Here are January 2001 Anagrammy winners. 30 votes received. Sorry to be a little slow in posting the results. There were alot of pages on the website to be upgraded. ---------------- GENERAL CATEGORY I thought that I had this one won until the last day or so, when first David and then Mey shot past me. Mey scored 7 points in the last 3 votes to win. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 31 Antidemocratic = Dictator came in. 2nd. David Bourke with: 30 Institutionalised racism = It salutes discrimination. 3rd. Larry Brash with: 28 Evangelical fundamentalists = Evil damn fanatics! Gee, all nuts! ---------------- ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY This was one of three categories which had first time winners. It was very close throughout, but Crash Davis finished well over the last two days to make this his first (and not last) Anagrammy. 1st. Crash Davis with: 26 Kim Basinger files for divorce from Alec Baldwin = Bride roars "I'm a fickle blond! Screw off, I'm leaving!" 2nd. Meyran Kraus with: 22 Metallica's Albums = Musical meatballs! 3rd. Jaybur with: 18 Gladiator: the Best Film = Able star: old-time fight. ---------------- TOPICAL CATEGORY A big field is becoming a regular feature of this category and this month was no exception with 14 starters. Ulf Lunde scored steadily through the competition, holding Tom Myers out comfortably. Ulf's first win. 1st. Ulf Lunde with: 30 Abdel Baset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi = I am Allah's eager lad. I bombed them! 2nd. Tom Myers with: 24 A State for the Palestinians = The point's essential - Arafat. 3rd. Jaybur with: 18 Pope names thirty-seven new cardinals = Heavens! It's plenty in sacred manpower! ---------------- RUDE CATEGORY This was a very strong category this month and was very close all the way. Any of the top 5 or 6 could have won. It has been 2 years since Keith Lehman has been in the winners' circle. His second Anagrammy. 1st. Keith Lehman with: 25 She's on the rag = No shags there! 2nd. Don P. Fortier with: 24 Autoerotic asphyxiation = I act out sex. No air? Oh, a pity. 3rd. Mick Tully with: 23 An enormous penis ~ amuses one in porn. ---------------- SPAM CATEGORY A good-sized field started in this specialist category. Mey Kraus has always done well here and he started well with Richard Grantham close until mid-contest. Mey finished well foir his 11th win in Spam. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 36 So my friend, I have given you the ideas, information, materials and opportunity to become financially independent. = A Nice Ode Shit-I'm-Creepy Vermin-Food, Please pal, I ain't in the mood. Ads again?! Leave or find, nut, My foot in yer ninny butt! 2nd. Richard Grantham with: 31 School Girls... With No Panties = Oo, Plain Girls With No Chests 3rd. Larry Brash with: 26 NEED MONEY... FAST?? PLEASE READ THIS YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE = Fee? None? Oh, you nasty little spam-sender. Go ahead - shove it! ---------------- LONG SPAM CATEGORY Using Onno Zweer's Sater anagram checker has made the task of creating long anagrams a dream. This was one of my first anagrams created with it and the best spamagram that I have ever done. 1st. Larry Brash with: 60 ARE YOU READY TO GET $40,000 IN 6 WEEKS WITH ONLY 6 BUCKS!!?? [snip] 2nd. Crash Davis with: 37 Q*U`I-T S*M-O.K.I.N`G Now with L*I*F.E.S.I-G.N http://www.smokefreelungs.com [snip] 3rd. Meyran Kraus with: 31 The site will answer these questions: What if my broker does not understand this? [snip] ---------------- LONG CATEGORY Richard Brodie has always done well in the longer category especially with his biblical offerings. Although I polled more primary votes, he collected more points because the larger number of 2nd and 3rd votes. This win gave him a share of the lead for the most wins in the Long Category. This was his 43rd win in his illustrious career. 1st. Richard Brodie with: 40 [Job 2:3]And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, 2nd. Larry Brash with: 30 As boringly and tediously expected, the previous, and other posts, 3rd. Dan Fortier with: 17 [The Russian national anthem]Mighty will, great glory: these are your riches forevermore. ---------------- PEOPLE'S NAME CATEGORY This is one of Jaybur's stronger categories. She started out strongly and maintained a good lead throughout. This was Janet's 13th Anagrammy, moving her ahead of the other Janet and Mick Tully to 9th position on the All Time Table. 