Here are the winners of the January 2000 Anagrammy Awards, but before I do I would like to add a few comments about the voting form. Voting was a little quieter this month and there has been some debate about the complexities of the new voting form and whether it puts people off voting. I have had several favourable comments via email about the current format, in that it allows greater choices and flexiblity to the voting, but I also acknowledge that it does make thing a bit more complicated. 11 of the 22 voters, decided to vote for less than 3 anagrams in a category or to even skip a category altogether. This is perfectly acceptable. If people are finding it a bit too complex or time consuming, then please feel free to just select one or two in each category. Checking the votes and point scores is much slower, too, but I have set up an Excel spreadsheet to keep tally of the scores and this has made things a little easier to check the accuracy of my counting. I always do a double check when voting is closed and have picked up a couple of errors. I will give some thought as to some redesign/simplification of the form, whilst still trying to preserve the idea of the points system. OK, lets get on to the winners: --------------------------------------- The General Category Janet Muggeridge started well with 7 points from the first 3 voters and went on to a runaway win. 16 out of the 22 voters gave her clever anagram on antidepressants a vote. I must add it to my collection of psychiatric anagrams. This was Janet's 10th Anagrammy. 1st: Janet Muggeridge with: 40 points Anti-depressants= Nastiness, depart! 2nd: Art Day with: 20 points Genital herpes. = Lie, shag, repent. 3rd: Richard Grantham with: 16 points "Do you want fries with that?"= "WHAT?!? Fried shit!? NO, you twat!! --------------------------------------- The Entertainment Category This was a fairly close event with Tom Myers sharing a early lead with Janet B, the Mey Kraus presenting a strong challenge. Tom surged ahead to 6 consecutive 2nd choice votes. Tom's 22th win. 1st: Tom Myers with: 38 points Contains full frontal female nudity.= Nice tan, so artfully flaunted on film. 2nd: Mey Kraus with: 33 points Hieronymous Bosch's "Creation of the World", "Paradise", "Garden of Earthly Delights" and "Hell". = Oh, this is a lewd, colorful triptych of a mad Hollander: "Genesis", "Eden", "Abhorrent Orgy", "Hades". 3rd: Janet B. with: 28 points Actor Michael Douglas= Glamorous ideal catch --------------------------------------- The Topical Category Twelve starters in category, but it ended with an easy win to Mey Kraus with a very smart little anagram. Mey's 26th award. 1st: Mey Kraus with: 29 points The battle for Elian's custody= Oh stay, little fostered Cuban! 2nd: Janet Muggeridge with: 16 points Deutsche Bank swallowed Morgan Grenfell.= Farewell England. Deutschmark owns globe. 3rd: Janet B. with: 14 points Russian president Yeltsin resigns= Tipsy inertness as underling rises --------------------------------------- The Rude Category This was a very close event with a seesawing battle between Tom and Mey. Tom picked up last two 1st choice votes, grabbed the lead. Second win this month and 23rd overall, keeping him a number 4 on the all-time list. 1st: Tom Myers with: 32 points The traveling salesman.= Vaginas: enters them all! 2nd: Mey Kraus with: 28 points Winner of a Beauty Contest= A fine butt to screw, anyone? 3rd: Richard Grantham with: 20 points I love little pussy, Her coat is so warm, [snip] --------------------------------------- The Spam Category This was close. Richard Grantham, Mey and myself were always within a few votes of each other and I thought that Richard's llamagram would win. On the first count I has Richard as winning, but on double-checking, Mey won by a point. Number 2 for Mey this month, 27 in total and remains 3rd on the all-time list. 1st: Mey Kraus with: 35 points You Can Easily Stop "Incurable" Herpes Outbreaks Now= Ah, Can You Eat A Boner, Silly Web-Poster? Suck Our Penis! 