The Eagle is proud to announce that Joanne Conelley, a sophomore from Kensington, Md., is the winner of the snowman coloring contest.
Conelley’s snowman featured muted grays, tastefully shaded.
Conelley labeled the snowman’s three sections “rocks” and the snowman’s arms as sticks to represent the serious lack of snow the greater metropolitan area has received this year.
“The lack of snow so far is just sad,” Conelley wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t like snow that much, but the inner school kid still comes out and wants snow days.”
Conelley also gave the snowman a face, though the snowman is frowning, perhaps in acknowledgment that “rockmen” are less beloved than snowmen.
Conelley took an ultra-realistic approach to the competition.
“The only snowman that could be made with the measly snow the area has had so far is one made of rocks,” she said.
In addition to the rocks and sticks, Conelley added green and yellow squiggles to show the bare, snowless D.C. ground.
She also wrote “NO SNOW” and added a frowny face.
Unlike the last competition, The Eagle didn’t have to resort to drunkenly asking innocent bystanders to submit entries to the “turkey coloring contest.”
Conelley said she was very disappointed when she missed the turkey contest and was excited to win the snowman contest.
“I will probably brag to all my friends that I won,” she said. “They probably won’t care very much. But I’ll brag anyway.”
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