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Jan-02-12
 | | WannaBe: Here are my nominations for Best/Worst pun of the day: 2001: A Space Odesskij, I Odesskij vs P Skacelik, 2001 The Proof is in the Bu-Ding: Bu Xiangzhi vs Ding Liren, 2011 Robbing Fine Gold: R Robson vs B Finegold, 2011 Sleeping Beauty: Kholmov vs Tseshkovsky, 1978 Killaneliness is Next to Godleyness: J Killane vs S Godley, 2009 Bases Loaded: Balk vs Barnes, 1926 |
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Jan-02-12
| | WannaBe: Okay, time to put nominations into my spreadsheet... Where is that bottle of Glenlivet. Glug, glug, glug, glug. |
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Jan-02-12
| | WannaBe: Marker. |
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Jan-02-12
| | WannaBe: Current list, <hms123> missed a couple. =) Avatar (8): technical draw, Bver, WannaBe, FSR, Lost in Space, twinlark, SwitchingQuylthulg, patriot Handle (7): moronovich, Resignation Trap, MostlyAverageJoe, checkmateyourmove, Phony Benoni, nemesistic, Darthstapler Helpful (7): WinKing, LifeMaster AJ, Annie K., frogbert, hms123, FSR, dzechiel Post (6): chrisowen, Once, tpstar, jimfromprovidence, OhioChessFan, Domdaniel Funniest (7): WannaBe, tpstar, Once, technical draw, nanobrain, Annie K., sevenseasman Constructive (6): WannaBe, Morfishine, once, patriot, hms123, FSR Profile (3): Domdaniel, minasina, thanh phan
Analysis (4): LifeMaster AJ, dzechiel, aylerkupp, drmal Collection (1): Phony Benoni
Informed (3): wordfunph, DomDaniel, tpstar
Historian (3): jessicafischerqueen, Phony Benoni, SBC Pun (10): Who's Afraid of Emanuel / Wolf?, I Am Not a Rook, dead every enormous piece, '21 It Was a Very Good Year, Bases Loaded, Killaneliness is Next to Godleyness, Sleeping Beauty, Robbing Fine Gold, The Proof is in the Bu-Ding, 2001: A Space Odesskij <FSR> nominated <patriot> for constructive, and <SwitchingQuylthulg> nominated <technical draw> for avatar. |
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| Jan-02-12 | | hms123: <WannaBe> Sorry for the misses. I hope that the list helped you check your own. thanks. |
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Jan-02-12
| | WannaBe: <hms123> No biggie, it is good to have a second sanity checker list. =) |
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Jan-02-12
 | | Domdaniel: <Shams> I *love* long sentences, though Leonard Cohen once wrote that certain things, like opium and money, were "hard to get, and punished by long sentences". Lennie must have been living on a mountaintop that year. Anyhow, I could quote examples from Pynchon - like the openers to 'Mason & Dixon' or 'Lot 49' that would ameliorate your Dickensiana to the status of a Wildean epigram. I'm curious, though, whether the asterisk pointing to the editorial comment was random, or deliberately placed after the words 'nice discrimination' - a phrase that looks strange today, as both words have changed meaning in the last 150 years. An American teacher got into trouble some years ago for congratulating her class on their *powers of discrimination*. She meant the ability to tell one thing from another. Her class, their angry parents, and the media who picked it up thought she meant ... well, you know. 'Nice' used to mean 'exact' or 'precise', which survives in a couple of phrases like 'a nice distinction'. But it got generalized to mean something good, then ickily good or vaguely pleasant ... to the point where only British royals can say people are 'nice' without being suspected of irony. All in all, "nice discrimination" is a bizarre notion in contemporary English. To Dickens it was a perfectly normal way of saying "an acute observation". Which does not mean "cute-looking" ... though it might in another few years. |
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| Jan-02-12 | | Benzol: <WannaBe> I would like to nominate <tpstar> for the following post <tpstar: <Benzol> My friend, you are taking things too seriously. =)