2nd: Richard Grantham with: 34 points ADULTS ONLY Like your PORN borderline illegal?? Wanna see a Donkey Show?? Luv Animals?? That's US, Cum take a LOOK = Hello, anal runt. I shall not seek your usual useless wank-porn, OK - I've got a LLAMA tied down in my backyard! Ol! 3rd: Larry Brash with: 30 points GET YOUR OWN 5 MEG WEBSITE FOR ONLY $11.95 PER MONTH TODAY! = Why bet $511.95? You dirty rotten spammer! Now go! Go on! Flee! --------------------------------------- The Long Spam Category Richard and I had some late night email discussions about his category selections and his choice here (not the one I had picked) turned out to be a good one. Richard's monster spamagrams led to the creation of this new category and his win was well-deserved. His 6th win and expect to see many more. 1st: Richard Grantham with: 49 points Try IT NOW, IT's Free and it Really does WORK The makers of Thin & Slim Naturally [snip] 2nd: Mey Kraus with: 41 points Herpes Simplex II, otherwise known as genital herpes,[snip] 3rd: Mick Tully with 24 points My name is Darren Mulligan and I am an aspiring photographer[snip] --------------------------------------- The Long Category I thought David Bourke's Bohemian Rhapsody would be an easy winner here, a clever little rhyme by Elegy stole any early lead and kept David in second place. 1st: Elegy with: 33 points Mary had a little lamb,[snip] 2nd: David Bourke with: 26 points Bohemian Rhapsody: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?[snip] 3rd: Janet Muggeridge with: 18 points Tomorrow Glaxo Wellcome and Smithkline Beecham are to join up and form a single large company.=[snip] --------------------------------------- The Name Category January was a rather lean month for me with very few nominations. When I found this Edison anagram, I thought that it was not too bad, but the more I thought about it the happier I was about it. Fortunately enough of the votes shared my view for it to win by a modest margin. Win number 32 for me (I really hate it if I don't get one win each month) 1st: Larry Brash with: 22 points Thomas Alva Edison= Aha! Ions made volts! 2nd: David Bourke with: 17 points The Reverend Ian Paisley He is a "Never Ireland!" type 3rd: Jean Fontaine with: 16 points Neil Armstrong= Starring on LEM --------------------------------------- The Place Names Category This was a surprise for me (and some others). Mey's New York anagram looked the goods here, but Tom's offering (which was originally in the Rude Category) kept up a narrow lead. Wow, that is three for Tom this month and gives him 24 all up. 1st: Tom Myers with: 33 points Hustler Magazine= Amazing slut here! 2nd: Mey Kraus with: 30 points New York, USA= You wankers! 3rd: Linda G. with: 15 points Tasty McDonalds Cheeseburger= Retch at cold messy greased bun! --------------------------------------- The Anagram Set Category Now, Janet really had this won, until a whithering burst from Richard Brodie who jumped from 4th to first in the last two days of voting. His 34th winner and that keep his position of top dog on the all-time list. 1st: Richard Brodie with: 30 points The battle for Elian's custody = Best thou flee Castro, tiny lad. Lad's tiny boat left to US. Cheer! Nice lady lost, but, ah, tot's free! Ha! Little boy ran, defects to US. Fidel Castro, the nut, steal boy? 2nd: Janet Muggeridge with: 29 points the smallest room in the house= Theme: shithole, stools, manure. Arsehole's on the toilet. Hum, Ms! Enema rule: ho, shit them stools! Arsehole moment - oh let us shit! Hello! sat, met home host's urine 3rd: Daniel F Etter wrote: 25 points Death row inmates= Mother's await end. Date with a sermon. Dirt to ash. A new me! What a monster! Die!!! Waste had no merit. --------------------------------------- The Special Category The undoubted King of this category, Mike Keith, left all the opposition in his wake. Mike's 13th Anagrammy in a relative short time, another one for Richard Grantham (7 in total and now in the top 10) and 16th to Jon (at 5th all-time) 1st: Mike Keith with: 39 [Preface: Of course, as usual, the two texts separated by the "=" 2nd: Richard Grantham with: 12 Love is too young to know what conscience is; 3rd: David Bourke with: 12 [George Michael's new album ] --------------------------------------- The Awardsmaster's Choice Award for a Non-winning Anagram My choice was relatively easy this month as Mey's Place category runner-up was a real eyecatcher and unlucky to miss a win. Mey Kraus with: New York, USA= You wankers! --------------------------------------- Thank you all for voting and your comments (both positive and negative) about the new format. I will see what I can do to modify this. Suggestions are most welcome. Congratulations to all the winners.