After much deliberation among the Illuminati, Truthers, Birthers, Black Panthers, KKK, Grey Panthers, NAACP, AFL-CIO, ACORN, rednecks, yuppies, hippies, druggies, alcoholics, soccer moms, gun nuts, gun haters, federalists, socialists, communists, the Pope, Repugs, Demoncrats, Bushbots, the moderators (oh wait, I think they're covered in the Illuminati group!), the ghosts of Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ghandi, Mother Teresa and James Dean, we are now accepting nominations for the Alternative Awards. Please remember that these awards are to be "JUST FOR FUN" and shouldn't be used as a mud-slinging fest. We've had fun with this in the past and as long as every stays within the forum rules, we can have fun again.

The awards are:

1) Most sexist poster
2) Most racist poster
3) Miranda award (Drunk)
4) Gnomie Award (Bad spelling, etc)
5) Most Partisan poster
6) Most left wing
7) Most right wing
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)
9) The Steveox award (stupid/least intellectual)
10) Most trollish Poster
11) Poster whose posts you always skip over/ignore
12) Least informative poster
13) Poster nobody seems to like
14) Mare Tranquility award (Woman born as man)
15) Internet Tough guy award (Guy who thinks he can kill every illegal, or thinks he's Chuck Norris, basically)
16) Sidekick award (poster who is just a cheerleader for someone else)
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
26) Hank of the year award
27) Poster Most in Love with Speakeasy
28) Poster you would most like to see permanently banned
29) Most moderhated award
30) Alternate of the year

Please send your nominations via PM to either me, Traveler or Speakeasy.

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

I have to emphasize this to the rest of y'all:

This is purely for fun and to be taken in this spirit. Please bear that in mind and don't let this turn into a complete mess.

I have stuck my neck out on the line, and assured those higher up that this will not end in disaster, so please try and stick to that principle when participating.

This is not some unholy mandate for vitriolic rants and or huge big slanging matches/pissing contests amongst posters, just a bit of an outlet to allow some of the posters here to see we do allow for their frustrations to be accomodated.

The nomination stage will stay open all through October, and the final catergories will be announced on the first of November, to stay open for 21 days.

Thanks to all who have helped with chosing the catergories and to Mrs. M and Speakeasy for helping to set it all up.

Get nominating everyone!

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For these 3 awards, nominations are not needed.

For the Hank of the year award, the nominations have been pre-determined, the most moderhated award will feature a list of all the staff members in the final poll to vote from and the Most in Love with Speak award has been given to someone by appointment, and that person shall deliver an acceptance speech when the rest of the winners are announced.

And in that order too.

As me and Speak see it fit, the woman shall do the most work, then the man and then the ad...moderator. (Can't beat Speak for lazyness! ) So prefferably PM Mrs. M with them, if not her, then me, and if you can't stomach either of us, then Speak.

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Just one other thing, you may not be permitted to nominate the person whom an award is named after, for that specific award.

If that doesn't make any sense, i'll put it in much simpler terms:

You can't nominate Miranda as the poster who is the most drunk, Gnomie who makes the most incomprehendable posts, Steveox to be the biggest idiot and so on. We do aim to make sure these awards are at least somewhat competitive...

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Vying for 'most sexist', son?

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

No, no no, not at all...

Haha, i would never be sexist towards you, its Speakeasy, its his bad influence on me! (I'm just hoping you won't kick my ass back to the stone age!)

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if I do not make all categories its quite obviously rigged

whats a hank ?

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Hank is a poster here. He has hit near legendry status, very reclusive and rarely seen...

Yet he is admired by almost everyone on all sides of the aisle, both male and female, Americans and Europeans. (Folks who don't like him are going to hell).

So this year (and from this year on) we will have an award in his honor. As he has been here an even number of years, divisible by 3 (number of options in the final vote) including this year, our final poll will ask which set of years have been the best for Hank, pre-determined options.

Nobody needs to send nominations for that catergory or catergories number 27 and 29.

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As it should be...

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For those who have fought to defend it, freedom has a taste the protected will never know...



If it wasn't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all...

I've never seen this 'hank' fellow...

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Hank is the man, that's all anyone really has to know.

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“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” - Carl Sagan

Remember to submit your nominations for the U.S. Politics Online Alternative Awards!

sort of the board's "Bigfoot" i guess. Lots of stories, few sightings.

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Why not? What once was could easily be again..

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"You know you were way too high when you wake up next to a handwritten list of all the things you would do for a Klondike bar." - Unknown

"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry

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.

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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.

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