The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

HOWEVER, we would like to invite you the reader to vote on these shortlisted posts, alongside our Post Of The Week Judges - which means YOU now all get a vote and can all play a part in choosing the Post of the Week. And we’d like you to do this every week too!

So, if you’d like to add your twopenny’s worth to the judging of the shortlisted posts, please pick your FIVE favourite posts from the list and award 5 points for your most favourite, 4 for the next best and so on. Then please email them to peacharse@yahoo.com by 6pm on Sunday evenings. Your votes will be totted up and put with our Judge’s votes and the winning post announced as usual on a Sunday night. Please note, we don’t want you to just pick ONE post that you think is great, but FIVE out of the list, and award them 5-1 points accordingly.

Please email if you have any queries, otherwise, happy reading…

Onto this week’s shortlist:

1. Black and White and Read All Over: Back to the future
(Nominated by SwissToni)

In many ways, the club Keegan comes back to is unrecognisable from the one he left. We’re no longer the force we were, either on the pitch or in the transfer market - but then we weren’t so much sleeping giants as comatose or even flatlining when he took charge the first time, so that’s not to say he can’t jumpstart a revival in our fortunes and profile.

2. Down In Me: Just Stop (Heady Bullshit #4)
(Nominated by Peach)

…and don’t fucking apologise for using the words whatever words however words whichever words whenever words you use when you feel like using them destroying them creating them fondling them mishandling them loving them grammatically disregarding them if they’re in your mind …

3. frizzyLogic: Shaggy not-dog story
(Nominated by Mike)

He appeared, or rather his hair did, in my peripheral vision as I waited to board the train. A great spiky halo of vibrance, coiled clumps zinging in all directions around a golden-skinned face with huge velvety brown eyes.

4. Joe.My.God: The Revenge of Plan B
(Nominated by Mike)

Around midnight, I was sitting in the open window of the Edge with a couple of friends when I spotted Frank walking briskly up 18th Street. I called him over. “Hey, what happened to Plan B?” Frank shifted his backpack to his other shoulder and hardly broke his stride. “Screw Plan B. Big Daddy called and I am On.My.Way!”

5. some guy on a journey: Procrastination running circles in my head.
(Nominated by SwissToni)

I love the idea of blogging. In the past few years, it’s arguably changed the way the people of this world of ours are perceived. If nothing else, it’s become an extraordinary tool to bring people closer together in some way, shape or form.

6. virginia is for lovers: Are You a Lover or a Hater?
(nominated by James)

I can smell the beer on her breath as Mary Jane glares at me menacingly. It feels like ages before she says anything, and I begin to wonder if she intends on just pushing me through the drywall and into the bathroom. Everyone in the living room is still very quiet, though I can hear some whispering and an occasional “SHHHH!”

7. WHOOPEE: In memory of John
(Nominated by Clair)

I’d never been to a funeral before today of someone who was genuinely loved and cherished by many. I’d only been to my grandmother’s, a dotty old bird who most of the family didn’t get on with, and what few of us there were sat there sort of dutifully but with an element of palpable relief.

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday January 18th.

A bit of education this week folks and - as its nominator, jonesy, pointed out - not necessarily one for the squeamish…

Todger Talk: The reason I joined this blog

The sex was ace. But she had a strange foreplay technique which involved bending my nob about like an Atari joystick during a particularly intense level of Pac-Man.

Read more…

Our judges said:

It seemed wrong to laugh at something so personal and gory - but laugh I did.

I’m not sure there’s any sentence surer to grab my attention (and make me cross my legs) than one that contains the phrase ‘…the day I ejaculated blood’. Once grabbed, my attention was then held by phrases like: ‘Atari joystick’, ‘jelly dildo’, ‘jizzing blood’ and (perhaps most alarmingly of all) ‘teenage girl’s felt tip pen’…. Men have been thinking *with* their todgers for so long, it’s probably about time they did some thinking *about* them for a change, eh?

Anyone who can teach me something and make me laugh at the same time gets my vote.

This week’s judging panel comprised Sarah P on shortlisting duties with judges: Sarah R, SwissToni, asta and you - yes - YOU the voting readership…(if you happened to have spotted the invitation to join in with the weekly voting process).

If you didn’t join in this week - never fear - there’ll be another chance to influence the final result, with details published once the Shortlist is up on Saturday. Keep ‘em peeled.

Of course, if you want to join in on a more permanent basis - we’d love to have you. Just click here for information.

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday night.

Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then - HOWEVER, as from this week, we would like to invite you the reader to vote on these shortlisted posts, alongside our Post Of The Week Judges - which means YOU now all get a vote and can all play a part in choosing the Post of the Week. And we’d like you to do this every week too!

So, if you’d like to add your twopenny’s worth to the judging of the shortlisted posts, please pick your FIVE favourite posts from the list and award 5 points for your most favourite, 4 for the next best and so on. Then please email them to peacharse@yahoo.com by 6pm on Sunday evenings. Your votes will be totted up and put with our Judge’s votes and the winning post announced as usual on a Sunday night. Please note, we don’t want you to just pick ONE post that you think is great, but FIVE out of the list, and award them 5-1 points accordingly.

Please email me if you have any queries, otherwise, happy reading…

Here is our first 2008 Post of the Week shortlist:

(1) Betty’s Utility Room’s Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff

One of the things I hate about January is the amount of Positive Bollocks that is foisted on us which tends to make the cynics among us feel guilty.

(2) The Big Sofa’s Magic Porridge

There was this little girl in this village right? Well, she went off into the forest one day, and saved this old witch’s cat from a tree or something. Or perhaps the witch was drowning and the young girl dove into the lake and pulled her out.

(3) Chocolate Sandwich’s Good Carrots Ruined

The lights were dimmed and Lucia brought the chestnut mousse into the dining room with some ceremony and not a little pride in her efforts. The rest of the company smiled its approval and a gentle ripple of applause greeted Lucia as she processed to the centre of the table.

(4) Andrew Collins’ The Manners Manifesto

It’s a new year. Time to solve the problems of the world - and there are one or two - before it’s too late. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and it’s dawned on me that the only way we’re going to make the world a better place without having to plough through all that due process and red tape and so-called democracy is to start being better ourselves.

(5) Smaller Than Life’s All I Want For Christmas

This is easily the best thing that I got for Christmas. It’s a discarded draft of a letter that I wrote to Father Christmas that my parents saved and found 27 years later.

(6) Todger Talk’s ‘Mr Sex’: The Reason I Joined This Blog

The sex was ace. But she had a strange foreplay technique which involved bending my nob about like an Atari joystick during a particularly intense level of Pac-Man.

I apologise for the lateness of this week’s shortlist, I’ve been ‘aving a spot a bovva wiv me electriks, innit