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 would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

1. Big n juicy: Planning to be crucified this Easter?

Please ensure that you have an up-to-date tetanus vaccination before performing any self-flagellation.

2. Hydragenic: The London Nobody Knows.
(nominated by mike)

This relentless surge forward frequently feels like the adrenaline-crazed, sugar-fuelled rush of a sub-adolescent society uneasy in its own skin.

3. Stuff White People Like: #90 Dinner Parties.
(nominated by Peach)

The ultimate goal is to do a better job than the couple at the last dinner party, and attempt to make everyone jealous and sort of dislike you.

4. This Is This: Do You Want Tibet?
(nominated by Katy Newton)

Cliff, hello, this is Jeremy from Bunsup, Nealing and Eger. Look, I’m calling about an opportunity that’s come up in the market. Are you free to talk?

5. What Do I Know? A Very Peaceful Protest.
(nominated by Bob)

Marching in the streets would have been ignored. What could one woman, with a strand of Christmas lights in her hand, do?

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday March 21st

Good Evening.

Well, well - we have another tie this week.

Congratulations to (in alphabetical order) Mr Angry and Wendy for their respective posts this week:

I Am Livid: Tube Fare Dodgers, nominated by Duck

People tend to take notice of the warning signs, or rather the 27% of tube users that can read do anyway. However, the animal kingdom clearly do not hold any fear of the ’system’. They have been known to regularly flaunt the rules, and I refer in particular to the pigeon that joined my Circle Line train at Edgware Road yesterday.

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Our Judges said:

“bless that pigeon!”
“stop the pigeon!”
“Wonderful, but if Mr. Angry really lived up to his name he’d have taught that bird a lesson and had squab for dinner.”

It’s A Life: Ten Seconds Is A Long Time In Showbusiness, nominated by Katy Newton

When you look at 10 seconds as a fraction of an hour, it’s not very long. As a fraction of a year, it becomes more or less insignificant.

“Off with his….”

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Our Judges said:

“a simple premise, just a few seconds of someone’s day, there isn’t any reason why that should make a good anecdote, but when nicely done, it does”
“oh god, we’ve all done it, but nicely prosed by Wendy”
“Clever and well-written, with and ending I didn’t see coming from someone I’d never read before. Aces.”

Your shortlister this week was Monozygote. The judgely-huddle consisted of Anna (from the Hall of Fame), Lee (winner of last week’s POTW and new member of the Hall of Fame), Bob (all round top POTW team member and eminent blogger) and me, Sarah R.

It’s been mildly chaotic - but thanks to the patience of the team, all’s well.

So. You want to get involved, don’t you? It’s easy - just click here and follow the instructions.

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 would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

1. Avery Gray: Study in Economics, nominated by missym

   This branch, like any other in the known universe, employed all three of the different types of tellers:

2. Frizzy Logic: Heartened, nominated by Hg

   The rapidly approaching feet were attached to two males, early 20s, both about six feet tall, hoods pulled right over their heads and obscuring most of their faces, the waistbands of their jeans clinging precariously to their upper thighs presumably by some sort of frictive interaction with the boxer shorts beneath, most of which were clearly visible above.

3. How-You-Say-It: But, nominated by Zinnia Cyclamen

   Later, Hughie quietly acknowledged that he’d kicked harder than he’d meant to. Obviously this gave me no end of pleasure in realising that it wasn’t just that I was being a weed.

4. I Am Livid: Tube Fare Dodgers, nominated by Duck

   People tend to take notice of the warning signs, or rather the 27% of tube users that can read do anyway. However, the animal kingdom clearly do not hold any fear of the ’system’. They have been known to regularly flaunt the rules, and I refer in particular to the pigeon that joined my Circle Line train at Edgware Road yesterday.

5. It’s A Life: Ten Seconds Is A Long Time In Showbusiness, nominated by Katy Newton

   When you look at 10 seconds as a fraction of an hour, it’s not very long. As a fraction of a year, it becomes more or less insignificant.

   10 seconds is a long time though.

   Imagine for instance, the theatre-dahling. You’re watching a production of Richard III, when some Olivier-esque actor or other says…

   “Off with his….”

6. Real E Fun: Zinnia Goes Off-Topic, nominated by Clare

   I just want a public transport system that works and that I can afford. I want it really badly, and I don’t understand why I can’t have it, and I feel angry and helpless and a little bit like crying.

7. This Is This: Eastward Blows The Wind, nominated by Wendy

   The wind wants to blow east. It moves in from the west. If you want to go back further, it starts in Mexico. Maybe it braces itself with a couple of margueritas before heading up over Cuba and the Florida Keys, brushing past the Carolinas, perhaps picking up rain over the Mason Dixon line for Pennsylvania and New York before heading out over the ocean through jet engines, speeding up their eastward journey before coming ashore at some British port that was busier in the days before the turbines first roared.
   

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday March 14th.

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