Anagrammy Winners by Adrian Hickford in 2002
All the winning anagrams by Adrian Hickford from the 2002 Anagrammy Awards.
GENERAL CATEGORY, February 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
Radio phone-ins =
Opinions heard.
SPECIAL CATEGORY, February 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
American comedian Steven Wright's trademark is
his brilliant dour-faced delivery and remarkably calm, off-the-wall approach to comedy.
GENERAL CATEGORY, March 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
Classified Document =
Found access limited.
SPECIAL CATEGORY, March 2002:
3rd - Adrian Hickford with:
I've Got a Little List
GENERAL CATEGORY, April 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
Funeral processions =
Person's final course.
SPECIAL CATEGORY, April 2002:
2nd - Adrian Hickford with:
"Katherine" by Robert Louis Stevenson
TOPICAL CATEGORY, May 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
Rail safety =
Fairy tales.
AWARDSMASTER'S CHOICE CATEGORY, May 2002:
3rd - Adrian Hickford with:
Muscovites =
Soviet scum.
GENERAL CATEGORY, July 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
Board meeting =
More debating.
LONG CATEGORY, August 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
Invictus,
by William Ernest Henley
GENERAL CATEGORY, September 2002:
3rd - Adrian Hickford with:
The petrol station =
Enter that oil-stop.
GENERAL CATEGORY, October 2002:
2nd - Adrian Hickford with:
Alive =
La vie.
PEOPLE'S NAMES CATEGORY, October 2002:
1st - Adrian Hickford with:
The Archbishop of Canterbury =
Another church's type of Rabbi.
SPECIAL CATEGORY, October 2002:
3rd - Adrian Hickford with:
The Long Category has been problematic for some time now, combining as it often does a number of shorter entries unsuccessfully competing against a few longer ones by the usual suspects. :) As such, I'd like to know what people think about possibly lowering the upper limit of Long from 1000 letters to something more modest, and shunting the longer ones directly into Special.
100 letters (with the option of going a bit over if necessary) should be a good boundary IMO. However, many of the current "short long" crop hover in the 40-60 letter region and might still be disadvantaged by any 80+ 'grams that appear. Hopefully this would be only a minor problem.
Another possibility that comes to mind is to alternate between upper limits, i.e. 100 one month and 1000 the next, with longer 'grams produced in a "short" month held over until the next competition (and vice versa). This would alleviate pressure on a fast-overcrowding Special category, but would create problems for the Grand Anagrammy.
The simplest solution would be to create an entire new category, "Medium" perhaps, but this is something we'd aim to avoid.
One last option also addresses the equivalent problem in Special, that short poems tend to be overwhelmed by the longer variety. Alternation would take place as described above but would involve short prose (limit 100) and short rhymes (limit c.150 in order to allow limericks, rubáiyát, good-sized nursery rhymes etc.). Most major genres of anagram would then be catered for without having to add more categories or cause major disruption to Grand Anagrammy voting.
[We could of course allow short prose and short poems to square off every month, but the former would most likely continue to be thrashed.]
Ideally whichever scheme is chosen should come into effect immediately, but if people prefer we can hold it off until either November or the new year.
What does everyone think?
=
Richard (and other intellectual folk who subscribe to this VoyForum)
Re: The problems with, and improvements to, our 'Long' category.
I don't particularly think I should be suggesting an even-handed solution to the problem as it stands, or attempt to come up with some sort of compromise to the schism. Faint hope :) However, I suppose I'm simply in agreement with David A. Green: "ultimately whatever is decided will be fine by me"
As a pointless example of the disparity currently evident, let me quote the two shortest ever 'long' winners (while noting that the longest ever winner contains over one thousand three hundred letters, developed by David Bourke):
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? =
So, can he pee on ice and both of gonads not turn blue?
(Richard Brodie)
New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control =
So enjoy a cool beer while Driving. Not clever? Fiasco!
(Tom Myers)
The babbling, bumbling, half-baked monologue reply you're currently reading, should some witless fool decide to nominate it forthwith, would immediately go into the 'Special' category (since it contains 1506 letters), but there isn't too much that's special about it. No troublesome pentameter-verse rhyming scheme to adhere to; no grotesque homeomorphic restriction to prosaic octosyllabic words; no amazingly witty, frivolous post about naked sex with a variety of filthy farmyard animals; and only the merest hint of puerile humour.
Pre-supposing that there will be unopposed metamorphosis of this category, when should this new rule become valid? We should postpone it until after the New Year, so that the Grand Anagrammies are unaffected.
Moreover, why not introduce a few new awards?
Parallelograms
Thermograms
Portmanteau-grams
Telegrams
Mammograms
Spectrograms
Holograms
Adrian - Gobbledegook spokesperson (brilliant use of twenty-odd leftover letters!)
SPECIAL CATEGORY, November 2002:
3rd - Adrian Hickford with:
Chopping Carrots by Jack Cannon
| Home | | The Anagrammy Awards | Enter the Forum | Facebook | The Team |  |
| Information | | Awards Rules | Forum FAQ | Anagrams FAQ | History | Articles | |
| Resources | | Anagram Artist Software | Generators | On-line | Books | Websites | |
| Archive | | Winners | Nominations | Hall of Fame | Anagrammasia | Literary | |
| Competition | | Vote | Current Nominations | Leader Board | Latest Results | Old Results | Rankings | |
| Miscellaneous | | Tribute Page | Records | Sitemap | Search | Anagram Checker | Email Us | Donate | |
| Anagrammy Awards | © 1998-2012 Last updated 22nd June, 2007 |