It is with much sadness that this announcement of cancellation of the popular Ye Olde Pickle Flinge is proffered. Peradventure Ye Olde Pickle Flinge has run its course and is no longer a necessary frivolity. After seven years of great contests it seemed to the most honourable and above reproach Judges of the aforementioned conteste that at least a Sabbatical from said conteste would be an idea worth entertaining. So we paid a call on the idea and entertained it (Dinner, Dancing, etc.) and then brought up ye prospecte of a discontinuation of the Conteste of which much has already been said.

A dearth of worthy competitors seemed to be a good reason to at least take a one-year break from this much loved competition. A shortage of persons willing to invest much time, money, and materials into the silliness of this endeavour is the most prominent of reasons for this canceling. Perhaps the seriousness of this world has at last beaten to death the understanding that the occasional subjecting of one’s self to embarrassment and ridicule is a healthy and necessary undertaking. The adored sponsors of this conteste will revisit this decision again next summer and if there is a ground swell of enthusiasm and good sense they might decide to reinstate said conteste. Perhaps as the old adage states an absence will make the competition loved much more fondly.

Ye most Honourable Paul Tucker will be available for any comments for the good of the fair and Ye Olde Pickle Flinge at his telephonic device by entering the following numerals: iv iii ii - viii i ix iv or at his email at pandktucker@comcast.net

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