Anagrammy Placegetters for December 2020

All the highly-placed anagrams from the December 2020 Anagrammy Awards.

THE GENERAL CATEGORY

THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - David Bourke with:
The late English actress Dame Barbara Windsor DBE =
Blonde EastEnders matriarch...bet she was a bad girl!

Eq2nd - Rosie Perera with:
Kids Say The Darndest Things =
"Daddy's that singer. He stinks!"

Eq2nd - Adie Pena with:
The choirmaster's ~
"Oh, Christmas Tree."

THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - Rosie Perera with:
Donald Trump's baseless conspiracy theories =
Our dismal psycho president can't bear losses.

2nd - Dharam Khalsa with:
Supreme Court of the United States =
'No' to Trump suit. The defeat's secure!

3rd - Christopher Sturdy with:
First prize for medical advancement =
Pfizer met demand for trial vaccines.

2nd - Paul Pan with:
Vice President Kamala Harris =
America's kind heart prevails.

3rd - Paul Lusch with:
Fashion mogul Peter Nygard =
Thug of a man preyed on girls.

THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
The Donald Trump Presidency =
An odd peril pretty much ends.

2nd - Rosie Perera with:
The Pythagorean Theorem =
Math theory on page three.

3rd - Tony Crafter with:
The Brexit Withdrawal Agreement =
Battle extra-hard. Emerge with win!

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
The Top Five American Flicks You've Gotta Watch On Christmas

1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Gremlins
3. Home Alone
4. Scrooged
5. Die Hard
=
Things I learn from each one:

1. Love my town
2. Avoid chow after midnight
3. Some kids are cruel
4. Greed is foul
5. Scotch tape is fatal!

3rd - Maurice Goddard with:
Don't worry kids, Dr. Fauci said he's vaccinated Santa Claus
=
A tender dad's crucial act did us a favor -- St. Nick's on his way!

THE ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE CATEGORY

1st - Rosie Perera with:
Let's suppose you find a time machine and can go back twelve months. How will you warn Earth about the dreadful year it's entering?
=
Batten down the hatches. A virus may wipe out the weak. Trump will sue and not concede. It is gonna be a long, hard year full of misery.

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:
Let's suppose you find a time machine and can go back twelve months. How will you warn Earth about the dreadful year it's entering?
=
Warn them all? I'd use our machine to get every Wuhan bat I find in one day, go back a few years and put the whole lot in Trump's closets!

3rd - Tony Crafter with:
Let's suppose you find a time machine and can go back twelve months. How will you warn Earth about the dreadful year it's entering?
=
I'll get a mass Twitter command to the public, thus: 'Danger! Hibernate for two full years and when you wake up, avoid anyone Chinese!'

THE LONG CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
The Eight Oddest (And Real) Predictions from the Past about the Year 2020

1. "Animals, such as apes... will be capable of performing manual labor" (The RAND Corporation)

2. "Houses will be able to fly" (Author Arthur C. Clarke)

3. "Nanobots capable of entering the bloodstream... will make the normal mode of human food consumption obsolete" (Author Ray Kurzweil)

4. "Telepathy and teleportation will become possible" (Author Michael J. O'Farrell)

5. "There will be more robots used as therapists" (Trends expert Ariane Van de Ven)

6. "Roads and streets will be replaced by a network of pneumatic tubes" (Popular Mechanics)

7. "Humans arrive on Mars. It's an extraordinary event by any measure" (Wired)

8. "Predicting the future will be commonplace for the average person" (Futurist Dave Evans)
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Let's examine the bizarre predictions in 2020:

1. Apes aren't laborers, but a few are elected for office and bankrupt nations.

2. Yep, more homes fly now. In major hurricanes.

3. Well, COVID could rather make food consumption in a real restaurant obsolete.

4. People dabble in Tele-Apathy, by watching Netflix dramas. And we aren't allowed to teleport in a lockdown.

5. The closest people got to such artificial helpers are Real Dolls.

6. No tube-based commute, rather, but YouTube offers many viral Russian Dash-Cam videos.

7. Traveling to Mars proves to be rather harder than we thought, but people are burning up our world to make it resemble Mars as much as possible.

8. Humans appear to have mastered the art of terrible clairvoyance - mainly in harmful polls and on the web.

2nd - Tony Crafter with:
Harvey came home one night from a long day at work, slid into bed beside his dozing wife, and fell into a deep sleep.

He awoke to find himself at the Pearly Gates, where St. Peter was waiting. 'Sorry Harvey, I'm afraid you died in your sleep,' he said.

Harvey was stunned. 'I'm dead? No, I can't be! I've got too much to live for. Send me back!'

St. Peter said, 'I'm sorry, but there's only one way you can go back, and that will be as a chicken.'

Harvey was devastated, but begged St. Peter to send him to a farm near his home.

The next thing he knew, he was covered with feathers and pecking the ground.

A rooster strolled past. 'So, you're the new hen! How's your first day here?'

'Well... not bad,' replied Harvey the hen, 'but I have this strange feeling inside. Just like I'm going to explode!'

'Ah, you're ovulating,' replied the rooster. 'Don't tell me you've never laid an egg before?'

