After missing all of last month's Mondays, we continue a fine new tradition started in November and take a look at one of the magnificent memes made fresh for you here on Scribbls.

This month's Monday, let's put the marx meme under the microscope. And to make up for the missing month, let's also magnify another marx mini-meme.

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Scribbls is a veritable smörgåsbord of epic puns, misinformation, and the internets' (yes, plural possessive) finest memes. I thought it might be kind of fun if we take some time out of our busy doodling days to take a look at some cultural practices and/or ideas repeated here on Scribbls from one outcome to another. If people find it interesting, we can keep doing this about once a month on a Monday (always accentuating alliteration).

This Monday, I tackle: TRUTH.

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Another Halloween has come to an end, which also means that another October Orange Contest has finished. With almost twice as many entries as the 2008 October Orange Contest, competition was definitely tight. At one point, I believe there was a 4-way tie for 3^rd place.

Please help me congratulate our 5 winners this year that have won bragging rights and the ability to use Orange in any drawing forever and ever:

• 1^st — Saturnyn #1593's Gred with 23 heart's
• 2^nd — Tax #819's Im not gonna Raichu a love song with 21 heart's
• 3^rd (tie) — Floriaen #1566's cyclop pumpkin with 19 heart's
• 3^rd (tie) — drawer #1748's Max Pineapple with 19 heart's
• 4^th — GuiAn #1731's a huge power battle with 18 heart's

Update by Zach:
I'm back from a vacation in Europe, and I just wanted to thank Paul for writing up the announcement of the contest winners and also pass along my personal congratulations to Saturnyn, Tax, Floriaen, drawer, and GuiAn! It was a really, really close contest. Better luck to everybody else next October, perhaps?

Also, I need to point out that due to an oversight on my part (I blame vacation), several people who registered for Scribbls in the month of October were left with the ability to draw with the color orange after the contest ended (oops). But, unfortunately for those lucky devils, I fixed the glitch.

I'm excited about what is coming next for Scribbls. Thanks for being a part of our community here.

The 2009 October Orange contest is well under way and there have been absolutely amazing submissions this year. Thanks to all of you who have participated. But, before any of you think you know who the winners will be, I say to you: remember the Enormous carrot.

The Enormous carrot was one of the 2008 October Orange contest winners and it was not submitted until October 25th! Today is only October 21st, so that leaves anybody with a really killer orange outcome plenty of time to take the lead before our deadline at the end of the day on October 31st. So draw something!

Just a reminder that last year's winners are included in the 2009 standings for sport and posterity but are not in the running. That means the following people do not count against the top five: Fraggle #28, jmay #559, Alex #32, jmullan #10, heather who #273, supernathan #714. Also, Paul #3 and myself (Zach #1) don't count because of our unlimited awesomeness.

That means, as I'm writing this note, the standings currently are (until somebody hearts something):

• 1st - Saturnyn #1593 with 20 hearts for Gred
• 2nd - Tax #819 with 19 hearts for Im not gonna Raichu a love song
• 3rd - Floriaen #1566 with 18 hearts for right pumpkin anamorphic
• 4th - GuiAn #1731 with 16 hearts for a huge power battle
• 5th - Two way tie at 15 hearts each: drawer #1748 with Max Pineapple and Versh #214 with Cheester Cheeah

Please note that at the stroke of midnight when the date changes over to November 1st, 2009 (GMT-6) the orange contest will end and late submitted orange pumpkins will turn back into carriages in reverse-Cinderella fashion. We will tabulate the results as fast as we can and award the color orange to five lucky people.

Remember to be a good sport and heart things you like if you want people to heart you. (And remember to heart your own, too. Most hearts wins!)

It's that time of year again! Our favorite holiday is rearing its scary head right around the corner. That's right: Halloween is coming.

In order to celebrate the awesomeness that is Halloween, we here at Scribbls want to offer you the chance to win the ability to use the color orange in your Scribbls forever and ever! By the way, if you followed us on Twitter you would already know about the contest.

How Do I Enter?