This is how it has always been, to varying degrees. Think back to 2004, when <Benjamin Lau> spent an entire weekend arguing about what <square dance> said to <actual> about Angelina Jolie. Also in 2004, The World was nuked after <pikoro> called Bush and Blair "super-terrorists" and <Karlzen> gave his story about Bush, then I gave my rebuttal story about Saddam Hussein. Recall the controversy about the Ray Keene Crowd discussing literature with an author, after we finally had a name player join the group. <LIFE Master AJ> made his auspicious debut with "simple-minded fish" Kasparov vs Radjabov, 2004 and later <Ben Lau> left for good after the e-mail virus controversy. Back then <iron maiden> and <square dance> had all those battles about Lasker versus Capablanca, and <CrackerSmack> was so rude to Keene and Short (and the rest), and <WMD> was so abrupt with Keene about Bill Hartston along with everything else, and <FerociousBeast> kept talking smack on the POTD, and <Marnoff Mirlony> and <Slothrop> were just difficult, and <GMShirtlessRocketman> got the boot, and all those endless debates about Reunification (which came to a head during San Luis 2005), and the short draws during Brissago 2004 (my discussion with <suenteus po 147>) and <drukenknight> kept demanding "Show me your winning line" and <Knight13> kept saying "Good game" and <Chess Champ> boasted about being the Correspondence WC and <ughaibu> would post while intoxicated and <offramp> planted that phony baseball quote during Kramnik-Leko and the Kibitzer's Cafe became a continuous debate about Iraq. Oh yes, those were the days, and that was just one year. ;>D Please avoid The Continuing Saga of LMAJ for a few days (it really is better lately, as usual) and don't let the Wesley So gang get you down (too late anyway), and the Fischer Page has always been "special" here. Then come back refreshed, reopen your chessforum, and enjoy the site. =)> I'm not sure which category it best fits into, <Most helpful>, <Best Written Post>, <Historian>, <Constructive> or <Best Informed> but I found it very useful at a time when I was seriously thinking about leaving this site. I think I'll let you decide.
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Jan-02-12
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> As these awards are named after the great chess-playing Roman leader <Julius Caissar>, an anti-award should be named for one of his killers. Brutus spring to mind, along with the vocative case: "Et tu, Brute?" The *Brutes*?
Another famous contemporary of Julius Caissar was Pompey, aka Thingus Dingus Pompeius Magnus. The *Pompeys* would be an adornment for any set of awards. Move over Uncle Oscar, in fact. BTW, <Wannabe>, sorry about this random noise. Did you notice that we both passed 21,000 posts around the same time, about a day ago? Just a little sub-race for 7th and 8th places in the 'most kibitzes' list... |
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Jan-02-12
| | Domdaniel: <Benzol> I'd quite forgotten <Rocketman> and <Slothrop>, though I was just an occasional lurker in '04. Ou sont les Pynchonistas d'antan? |
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Jan-02-12
 | | AylerKupp: Wow! To be nominated in the same category as <LIFE Master AJ>, <dzechiel>, and <DrMAL> is mind-boggling but hardly deserving. But if there was instead a category for "most verbose analyst" then I coulda been a contender. |
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Jan-02-12
| | Domdaniel: <Benzol> wrote this about a post by <tpstar>: <I'm not sure which category it best fits into, <Most helpful>, <Best Written Post>, <Historian>, <Constructive> or <Best Informed> but I found it very useful at a time when I was seriously thinking about leaving this site.> Unless or until Benzol decides to make other nominations, I reckon this should qualify as a nomination for <tpstar> in *all* of the categories mentioned. That's within the rules, and it seems to me to be faithful to the sense of significance that Benzol intended to convey. |
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| Jan-02-12 | | hms123: <Dom>
I agree with your idea about <tpstar's> post, but I think it deserves a special award for something like <most helpful single post>. Otherwise, it might get lost in the shuffle. |
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Jan-02-12
 | | FSR: <WannaBe: ... <FSR> nominated <patriot> for constructive> Actually, <morfishine> made that nomination. Your confusion is understandable, since morfishine now has the Morphy avatar that I had as of a week ago (as Shams will be happy to tell you). |
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Jan-02-12
| | FSR: I noticed a user name a week or so ago that was a pun on "Kotov" - "kotovmynose" or some such. I am interested in nominating that, but don't know what it was. Does anyone else? |
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| Jan-02-12 | | rogge: The author is nominated for this (best post):
<<Colonel Mortimer>: ...but the purpose of my posts is to turn the fallacy and inherent illogicality of their arguments against them.
