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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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  • grdaed73
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    Ymmmmm!
    i want some!!!!!
  • Mr. Pid
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    Two Thumbs Waaaaay Up
    for the Wenonah Italian Market!!!!!! Just returned from an thoroughly scrumptious dinner there featuring an excellent salad with high quality greens (at room temperature, not refrigerated - right on!) and decent tomatoes with a balsamic vinaigrette, followed up by an absolutely delicious veal saltimboca! And I finally got to meet Ken. Thank you 2G's, and Steve. And this award is entirely serious! Can't recommend them highly enough! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
  • Mr. Pid
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    Thanks kindly
    for the offer, Ted. Think I'm good for now, though. Maybe you could throw a bone to some of the younguns showing up round here of late, should they muster up the audacity to ask. Best of luck to your Chiefs, even though it probably won't thrill my parents who live in San Diego... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
  • Gr8fulTed
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    Hey, grate idea!
    yo Mr Pid; I do have a few shows: whatcha need? I can spin some off while I'm watching the Chiefs & waiting for my lower abdominals to heal up. Thanks for the Spybot reference. I had tried SpyHunter and Spyware Doctor, but neither would kill the av360.
  • Mr. Pid
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    Pesky malware problems?
    I heartily recommend Spybot for dealing with such things in the Windoze world. I also heartily recommend Linux for avoiding the Windoze world, and most of its attendant problems. Glad you got your problem solved, Ted. Remember, you can always burn some more shows to keep warm! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
  • Gr8fulTed
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    Antivirus 360 malware
    I enjoyed my Saturday evening isolating and removing a pop-up mechanism called av360. Somehow I got suckered into punching the "okay" button, as it advertised itself suddenly as a virus awareness function, and it was off to the races with non-stop warnings, automatic reboots and pc weirdness. I finally located a free malware software called Malawarebytes that found the pest and removed it successfully!! I celebrated the return of a normally-functioning laptop with a cold Mendocino Imperial IPA!! Bracing for a Sunday arctic blast later this afternoon.....
  • MarkintheDark
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    Hmm, usually by the time I see flyin' monkeys...
    ...I've drunk all the beer. Tough luck for the monkeys! ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************
  • johnman
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    yo,markdark
    the actual award is a visit from the flyin' monkeys....so hide yer beer as they are notorious beer thieves, and have been known to steal west coast beer and bring it to new jersey for the lucky ducks. they are classified as aviary rodentian primates and are wicked fast, the rotten little winged bastiches.
  • MarkintheDark
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    Hey now, somebody shoulda told me about the mad props
    Never visited this forum, thought I'd check it out and darned if I'm not getting kodus all over the place. Thanks fellow tribespeople! That Golden Can coming via UPS or regular mail? (the observant will have noticed that the vines I monitored all happened to be vines that hadn't gotten to me - just a coincidence, I swear! - Do need to get started on some of the ones past me, don't think they've noticed there may be an issue with the Field Trip) I've gotten more enjoyment out of this site than about any other place I've visited on the net - and I've spent way too much time on the 'net over the last fifteen years or so. Good peeps abound (some too nice to be humans, you know who you are). Hope to have a beer and cookies with johnman someday, toss a pot with PK, float in the breeze with LTApilot, visit the Euroheads (especially the ex-pats in France) and have marye give me the historical tour of the Bay Area, etc etc etc; now, if I can just win that dang lottery! Thanks again MarkintheDark PS Almost forgot: The address for Tommo I put on the O&ITW vine was incomplete, and I expect the vine to be returned. Just found out it hadn't been delivered to Tommo when I checked the forum yesterday, and identified the problem. Wanted to give it a few days more to see if it comes back, but since I've been "gently prodded" I think I'll go ahead and dupe it up again. I need to go post this in the forum too, so ta for now! (ale, that sounds pretty good...) ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************
  • johnman
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    deadheads does it take to change a light bulb?..........just one, but he hasta wait fer it ta burn out, and then follow it around for twenty years.......ek ek ek
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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