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

If you want to get involved with voting for this week’s Post Of The Week- yes, YOU - would like to vote on this week’s shortlist, then please mail peacharse@yahoo.com by 6pm UK time on Sunday evening with a list of your favourite five posts (no more, no less), starting with your favourite and working down.

1. ForkSplit’s “Tweaker Tanya. A gym-class from hell, nominated by Mike.
   “I’m no gym rat. Sometimes, in fact, I’ll go months without seeing the inside of a gym. Then, my ass starts jiggling during sex, so I’ll hit the gym for a few months until everything’s nice and tight. Then I stop. For a couple months.“
2. Private Secret Diary’s Valentines Day: A timeline is very a propos right now, nominated by The Girl.
   “The apartment is pleasant, but basic. There is a cooker and a fridge, but few other appliances – certainly nothing that would elevate ‘student lodgings’ to ‘a home’. One of her flatmates has lent me her room for the purposes of gift-concealment; I sneak into here and drag out a small second-hand freezer which I have bought with all the money I have in the world. Panting, I lug it through the doorway and plug it in beside her bed.“
3. Bitchy Jones‘ “Because everyone knows work emails aren’t private“, also nominated by The Girl. (she’s had a busy week)
   “But really his pen didn’t look much bigger than your pen. I love your pen. I know you think I am biased.“
4. Gargoyle201’s “A Question Of Time, nominated by Cliff.
   “My grandfather has always been an old man to me. In my earliest intelligible memories he was already retired from his job as a testing engineer at Rolls Royce, and well into his 60s. At the time he probably would have been referred to as an older man. The transition from older man to elderly man and now to frail elderly man has taken place over my entire life time. He is now in his mid-90s, me in my later 30s. “
5. Razorblade of Life’s “Z Approves“, nominated by Mike. (he’s been busy too)
   “I started with some diffidence with the word ‘approve’. It suggests a lofty disengagement … then I realised that this is mere inverted pomposity and that I was being a bit of a twit. Not that I disapprove of twits of course – sometimes you don’t know you are making a fool of yourself until you already have.“
6. Crystal Jigsaw’s “What’s Cooking?, nominated by kate.
   “The farmer went to bed early with a cold. He never complains. He keeps going, no matter how poorly he feels. The sheep have to be fed and feed has to be prepared which, as we mix our own, means a long drawn-out job. It is cheaper even though a little less convenient. I realised I would have to make a fast recovery when he came in through the back door, red eyed and exhausted.“

And that’s yer lot. Like we said way up at the start there, if you want to vote for your favourite from that little lot, feel free - just mail peacharse@yahoo.com by 6pm UK time on Sunday evening with a list of your favourite five posts (no more, no less), starting with your favourite and working down. Go on, you know you want to. Have a say. Have a vote. You never know, you might even like it and want to do it on a more regular basis.

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday February 15th.

If you’d like to take a turn in the judge’s robes, drop us a line. Fresh perspectives are encouraged.

This week’s winner has a larger than life ability to convey the funny in almost everything he touches. I give you,

Smaller than Life: It Might As Well Rain Until September.
From smug to mugs in one fell swoop. (read more…)

nominated by The Girl

Our Judges said:

A fretful dad deciding the characteristics of their just born and unborn babies based on an excel spreadsheet, some bad childhood memories and a calendar? That makes perfect sense. I’m off to do mine now!

A brilliant example of taking a tiny, split second thought and turning it into a hilarious post.

This explains why all the youngest kids in my class were 2nd born, though those calculations must have taken hours on an abacus.

Having children forces you to do accounts in a spreadsheet? Yet more reasons not to breed.

This week’s team was made up by mike on shortlisting duties, and the international judging squad of Hall of Fame judge, anna, past winner Missy M, Cathy, Toni,Sarah R, and moi, asta.

Did you see the BAFTAS or the Grammys and wish you had a vote? Well you can here. Click and discover the power. I’m feeling all Yodaish now.

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

If you - yes, YOU - would like to vote on this week’s shortlist, then please mail peacharse@yahoo.com by 6pm UK time on Sunday evening with a list of your favourite five posts (no more, no less), starting with your favourite and working down.

1. Cheer Up Alan Shearer: Dennis Viollet for Manchester United (v Red Star Belgrade), 5 February 1958.

I have twice approached the club to offer this half century old item for loan and display in the museum but both times the club have shown absolutely no interest.

2. Down In Me: Silent transgressions.

You dispense with my humanity under the pretense of assistance, infringing on my every quivering cell.

3. Planet Me: Let’s Talk About Sex Baby!

As a divorcee, I can assure you that the reasons some men are commitment-phobic are plain and simple common sense.

4. Smaller Than Life: It Might As Well Rain Until September.

From smug to mugs in one fell swoop.

5. That’s the way life is…: Salt Water.

It is after the third car wreck that I have come to terms with the fact that this is permanent and degenerative.

6. William B. Swygart: All I wanted was you to take me out…

This should not soundtrack bank adverts, but I’ve this awful, awful feeling that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

7. Woman of experience: F*****g V********’s D*y.

But you’ve been nagging him since Christmas you stupid shitforbrains. He had no choice.

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday February 8th.

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