Word Out 2013

When presented with a difficult situation, it's become apparen't that Word Out participants are nothing if not creative.

We recieved many amazing entries for the Word Out Best Bad Advice contest, with suggestions ranging from pragmatic to magical to kind of gory.

It was hard to choose a favourite, but choose we did. The official winner of the Best Bad Advice contest is…

… (drumroll please)…

MISBAH!

Congratulations on your hilarious and very practical advice. Thanks to everyone else for their super suggestions. Remember! There are lots more great Word Out contests this summer, so keep sending us submissions!

And for all of you who are wondering, here's how Misbah suggests dealing with your overdue library books…

Help!

Three
weeks ago, I borrowed a big pile of comic books from my local library (I love
to read). A few days ago, my friend came over and we were reading a bunch of
them together in my back yard. Today the comic books are due, and I can’t find
a bunch of the comics! Is it possible that my friend may have taken some home
with him? If I don’t get the books back by the end of the day, I’m going to
have a huge library fine!

What
should I do?

Um, excuse
me? Okay, wait. Hello, kid-who-lost-his-comics, but did you ever think
that maybe you're only thinking of one way you could have lost your
comics?

You may have never thought that maybe – just maybe – your dog ate it.
Okay, maybe you don't have a dog. Well then. Maybe an airplane came down
and stole it. Okay, maybe no. Oh, I got it! The circus is in town. I
swear the juggler looked like he liked "Archie" comics to me. I'm just
saying…

Okay – here's the deal. What you're going to do is your going to go to
the library. You are going to sneak in – don't ask me how because I
don't know. I'm not a thief – I just write for Dear Abby. Just get in –
shake the door a bit and it'll open, trust me. Then you're going to tape
a book onto your face. Then you're going to walk around like a mummy –
just keep practicing until opening time. And then when the first
librarian enters you're going to scare her. Then she'll believe there's a
ghost haunting the library, no one will enter for a really long time,
and then it'll buy you some time to find those books.

Or you could just call your friend and ask him if he has it.

Sincerely,

Abby

P.S. I'm new at this.