Simply draw an outcome that uses the color orange during the month of October and it will be automagically entered in the contest.

How Do I Win?

Well, the community votes, of course! The Scribbls community members who submitted the top five most hearted contest outcomes by October 31^st at 11:59pm GMT-6 will be granted the use of orange forever. Last year's winners don't count against the top five and neither do duplicates.

Where Can I Check The Standings?

Check out the contest standings right now! With any luck, you are right at the top of the list. Remember: be a good sport and heart your favorite contest entries if you want anybody to heart yours!

Don't forget to check out last year's winners and the rest of the amazing 2008 October Orange Contest entries.

Scribbls first opened to the public May 4, 2008, and since then our community has grown to over 1400 registered members who have drawn over 9000 outcomes. Paul #3 and I want to thank each and every one of you who has joined in the fun.

This time next year we'll be celebrating two years with hopefully hundreds more users and thousands more outcomes. Meanwhile, next year about this time I'll be celebrating the first birthday of my appendix, which they had to cut out on Friday. Because of that little unexpected surgery, today sure snuck up on us.

Of course some of the things we are excited about from our first year include our October contest, all 50 Beernited States of Beermerica drawn up by jmullan #10, and of course our first Scribbls outcome to break the 100 heart’s mark: the platypus drawn by Alex #32.

We actually sent Alex and her partner in crime Fraggle #28 some platypus outcome T-shirts as a congratulations. Here they are toasting to Scribbls' good health while wearing their brand new shirts:

We're kind of curious actually, is anybody else out there interested in some Scribbls T-shirts? If so, do you have a preference on which outcomes to use for the shirts or any feedback on style and color?

And while we're asking you some questions… What features would you like to see us work on for Scribbls over the next year?

Leave us some feedback in the comments.

Thanks to stevendepolo for snapping this photo.

Good news: we managed to get our erasers on a truck to the Hector International Airport in Fargo where we had them air lifted by roflcopter directly to Scribbls HQ. We just finished inspecting the shipment, and it looks like another satisfactory batch from old Ed.

Now draw to your Heart’s content without fear of indelible mistakes. (Not that it stopped mattishere #351 at all.)

Thanks to Dominic's Pics for snapping this photo.

We have an important announcement to make: our normal shipment of new erasers has been delayed due to flooding in Fargo, and we are fresh out of erasers.

They are just sitting in their crates on the warehouse floor because they can't get them across the Red River. These kind of seasonal eraser shortages are common in the Midwest because there just ain't a better supplier of erasers than Ed's Erasers out on 7th Ave NE. I dare you to try to find one. You can't do it.

So what does this mean for you? Well, until we get our shipment in, you will be able to draw all you want on Scribbls, but — and we are terribly sorry about this — there will be no erasing possible of any kind.

We're looking at maybe having them flown from the Hector International Airport, which means our current eraser ETA is April 2.

We recently had to ban the following users because they were really all the same person:

• hihihiluckyman #1392
• nickname1 #1395
• rememberthisone #1397
• namenumber4 #1399
• asdfasdf #1404
• aasdf #1407

It is unfair to everybody when somebody creates multiple users in order to boost their own heart count, which is why creating multiple accounts is a violation of our Terms of Use. We rolled back all of the hearts given by this person with these users, which means some of you may have seen the number of hearts go down on your own outcomes.

We're sorry this happened. We have intentionally made it very easy for people to sign up and start hearting and drawing on this site. We assume people generally have good intentions, and we want to make everything super easy to use.

We just wanted to keep everybody informed. Sorry for the lame interruption. Please continue Scribbling!

Wow, something totally brilliant has happened! The platypus outcome created by Scribbls community member Alex #32 has reached 100 heart’s! This is the first outcome to ever reach 100.

Please everybody, help me congratulate Alex on this very special achievement, and join me in celebrating this milestone event of our community.

Alex has been a member since January 2008, and sports an impressive ratio of almost 7 heart’s on average for each outcome she submits. You should definitely check out more of the great things she has drawn.