Their views may not change, but at least their hypocrisy is laid bare for all to see.If God's word was so clear cut and morally consistent as taken from the Bible - there wouldn't be so many Christian denominations. The fact that there is so much disagreement of emphasis on a wide range of doctrinal issues clearly and logically suggests the word of God is but an interpretation by mere mortals. When a Christian invokes God's morality, he is merely interpreting God's morality to suit his own personal belief system. So when these religious fanatics politically grandstand on issues of 'moral import' such as homosexuality and abortion, by invoking God they are merely and disingenuously attempting to bang their political drum louder than others on issues that are not central to society, but central to their 'faith'. The moral equivalence of this is a corporation campaigning for legislation that is favourable to their bottom line, via the battle cry of deregulation being good for the marketplace. It won't be long before the religious right are completely discredited and consigned to the historical dustbin of religious intolerance. In that respect it is ironic that the United States of America is way behind Europe.> |
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Jan-02-12
| | Domdaniel: <"Oh! Lord! Do you think that a Protestant Popedom is annihilated in America? ... What a mercy it is that these People cannot whip and crop, and pillory and roast, as yet in the U.S.! If they could they would ... There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation."> US President John Adams, over 200 years ago.
Just saying. |
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Jan-02-12
| | WannaBe: I have very 'discriminating' taste, I hate everyone equally. But I hate those 'gay' flappers from the '20-'30 more equally. A few years ago, Washington D.C. I believe, an assistant to the mayor used the word 'niggardly' to describe the upcoming city budget, due to low collection of sales tax. Caused a small uproar, until people found out what the word means. Silly people... |
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Jan-02-12
| | Domdaniel: <WannaBe> As I recall it, the individual who used the 'other' N-word was sacked anyway -- even after it was pointed out that it came from something like Norman French, and had no connection at all with certain other words. Doesn't matter. It still can't be used.
In England, a mob driven to fury by tabloids was out hunting 'Paedos' when they found the home of a doctor who worked with sick children, who advertised the service with the word 'Paediatrician'. "Kill the Paedo" they yelled, and were only narrowly prevented from torching the place. OK, I'll go back to my own madhouse now. Thank you for hosting my circus. I'll be back to vote ... Hmmm. Where have I heard that before? |
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| Jan-02-12 | | Shams: <Dom><I'm curious, though, whether the asterisk pointing to the editorial comment was random, or deliberately placed> Dropped on the page from 30,000 feet, where I sighted the target in my B-24 Liberator. |
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| Jan-02-12 | | Nemesistic: Okay here are my noms,although iv'e only been here a few months im familiar with most you guys. Username: King Death..I must stay loyal to the Troop
Profile: Domdaniel..I have to repay the favour for my nom Avatar: Patriot.. Cool as
Analyst: DrMAL gets my posthumous vote.
Historian: TheFocus
Helpful: FSR because he always replies to peoples inquires Informed: tpstar! His knowledge on site history is unparralelled Funniest: Colonel Mortimer..He cracks me up!
And i believe some sort of lifetime achievement award is in order this year for <LIFE Master AJ> because he's so damn entertaining..Anyone who demands to see another users ID ( and actually means it!! ) is a special special star. |
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Jan-02-12
 | | Check It Out: I nominate LIFEMasterAJ for funniest kibitzer. That may seem a bit strange, but the man is consistent in his dead pan and never fails to entertain. It's a bit like a good sitcom that way. Everything else looks covered. |
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Jan-03-12
| | Domdaniel: Uh, back again. A small correction.
I still nominate <SwitchingQuylthulg> for best games collection. The collection is called 'Unusual Themes II' ... but if it vanishes into hyperspace then his 'Owen's Defence' or even 'Zzzzzzz...' will do. First time around, I typed the name of the collection as 'Unusual Themes I-III'. This was a joke, of a sort, as #I is gone and #III doesn't exist yet. Then I thought I'd just do without the numbers. I thought wrong. Anyhoo, the nom stands. Now I'm really outta here ... |
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Jan-03-12
| | FSR: There have been quite a few controversies in the U.S. involving the use of the word <niggardly>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contro.... My maternal grandmother, the sweetest and least prejudiced person in the world, inadvertently offended a black guy in a bookstore who overheard her use the word in talking to my grandfather. |
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| Jan-03-12 | | Benzol: <...it seems to me to be faithful to the sense of significance that Benzol intended to convey.> <Dom> Thanks. I couldn't have put better myself. I'm glad the meaning was clear, well to you at least. <hms123> Meant to tell you earlier the salads went down very well. Your efforts are very much appreciated. :) |
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