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    marye
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    TigerLilly suggested this one after GypsySoul thought she deserved an Iron Bladder Award, or some such, for superhuman endurance as reported in the Bathroom Break topic. So nominate your pals for silly awards here. Silly but kind awards...

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  • izzie
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    Hal R!! Story teller of the year!
    I don't think I need to add anything to that nominiation. Hal, you rock.
  • marye
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    marye thanks Hal for the honor
    but admits the whole thing was TigerLilly's idea!
  • TigerLilly
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    Yow! HalR
    Have been mising something indeed. Am very fond of "slightly and happily deranged", so will explore Zippy the Pinhead with great pleasure, I suspect.
  • Hal R
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    Zippy is an American Superhero (in my strange view of reality)
    Are We Having Fun Yet? TigerLilly, here is part of the description from Wikepedia. But to really understand just google and get on the Zippy website. You have to see him to understand and to understand one must be slightly and happily deranged. marye gets the award because putting Lilly Allen on this site is the kind of thing that Zippy would do. Here you go, but do look at the strip on the Zippy site. "Zippy made his first appearance in Real Pulp Comix #1 in March 1971. The comic strip began in The Berkeley Barb in 1976 and was syndicated nationally soon after, originally as a weekly strip; it has been a daily feature since 1985, distributed by King Features. The Zippy comic strip has a cult following of devoted readers; however, there are those who find the strip incomprehensible. This antagonism and confusion is so common that the official Zippy website contains a tutorial on understanding the comic strip [1]. The original home of the strip was the San Francisco Examiner, where it was first published daily in 1985. It was picked up for worldwide syndication by King Features in 1986. When the San Francisco Chronicle canceled Zippy briefly in 2002, the Chronicle received thousands of letters of protest, including one from Robert Crumb, who called Zippy "by far the very best daily comic strip that exists in America". The Chronicle quickly restored the strip, but dropped it again in 2004, leading to more protests as well as grateful letters from non-fans. The strip continues to be syndicated in many other papers, but often ranks at or near the bottom of reader polls[2]. The strip is unique among syndicated multi-panel dailies for its near-absence of either straightforward gags or continuous narrative, and for its unusually intricate artwork, which is reminiscent of the style of Griffith's 1970s underground comics. [edit] Characters and content Zippy's original appearance was partly inspired by the microcephalic Schlitze, from the film Freaks (which was enjoying something of a cult revival at the time), and P.T. Barnum's sideshow performer, Zip the Pinhead (who was not a microcephalic, but was nevertheless billed as one)[3]. (Coincidentally, Zip the What-Is-It's real name was William Henry Jackson or Johnson (according to various sources); Griffith's full name is William Henry Jackson Griffith, after his great-grandfather, the noted photographer.) However, Zippy is distinctive not so much for his skull shape, or for any identifiable form of brain damage, but for his enthusiasm for philosophical non sequiturs, verbal free association, and the pursuit of pop culture ephemera. His wholehearted devotion to random artifacts satirizes the excesses of consumerism. Zippy's unpredictable behavior sometimes causes severe difficulty for others, but never for himself. Zippy almost[4] always wears a yellow muumuu with large red polka dots, and puffy, white clown shoes. He is married to a nearly identical pinhead named Zerbina, and has two children, Fuel-Rod and Meltdown. He has three close friends: Claude Funston, a hapless working man, Griffy, a stand-in for Bill Griffith who often appears in the strip to complain about various aspects of modern life and Shelf-Life, a fast-talking schemer always looking for "the next big thing". A humanoid toad, Mr. Toad (less commonly Mr. the Toad) who embodies blind greed and selfishness, appears occasionally, as does Zippy's angst-ridden brother, Lippy. The Toadettes, a group of mindless and interchangeable amphibians, also pop up here and there. In his daily-strip incarnation, Zippy spends much of his time traveling and commenting on interesting places; recent strips focus on his fascination with roadside icons featuring giant beings; Zippy also frequently participates in his long-running conversation with the giant fiberglass doggie mascot of San Francisco's "Doggie Diner" chain (later, the Carousel diner near the San Francisco Zoo). The website encourages people to send photos of interesting places for Zippy to visit in the strip. His most famous quote is "Are we having fun yet?," which has become a catch phrase. It appears in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Zippy's signature expression of surprise is "Yow!"" Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman-Song of Myself
  • TigerLilly
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    Hey Hal R
    What or who is "Zippy the Pinhead". Have googled Lily Allen this morning, and is some great stuff to be found. As a matter of fact, think I will nominate her right now for: Miss Personality New and Upcoming Celebrity who has already managed to be banned from performing in the U.S. In my limited browsing, seems like this young lady just might be 'bout as clever as Brittany Spears. Come on cosmicbadger, you are the resident Lily Allen expert, number one fan. Help us learn MORE about this fascinating young woman.
