Here are the results for the February 2002 Anagrammy Awards. The awards have now been running for 4 years. Last month's technical difficulties have been sorted out following the server's upgrade which came in the middle of the awards. The perl sripts on the voting pages will only work if they are uploaded from a Windows PC, not my Macintosh. There were 39 voters this month. The number of lurkers was down, but this fluctuates a lot from month to month. ---------------- GENERAL CATEGORY As usual, it took a while for the leaders pack to emerge from this fairly large field. By the end of Day 2, Adrian, Janet and myself moved clear and made up the eventual three winners with Adrian performing strongly on the last 2 days. 1st. Adrian Hickford with: 45 Radio phone-ins = Opinions heard. 2nd. Larry Brash with: 35 Tetrahydrocannabinol = Inhaled, contrary to ban. 3rd. Jaybur with: 31 Universal agreement = Relieves an argument. 4th John Tezel with: 22 Up in the sky = Hey, Sputnik! 5th. Meyran Kraus with: 20 Archeological Expeditions = Exposing... Oh, I located a relic! ---------------- ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY Mey took an early lead here and was never really in doubt. He polled strongly throughout the contest. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 64 The children's story of The Sleeping Beauty = By a touch of these lips, I gently end her rest. 2nd. Adrian Hickford with: 44 Oscar nominated actor Will Smith = Cinema world contrasts him to Ali. 3rd. Richard Grantham with: 39 Each recruit has to learn Brahms at ~ the Australian Chamber Orchestra. ---------------- TOPICAL CATEGORY A powerful start by Mey in this category assured him of a win, but there was strong competition from David Bourke and Maurice in the latter stages. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 50 Osama bin Laden = Some DNA in a lab. 2nd. David Bourke with: 43 Princess Margaret is dead = It's sad. (Grim reaper dances!) 3rd. Maurice Goddard with: 43 War on disease ~ erase AIDS now! ---------------- RUDE CATEGORY This was quite a close competition. There were 4 early contenders with David Green, Adrian, Mey and Tom all being in contention, but Adrian and Mey went neck and neck to the line, with Mey just holding on to win. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 61 Tight Blouse = Oh, tits bulge! 2nd. Adrian Hickford with: 59 Feeling romantic = Flaming erection! 3rd. David A. Green with: 38 O, the taste of mother's milk = He took meals from the tits. ---------------- PEOPLE'S NAMES CATEGORY What a one-sided competition! Janet took the first three primary votes and kept going from there. 32 of the 39 voters gave her a vote, and 18 of these were primary votes. This was Janet's second win for the month, giving her 35 wins in her career in the Anagrammies. 1st. Jaybur with: 78 Saddam Hussein = UN's said he's mad. 2nd. Meyran Kraus with: 44 Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon = Crown rests in peace, to sad songs of mourners. Eq 3rd. David Bourke with: 40 Napoleon Bonaparte = To appear on Elba, non? Eq 3rd. Matjaz Pihler with: 40 Eddie Murphy = I'm hyper-dude ---------------- OTHER NAMES CATEGORY This was close all the way, with three potential winners. Mey was the early leader, then I took over, then Phil Carmody led. There was never more than 3-4 points separating us.. The final day settled it with 3 of the last 4 primary votes going to me (thank you, voters). An unexpected 2 wins for me this month, gives me 67 all up. 1st. Larry Brash with: 43 International Space Station = It is not a pleasant container. 2nd. Meyran Kraus with: 39 Tate Gallery, London = Only old, elegant art. 3rd. Phil Carmody with: 38 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation= Our ultra-antiquated dialup modem. ---------------- SPAM CATEGORY This was a two-horse race, with Mey and myself sharing the lead. He finished strongly with what I'll admit was the better anagram. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 66 You could tell Lori was proud of her body and she took care of it. 2nd. Larry Brash with: 61 DEAR LARRY BRASH, CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL 3rd. Adrian Hickford with: 41 Did you ever see the television show about the masked magician who revealed how the magic tricks worked? ---------------- LONG CATEGORY Another very close competition with any of the first 4 being likely winners. Again, Mey was the stronger finisher. This was an amazing month for Mey with 5 wins and several 2nds. He has had 9 awards already this year to push his total to 89 on the All Time Winners Table. 1st. Meyran Kraus with: 39 When I was born, I was black When I grew up, I was black. 2nd. David A. Green with: 35 "In a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides" = Pythagoras' theorem: therein he quotes his delightful, quite elegant, equations to show truth, sense and reason. 3rd. David Bourke with: 33 In 1902 Frederick Opper created a comic two Frenchmen who couldn't get through a door without a frenzy of politeness: ---------------- SPECIAL CATEGORY James Young had a big lead after the first 2 days of competition, but Adrian caught him up. David Bourke look like winning 3 rd place, but Richard Grantham polled strongly to pick up his only win for the month. Adrian had 2 wins this month and just missed out on winning 3 awards. He know has 13 wins and moves up to 11th place on the All Time Table. James's win was his 8th and puts him at 15th. Richard, of course, still leads the Table by 12 with 101 awards. 1st. Adrian Hickford with: 49 American comedian Steven Wright's trademark is his brilliant dour-faced delivery and remarkably calm, off-the-wall approach to comedy. Here is a small collection of his melancholic humour: 2nd. James H. Young with: 48 The 100 Questions Used by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service Examiners in Citizenship Test 3rd. Richard Grantham with: 39 The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. 4th. David Bourke with: 27 English Is Tough Stuff (Unpredictable Pronunciation) Eq 5th. Richard Brodie with: 9 But with a crash like thunder fell every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck lay right athwart the stream: Eq 5th. Walter Newboldt with: 9 English Is Tough Stuff (Unpredictable Pronunciation) ---------------- AWARDSMASTER'S CHOICE AWARD FOR THE BEST NON-WINNING ANAGRAM. This month I went with a long anagram. David Green's Pythagorus angram did very well against several much longer anagrams in the Long Category. David A. Green with: 35 "In a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides" = Pythagoras' theorem: therein he quotes his delightful, quite elegant, equations to show truth, sense and reason.