This month's turnout of 38 voters is a new record. Sending out a second reminder near the end of voting really improved the voting numbers. Only 5 of the 38 didn't use the long categories page. Here are the winners of the October 2001 Anagrammy Awards. ---------------- GENERAL CATEGORY A big field of 16 starters this month, only three stood out with the voters. Noam Elkies was the early leader, but David Green soon challenged and gradually opened up a good lead in the last 2 days of the competition. Richard Grantham was never too farback This was David's 3rd Anagrammy. Noam now has two awards, the last one was in September 1999. 1st. David A. Green with: 47 An hermaphrodite = O, I'm part he and her! 2nd. Noam D. Elkies with: 36 Homo sapiens = Ape's son, IMHO. 3rd. Richard Grantham with: 35 Future generations = Our unfit teenagers. 4th. Allan Morley with: 14 The religious fanatic = Holiest act: I fire a gun. 5th. Three on 12 points ---------------- ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY Our new Anagrammy Checker, SpursKevin, moved into the lead here on Day 2 and consolidated it over the last day, for an easy win. He has won three Anagrammies over the last three months. 1st. SpursKevin with: 51 Dolly Parton's Greatest Hits = Hot legs, portly arse, and tits. 2nd. Jaybur with: 30 Actress Linda Gray in 'The Graduate' = A star lady: her nude acting is great! 3rd. Mary Devaughn with: 27 Kathie Lee Gifford = The Glorified Fake. ---------------- TOPICAL CATEGORY The USA's war of terror and the Taliban strongly influenced voting here this month. David Bourke started brilliantly with 4 primary votes and powered to a good lead. He was well ahead of a fast finishing Richard Grantham. 1st. David Bourke with: 58 The USA and Britain ~ unite and hit Arabs. 2nd. Richard Grantham with: 45 Operation Enduring Freedom = More die for ruined Pentagon. 3rd. Meyran Kraus with: 31 US Strikes Taliban = Is Kabul resistant? ---------------- RUDE CATEGORY David Bourke continued his monopoly on this category. He is a very rude boy! However, he had to fight for his winner here this month with strong challenges from Richard G, David G and Adrian H. 1st. David Bourke with: 45 Drinking to excess = Dick resting, no sex. EQ 2nd. Richard Grantham with: 42 Sleeping together = Get their legs open. EQ 2nd. David A. Green with: 42 Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more = Wow! Men's rude kinky innuendo gag. ---------------- PEOPLE'S NAMES CATEGORY A very strong month for David B now that domestic tranquility has been re-established in the Bourke household. Janet B was the early leader, but a stong mid-competition run by David gave him the lead and eventually an easy winner with one of the best anagrams in the whole of this month's awards. David scored three wins this month. That gives him 16 for this year and 36 all time wins. He looks like challenging Tom Myers for 5th place of the All Time Table before the end of the year. 1st. David Bourke with: 55 The terrorist Osama Bin Laden = Arab monster is no idle threat. 2nd. Jaybur with: 33 The Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani = Admiration at the detail in oil images. 3rd. Mick Tully with: 31 Albert DeSalvo = Absolved later. ---------------- OTHER NAMES CATEGORY Jaybur looked like getting the Name double early in the competition, but David B stopped her in Peoples Name. However, she was never in too much trouble in Other Names scoring very soundly at the finish line. 1st. Jaybur with: 58 The Nightingale School and Home for Nurses = Teaching and lessons here might honour Flo. 2nd. Wayne Baisley with: 48 International Business Machines = Brain unessential in Macintoshes. 3rd. Adrian Hickford with: 26 Digital MediaSuite = Add image utilities. ---------------- SPAM CATEGORY Only 4 starters in a category that has a niche following. Allan Morley has recently discovered the art of the long anagram and has taken to this genre with avengence. He was never out of the lead with 18 out of the 29 primary votes received in this category. 1st. Allan Morley with: 70 Dear Friend, If you have been searching for a 100% GUARANTEED and Risk Free way to lose your unwanted inches [snip] 2nd. Larry Brash with: 43 Want a better sex life ? [snip] 3rd. Meyran Kraus with: 27 Our program simply involves the folding and processing of pamphlets. [snip] ---------------- LONG CATEGORY This was one of the few close categories this month with 3 of us leading at different times. I thought that is might be my only winning chance this month and led well into the competition, but strong challenges by Maurice G and then James Y put paid to my hopes. James scored well on the last day to win his 5th award. 1st. James H. Young with: 39 A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music (1597) [snip] 2nd. Maurice Goddard. with: 34 Presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, [snip] 3rd. Larry Brash with: 33 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light ---------------- SPECIAL CATEGORY A big field of eleven, but only four were real contenders. Two were poetic and one was mathematical. The voters quickly favoured Mey Kraus' beautiful poem. Allan M's very witty poem finished well for a well deserved second. Richard G's doubly-true mathematical offering was slow to attract voters but finished well for a third place. Mey had one win this month, giving him 21 wins this year. Allan picked up two this month and now has three wins all up. Richard snagged two winners and maintains his lead this year with 32 awards and 88 altogether. Can he make it to 100 before the end of the Grand Anagrammies? 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 40 (Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her husband Leonard) [snip] 2nd. Allan Morley with: 30 Intimates by D.H.Lawrence [snip] 3rd. Richard Grantham with: 27 [A selection of doubly-true anagrams] [snip] ---------------- AWARDSMASTER'S CHOICE AWARD FOR THE BEST NON-WINNING ANAGRAM. A fairly easy choice this month, with Richard and I quickly agreeing on Janet's runnerup in Peoples Name. Jaybur with: The Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani = Admiration at the detail in oil images. ----------------