And now, a brief interlude that isn't totally depressing (no, seriously!)

Yesterday, in between bouts of sobbing and melodramatic whatta wurld-ing, I took M to her six month check up at the dentist.

Some days you don’t think your life could get any more awesome and then, SHAZAM!, it just does.

Anyway, while sitting in the dentist’s office waiting room trying to studiously block out the agonized shrieking emanating from the exam rooms nearby, I noticed this sitting on a table:

Garden_gun

That there’s a magazine called Garden & Gun, people. Apparently it’s some kind of Southern Living-type dealy-o, but the publication’s title struck me as filled with all sorts of hilarious creative-tweaking possibilities. Garden & Gun: Because you like to nurture living things AND slaughter them (Which isn’t even all that funny — I’m having a hard time with the funny these days, my apologies — but you get the idea.)

So simply for the sake of pure unadulterated levity, I ask you: what would be some other great tag-lines or issue subtitles for Garden & Gun? Or howsabout some article titles? What would be some content — columns, features, how-tos, whatever — you’d like to see in our imaginary version of Garden & Gun?

C’mon, play along! Humor me!

ETA: STOP THE PRESSES! There will be a PRIZE for funniest Garden & Gun submission! And it’ll be something good! TBA, but GOOD! Also, I’m easily amused these days, so it doesn’t take much to be considered "funniest" in my eyes, believe me. So it’s worth a shot, right? DO IT DO IT DO IT!

ETA DEUX: Okay, I have now secured spectacularly massive giveawayage. Are you ready? Can you handle this? ARE YOU SURE?

Funniest Garden & Gun submission wins the following:

1 Nintendo DS Lite (now in fabulous metallic silver)
1 copy of Brain Age 2 for the DS
1 copy of My Weight Loss Coach for the DS
1 copy of Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir for the DS

PLUS! The nice folks at Dove are contributing a gift bag filled with Dove products and two tickets to the film The Women. Woohoo!

I’ll keep comments open for one week — until next Wednesday, October 1st — and then post a winner.

BRING ON THE FUNNEH, PEOPLE!

**COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. PLEASE SEE THIS POST TO HELP ME PICK A WINNER!**

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  • http://www.MomMostTraveled.com CanCan (Mom Most Tra

    Garden and Gun: Shoots, Guns, and Roses
    Features:
    How to Make Your Tree Stand Feel Like Home
    Shooting Stuff: Why it is Awesome
    DIY: Bullet Hole Mosaics!
    DIY: Hand-Knit Gun Cozy!
    10 Things You Never Thought About Shooting, But Should!
    Dealing With Garden Pests (Tip #1: LOTS OF AMMO!)
    Improve your Marksmanship: Pruning With Firearms
    How To Stop A dog From Digging in a Garden
    Get off My Lawn: Say it and Mean it!
    Trowel and Error: When Not To Shoot
    Topiary Animals: Great Target Practice!
    Old Gardeners Never Die, They Just Vegetate (Shoot them Anyway!)
    Don't Make the Canadian Mistake: Always Garden With Your Gun!
    True Life Tales: I was Mugged In My Garden (Arm Yourself!)
    Garden Happiness: A Warm Sun and A Warm Gun
    Win Every Gardening Contest: GUARANTEED!
    Green Guide: Greening Your Firearms
    Free Lunches in Nature
    Conquering Nature (Beating it to Death)
    This is not my quote but I thought it was fitting: Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel." ~The Washington Post
    This is so fun! Your prize package is AMAZING. Do you think this magazine would want to be a sponsor? :P
    ONLY kidding, of course…
    onlycancan at hotmail dot com

  • Donna C.

    Garden & Gun: Blood Red Roses

  • http://pkvst2.blogspot.com/ Pamela Vest

    Gardens and Guns:
    The perfect Bloody Mary: How use ingredients from your garden
    How to keep squirel off your feeders.

  • http://www.jeezlouise.net Louise

    Garden & Gun: If it don't move, eat it!

  • Stacy

    Mossberg rifles and moss gardens. I asked my husband and that is what he came up with.

  • Jacqueline in Atlant

    Oops. Sorry for the typo. It doesn't make sense if it doesn't say MARY Hunt.
    Let me just redo the whole thing. (We have some really talented and funny people on this site. I did not read any of them before I wrote mine, but now I have gone back and read them all and had some good laughs. Thanks, everyone! Thanks for doing this, Tracey. No matter who wins, it's been a heckuva lot of fun.)
    Garden & Gun
    How to be the Yin & the Yang in your Home
    This month's features:
    Bringing Home the Bacon: Shooting Wild Boars with Guest Star Mary Hunt
    Frying Game in a Pan: Ten 10 Minute, 5 Ingredients or Less, Cooked Over an Open Fire with Guest Rachael Ray
    Never Let Him Forget: Seductive Camo-Lingerie for Your Romp in the Tent by Victoria's Wildest Secret
    Special Feature:
    Teach Your Daughter to Shoot Straight – A Pullout Poster for her Bedroom Door or Locker
    This Month's Featured Advertiser:
    Steel-toed High-Heels: Kick Some Butt and Mean It! (16 colors and dye to match available)

  • Jennifer Short

    How to entice wildlife into your garden so your garden can provide vegetables and meat for your entire family.
    Shootin' with your pistol and your salad shooter
    Romaine and Raccoons — friend or foe

  • Becky Mize

    Beauty Showdown
    Look no more. Throw out those expensive lotions and creams and take out your gun cleaning oil. Say goodbye to crows feet (and the crows) Lather on this oil morning and night and see the difference. Plus you will always have that outdoors hunting scent wherever you go!!

