User:Rockpocket/bearnstar

''This award was itself eaten by a bear, when it's creator was indefinitely blocked. I chose to rescue it, and reproduce the original citation below:''

"Inspired by the talk page of User:DaisLite, when he said his welcome message was EATEN BY BEARS. I got a guffaw out of this and it cheered me up from its randomness. So, I made a barnstar out of the occasion.

Basically, the Barnstar that was EATEN BY A BEAR or the "Bearnstar" as it is sometimes colloquially called, is awarded after random or spontaneous statements that either cause laughter or instances where a user might be sick of awarding a normal barnstar and needs a different barnstar to award. However, those rules are pretty loose."

''Since being rescued the following recipients have had their barnstars eaten by a hungry ursine:
 * for a joke so unbelievably lame, it made me laugh, by Rockpock  e  t  05:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * for comic asides, by Rockpock  e  t  06:02, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * for rye humour, by Rockpock  e  t  01:40, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * for comic asides, by Rockpock  e  t  18:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * for surreal imagery, by Rockpock  e  t  22:36, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * for Reference Desk wit, by Rockpock  e  t  08:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * for surreal imagery, by VartanM 09:48, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * for comic poetry, by Rockpock  e  t  08:01, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 * for this gem by Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * for Reference Desk wit, by Rockpock  e  t  01:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * for making me laugh, by Rockpock  e  t  00:21, 10 July 2009 (UTC)