AUGUST 2003 NOMINATIONS

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THE GENERAL CATEGORY

1st - Jesse Frankovich with:
American Education =
An academic routine.

2nd - Joe Fathallah with:
Nuclear weapons =
One war cleans up.

3rd - Toby Gottfried with:
You can't teach an old dog new tricks =
Can't change our end - stick to old way.

David Bourke with:
Male escort agency =
Select gay romance.

Larry Brash with:
The doctor's surgery =
Try to score drugs, eh?

Larry Brash with:
Desperation =
Note despair.

Larry Brash with:
Avec plaisir =
Caviare lips.

Jesse Frankovich with:
The DNA spiral =
Read this plan.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Education's ~
ideas count!

Jesse Frankovich with:
African maladies =
Find malaria case.

Jesse Frankovich with:
The Awardmaster's Challenge =
All these wretched anagrams!

Jesse Frankovich with:
Scandalous behavior =
A reason havoc builds.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Handy power tools =
Shorten a plywood.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Addictive behavior =
I crave devoid habit.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Race driver =
Rev car, ride.

Nick G with:
Antivirus program =
Rout arriving spam.

Scott Gardner with:
Unattired =
Nude trait.

Toby Gottfried with:
Imagining ~
I'm gaining.

Richard Grantham with:
Holocaust deniers =
On hostile crusade.

Richard Grantham with:
Holocaust deniers =
Reach to delusions.

graywyvern with:
Literature =
True lie art.

Adrian Hickford with:
Unresponsiveness =
Nerve's suspension.

Jaybur with:
African elephant =
I can flap ear then!

Meyran Kraus with:
Places captured in ~
landscape picture.

Allan Morley with:
The humanitarian disaster =
End this trauma in this area.

Allan Morley with:
The corrupt politicians =
Culprit is rich one at top.

Allan Morley with:
A state of emergency =
Enemy force at gates.

Allan Morley with:
A Personal Computer =
Or, "not Apple Mac user".

Zoran Radisavlevic with:
Airspeed =
See, rapid!

rainwalker with:
There's no place like home. =
A lone, motherlike speech.

rainwalker with:
University =
Revisit NYU.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
Americas first moon landing =
Grand-scale misinformation!

Hans-Peter Reich with:
Online casinos =
Inane 'coin' loss.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
No permission ~
imprisons one.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
Li, Mo, Al, Yb, Sc, Sm, Ce, H =
Chemical symbols.

Nick Saunders with:
A Personal Computer =
Popular To Scare Men.

Nick Saunders with:
Race driver =
Raver Dicer.

View with:
Mistake =
A kismet.

View with:
Dialog =
Go, dial!

Alan Yoshioka with:
Love your enemies =
Use ye no more evil.


THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - Toby Gottfried with:
Gone with the Wind? =
Then weigh it down!

2nd - Scott Gardner with:
The Video Music Awards =
MTV show is a crude idea.

3rd - Larry Brash with:
The Beatles: John, Paul, George and Ringo =
Let's be the one long-haired ganja group.

David Bourke with:
The most beautiful girl in the world =
To the list: The wonderful Imbruglia.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Three =
Machines grew, learnt, then organized terror.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Heavy metal, Techno, & Rap =
Hear MTV play each note.

Scott Gardner with:
The Sound of Music =
So I hum tunes of CD.

Adrian Hickford with:
"Pictures at an Exhibition" =
Exact in his piano tribute.

Jaybur with:
Sacha Distel: 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' =
He's a definite lady-killer, and a pop song charms!

Meyran Kraus with:
Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark' =
The fresh, ultra-light nonsensical work!

Meyran Kraus with:
Portishead's music =
It's so much despair!

Matjaz Pihler with:
"All I need is love!" =
(Lives alone & idle.)

Zoran Radisavlevic with:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head" =
An old song, happy like finer dream.

rainwalker with:
Frets on a guitar =
To us, a finger art

Hans-Peter Reich with:
'Terminator Three: Rise of the Machines' =
Fit hero Arnie storms the cinema there.

View with:
Ballroom dances =
Code: Samba 'n' Roll!

View with:
Dollar =
Ad: Roll!


THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - Jesse Frankovich with:
The hidden weapons of mass destruction =
No one's found them, as this was predicted.

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Could we invade other countries ~
without clear or sound evidence?

3rd - Toby Gottfried with:
"Bush declared healthy in annual physical" =
Punch line held: says he actually had brain.

David Bourke with:
Sergio Vieira de Mello =
I die. Morose, all grieve.

Jesse Frankovich with:
President Bush opposes gay marriages =
George's party's phobia is pure madness.

Jesse Frankovich with:
The military squadron =
Army hunted lost Iraqi.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Bush's environmental policies =
I'll ban, then cover up emissions.

Jesse Frankovich with:
A new US sweep of Iraq launched =
We acquire weapons and --sh!-- fuel.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Blackout of the year Two Thousand and Three =
Ton of heat had caused that New York trouble.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Blackout in Times Square, NY =
Sour milk can be quite nasty!

Jesse Frankovich with:
Arab spies =
Base pairs.

Jaybur with:
The newest computer virus, 'Sobig' =
So its use might even corrupt Web?

Allan Morley with:
Californian governor =
Craving for loon Arnie?

Zoran Radisavlevic with:
The Anagram Genius, version nine =
In this game even I arrange nouns!


THE RUDE CATEGORY

1st - Larry Brash with:
The Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud =
Halt fancying Mother's pussy, Dude.

2nd - David A. Green with:
The Portsmouth Dermatology Centre, St. Mary's Hospital =
Ghastly doctor has plot to put thermometers in my arse!

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
Easy women =
We moan 'yes!'

David Bourke with:
A smelly arse =
Really a mess!

David Bourke with:
A giant steaming turd =
Anus-damaging. (Titter!)

Joe Fathallah with:
Miss World Beauty Contest =
Cosy, wet slut. Modest brain :)

Jesse Frankovich with:
Cast and crew =
Act and screw!

Scott Gardner with:
Female pornography =
Peer for a nympho gal.

Scott Gardner with:
Justin Timberlake of *NSYNC =
One man fucks, jilts Britney!

Adrian Hickford with:
"What the Butler Saw" =
We blush at her twat.

Allan Morley with:
The labour pains =
Open labia hurts!

Zoran Radisavlevic with:
The singer Mya =
Hymen is great!


THE PEOPLE'S NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Richard Grantham with:
President of the United States of America ~
is a stupid ranter set to demean the office.

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
The dictator Saddam Hussein =
Mustached sadist ran to hide.

3rd - Zebraboy with:
Esther Williams =
Hell, I miss water.

David Bourke with:
General Idi Amin Dada Oumee ("The Butcher Of Uganda") =
A huge, diet-free, brutal, inhumane maniac. Dead? Good!

David Bourke with:
Madonna, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera =
Sad and repugnant hairy American lesbians trio.

Larry Brash with:
Irish Flautist James Galway =
Almighty Jesus! It wails afar!

Richard Brodie with:
The Russian piano composer Modest Mussorgsky =
This man pictures rooms, doors as gems upon keys.

Jesse Frankovich with:
P.M. Tony Blair is ~
simply a Briton.

Jesse Frankovich with:
George W. Bush, the Leader of the Free World =
The fool here begrudges the word 'welfare.'

Jesse Frankovich with:
The dictator Saddam Hussein =
Man attracts US, so he did hide!

Scott Gardner with:
Liberian President Charles Taylor =
Inspired a rebellion. Try the rascal!

Scott Gardner with:
Michelangelo Buonarroti =
Oh, me! Labour on ceiling art!

David A. Green with:
Barbara Blackburn, the fastest typist in the world =
PS tabs at frantic blur whilst bent at her keyboard.

Jaybur with:
The dictator Adolph Hitler =
A lot hated Third Reich plot.

Jaybur with:
The Angel of the Crimea =
The mere act of healing.

Jaybur with:
Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's cousin =
So, as USA had sussed him, maniac lands in jail.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
Captain Edward Smith =
Swamped Titanic hard!


THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Jesse Frankovich with:
Sport Utility Vehicle =
I've this city polluter.

eq.2nd - David A. Green with:
The American Blind Golfers' Association =
And on occasion a regret if I miss the ball.

eq.2nd - Allan Morley with:
The National Rifle Association =
A lone fanatical shooter is in it.

