Oooh! With friends like you, my enemies list ought to be even more interesting! ;^) After being called a liar and a punster, there isn't much else this side of wretchedness. [cue the aimless melody in a minor key] Let's see, give an engineering team the task of designing a light bulb by description of its function alone, and up to 7, or maybe 8 members (basically whatever number can comfortably fit around a large table covered with bluelines), and you'll get your lightbulb... and it will function per the description. It may even be cost-effective. Once you get to the point where someone has to stand, however, that person will take charge of the whiteboard, and consensus and commonsense will both evaporate. Tempers will be the only incadescent objects in the room, as someone tries to position their water-cooled lighting fixture ahead of the double-threaded 2-headed burn-the-candle-at-both-ends boss pleaser. [Note: I think that I've actually seen a light bulb with 2 threaded ends pointing in the same direction, but can't remember where, now.] Oh, you meant a JOKE? That does give me another contest idea! Hey, Lyrra! how about "Designed By a Committee"? This way, people who have elephants or camels might have some slight advantage, but if points were awarded for originality and humor, that would vanish. There ought to be some indication of who the committee members are, or what their biases and desires might be like. Example 1) You know how the mecha warriors are all huge muscle machines with scrawny little drivers - often just children - acting out playground fantasies? A bunch of kids around a stack of coloring books with a half-built mech behind them and pieces from an erector set everywhere would tell a story in itself. Example 2) God-the-Creator type with head in hand as the delegation asks for a new animal, clamoring: "He must be BIG!" "And cheap to feed, we can only afford peanuts!" "And graceful enough to turn on a dirham!" "But strong as steel cables!" (etc.). Meanwhile the mesh of a circus elephant on tippy-toe forms behind him. Example 3) a logo ... no, strike that idea. There was nothing funny about having 5 people on the approval committee for a logo. Or maybe this would be cathartic. ;p Carolly