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Old 10-02-2009
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

Were you getting too many nominations for statistical regularity?
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

Left wing of the year....ahem
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Old 10-03-2009
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Re: And you can nominate her as the forum ho too if y'all chose to do so.

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Well, you do make a very convincing drunk (even when you're sober, haha...)

Well i guess we could make an exception, y'all can nominate Miranda for the forum drunk.
Not that she stands a chance with some of us about...

Not that I'm trying to campaign or anything but...

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Old 10-04-2009
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

Can we lobby for certain people in this thread or in the "Just For Fun" forum?
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Old 10-05-2009
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Re: And you can nominate her as the forum ho too if y'all chose to do so.

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Not that she stands a chance with some of us about...

Not that I'm trying to campaign or anything but...

Last year, that award would have been mine. These days...I tend to shy away from posting after 4 or 5 White Russians, etc.

Too much work for the mods the next day.
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Old 10-05-2009
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Just to clarify something folks:

The award at the end, which is for alternate of the year, is not a refference to homosexuality in anyway. When i worded it as "alternate" that was just some diplomatic work on my part; it is basically the equivelant of the former assclown of year award. But many of us were opposed to what the word assclown had come to be associated with, and when Helene was around years ago, she put her huge foot down all over the award anyway.

So we labelled it as "alternate"...but it basically is an award for the worst poster of the year, as opposed to the best, in the regular awards.

Hope that clears things up for y'all.
You can do the Political Correctness routine here and clean up the title and dress it up in new clothes, but it is still the Assclown award. And I well remember the fallout.

So let's not kid ourselves.
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

Yes, like i said, it is indeed for all intents and purposes, the same thing...

Wha the reaction is from this one, is yet to be seen, but so far the awards and nominations have been very quiet and largely uneventful. (Hopefully it'll stay that way. )
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

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Can we lobby for certain people in this thread or in the "Just For Fun" forum?
I thought about this for a while Ajax but no.

While it might add a few more nominations from folks, it would lead to various rule violations just without a single reply.

For example, if you start a thread, lobbying for someone to be given the steveox award, at best you're already baiting them, if not directly insulting them and that's just the first post in the thread.

It would cause a real headache for the mods, and that's exactly the sort of thing that everyone wants to avoid.

It may well lead to a few more nominations, but it would be the wrong way to go about it.
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

Okay i am going to have to go through and explain each nomination, judging by some of the nominations we're getting!

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The awards are:

1) Most sexist poster
2) Most racist poster
Those both seem fairly self explanitory....


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3) Miranda award (Drunk)
Alright, this means the poster who is the most drunk or posts while drunk the most.

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4) Gnomie Award (Bad spelling, etc)
This is for the poster who just can't type for shit. Makes mistakes all over the place, errors in punctuation, spelling and so on.

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5) Most Partisan poster
6) Most left wing
7) Most right wing
These seem fairly self explanitory, everyone seems to have gotten the grasp of them fairly well...

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8) Mr./Ms. USPO Pageant NOMINATE ONE MALE AND ONE FEMALE! (each nominee will be asked a question before the voting commences and the answer will be posted along side his/her name)
OK, now while this one may seem fairly simple, a lot of you are either taking the piss, or are just thick.

So i'll put it as diplomatically as i can:

It would be appreciated, if you could nominate male posters for the Mr USPO award, and females for the Miss/Mrs USPO award...(maybe i should have specified that at the start, but its too late now i guess).

It really looks kind of strange when the leading nominee for the Miss USPO award, is male!

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9) The Steveox award (stupid/least intellectual)
Steveox= Stupid.

Thus, nominate the most stupid poster. (Haha, Stupid posters can't figure the title out!)

Next year, to make this easier the award will be re-named "forum dumbass".

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10) Most trollish Poster
11) Poster whose posts you always skip over/ignore
12) Least informative poster
13) Poster nobody seems to like
Seem to have been understood fine...

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14) Mare Tranquility award (Woman born as man)
This one seems to have drawn some real eyebrows, this is for the poster who is female, who was born a male. I.e. got a sex change...and those are the only boundaries in which nominations for this award will be accepted.

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15) Internet Tough guy award (Guy who thinks he can kill every illegal, or thinks he's Chuck Norris, basically)
I probably could have worded this better. This is just basically for someone who behaves like some hard ass John Mclane/Chuck Norris type guy, thinks he can fight the whole word with his fist or says stuff like "i'll kill you all if you come near my guns" or anything of that nature, not just related to immigration.

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16) Sidekick award (poster who is just a cheerleader for someone else)
Someone who just follows everyone else, never has opinions of their own (that they show) but just puppets someone else and behaves like a prostitute for them.


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17) Attention whore award
18) Biggest Christian basher
19) Poster most likely to spew hatred in the name of the bible
20) Poster most incapable of making a post without making reference to Hitler, the Nazi’s, and co…
21) Poster most likely to spew bile and vicious hatred at another poster
22) Most meddlesome foreign poster who butts into US affairs
23) Poster of the past you miss the least (glad they’re gone…)
24) Most Anti-American/anti-military poster
25) Biggest conspiracy theorist
All seem fine...though for number 23, please don't nominate someone who hasn't been gone for very long...if they haven't posted in 6 months on the main forum or been online for that period of time (whichever one), it is acceptable. Before that is generally too short to determine whether they've left or not.

Now this is where things get a bit tricky:

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26) Hank of the year award
27) Poster Most in Love with Speakeasy
No need to nominate for either of those awards, the first has a pre-set list of catergories, and the latter has already been awarded to someone, not by vote but rather by appointment.

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28) Poster you would most like to see permanently banned
Simple enough...

Only, if you nominate someone who has already been banned, their name won't make it onto the list, so if you did nominate someone for this award and they dont make it here, they you can read between the lines, if they're not on the final poll.

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29) Most moderhated award
No need for nominations on this. It is a list of all the mods, whom will all be put up in a poll, amongst the final polls, for y'all to determine, which staff member you don't like, the most.

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30) Alternate of the year
This is not to do with homosexuality. Its for the worst poster of the year, basically, an all around ass.

Hope that clears things up for y'all.
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

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It would be appreciated, if you could nominate male posters for the Mr USPO award, and females for the Miss/Mrs USPO award...(maybe i should have specified that at the start, but its too late now i guess).

It really looks kind of strange when the leading nominee for the Miss USPO award, is male!
Look, I had to nominate him for something. He's already a whiny enough bitch as it is, didnt want his feelings hurt.
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

That is just one nomination, for one of the three male posters, and your nomination wasn't so much of a problem, its the 4 so far for another male poster which makes me wanna slap someone!

Anyway, all is fair in love and war, someone nominated you for Mr USPO...
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

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That is just one nomination, for one of the three male posters, and your nomination wasn't so much of a problem, its the 4 so far for another male poster which makes me wanna slap someone!

Anyway, all is fair in love and war, someone nominated you for Mr USPO...
I can only guess who that may be...
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

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That is just one nomination, for one of the three male posters, and your nomination wasn't so much of a problem, its the 4 so far for another male poster which makes me wanna slap someone!

Anyway, all is fair in love and war, someone nominated you for Mr USPO...
Hey, I say let the votes stand as is!!
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Re: Alternative Award Nominations

Yeah, i have no choice now, there wouldn't be enough nominations otherwise and we'd have 4 women (you included) tied with the same amount of votes.
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Yeah, i have no choice now, there wouldn't be enough nominations otherwise and we'd have 4 women (you included) tied with the same amount of votes.
Yeeesssssss.
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