David Bourke with:
The Medway Maritime Hospital =
Immediately to 'RIP'. What shame!

Joe Fathallah with:
North Wales =
What loners!

Jesse Frankovich with:
The Oil and Gasoline Industry =
I gain, under dishonesty to all.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Times Square =
It's marquees.

Chris Gammon with:
A Lexus =
Sexual.

Scott Gardner with:
Webster's New World College Dictionary =
We'd get in, browse words electronically.

Toby Gottfried with:
The Leaning Tower of Pisa =
A new hope for easing tilt.

David A. Green with:
The Rorschach Inkblot Test =
React to the shrink's blotch.

David A. Green with:
The Holocaust Remembrance Day =
Acutely, NO MORE DEATH CHAMBERS.

David A. Green with:
National Rail Timetables =
All trains aim to be late in!

Adrian Hickford with:
The Press Association =
Actions shape stories.

Jaybur with:
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary =
Oh goody! Scanned this terrific lexicon!

Meyran Kraus with:
The Holocaust Remembrance Day =
Colder tombs haunt me each year.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf =
Conference of avid tutors on cannot-hear-misfit.

View with:
Communist =
I'm not scum.


THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY

1st - David Bourke with:
"What To Do When Someone Dies: A Legal, Financial and Practical Guide" by Milton Berry Scott
=
A: Bury corpse.
B: Scan will.
C: Find a solicitor.
D: Negotiate all money.
E: Get that new diamond! Ha!

2nd - David A. Green with:
"Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies" edited by Morton N. Cohen =
Innocent writer, but horror of Charles Dodgson's pedophilia fully documented here.

3rd - Jesse Frankovich with:
Those strange people that work at all the carnivals and county fairs =
Unwashed traveling folk that shall open & operate scary attractions.

Larry Brash with:
The most dangerous part of a car is the nut behind the wheel =
Thus, he meant both teenagers dead in this hot powerful car.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven. =
Oh, mankind is beyond theology even with this neat miracle.

David A. Green with:
"Curiosa Mathematica: Pillow Problems Thought Out During Sleepless Nights" by Charles Dodgson =
Insomnia bugged Lewis Carroll, th-thus that hapless guy in dog collar composed this superb tome.

David A. Green with:
Benjamin Britten's 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' =
Or: the boy's ears end up objecting to hearing the instruments.

David A. Green with:
"What To Do When Someone Dies: A Legal, Financial and Practical Guide" by Milton Berry Scott =
I imagine that she'd call funeral director to entomb wasting body, and occasionally weep.

Jaybur with:
Marriage is a wonderful invention: but then again so is a bicycle repair kit (The Scots comedian Billy Connolly) =
Romance? On yer bike! Well, I call it a tragic human condition, and fools' prison. But it's a necessary evil. (The Big Yin)


THE LONG CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
76th Academy Awards Rules
For Distinguished Achievements During 2003

RULE ONE
AWARDS DEFINITIONS

1. Academy Awards of merit shall be given annually to honor outstanding achievements in theatrically-released feature-length motion pictures, and to honor other achievements as provided for in the rules and approved by the Board of Governors.

=

The heads of the Foundation for Taste in Cinema have devised an apology for any direct or indirect involvement in these sheer stupid movies:

Superman IV
Gigli
Dude, Where's My Car?
Armageddon
Urban Legends: Final Cut
All inane rubbish that features Adam Sandler
The odd Last Action Hero that ran an hour too long
Spice World

We're so very sorry.

 

2nd - Larry Brash with:
God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And Wisdom to know the difference.

=

Concede me, tonight, the Confidence
To create fine anagrams,
And, then hoping that when it occurs,
Get eight category wins.

Thanks, God.

 

3rd - Jesse Frankovich with:
Top Ten Worst Summer Jobs

10. Deposed Iraqi dictator
9. "The New York Times" fact checker
8. French ambassador to the United States
7. Sidewalk Santa
6. Any job where you wear a uniform that reads "Mets"
5. Siegfried and/or Roy
4. "Dennis Kucinich for President" campaign manager
3. Satellite dish salesman, Amish country
2. James Brolin
1. "The Late Show" audience member
=
Top Ten Worst Forum Posts

10. Weekly joke forwards sent here
9. Poor etiquette
8. Any freakish, retarded, or nonsensical jabber
7. Eerie death threats
6. Chronic harassment by jackasses
5. Anything dimwitted, dimwit!
4. Mime dialogue
3. The ads for weird domestic machinery and other unusual enticements
2. Famous classic anagrams
1. The rancid, abominable spam

 

Richard Brodie with:
Aging actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and even that runt Gary "Different Stokes" Coleman to be listed on the ballot in that wacky California gubernatorial contest. =
Gray Davis "he'll be back" terminator, now to face an undersized, long-forgotten "Whatchoo talking about?" lad. Certainly a strange list of recent acting entrants here.

 

Richard Brodie with:
Did you hear that Arnold Schwarzenegger has entered to run as a candidate for governor of California. Finally, a candidate that can articulate Bush's policy on civil liberties, in the original German. - Jay Leno
=
Did I just hear our President being called a Nazi? Fool! Rascal! Cad! An outrage! I fear ve are not allowing any infernal democratic rhetoric at all daring to go on in the Third Reich (Cheney's). Hasta la vista, funny boy!

 

Jaybur with:
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER

 


THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
3 Angles to Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

 

2nd - Scott Gardner with:
[The famous anagram ELEVEN + TWO = TWELVE + ONE is "triply true," that is,
(1) it's an anagram when spelled out,
(2) it's a anagram of the digits when expressed numerically (11 + 2 = 12 + 1), and
(3) it's a correct equation.
Just for fun, here are a few more "triply true" anagrams:]


A duo + three + number of gospels + a quartet + pints in a gallon + number of American colonies =
a pair + a threesome + number of blind mice + quarts in a gallon + legs on an octopus + fourteen

2 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 8 + 13 =
2 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 8 + 14
[= 34]

An ace + cups in a pint + sides to a story + a threesome + points for a field goal + a quartet + number of seasons + number of golden rings =
one + pints in a quart + Houses of Congress + a menage a trois + feet in a yard + number of gospels + a tetrad + number of Platonic solids

1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5 =
1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5
[= 24]

A couple + points for a basket + a trio + number of little pigs + sides of a rectangle + a tetrad + sides of a quadrilateral + fingers on a hand + inches in a foot + number of American colonies =
a pair + a deuce + number of blind mice + points for a field goal + quarts in a gallon + faces on a tetrahedron + suits in a deck + toes on a foot + tribes of Israel + stripes on the American flag

2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 12 + 13 =
2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 12 + 13
[= 52]

A singleton + eyes on a cyclops + a couple + pints in a quart + three + sides of a triangle + a tetrad + number of seasons + points on a pentagram + inches in a foot =
an ace + cents in a penny + legs on a biped + cups in a pint + sides to a story + a threesome + four + quarts in a gallon + toes on a foot + stripes on the American flag

1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 12 =
1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 13
[= 37]

An ace + atomic number of lithium + points for a field goal + a quartet + faces on a tetrahedron + number of golden rings + number of olympic rings + inches in a foot + tribes of Israel + ounces in a pint =
unity + square root of four + number of little pigs + a tetrad + atomic number of boron + fingers on a hand + faces on a die + pence in a shilling + stripes on the American flag + atomic number of silicon

1 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 12 + 12 + 16 =
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 6 + 12 + 13 + 14
[= 65]

[Note: Where definitions differ, words are used in the American sense rather than the British]

 

3rd - Richard Grantham with:
[A complete list of numbers up to 10,000 which can be expressed as some sort of power of sums/products of their digits. Note particularly 1024, which can be expressed in two distinct ways (210 and 45).]