  • Hal R
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    Zippy Award
    I nominate marye for the Zippy the Pinhead award for starting a topic "Who Is Lily Allen?" on this site. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman-Song of Myself
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    DAVID LEMIEUX *** THE ULTIMATE PRANKSTER
  • cosmicbadger
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    best laugh of the week
    Nomination goes to MaddieDigital for his wonderful accounts of watching the Dead in England in the ‘70s and 80’s Go see at www.myspace.com/fadinghorses some readers might now start to understand how it is impossible for UK Deadheads to take themselves too seriously ;-)
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    Phucking
    I think using a ph gives it a tad more class. So Congradu-phucking-lations! See rolls of the toungue the same, but adds an extra bit of fucking class when reading. What the phuck do ya'll think? ( this fuck brought to you by the letters "P" and "H")
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    izzie now you have also just walked away with the effing acceptance speech award too. I'm still laughing............. (this fuck provided by: izzie)
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TigerLilly suggested this one after GypsySoul thought she deserved an Iron Bladder Award, or some such, for superhuman endurance as reported in the Bathroom Break topic. So nominate your pals for silly awards here. Silly but kind awards...
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the Spam-Filter,which gives me and i am sure to many other people too,hours of fun while we guess if our post will be shown or not.it is nearly as good as the "booty chat-room"!!!!!:-)(-:
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the " booty chat-room" has the 1st prize forever.:-)
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As Dead.net Poet Laureate. Since NYC, he's been blazing away in the Poet's corner. Check it out!
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for all the extra stuff she's been doing to help folks with their merchandising orders...that's GOTTA be an added work load...thanx marye!!!
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for Snodgrass, for carrying the famous banner 1,200 miles across country-collecting signatures on the way. Brilliant idea, and monumental follow through. Yay Snod, and all who contributed! The good news is that it's not to late to contribute your love to this project-should you have missed the banner, for whatever reason. Snod and perhaps me here in Europe, will be collecting signed patches of cloth, from anyone who still wants to take part. The patches will then be sewn togther as a border for the existing banner. More info on where to send soon. ********************************** Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
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Buddy Plant for being away the longest? "Being away the longest award".......stay here Buddy-you have the killer posters & great sense of humor......
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actually I propose the Get Back Home Where You Belong and Don't You Run Off No More award to Buddy, Kid, GRTUD, and a few other long-lost folks I've seen around here lately...
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you beat me to it Marye! Of course people come and people go from here, but when long standing members disappear lots of us worry. Now can MarkintheDark come back please. He was all over this place and now he has just vanished...
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Mark! We miss you!

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I'd also like to thank the academy, and my parents, and all the little people who have made this award possible. I'd particularly like to thank my Great-Grandfather for settling in San Francisco in the 1880's, after migrating from somewhere in Germany, then on to Liverpool, before finally landing in the "City by the Bay". Beats the heck outta Bakersfield...
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If you were ever worried about TL not eating enough, worry no more. I can hereby testify that on Sunday she demolished a 5-course French Lunch (Soup, starter, main, cheese, dessert) with wine. For that she receives the 'Grande Bouffe award for gastronomie'. Bon appetit! Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
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and a full report on the local cuisine...
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are those prawns??.....gimme gimme gimme!!!!
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Bet ya'll had quite a time :) Sure would love to hear a Badger-esque tale! I wish it were noon, my stomach's growling.... PEACE
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it's gotta be noon SOMEWHERE
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To: NoonieFor: greeting all us newbies so warmly. You are very attentive to the Intro page. May St. Peter take note and give you a job one day! Thanks for your kindness. I hope that your good karma just keeps boomeranging back again and again. Love, K
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For generosity above and beyond the call, the I'll Get Up and Fly Away plaque. This one suitable for STICKING on any smooth, clean surface. Thank you so much, Mr Plant!
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i guess that's why i work at the front desk of a hotel....maybe that was you at the hamilton shows...i remember going up and down the elevator when the security guard got on some one spark something up he just looked at us said "i give up" smiled a took a hit...so much fun..SO MUCH FUN!!!!! peace and hugs to all
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But am compelled to give him the... Star Squirrel Photographer of the Year Award. Golden nut trophy for your mantlepiece Buddy. Soon you'll have a waiting list of squirrels wanting you to photograph their special occasions. ********************************** Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
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Happy 153rd birthday, Nikola! Google is doing a nice tribute for him today and if you head over, there's tons of sites with info on one of the greatest scientific minds that ever lived. Thanks NT, for (almost) everything! "All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy Him."
