If I do happen to win again, I’m gonna make sure this sentence is in the press release, and I’m gonna figure out how to get the SDMB mentioned.
Do you know about when they usually decide? I’m eager to know if you’re still the worst.
Do you think that you’re getting worse with practice?
I am a little proud of my somewhat better than average ability to peel citrus fruit while keeping the peel in one piece.
Sadly, there is no annual contest to recognize my achievement.
If the schedule follows last year, the winner will be informed the last week of July, and the press releases will go out a few days later. I was told I was a finalist on a Thusrsday and asked for a brief bio. I was told I was the winner two days later on Saturday, and asked not to speak to the press because they wanted to give AP an exclusive. The AP story came out the next Monday.
And yes, I believe I’ve managed to be even worse since. But there may be an unwritten contest rule that they don’t allow a two-time winner twice, because it hasn’t happened in 25 years. Anyway, that’s my story if I lose – not that I wasn’t bad enough, but that I was essentially blackballed.
I had a great entry penned for the Bad Hemingway Contest, and then I learned the contest was discontinued. My entry was called, “The Old Man and his Pee”. Damn, I was pissed. 
To the OP…I keep the TV on a lot. 'Cause I like background noise. But I can’t imagine it being something to be proud of.
I tend to speak proudly (much to the chagrin of my friends and family) of my utter sexual perversity. I think I’m getting on there last nerve…although I have a number of friends (not family, I’m not that weird) who love to hear about my depravity.
To speak of others, I’ve gotten fron some people pride in the fact they never read. Nothing to be proud of you git!
Colorado has a long list of ways one can “personalize” one’s vehicle license plates. I find it strange that so many of my fellow Centennial Staters are so damned proud of being honorably discharged veterans. I mean, I was in the Army for three years, and all I had to do to get an honorable discharge was not fuck up so badly that the Army kicked me out. Seriously, is this something to be proud of? It is literally the same as bragging, “I never screwed up badly enough to go to jail.” I could understand being a service retiree, or a combat veteran. But just to get an honorable discharge? Not that much of an accomplishment!
My mother would be appalled. She was very determined that my brother and I would be completely self-sufficient, and taught us to cook, clean, iron, etc…
I guess the thing that I’ve been the most baffled that people are proud of, is how many women seem to be so proud of the fact that they know absolutely nothing about cars and how to maintain them. Some even go so far as to refuse to learn how.
I think some of that is bragging that you have another person who will take care of that sort of thing for you, so you never had to learn.
I have touched cigarettes. I even once bought a pack of cigarettes, which I gave away to someone else; and I once was given a cigar, which was also passed on. However, I have never smoked tobacco.
I’ve known guys who are proud of the same thing. They pay someone to do work that involves getting dirty.
I too am self-sufficient, of stoves and cookware. I need them not, because new things have come into the world. They are called restaurants, and take-out places.