25 = 52

121 = 112

125 [53] = 5(2+1)

128 [27] = 2(8-1)

216 [63] = 6(2+1)

289 [172] = (8+9)2

343 [73] = (3+4)3

625 [54] = 5(6-2)

1024 [45 & 210] = 4(10/2) = (4-2)10

1296 [64] = 6((9-1)/2)

2187 [37] = ((8/2)-1)7

2500 [502] = 50(2+0)

2916 [542] = (9*6*1)2

3125 [55] = (5*1)(3+2)

3375 [153] = (3+7+5)3

4096 [46] = (4+(0*9))6

5776 [762] = 76(7-5)

5832 [183] = ((5*2)+8)3

9025 [952] = 95(2-0)

9216 [962] = 96(2*1)

9261 [213] = 21(9-6)

 

Jesse Frankovich with:
Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine

=


Have healthy figure,
Feminine exterior.
I gave Britney
Erotic kiss on MTV.

That lurid network!

 


THE AWARDSMASTER'S CHALLENGE CATEGORY

This month's challenge was to anagram
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary

1st - Richard Grantham with:
Net creation is immense word library.

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Bet I can eliminate errors in my words!

3rd - Jesse Frankovich with:
Library site: immense word container.

David Bourke with:
Enticed, to librarians' immense worry.

David Bourke with:
Mr Newboldt cries: "Is it a monye earnir?"

Larry Brash with:
It contains many words, i.e. 'eel', 'err', 'brim'.

Larry Brash with:
Wise interlibrary recommendations.

Richard Brodie with:
A mission on web: I render term clarity.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Err... it is librarian's new dot-com enemy!

Jesse Frankovich with:
Note it's a nicer, immense word library.

Jesse Frankovich with:
I endorse entries in library at m-w.com.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Immense word library on certain site.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Content is a wordier, immense library.

Jesse Frankovich with:
I do carry terms in site in realm on web.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Men store word items in a nice library.

Jesse Frankovich with:
I can note some terms in wired library.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Some wired nation's nice term library.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Retain real nice words in memory bits.

Jesse Frankovich with:
Terms! Terms! Now in library! O, nice idea!

Jesse Frankovich with:
I learn terms in ordinary .com website.

Nick G with:
...and a new interim mirror site close by.

Nick G with:
Common literary site is breadwinner.

Nick G with:
I cram many words in one terrible site.

Scott Gardner with:
Word list: I combine many rare entries.

Toby Gottfried with:
Mirrors modernity in a clean website.

Toby Gottfried with:
I.e., many London writers embrace it, Sir.

Toby Gottfried with:
(I rise: many London writers embrace it.)

Toby Gottfried with:
O, I'm sly: American-born writers need it.

Toby Gottfried with:
My entire American word list is borne.

Richard Grantham with:
Certain it's one immense word library.

Richard Grantham with:
Word commentary in site is inerrable.

David A. Green with:
Necessary aid to nimble, minor writer.

David A. Green with:
Some brainy words - lentic, REM - are in it.

Adrian Hickford with:
Words? Sorry! I am an internet imbecile!

Adrian Hickford with:
"Brinier." It means "More salty." Nice word.

Adrian Hickford with:
American site is now terribly modern.

Adrian Hickford with:
Aims: Internet-library wisdom. Encore!

Jaybur with:
I entertain wordy men, or mail scribes!

Jaybur with:
Embryonic writer's Net domain is real!

Jaybur with:
I'm merely an ABC, or, I interest in words.

Jaybur with:
One intricate word library's immense.

Meyran Kraus with:
Brainy miracle - word terms in one site!

Meyran Kraus with:
Word terms? I merely contain binaries!

Meyran Kraus with:
We contain more terms inside library.

Meyran Kraus with:
Come in, now! Read terms in library site!

Meyran Kraus with:
I learnt basic word entries in memory.

Meyran Kraus with:
I'm in one clear, brainy word-terms site.

Meyran Kraus with:
I'm on real nice, brainy word-terms site!

Meyran Kraus with:
I come in binary site, learn word-terms.

Meyran Kraus with:
Minor warily reads obscene term in it.

Allan Morley with:
Scarey, memorable word "Intern" is in it.

Matjaz Pihler with:
Internet is a boy's Miracle Word Miner.

Zoran Radisavlevic with:
More brainiest words certainly in me!

rainwalker with:
In scribe tome, many rare words line it.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
Aim is: mention rare, relic words by net.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
I am some nice words internet library.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
Site mentions rare, weird acronym: B.L.I.

Nick Saunders with:
Simian Relics Rot In Drab Enemy Tower.


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