A month gone and past.

Hello to all!

The staff here at What A Lame Excuse wanted to take the time to thank all those who have helped contribute to the website.

It's already been a whole month and people have submitted over 150 lame excuses!

As stated on the main page, we have been holding a competition to get even more excuses submitted. Every month we'll the staff will decide on the best five excuses sent in and then leave a voting poll for users to decide which one deserves the $50 prize!

The only rule is that if you want your submission to be entered, you have to attach your email address to your submission so we know how to contact you. (We promise we'll keep it anonymous.)

Due to the staff's other work schedules, for the next few weeks we'll be slowing down the release dates of new WALEs, to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday rotation.

In other news, We will be holding a Logo Competition for anyone interested in drawing and designing a logo for the site. The prize money hasn't been confirmed yet, but it's somewhere in the amount of at least $100 dollars.

Also stickers are coming! If you want to be a part of our Street Team, let us know by emailing us at WALEstreetteam@gmail.com We'll send you out pictures and for every 10 photos you send us of prominent places you stuck up our logo, we'll send you $10 cash! Tell everyone!

Stay tune for more soon at What a Lame Excuse!

Origins of WALE

What is the origin, and when was its earliest use, of the term "lame excuse"?

:According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "lame" was already being used figuratively to mean "imperfect or defective", in phrases like "lame argument", "lame account", or "lame excuse", in Middle English (i.e. the Middle Ages).

Welcome to what is the first of hopefully a lot of updates. We here at Team WALE are going to make sure that we offer the best experience possible. But first we need to spend some time establishing some items of interest.

How did WALE start?

It started when a customer came in and before anything else could happen, told us about a predicament he was in. When we told him we were understanding, and that if he could come up with an excuse we had never heard, we'd let him off the hook. It was then that he comically suggested wishing he had gone to excuses.com to have some ready.

And that got us thinking.

There wasn’t an actual excuse.com of any kind and then we realized that people everywhere have heard some pretty lame excuses in their lifetime. Apparently since the middle ages. So What A Lame Excuse was born.

How do you differ from other sites like FML? Or textsfromlastnight?

Other websites deal about personal stories that have affected the person telling them. Misery loves company and people love laughing at people’s misery. It’s a vicious circle. Here at WALE, we strive to not laugh at the accidental or incompetent but to mock the idiocy and recognize it for what it is. It’s a chance for the individual telling the story to say it with pride, not shame.

I’ve got a story I’d like to submit, how do I do it?

You can do it one of two ways. Either email us at sharealameexcuse@gmail.com or fill out the Share a Lame Excuse submission box on the main page and click submit.

Please keep stories grammatically correct. After that, there really are no rules.

Enjoy!

Team WALE