1st. Jaybur with: 34 General George Smith Patton = Germans gotta go! I repel then! 2nd. Richard Grantham with: 26 William Henry Gates ~ is a wealthy gremlin. 3rd. Tom Myers with: 22 Correspondent Christiane Amanpour = Human corpses and reporter in action. ---------------- OTHER NAME CATEGORY David Iwansky (better known as Husband and Wife) has been overdue for a win in the Anagrammies. He opened a strong lead on Day One and polled solidy till the end. His first Anagrammy. 1st. Husband & Wife with: 41 Miss Congeniality = My giant silicones! 2nd. Meyran Kraus with: 32 The National Gallery = Hail only elegant art. 3rd. Rick Rothstein with: 26 Family Planning Association = I'm on pill; a fanatic's saying "NO!" ---------------- SET CATEGORY The Set Category has often been the poor cousin of the Anagrammy categories, such that I wondered whether we should have dumped it sometime ago. However, the standard has lifted in recent months, with some beautifully crafted sets. This month had several. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 32 Let's look at some of the top-grossing cinematic features in the USA: = 'Titanic': The film gets cute as Rose lets go of one Romeo at a sunk ship... 'Forrest Gump': So, a nice stooge, a *fool*, is the luckiest man in the state?! 'Home Alone': Nice tot gets (then uses) gifts - mutilates a pair of crooks! 'The Lion King': Animators use computer tool-sets; see 'Cat Fights a Foe'. 'E.T.': Focus on a cute alien's task to go "Phone Home". I stress it - great film! 2nd. David Bourke with: 26 Just five of the greatest and most influential axemen ever known, in my humble personal (and biased) opinion: = 1. Jimi Hendrix. A funky mean soul'n'blues man. Died of breathing (own) vomit. Vast, insane talent. Stone Free, people! 2. Brian May. Was in one fine band. Def Leppard, Extreme, even Mott just love him! Sung like shit. So, a final tune? No, no! 3. Eddie Van Halen. Extremely fast king of inverse-twin-hand tap. But one memorable solo, in 'Jump!'...fine sustain, no? 4. Pete Townshend. Deaf. Maximum (ie: most noisy) R'n'B / real ennui. Band fave? - 'Join Together'. Vast, full pink nose. ("A line?") 5. Nigel Tufnel. (Of Spinal Tap). Very fast. The bonehead's mission? - Banjo turned onto maximum din. (ie: "eleven"). Wanker. Eq 3rd. Don P. Fortier with: 18 DUE TO THE RECENT INCREASE OF POPULARITY & RESPECT THIS PROGRAM HAS ATTAINED, IT IS CURRENTLY WORKING BETTER THAN EVER [snip] Eq 3rd. Richard Grantham with: 18 Inside my underpants = [snip - ouch!] ---------------- SPECIAL CATEGORY David Bourke presented with three great anagrams here and I seriously thought that he might get three awards. As it was, his Decomposing Composers (my best IMHO) ran away with the competition. David now has won 21 Anagrammies, moving him to outright 6th on the All Time Table. Richard Grantham's runnerup was a slow starter but finished soundly for his only win this month. He continue to reign at the top of the All Time Table. Mey's third place gave him four awards for the month and he narrowed the gap on Richard to 3 on the All Time Table. It could be an interesting year. 1st. David Bourke with: 41 Decomposing Composers 2nd. Richard Grantham with: 24 Hello everyone and welcome to this anagram. 3rd. Meyran Kraus with: 23 [Several treatments of a pair of acrostic poems, one by Lewis Carroll to a friend and one by Poe's ill wife to her husband.] ---------------- AWARDSMASTER'S CHOICE AWARD FOR THE BEST NON-WINNING ANAGRAM. This was a harder choice than usual. The contenders included Tom Myer's Topical, Crash's Long Spam, Richard G's People's Name, and Mey's Other Names. I tend to select anagrams on the basis of one or more of the following criteria: it is from one of the shorter categories; it was close to winning; it was by someone who had not won an award that month; and it was a good enough to win in most months. Don P. Fortier's rude anagram fitted all these criteria. Don P. Fortier with: Autoerotic asphyxiation = I act out sex. No air? Oh, a pity.