2006 "Excellence in Posting" Awards Nominations.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:54 pm

It is time to begin the nominations process for this year's "Excellence in Posting" Award.

THE NOMINATION PROCESS for the 2006 Award:

1. Anyone may nominate any member of Chiff and Fipple.
2. Nominations must be made in this thread.
3. A nomination must be seconded, within this thread, by another member, by the nominations deadline.
4. Each member may nominate only one person.
5. Each member may second as many as three nominees, whether or not they have nominated another. However, a member may not second a nomination he or she made.
6. No member may nominate or second him or herself.
7. Nominations are open from now till the deadline of 12:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time 25 September A.D. 2006.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:35 pm

For this post I nominate fearfaoin

fearfaoin wrote:
gonzo914 wrote:... once got thrown out of a nice restaurant for doing a trick involving his eye, a steak knife, a creamer, and several shrieking women...
Classic. Though, I hasten to remind his Holiness that Burger King,
despite its invocation of royalty, is not actually considered a "nice
restaurant"...

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:58 pm

No, no, please. Just send money.

I thank you all for your consideration.

djm

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:07 pm

My nomination goes to Harry for this bit of wisdom:

Harry wrote: don't concern yourself with sounding better or worse than me or anyone else; when you sound exactly like yourself there will be no room for meaningful comparison, not that people won't waste their time trying to compare of course.

--James

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:14 am

peeplj wrote:My nomination goes to Harry for this bit of wisdom:

Harry wrote: don't concern yourself with sounding better or worse than me or anyone else; when you sound exactly like yourself there will be no room for meaningful comparison, not that people won't waste their time trying to compare of course.
--James

An encouraging music related post? Guess I'll second that one.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:54 am

I nominate everybody. Or, if that's too many nominees,
all those who posted what they thought and tried to
be kind and civil. That's excellence, IMO--the community
is a rope held together by every honest thread. Past
that I think everybody's voice is equal.
I know this 'contest' is absolutely well meant, but maybe
not everything needs to have a winner.

Scott McCallister · Post by **Scott McCallister** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:00 am

I nominate this post...

jim stone wrote:I nominate everybody. Or, if that's too many nominees,
all those who posted what they thought and tried to
be kind and civil. That's excellence, IMO--the community
is a rope held together by every honest thread. Past
that I think everybody's voice is equal.
I know this 'contest' is absolutely well meant, but maybe
not everything needs to have a winner.

This is brilliant and definately should win.

pixyy · Post by **pixyy** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:07 am

peeplj wrote:My nomination goes to Harry for this bit of wisdom:

Harry wrote: don't concern yourself with sounding better or worse than me or anyone else; when you sound exactly like yourself there will be no room for meaningful comparison, not that people won't waste their time trying to compare of course.
--James

second (or third, whatever)
great post that, and quite a few others...

jeroen

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:15 am

I nominate Jim Stone for coining the expression "sublime goofiness."

Tom

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:59 pm

Can deleted posts be nominated?

Perhaps in a special category?

Is there going to be a lifetime achievement award?

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:40 pm

Well, it isn't an award for best post.
Though it might be awarded that way if
we chose to.

Yes, it may be that some of the best posts
were in deleted threads. It's been a strange year.

ketida · Post by **ketida** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:23 pm

I agree with WyoBadger. "Sublime goofiness" is just so perfect, it at least deserves recognition. I strive for sublime goofiness, and hopefully, someday, I will achieve it.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:31 pm

Well, thank you all.

Mozart's Magic Flute has been called 'peerlessly silly.'

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:47 pm

jim stone wrote: Mozart's Magic Flute has been called 'peerlessly silly.'

As I'm sure you know, there was manner (as well as magick) to his madness.

--James

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:53 pm

Ahem..

With all due respect to all involved..

Scorsese was brought into the project late and allowed to assemble the film only from archival materials vetted by Jeff Rosen, Dylan's manager. Scorsese's presence is most clearly felt in a moment of almost sublime goofiness -- a re-creation of Dylan's notoriously obtuse 1963 speech to the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, with Scorsese doing a Dylan impersonation that wouldn't pass muster at a high school talent show. He even drops the punch line, when Dylan baffled and offended the audience by claiming to feel kinship with Lee Harvey Oswald.

Knock, Knock,Knockin....

Slan,
D.