'No, never," replied Harvey

'Well, just chill out and let it all happen,' said the rooster. 'It's not a big deal.'

He did, and a few uncomfortable seconds later, out popped an egg.

Wow! He was overcome with wonder and emotion as he experienced motherhood. When he laid another egg - his euphoria was quite overwhelming.

As he was about to lay his third, he felt a whack on the back of his head, and heard...

Harvey! Harvey! Wake up! You've shit the bed!=
After a long illness, Pam died and arrived at the Gates of Heaven.

While she waited for St. Peter to greet her, she peeked through the gates and saw a big banquet table. Seated at it were her parents and many other people she'd loved who'd passed on before her.

They saw her and began calling greetings: "Hi, Pam!" and, "We've been waiting for you!"

When St. Peter came by, she said to him, "This place is fantastic! How do I get in?"

No problem, you just have to spell a word, he told her.

Which word? she asked.

Love.

Pam correctly spelled LOVE and St. Peter let her in.

About three years later, St. Peter came to see her and asked her to watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day.

While she was guarding the Gates of Heaven, her husband arrived.

I'm very surprised to see you, Kevin, said Pam."How have you been?"

No offence, girlie, but I've been doing great since you died, he told her.

I married the foxy young nurse who took care of you when you were ill. Then I won the jackpot on the lottery, so I sold the hovel you and I lived in and bought a big mansion. Then my sexy wife and I travelled in luxury around the globe.
You must first spell a word, Pam told him.

OK, which word? asked Kevin

Czechoslovakia.

3rd - Adie Pena with:
The Ten Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold in US$*
1. Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
2. Willem de Kooning's Interchange
3. Paul Cézanne's The Card Players
4. Paul Gauguin's Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)
5. Jackson Pollock's Number 17A
6. Gustav Klimt's Wasserschlangen II
7. Mark Rothko's No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)
8. Rembrandt's Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit
9. Pablo Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O")
10. Amedeo Modigliani's Nu couché
=
1. Jesus Christ the Savior
2. Franz Kline-influenced landscape
3. Poor unshaven peasants in Provençal
4. Two Tahitian natives on a paradise isle
5. Valued drippings regarded as "Expressionism"
6. Just naked kinky females snuggling
7. Brave abstract masterpiece in color
8. Pompous people's old wedding portraits
9. I'm looking at a group of naked women (also more mammary glands!)
10. Someone unclothed, a lone lovely woman reclining on a blue cushion (costs more than $176M).

2nd - Adie Pena with:
COVER GIRL
by Wendye Savage

Owning many colors of nail polish shades
Her face well powdered, perfectly made:
Neatly clothed, hair in place
An absolute picture of style and grace:
But when the sun went down, the moon came out
In crept messages of fear and doubt:
Clothes now hung, make up and shelf
Alone, listening to the inner self.
Reality sets in, the illusion snatched
Her inside and outside did not match:
For distorted truths and unkind words
Negative insults, is what she heard:
A diversion from truth, the diamond inside
Hidden behind messages, layers of lies.

=

COVID WORLD

Christmas dawn will never be the same,
Our tree is set up but what a useless shame.
Regret-filled, a world saddened and glum;
Once a year I hoped they'd come.
No cash, no funds, it's the wretched cat and me,
An isolated fifty-niner with no one to see.
Presence, not presents, I need a hand to hold,
A gift of health in this house so cold.
Night's and day's hours are getting longer;
Down and painfully wounded, not a bit stronger.
Eventually this suffering will surely end:
Maybe I'll visit a concerned friend.
Is happiness too much to ask?
Can I find her smile behind the mask?

3rd - Meyran Kraus with:

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

When I was seventeen,
It was a very good year.
It was a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights;
We'd hide from the lights
On the village green,
When I was seventeen.

When I was twenty-one,
It was a very good year.
It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair,
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one.

When I was thirty-five,
It was a very good year.
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls of independent means;
We'd ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive,
When I was thirty-five.

But now the days are short.
I'm in the autumn of the year,
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs;
From the brim to the dregs,
It poured sweet and clear.
It was a very good year.
=
IT WAS A VERY ODD YEAR

When Twenty-Twenty dawned,
It was a very rough year.
It was a very rough year for fair good souls, with fools at the wheel;
It seemed too unreal -
Folks loved being pawns
When Twenty-Twenty dawned.

When COVID Grief begun,
It was a very grim year.
It was a very grim year for plagued old souls with infirmities;
As a priority,
None made No. One
When COVID Grief begun.

When we were staying in,
It was a very off year.
It was a very off year for hard-working souls who often have no dime -
All losing valued time,
Their wages stretched thin
When we were staying in.

And now I'm almost there,
The death of this divisive year,
And though I'm grateful to see their Don is done and COVID is stemmed,
The real problem's not them -
It is us I fear.
It was a very odd year.

THE RUDE CATEGORY

1st - David Bourke with:
President Donald Trump's golden showers videotape =
Moron pondered, when Las Vegas prostitutes piddled.

Eq2nd - Murray Cameron with:
Inflatable sex doll =
So tall, and flexible!

Eq3rd - Adie Pena with:
It is too damn cold for an erection =
A senior tool of mine did contract!

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