# Ask the Bulwer-Lytton contest judge **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296 "2008-07-30T23:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/41 "2008-08-02T21:00:22Z")
ZOMG! The '08 Bulwer-Lytton winner is Donald Eugene Ivens! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/42 "2008-08-02T22:18:49Z")
[QUOTE=Gorsnak] ZOMG! The '08 Bulwer-Lytton winner is Donald Eugene Ivens! [/QUOTE] Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/43 "2008-08-03T00:01:23Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Huh? [/QUOTE] Google the name and you’ll see. At first I thought he was making a reference to that anthrax scientist who killed himself, but it’s a joke about a guy who lost his wallet. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/44 "2008-08-03T05:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] At first I thought he was making a reference to that anthrax scientist who killed himself… [/QUOTE] Weirdly, that’s exactly where I went as well. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/45 "2008-08-03T07:14:38Z")
Could be Steve Fawcett. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/46 "2008-08-03T08:06:05Z")
I think by “Abigail” you mean “Xerxes”. Or perhaps “Smith”. Those are two of my entries. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/47 "2008-08-04T02:13:35Z")
If the new winner can’t be found then you should have the “best of the worst” moniker re-instated. I demand it! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/48 "2008-08-04T03:18:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mongo Ponton] If the new winner can’t be found then you should have the “best of the worst” moniker re-instated. I demand it! [/QUOTE] Would that it be so. Because my entries are better, IMO. But whudyagonnado? If the ultimate arbiter thought mine were good enough to be in the finals, he wouldn’t has asked me to judge, and I wouldn’t have this interesting story. As to my title here on the boards, I requested that it be changed back to just plain vanilla member. Having a special title has been way more hassle for all concerned. I can’t count all the threads I’ve been in that get highjacked by people asking what’s the deal with the special title. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/49 "2008-08-04T03:52:42Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Because my entries are better, IMO. [/QUOTE] Well, see, _there’s_ your problem. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/50 "2008-08-04T11:04:30Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] Well, see, _there’s_ your problem. [/QUOTE] Yup, my opinion doesn’t count for much – until the revolution comes, and I get my own wall to put people up against. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/51 "2008-08-05T06:23:17Z")
Any idea when he’s going to announce the winners? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/52 "2008-08-05T07:56:16Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Oh yeah, and a geisha to feed me and dance for my amusement – a stripper geisha! [/QUOTE] Stripper geisha (imitations) are actually cheaper than the real, dying breed. The real ones will feed and dance for you, but unless you have an interpreter, you may miss out on the jokes. If you swing the deal, let me know and I’ll offer my services, unless it’s Kobe the Beefy Stripper, and then I’m sort of busy for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/53 "2008-08-05T11:18:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Any idea when he’s going to announce the winners? [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure by next Monday, unless he can’t locate the #2 guy either. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/54 "2008-08-06T13:20:13Z")
Winners have been posted [here.](http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm) There is a Doper among them. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/55 "2008-08-06T13:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] There is a Doper among them. [/QUOTE] I’m unsure if you mean me, but I am one of the runners-up. Woo-hoo! Does this mean I get to change my title here? Maybe “Next to Best of the Worst in the Adventure Category”? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/56 "2008-08-06T13:28:21Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] Does this mean I get to change my title here? Maybe “Next to Best of the Worst in the Adventure Category”? [/QUOTE] Oh gods. Congratulations, but please, PLEASE, think of poor **TubaDiva** … ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/57 "2008-08-06T19:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] I’m unsure if you mean me, but I am one of the runners-up. Woo-hoo! Does this mean I get to change my title here? Maybe “Next to Best of the Worst in the Adventure Category”? [/QUOTE] No, I didn’t mean you, which means there are at least TWO dopers among the Best of the Worst. The I have pm’d the other doper, as their real name is listed on the contest website, and I didn’t want to point to it and reveal an identity involuntarily. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296/58 "2008-08-06T21:15:50Z")
To avoid hijacking this thread, I started [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10074298#post10074298) for those who wish to share their submissions now that it’s over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-bulwer-lytton-contest-judge/458296.md?page=2)