  • Becky Mize

    A PRETTY GUN FOR FASHION FUN
    GUN DECORATING KIT
    KIT INCLUDES:
    1 can of spray paint choose your color
    1 jar of glitter gold or silver
    100 jewels multi-colors
    glue
    1 glitter pen to personalize gold or silver
    This kit normally sells for 49.99 Today if you call this kit is only 19.99

  • hazel

    Garden & Gun: Those goddamn rabbits are in for a surprise

  • Megan

    GARDEN & GUN: WHY YOUR VEGETABLES DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY!!!
    (megpanye (at) gmail.com)

  • http://blatherfrombrooklyn.wordpress.com/ annulla

    Garden & Gun: Taming Killer Tomatoes
    10 Ways to Rid Your Garden of Pesky Vermin Forever (with BONUS venision stew recipe!)

  • Sheila

    "Garden & Gun" – how to get your hands dirty 2 different ways.

  • Sheila

    "Garden & Gun" Go kill something and cook it with vegetables you grew yourself.

  • Sheila

    "Garden & Gun" Keep your gun handy while gardening to pick off those pesky little creatures who are just hungry.

  • http://sassyfrazz.blogspot.com/ Sarah

    Garden & Gun…make 'em, eat 'em, then shoot 'em (in the pot). LOL~ not too funny, but it is a try.
    Or, Garden and Gun…a woman's territory!
    Thanks for the chance to win!
    sharvey(AT)connections-etc(DOT)net

  • http://profile.typekey.com/HSlater351/ HSlater351

    "Garden and Guns; A Vice Presidential Primer"

  • Vicki

    Garden and Gun:Where Roadkill meets Daffodil
    Garden and Gun:Review of the latest episode of "Snapped"
    Garden and Gun:Don't mess with Granny's tomatos
    Garden and Gun: Not Your Mama's Garden
    Garden and Gun:Woman taken down at gunpoint by police after losing to foreign flora
    Garden and Gun: Only the worms will know…

  • Jennifer B.

    I don't know how, but I actually got sent a complimentary copy of this magazine once. I was out of town and my neighbor was collecting my mail for me. Boy, was he amused.
    A springtime feature might be "Bulbs and Bombs" watch your garden "kaboom".

  • Melissa D

    Pink Flamingos Galore: Our Guide to Vacationing on the Redneck Riviera!

  • Jim W.

    My Goat, My Lover

  • http://ggalaso.blogspot.com Sara G

    I think a new magazine is on the horizon… It's called "Style & Mud"

  • hazel hunt

    nice

  • Lindley

    The cover would have to have a Clint Eastwood type guy with the caption "Make My Daisies" under it. It would be every gun-toting burly man's guide to growing the most majestic summer daisies on the block. For the inside story, another rough and rugged man would tell his life story titled "I'm packing petunias and proud of it"
    This could be great therapy for all those flower lovin' bruts out there!
    linjenals at yahoo dot com

  • Becky Mize

    GARDEN & GUN
    Sure Shooters Crafter's Corner
    Complaining about not enough time for both gardening and shooting. Here is the perfect solutions. Remember the shooting gallery at the fair with the wooden rabbits moving slowly and a bell sounds when you hit one! That's it a picture perfect bunny shooting gallery in your garden. Check back next issue for instructions.
    Happy Garden & hunting

  • Julie

    I'm not very funny. I'm kinda sad actually.

  • Theresa Shafer

    How to plant that garden quick.
    Tired of bending over to plant that garden? Need more time to practice shooting? Combine what you love. Replace the lead in your shells with seed. Now go ahead and hit that perfect spot where you want the tomatoes, cabbage, or cukes. In no time you will have your garden planted and improved your marksmanship.
    Recommendations:
    22 for smaller seeds
    12 gauge pump for those pre-sprouted seedlings.

  • Christie

    From pulling a weed to drawing a bead… Garden & Gun has you covered.

  • Elizabeth M.

    Backyard Garden Design: the best foliage for attracting wildlife

  • Becky Mize

    COLORED SMOKE BOMBS FOR AN EASY GETAWAY
    BUY A BAGFULL OF COLORED SMOKE BOMBS YOU CAN FIND THESE AT ANY CONVENIENT STORE AND KEEP A BAGGY FULL IN YOUR COWHIDE TOTE.
    ANYTIME YOU NEED TO MAKE A QUICK GETAWAY. PICK ONE OUT THAT MATCHES YOUR OUTFIT AND LIGHT IT UP. TWO WORKS BEST. I KNOW IT DID WHEN I WAS NEEDING TO GO POOF FROM MY MOTHER IN LAW. TRY IT WORKS. YOU WON'T NEED TO MAKE ANY MORE LAME EXCUSES AGAIN!!!

  • http://www.sarahmakesyoustronger.blogspot.com sarah

    Shoot Now And Ask Questions Later: How One Woman Taught Little Bunny Foo Foo To Stay Out Of Her Garden…Forever!
    Garden&Gun: Reinforcing Southern Conservative Stereotypes since 1991
    Garden&Gun: Blessed with Cash, Not Burdened by a Conscious

  • Alecia Gibson

    Smart & Stupid

  • http://sillymommy2sillygirls.blogspot.com/ Noreen

    for your next quilting circle:
    Quilted gun covers
    Quilted Vests with bullet pockets
    Pattern for quilt commemorating your child's first hunting kill.

  • Melanie Miller

    How to stuff a possum? Recipe included

  • Kathleen Lewis

    Garden & Gun
    How to shoot, skin, cook and mulch a squirrel. Be green with everything!