{"id":4703,"date":"2011-11-07T21:09:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2011-11-07T21:13:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:13:04","slug":"who-want-to-win-a-paul-ross-jigsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=4703","title":{"rendered":"Who Want To Win A Paul Ross Jigsaw?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So! I did a competition on Twitter today to give away one of the TWO Paul Ross 300-piece jigsaw puzzles I&#8217;ve got coming.<\/p>\n<p>The question simply was: &#8220;Who or what is the best Ross and why?&#8221; Caveats included disqualifying anyone who said &#8220;Sigur Ros&#8221; and opening up the competition to people in the UK only (sorry US and international peeps, postage costs mainly).<\/p>\n<p>Nobody went for the golden envelope answer which was, of course, Ross Frozen Foods. This means I&#8217;m going to judge completely arbitrarily. Find out who gave the best answers and who the winner is under the cut!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alright then &#8211; this list isn&#8217;t everybody:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amusingly, given that this is the Festival of Paul Ross, nobdy picked Paul Ross. Or Jonathan. Or Amanda.<\/li>\n<li>A couple of people went for Ross King. Not in my opinion the best Ross by any means, but of those people @eviljobob gets a special mention for going above and beyond the call of duty: &#8220;Best Ross = Ross King. <s>#<\/s><strong>YoungKrypton<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/tkMv4e\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/tkMv4e<\/a>\u00a0<s>#<\/s><strong>QuizNight<\/strong> &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/rNM5NW\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/eBZ8nrFx\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-display-url=\"bit.ly\/rNM5NW\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/rNM5NW\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/rNM5NW<\/a> (That&#8217;s my Dad in the middle)&#8221; Not a winner, but amazing nonetheless.<\/li>\n<li>@DavidB1996: &#8220;I&#8217;ll have a go: Nick Ross, because of his &#8216;I&#8217;ve never worked with a minger&#8217; quote.&#8221; Spurious.<\/li>\n<li>@gwilymjames: &#8220;The best Ross is Ross County F.C. Top of their league right now, you can&#8217;t get much better than that.&#8221; A very good answer, but an entire county of Rosses? Can&#8217;t see it working.<\/li>\n<li>@Tilsit: &#8220;Best Ross.\u00a0 Danny &#8211; Jimmy Clitheroe&#8217;s mate.\u00a0 or Annie &#8211; chanteuse extraordinaire.&#8221; Two answers &#8211; disqualified.<\/li>\n<li>@jonathancairns: &#8220;My favourite Ross is a Rossword puzzle. Second only to a Ross jigsaw puzzle.&#8221; Nice try.<\/li>\n<li>@mortice: &#8220;Rosslare &#8211; where Paul and Jonathan Ross have their underground hideout and hatch their world domination plans.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>@8cmd: &#8220;Kris Kross, because Rossini never made me jump! Jump!&#8221; Can&#8217;t work out your cryptic username, no deal.<\/li>\n<li>@jadenotley1: &#8220;Bob Ross is THE best Ross! He paints happy little trees and has an amazing hair do!&#8221; This was a great and well thought response, but no the best response.<\/li>\n<li>@michaelplacey: &#8220;diana ross. just look! <a title=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KqndcpjQSek\/SmoquXzH0CI\/AAAAAAAARrY\/HR98iaypC-o\/s400\/Diana+Ross+-+Ross.jpeg\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KqndcpjQSek\/SmoquXzH0CI\/AAAAAAAARrY\/HR98iaypC-o\/s400\/Diana+Ross+-+Ross.jpeg&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-display-url=\"1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KqndcpjQSek\/S\u2026\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KqndcpjQSek\/SmoquXzH0CI\/AAAAAAAARrY\/HR98iaypC-o\/s400\/Diana+Ross+-+Ross.jpeg\">http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_KqndcpjQSek\/SmoquXzH0CI\/AAAAAAAARrY\/HR98iaypC-o\/s400\/Diana+Ross+-+Ross.jpeg&#8221;<\/a> This almost won. But it didn&#8217;t because of the lack of capitalization.<\/li>\n<li>@LFBarfe: &#8220;Doctor Ross the Harmonica Boss. Because he is the boss of the harmonica.&#8221; Indeed.<\/li>\n<li>@sphilsmith might have been in with a shout with &#8220;ross 248, because size matters (no one will have entered a bigger ross!) and named as it shines 24 hours a day, 8 days a week!&#8221; Unfortunately he got too clever and tried to extrapolate with two extra tweets, forbidden in the original &#8216;one tweet only&#8217; rule. Hard luck! (&#8216;whats that? you dont know Ross 248? <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ross_248\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ross_248'\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-display-url=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ross_248\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ross_248\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ross_248&#8242;<\/a> &#8216;further justification if needed&#8230; voyager 2 will nearly hit it in the year 42,187. it needs some excitement before then.&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Both @faulknmd and @marcoraymondo coming up with &#8216;Ross-on-Wye. Why? The Wye, that&#8217;s why.&#8217; and &#8216;best Ross is Ross-on-Wye. Why? Cos it&#8217;s Ross-on-Wye, that&#8217;s why! And it was the birthplace of British tourism, I&#8217;ll have u know!&#8217; Is this a reference to something? Anyway, too freaky to win.<\/li>\n<li>@shoutsatcows offers us: &#8220;Susan Ross from Seinfeld is clearly the best Ross, for having the best comedy telly death ever.&#8221; I can&#8217;t help but think this is a subliminal message about killing Paul Ross and we can&#8217;t be doing with that. (They also offered &#8220;It&#8217;s not my actual answer (to follow&#8230;) but Ross Anderson at Cambridge Uni has a hell of a CV <a title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3FsIVa\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/JbNHrwuE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-display-url=\"bit.ly\/3FsIVa\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3FsIVa\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3FsIVa<\/a>&#8221; which is true, in fairness.<\/li>\n<li>The winner is, I think @manwithstick with a response that is both outside the box and quite funny: &#8220;The BEST Ross is actually John Pearman <a title=\"http:\/\/www.lookalikes.info\/our-lookalikes\/comedy\/jonathan-ross-%28john-pearman%29\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FoGerNAA\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-display-url=\"lookalikes.info\/our-lookalikes\u2026\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/www.lookalikes.info\/our-lookalikes\/comedy\/jonathan-ross-%28john-pearman%29\">http:\/\/www.lookalikes.info\/our-lookalikes\/comedy\/jonathan-ross-%28john-pearman%29&#8243;<\/a>\u00a0I almost disqualified this for not spelling out why, but I think the picture tells the story. Proof if proof was needed that you can never go wrong with the Susan Scott Lookalike agency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well done Mark! Get in touch with your address and I&#8217;ll send your jigsaw out next week.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t win? Don&#8217;t cry! There will be a SECOND opportunity to win oin this here site at some point before Friday. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So! I did a competition on Twitter today to give away one of the TWO Paul Ross 300-piece jigsaw puzzles I&#8217;ve got coming. 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