Well Miser, as you can tell from every single other response you got in your thread, I wasn’t the only one who felt pretty strongly about. I believe more than one moderator felt compelled to comment as well. If you’re really hot to tag something, why not start with your monitor screen.
I’ll definitely nominate you for The Most Poorly Thought Out Thread Since Freak Freely.
For most hypnotic use of smilies, it’s at least a tie. Check out Enderw23’s post at this
thread, it is a definite neck and neck candidate.
I am obliged to make a quintuple nomination;
Duck Duck Goose purplebear Scotticher Silver Fire Spider Woman
Known from this point on as the “Gang of Five” sweetest posters on these boards.
And finally, Sue Duhnym for being The Best IRL Hostess.
[sup]PS: SUE, IF CREATING RESOURCES AND ORGANIZING EVENTS DEFINES A “SELF SERVING SIG” THEN I CHEERFULLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION.[/SUP]
D@mn punha, that’s hard to argue with. I can only hope that you drop by the Superbowl Party Thread that will come from Sue’s. It’s going to be a blast. She and her husband do things exactly the same way I try to at my parties, and according to Doobieous, I’m a pretentious food snob so that must mean they clear a higher bar. I mean no disrespect to Falcon in any way shape or form, but it can only be a photo finish.
Pretentious food snobs . . . after four years of boarding school food and two of college cafeteria food, the only thingks I won’t eat are liver and meatballs. And bivalves, but that’s only because I might be allergic to 'em.
Maybe falc and sue can share the award with Chef_Troy.
Can I nominate weirddave as person most likely to have a decent comeback when a total stranger bursts in the door and says, “Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?”
Um, if I accept my nomination for the Gang of Five, does it mean I have to wear a baseball cap backwards? [insert worried face emoticon]
And do I have to make those two-handed poking motions in front of my body, you know, whaddatheycallit, signing or marking or signaling or studding or raising or stressing or dissing, oh heck I can’t think what the word is.
Or is it a Chinese Gang of Five? Are we going to have to wear padded Mao jackets, and stand on a balcony and wave to the Teeming Millions? Oh dear, I think I’d prefer the baseball cap and the poking motions, actually. Even if le tout ensemble does include fourteen pounds of tasteless gold chains.
And I hereby nominate Hamadryad as the Straight Dope Message Board’s Official Tree Spirit, Keeper of the Chlorophyll Flame, and Goddess of the Paperless Office.