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i dunno if it deserves an award, but the crossword puzzle for last friday had merl saunders as one of the answer (37 down jazzman _____ saunders)....thought it was cool....by the way, the same crossword is found in many papers.
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The first annual Galileo Looking Glass Award for outstanding literary achievement goes to (drum roll)... Matt Taibbi! I've cobbled together some bits gleaned from an interview Matt did with campusprogress.org recently and interjected some quotes that I felt enhanced the gist. Matt's articles from Rolling Stone Magazine this year on both the economic meltdown and health care reform are outstanding imo. Thanks Matt! CP: You wrote a column in the New York Press a few years back referring to journalism as “shoveling coal for Satan.” I believe you also said that journalism as a career was worse than being a worker in a tampon factory. Should any sane young person consider a career in journalism? MT: If you have no real knowledge or skill set and you’re lazy and full of shit but you want to make a decent wage, then journalism’s not a bad career option. The great thing about it is that you don’t need to know anything. I mean this whole notion of journalism school—I can’t believe people actually go to journalism school. You can learn the entire thing in like three days. My advice is instead of going to journalism school, go to school for something concrete like medicine or some kind of science or something and then use the knowledge you get in that field as a wedge to get yourself into journalism. What journalism really needs is more people who are reporting who actually know something. Instead of having a bunch of liberal arts grads who’ve read Siddhartha 50 times writing about health care, it would be really nice if some of the people who are writing about health care were doctors. ~ from campusprogress.org ________________________________________ "...there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." - Hunter S. Thompson ________________________________________ …for these people, with the proximity to power, being able to sit in an airplane with Hillary Clinton or with John Kerry or John Edwards or Barack Obama—that’s like the sexiest thing they’re ever going to be involved with. And it’s a lot of fun for these people. It’s intoxicating. You can’t take some 25- or 26-year-old kid who is just out of college, put him in that environment, and expect him to be totally objective about it. ~ Matt Taibbi from campusprogress.org ________________________________________ "I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like." ~ Jerry Garcia ________________________________________ CP: ... Rudy Giuliani you called “the electoral incarnation of Tommy Lee Jones’ acid-bath-surviving Two-Face character.” And you referred to Joe Biden’s “creepy poof of blow-dried gray pubic fuzz.” Do you or your editors ever hear from these guys? MT: Yeah sometimes. The biggest thing I get is people not wanting to talk to me again after. Nobody ever calls up and says, “Hey, I don’t have pubic hair on the top of my head.” I mean, what are they going to do, argue? There’s no upside in getting into an argument with a media creature like myself. With somebody who has to maintain a respectable air of decorum like a politician, there’s no winning end game to getting into it with a lowlife like myself. ~ from campusprogress.org ________________________________________ "If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status." ~ Edward R. Murrow
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Sir spamalot is back!!
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just sends it to the top of the heap in current topics. No real need to do this...
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i was just havin' fun
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it's always something! It just kinda dawned on me that from the spammer's standpoint promotion is promotion and all attention is good. They probably love to be hated.
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... for news anchor reporting on an historic event goes to * cue Mickey Hart drum roll* Stephen T. Colbert and The Colbert Report! (sorry Jon, I still love ya) After watching TV almost non-stop for the last 26 hours and being a full fledged politics junkie... I'm strung out and stressed like some kind of sub-human primate in a dissociative drug experiment and this is good medicine!
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I dub Johnman "Sir Spamalot" for his War on Spam!********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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marye's doin' all the work, and deserves all the credit.....
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for which Sir Spamalot is the champion-but yes, she's the royal SpamKiller! :)********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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dub Johnman Sir Spamalot, tireless foe of them who oughta know better!
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ah din' do nuffin'......heck
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I was thinking more along the lines of the Spaminator. What say ya, marye? Wanna take a run at Gov? At least we can trust you around the hired help! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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spam attack.....spamfacespamheadedspammer...
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Johnman!!! :)********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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spamnoodle spambreathed spammerer....we must send the flying monkeys to steal their beer!!
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You want a typo award now too, or what? Not to be controversitous or anything!
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Spammers making up words now? oh MY!********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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TL, I have to say. If I was sure of how to pronounce it, I'd start sprinkling into conversation just to get a reaction. "Hey, that's some controversitous garden you got growing their, Molly!" "Quite the controversitous call by that ump last night, don'tcha think?" "I don't think that I've ever had such a controversitous time in my life!" "Where'd you buy that controversitous, anyway?"
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deleted the spammer accounts and links but left the controversitous post for ongoing derision.
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I like it too, Dean! This conversation could get quite controversitous, just as long as we don't get derisoversatious as well! ********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde