JUNE 2005 NOMINATIONS

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THE GENERAL CATEGORY

1st - Rick Rothstein with:
For the evil that men do ~
doth live on after them.

2nd - Rosie Perera with:
Internet addiction =
Cannot end it. I tried.

3rd - Dean Mayer with:
"One small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind" =
Neil's plan - speak for a moment after moon landing.

Tony Crafter with:
Love-machine =
Moan-vehicle.

Tony Crafter with:
Male cousins =
So masculine!

Tony Crafter with:
Basic starlet's ~
a B-list actress.

Tony Crafter with:
Keep Off The Grass =
Offer geeks paths.

Tony Crafter with:
The onset of old age =
False teeth no good!

Tony Crafter with:
Scared of responsibility =
Fears direction possibly?

Ellie Dent with:
The law of self-preservation =
Welfare of the person's vital!

Ellie Dent with:
The places of worship =
Oh, it's pews for chapel!

Ellie Dent with:
A lifestyle change =
I challenge safety.

Ellie Dent with:
Intolerable cruelty =
Nicely label torture.

Toby Gottfried with:
Sea water pollution =
Our planet: oil waste.

Toby Gottfried with:
Earth, air, fire, and water =
A hard, wet terrain, I fear.

Meyran Kraus with:
Bikes ensured ~
bruised knees.

Meyran Kraus with:
A holiday romance =
A lady in each room.

Dean Mayer with:
The playgrounds =
Oh, drugs aplenty.

Dean Mayer with:
Olives =
So vile.

Dean Mayer with:
Finest claret =
Nectar itself.

Dean Mayer with:
Convict =
I on CCTV?

Rosie Perera with:
How come a chicken crossed the road? =
Hah! Some cad cock crew on other side.

Rosie Perera with:
Yet bawdy senior rants, ~
"I wasn't born yesterday!"

Rosie Perera with:
Saint Bernard, the rescue dogs =
Canine breed stores draughts.

Rosie Perera with:
Rwandan genocide =
Encoded a warning.

Rosie Perera with:
The weight loss video =
Viewed to lose thighs.

Rosie Perera with:
Gastrointestinal disease =
Alas, as I get rotten insides.

Rosie Perera with:
Quitting cold turkey =
Drink got quietly cut.

Rick Rothstein with:
O! My! I want to be an actress =
Anatomy? Two nice breasts.

Rick Rothstein with:
Cosmetics counter =
Customer's conceit?

Rick Rothstein with:
Human trusting is, ~
in truth, assuming.

The Secular Consortium with:
What Italy is really in need of ~
is a fertile and Holy new laity.

Christopher Sturdy with:
A polyphonic ringtone =
The poor, annoying clip.

View with:
Waitresses =
Er, we assist.

View with:
Parodist =
I do parts.

View with:
Spanish senorita =
She's not Parisian!?

zolrakk with:
Nutrition facts =
I instruct on fat.

zolrakk with:
Ancient Chinese secret =
Ethnic eastern science.

zolrakk with:
If you're real smart ~
raise your left arm.

zolrakk with:
Have an ax to grind =
Ah, grand vexation.


THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - zolrakk with:
Rap music ~
Is, um... crap.

2nd - Ellie Dent with:
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet " =
Be honest... we assume lady really wants Romeo.

3rd - Dean Mayer with:
Big Brother contestants ~
cannot be brightest sort.

David Bourke with:
The tennis player Maria Yuryevna Sharapova =
Ah! Very pert Russian anatomy... a heavenly pair!

Larry Brash with:
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer =
We who never mind his great talent.

Tony Crafter with:
Close harmony ~
on my chorales.

Tony Crafter with:
Operatic style =
Stereotypical.

Ellie Dent with:
French painter Matisse =
The fine art can impress.

Ellie Dent with:
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle =
A giant hound in a cruel story.

Scott Gardner with:
Renoir's "Portrait of Claude Monet" =
Or "no mere picture of an old artist".

Toby Gottfried with:
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" =
His 'Porgy and Bess' grew huge in lore.

Meyran Kraus with:
The Beatle Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) =
He dares to sing a track rather terribly.

Dean Mayer with:
"Sing if you're glad to be gay" =
Guy going after ideal boys.

Christopher Sturdy with:
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer =
Went there - loved hearing man's wit.

Christopher Sturdy with:
Billy Elliot the Musical =
Ballet, my illicit soul, eh?

View with:
The group Guns'n'Roses =
Ogre runs up the songs.


THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes =
OK, is the romance simulated?

2nd - Toby Gottfried with:
California earthquakes =
Quite a shake for car in L.A.

3rd - Ellie Dent with:
The Live Eight Concert =
Then rich elect to give?

David Bourke with:
Today's referendum in Italy =
Entry "truly one-sided" - Mafia.

David Bourke with:
Pneumatiques Michelin =
Alien Schumi equipment.

Tony Crafter with:
This demon is a mass-murderer =
Terrorism? Me? Saddam Hussein?

Tony Crafter with:
On alert! Wimbledon season due! =
And no doubt we'll see some rain.

Joe Fathallah with:
The G-Eight Summit =
I might meet thugs.

Dean Mayer with:
An Islamist's hatred of all things American =
Fanaticism that is normal raghead illness.

ofap with:
The Glastonbury Festival =
A vast, slithery, fluent bog.

Rosie Perera with:
Tropical storm Arlene =
Torrent alarms police.

Hans-Peter Reich with:
The Confederations Cup =
Ha, top soccer, fine-tuned.

Don Rogers with:
School's out for summer =
Shut rooms; close forum.

Rick Rothstein with:
Medicinal marijuana =
Um, I'd jail an American!

Christopher Sturdy with:
Attack of the clone towns =
That 'lack of contents' woe.


THE PEOPLE'S NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
The US astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong =
Let's send this great man on a lunar tour!

2nd - View with:
Sir Lancelot and Guinevere =
Intrigues can end real love.

eq.3rd - Ellie Dent with:
Arthur Conan Doyle =
Canny older author.

eq.3rd - Rosie Perera with:
Astronaut Sally Ride =
Lure a lady into stars.

David Bourke with:
The Zimbabwean president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe =
Big ape, brazen brute, sometime white land-grabber.

David Bourke with:
Peter William Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper =
Spiteful, if creepy, hermit... rapist... whore-killer.

David Bourke with:
The tennis player Tim Henman =
Permanently in the shit. Amen.

Tony Crafter with:
The missing Lord Lucan =
This malign scoundrel.

Toby Gottfried with:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt =
Er... no voters like Alf Landon?

Adrian Hickford with:
Sprinter Asafa Powell =
Flawless preparation.

Meyran Kraus with:
US astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong =
Man utters a slogan on lunar stride.

Don Rogers with:
Chairman Mao Zedong =
Do one amazing march.

zolrakk with:
Iron Mike Tyson =
I merit K.O. sonny.


THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Rosie Perera with:
The Federal Witness Protection Program =
Tattlers get new ID, car, sniper-proof home.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
American Apollo Eleven Mission =
Neil's moon leap is live on camera.

3rd - Toby Gottfried with:
The University of Western Ontario =
These fine tutors in an ivory tower.

David Bourke with:
Daily Mail readers =
"Dear dear! I *am* silly!"

Tony Crafter with:
Guinness pure Irish stout =
It's super! (No use rushing it.)

Tony Crafter with:
Guinness Irish Stout =
Sigh: "Nutritiousness."

Ellie Dent with:
The National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit =
They planned an allergen cure, or abolition… ATISHOO!!

Meyran Kraus with:
Switzerland, Europe =
Powers neutralized.

Meyran Kraus with:
Switzerland, Europe =
War-zone repulsed it.

ofap with:
The Battle of Trafalgar =
Beat that frog after all.

Rosie Perera with:
The White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC =
Oh, that's any US head's town venue when living in peace.

Rosie Perera with:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ‡
Or, in fact, I'd so much energy!

Rosie Perera with:
Scripps National Spelling Bee =
People are still spinning ABC's.

Rosie Perera with:
Paramount Pictures =
Camera support unit.

Rosie Perera with:
The March of Dimes ("Saving Babies Together") ~
has biggest aim: have no more birth defects.

Christopher Sturdy with:
Eurodisney, Paris =
Super noisier day.

View with:
Bermuda Triangle =
Mirage & brutal end.

View with:
The Federal Republic of Germany =
Peaceful? Bad energy from Hitler!

zolrakk with:
National Weather Service =
Their revelations can awe.


THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
In regard to his social security plan, Bush's stated that he 'remains undeterred'. =
He then burst into a manic laughter and told his press secretary: "See, I said TURD."

2nd - Ellie Dent with:
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. (William Shakespeare) =
Grief! That implies that the Devil is set to work forevermore, while man lies, in death, beneath the sod!

3rd - Tony Crafter with:
'A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.' =
This ga-ga Stalin lie indicates a morality that's diseased.

David Bourke with:
The presenter of Countdown, Richard "Twice Nightly" Whiteley OBE =
Weighty celebrity, renowned inept dunce with the hots for Carol.

Larry Brash with:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
=
The brave are deceased on that one time;
Timid boys can fear the first twelve thousand.

Ernesto Guiraldes with:
Laurent Fabius, the Socialist party's second-in-command =
France's top Militant soul embraces disunity and chaos.

Rick Rothstein with:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
=
The brave fear not their own death;
But others see, face one's end, admittedly, as a victim.

Christopher Sturdy with:
"Why, I wouldn't sleep with you if you were the last person on earth" =
I feel pity. These are not words you want when you wish to pull her.


THE AWARDSMASTER'S CHALLENGE CATEGORY

This month's first challenge was to anagram the name of a famous criminal.

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow =
Known pair declare: "Robbery!"

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Donatien Alphonse Francois De Sade =
Dreaded felon's an insane sociopath.

3rd - zolrakk with:
Charles Manson =
Conman, slasher...

David Bourke with:
Winston Emmanuelle Silcott =
"Walls? Me's let out... I'm innocent!"

David Bourke with:
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer =
Jolly fare... he fried men!

Larry Brash with:
Gary Leon Ridgway =
Inwardly gay ogre.

Tony Crafter with:
Hubert Geralds ~
bred slaughter.

Ellie Dent with:
Bonny Parker and Clyde Barrow =
Rob bank dry: larceny and power!

Ellie Dent with:
Miss Borden =
Morbidness.

Ellie Dent with:
Bonnie and Clyde =
Nice? No. End badly.

Toby Gottfried with:
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow =
Rob bank and render police wary.

Toby Gottfried with:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid =
Cad duet did such canny bank heists.

Meyran Kraus with:
Edgar Ray Killen =
End a gray killer!

Rosie Perera with:
Winston Moseley =
Sly, I set on women.

Rosie Perera with:
Robert William Pickton =
Portrait: I kill B.C. women.

Rosie Perera with:
Reggie and Ronnie Kray =
Reigning one dark year.

Rosie Perera with:
Mary Elizabeth Surratt =
My truth's a bizarre tale.

Rosie Perera with:
Nathuram Vinayak Godse =
Am unsavory; take Gandhi.

Don Rogers with:
Mary E. Surrat =
A sure martyr.

Rick Rothstein with:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ~
can study, decide, hit banks and such.

Christopher Sturdy with:
Petros Anthia =
Rapist on heat.

zolrakk with:
Salvatore Gravano =
Savage rat, no valor.


THE AWARDSMASTER'S CHALLENGE CATEGORY

This month's second challenge was to anagram "The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud".

1st - Rick Rothstein with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Guilt ensures anguish of a tortured mind.

2nd - David A. Green with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Truth is, I dream of unsound genital urges.

3rd - Rosie Perera with:
The Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud =
And thus, listening, figure out our dreams!

David Bourke with:
The Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud =
A genius audits enduring lust for mother.

Larry Brash with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Thus, I am uttering delusions of grandeur.

Richard Brodie with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Genius of tortured mind anguish, alter us.

Tony Crafter with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud ~
hunted lust as a true origin of mind-urges.

Ellie Dent with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Ego or Id, then, if trusting unusual dreams?

Ellie Dent with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
He found our true angst: guilt is in dreams.

Ellie Dent with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Genius, or fraud? Man's to endure this guilt.

Ellie Dent with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Guru identifies or must handle our angst.

Toby Gottfried with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
As guru, I find out mother underlies angst.

Toby Gottfried with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud ~
figured out angst as lust here in our mind.

Adrian Hickford with:
The Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud =
Useful diagnosis during treatment hour.

Mike Keith with:
The Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud =
Also urged drug-free human institutions.

Meyran Kraus with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Surgeon figures out the mind's natural 'Id'.

Rosie Perera with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Routine: unearth disgusting foul dreams.

Rosie Perera with:
The Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud ~
argued guilt & hurt is often in our madness.

Don Rogers with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
That genius formulated during neurosis.

View with:
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud =
Understand that furious ego is ruling me.


