain Cat Pain John. The Cheapest Vet in Town. (Mainelymom, Foxcroft, Maine) AND THE WINNER OF THE 3500 SB GRAND PRIZE! From bumper stickers: (sugarsweet513 from Cincinnati, OH) If only the car ahead of me had one of those, I would have anyways, we will be in touch with you sugarsweet513, about where to send your bumper sticker when we get it printed. Typo Negative: Honorable Mentions (1 SB Each) Try our cupcakes! None like No one likes them. (andrea11pink, flemington, nj) Eat, drink and be married! carried. (bjd1992) FROM Womens T-shirts: The future Mrs. Yong May 25, 2014 got typod to: The future Ms. wRong February 13, 2016 (SwaggingMyTalet, he best hometown, the best state) Original Car Magnet: The Relaxation Station Sit back and relax exlax. (mfets2010, Bellingham WA) From the Business Card Section at VistaPrint.com: Slone Plumbing & Heating Eating. Full Service Circle of Life (Lilly, Boise, ID) From Posters: Today Only: All CLEARANCE shoes hoes 50% OFF! It can’t hurt to come in and look. (HunterLala, Grass Valley, CA) From VistaPrint Blog Headline: The Best Ways To Run Ruin A Sale (WardoSmash) Window Decal: Solanos Brick Oven Pizza (DanHere) Ricky Ricks DJ Co. Mention this ad and get 10% of your first booking booing! (port565, Walla Walla, WA) Mens Shirts: Keep Calm and score Snore on (GabrWald) Mrs Swaggodore would disagree From the VistaPrint Pinterest Board> Inspirational Sayings:.Daily quotes and reminders for all the small business owners out there. The original said: Work for a cause, Not for applause. Live life to express, Not to impress. Dont strive to make you presence noticed, just make your absence felt. Typod it becomes: Work for a clause, Not for applesauce. Evil lifts to Empress, Naught to imprison. Donut strife to mark your presents, no ice. Just make Yuris absinthe felted. (Everyones favorite BattyJanice, Pittsburgh, PA) A Very Dishonorable Merit (If I could Un-reward This Person A Negative SB, I Would) This weeks (and SRTC very first) Dishonorable Merit goes to andrea11pink, whos entry was so good it would have been in the top three. Alas, as the silent Judge Lady Elocin pointed out, she didnt follow the rules. All she entered in her comment submission was Sign the garden shop: were so excited its spring, we wet our plants. Funny, indeed. But no original line was submitted, no location. So, unfortunately, we cant count it. Ok, that is enough of that. The results of last weeks Survey of Questions that should have been in the emotional profiler survey but werent, will be made available next week. Our scientist are busy interrupting the results. Now, I believe you all have some unsearching to do. I hope you dont find what you are looking for. And lots of it! And dont forget to help decide next weeks community winner by liking the Swagnopes you like below. - The Swaggodore