Creative Thinking Championship Free Entry Contest
"Compare Big Brother with a cardboard box"
In the MSO creativity competition the winning entry was:
"One opens to reveal its contents, the other's contents reveal themselves"
by Paul Holland, who wins a free entry to the
Creative Thinking Olympiad on Saturday 25th August
2001, 11am - 3pm.
All the entries were much enjoyed by everyone at the
5th Mind Sports Olympiad. The following selection
didn't quite make the cut:
- Big Brother and Dave The Cardboard Box. Two contrasting cultural statements about Dr Goebbels' theories of propaganda. (2 pages more)
- One you can see folds flat, in the other you can see folds of fat.
- One you might see at a pauper's funeral, the other you wish was dead and buried.
- One contains useless, polystyrene-like things; the other is a cardboard box.
- You can make an interesting house with a cardboard box!
- Big Broth-er is of course the resident soup-making Chef on the Big Breakfast Show, liquidiser ever at the ready. People who live in Cardboard City are homeless, can't get benefits because they haven't got a home and rely on charitable soup kitchens to be able to eat. So: one is a person who uses a liquidiser to make soup in a kitchen, the other houses people with a liquidity problem who eat at a soup kitchen.
- The difference between Big Brother and a cardboard box is that a cardboard box doesn't thrive when its contents are wet.
Creativity Free Entry Question devised and marked by
Andrew Webster - Publicity Officer 5th MSO.
Entries were received from Cynthia Fitzsimons,
Bruce Birchall, Ella Tessier, Paul Holland and Joseph Gillett.
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