THE LONG CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Top 20 picks of AFI's jury members for the most popular and lingering key quotes in motion picture history:

20. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." (Casablanca)
19. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" (Network)
18. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" (White Heat)
17. "Rosebud." (Citizen Kane)
16. "They call me Mister Tibbs!" (In the Heat of the Night)
15. "E.T. phone home." (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial)
14. "The stuff that dreams are made of." (The Maltese Falcon)
13. "Love means never having to say you're sorry." (Love Story)
12. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." (Apocalypse Now)
11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate." (Cool Hand Luke)
10. "You talking to me?" (Taxi Driver)
9. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." (All About Eve)
8. "May the Force be with you." (Star Wars)
7. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." (Sunset Boulevard)
6. "Go ahead, make my day." (Sudden Impact)
5. "Here's looking at you, kid." (Casablanca)
4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." (The Wizard of Oz)
3. "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." (On the Waterfront)
2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." (The Godfather)
1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." (Gone with the Wind)

=

Oh, a neat list of lines - but to even things out, I want to nominate 20 entries for the most *heinous* film extract ever:

20. "Did NASA find oil on Uranus, man?" (Armageddon)
19. "This is why Superman works alone." (Batman & Robin)
18. "The rat is the cleanest one." (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II)
17. "You ooze, you lose." (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie)
16. "No one laughs at a master of Quack Fu!" (Howard The Duck)
15. "I came here to study the great American art of muff diving." (Van Wilder)
14. "Move the feet to the left, you're in my shot." (the Paris Hilton video)
13. "Die, stuffed ball of fluff!" (Death to Smoochy)
12. "I had no idea you could blow like that." (Glitter)
11. [Many men and women vomit at a funeral] (Mafia!)
10. "Grab my belly and make a wish." (Kazaam)
9. "Huh?" (Dude, Where's My Car?)
8. "I always wanted to cornhole me a blind chick." (The Toxic Avenger)
7. "Haven't you ever heard of the word "compromisation"?" (Spice World)
6. "They make my penis sneeze." (Gigli)
5. "It's turkey time! Gobble Gobble!" (Gigli)
4. "Technically, sir, tomatoes are fags." (The Attack of The Killer Tomatoes)
3. "I'm the king of the world!" (Titanic)
2. "I am going to make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango." (Battlefield Earth)
1. "One thing's sure - Inspector Clay is dead. Murdered. And somebody's responsible." (Plan Nine from Outer Space)

 

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Walking down the street, I saw a blind man being led by a guide dog. Suddenly, the dog peed on the man's leg. The owner took a biscuit from his pocket, bent down, and gave it to the dog. I said to him, "Pal, that was one of the kindest things I have ever seen." The man said, "Kind! No, I just want to find out where his head is so I can kick his ass!"
=
A snobbish woman, walking down a street with her dog, passed a drunk hobo sitting on the sidewalk. The distasteful man looked at them and jibed, "That's the ugliest pig I've ever seen."
"Why, you offensive, drunken idiot," chided the incensed woman, "it's not named a pig, it's canine, as in 'dog'!"
"Heck," the hobo said, "I was talking to the dog."

 

3rd - Ellie Dent with:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw)
=
"Oh help! I'm a teapot!" Das ist, transparently, a grand delusion. How the patient's self emerges brand new. The poor deranged fool! An abnormal, remorseless, inborn stress. What a hell the mother began... (Freud)

 


THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

1st - Larry Brash with:
When I was a lad I served a term

 

2nd - Mike Keith with:
A 935,763-letter anagram of Moby Dick

 

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:
John Keats: To My Brother George

 

Tony Crafter with:
PERFORMER-DUO LIMERICKS:

"My bride she's no virgin," said Plening,
"For she gave me one hell of a draining;
Her up and down thrusts
Could be mere sexual lust,
But her circular action - that's training!"

=

LIMERICK - VAIN BIANNCA:

Biannca, in spite of wide rumors,
Could only have sex in her bloomers,
Till a rigger named Nusset
Drilled right through her gusset,
And tapped her for future consumers!

 

Dan Fortier with:
Let's Dance by David Bowie

 

Don P. Fortier with:
The first few paragraphs of Moby Dick

 


THE RUDE CATEGORY

1st - Rick Rothstein with:
A problem getting an erection =
Met girl... Nope! I can't get a boner.

2nd - ofap with:
Topless waitresses =
We possess real tits!

3rd - LR with:
Masturbation =
To burst a main.

David Bourke with:
The Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud =
Guru of unhinged turd Alanis Morissette.

Tony Crafter with:
Having an erection =
Ten-inch Viagra one!

Tony Crafter with:
To pleasure oneself =
Free, also plenteous!

Meyran Kraus with:
Lawless women ~
swallow semen.

Dean Mayer with:
Playing with himself ~
his white palm flying!

The Waiter with:
Tits are waiting for men's dicks =
We cast sign, it's time for a drink.

zolrakk with:
Pass gas =
Ass-gasp.


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