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The deadline for nominations is Friday 2nd May 2008.
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What a great week of posts, I loved them all ! This week’s winner is:-
A Lard Off My Mind’s: Cunts: They’ve Got Our Garage Forecourts
(nominated by: LizSara)
“The next thing I knew, the same white van was on my left and the driver, a short, balding, bespectacled man in maybe his early fifties was leaning out the window, shouting, swearing and waving his arms around. Fists were waved and fingers pointed in my general direction. I gathered that he wanted me to move further to the right so that he could go to the pump on my left, and so I moved over - which was what I was in the middle of doing anyway.” Read more…
Our judges said:
“A superbly funny version of the “what I should have said” game (which I play much too often), with a gentle reminder that we needn’t sink to to our nemesis’ level (no matter how vile they are). ”
“She did well to restrain herself with what she did say, I’d have slapped him ’round the face”
“How about: ‘Why, you too fat for them yourself?’ ”
Our shortlister this week was Swiss Toni and your judges were Jessica, Bob, Gordon and Sarah P.
Thanks for playing and see you in the nomination box for the new week…
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. The Blue Skies Blog - Accentuated Emptiness (with crisps)
But you weren’t prepared. You didn’t know that was the last crisp. If you had known, your enjoyment would have been more pronounced. Perhaps you would have stopped staring out of the window and looked at the last crisp, really savouring the taste, knowing it would be the last one.
But you ate it, just like all the others. It didn’t get the special treatment it deserved.
Nominated by One Fine Weasel
2. Equine Obesity - The Truth Will Out
Everyone has experiences in their past that have defined them, fixed their opinions or messed with their minds. For some, these experiences are very drastic. For others they are more subtle, almost insignificant in the grand scheme of things (whatever that is). I fall into both categories, but I find the latter harder to shake. Things are trickier to address if they don’t seem to matter, because your eye skips over the small things you can’t see.
nominated by Betty.
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3. The Hesitant Scribe - On Reflection….
I have seen how fragile and precious this thing life is, and it pains me to see people in pain, stressed, struggling about things I now know to be wholly insignificant; how we give ourselves roles and labels: I was all those things I listed above and now I am what? Cancer Patient?! I throw away the labels - they do not define me. I refuse to let them.
Nominated by Zinnia.
4. A Lard Off My Mind - Cunts: They’ve Got Our Garage Forecourts
“Fuck you.” He turned his back on me.
“Cock,” I said.
“And YOU just told ME to watch my manners!” he retorted triumphantly.
“Yes, I’m sorry about that. If I’d realised what an appalling cock you were I wouldn’t have bothered.”
Nominated by LizSara
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5. Thomas Dolby (yes, that Thomas Dolby) - More Radiohead….And Shane MacGowan
At my previous school in London I was good friends with Shane MacGowan, of The Pogues. He and I used to sit together in the back row of English Lit. He was extremely smart. On one occasion during a boring reading of some classic novel or other, the teacher spotted me and Shane nattering. He singled me out saying something like ‘what figure of speech is “indubitably”…. Robertson?’ Shane whispered under his breath: ‘It’s an onanism.’ Ha. ‘IT’S AN ONANISM, SIR!’ I blurted out. Deadly pause. ‘Robertson, please come up to the front of the class, take down the Oxford English Dictionary and read out to the class the definition of the word onanism.’ Which I did. Much to the delight of Shane and the rest of the class.
Nominated by Scaryduck
6. 123 I Love You - Strange Bedfellows
“Were from?” he bellowed.
“Canada,” I peeped, still speechless after the nuts sideshow.
“Jim Carrey.”
“Yes. Jim Carrey is Canadian.”
“Michael and J and FOX!”
“Yes, yes. Michael J. Fox. He’s Canadian too.”
Suddenly Watanabe’s eyes lit up. He clapped his hands together.
“CELINE DION!”
Nominated by Alex.
[The nominated posts for Edvard Moonke and Tired Dad are both great, but they’re Hall of Famers and so aren’t eligible!]
Results on Sunday. Get voting!
If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday April 25th.
If you’d like to volunteer for judging duties, then please step this way.
John’s blog: Talking about grief…
(Nominated by One Fine Weasel )
Guys see themselves as invincible and all-knowing - probably why we won’t ask for directions. Boys ridicule those who cry and victimize those that seem weak and that social conditioning carries through to adulthood. Which leaves us invisibly disabled, wary of showing weakness and incapable of sharing pain. “Suck it up!” the coach yells. We did and we do.
“Really deeply affecting - an open conversation about a very private grieving process.”
“A very thought-provoking post. The idea of grieving for someone who isn’t gone yet is rarely discussed, probably because we don’t like to think it will ever happen to us.”
