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52 voters was a good start to the year. From this month, we will give a higher degree of recognition to minor placegetters, with a new High Standings Table. There was a good spread of winners this month, with 11 members winning a total of 14 awards. |
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Even by the twelve hour mark, a group of three (Mey, Richard, and Hans-Peter) were looking strong and had opened a small gap on the field. These three remained the front runners to the end, but they frequently exchanged the lead, and it went down to the line for a tie between Mey and Richard, with Hans-Peter just three points back. Hans-Peter's third place gives him a total of eleven awards |
1 | Mey Kraus | 38 | Coins kept ~ in pockets. |
1 | Richard Grantham | 38 | A breathalyser test = That says "Beer alert!" |
3 | Hans-Peter Reich | 35 | Astonishment = "That son's mine???" |
4 | Tony Crafter | 28 | A) A typical woman. B) A typical man = A) A compliant way? B) Napalm a city! |
5 | Paul Pan | 27 | Romantic song = Mating croons. |
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This was a very close event Rick lead out with a one point lead at 12 hours and maintained that over Adrian at the end of Day One. However, Day Two saw a big change in fortunes, with Adrian jumping into an eleven point lead. Rick clawed Adrian's margin back to just two by the end of voting. It was Adrian's 54th award. |
1 | Adrian Hickford | 50 | Academy Award nominees = Cinema nowadays... Dear me! |
2 | Rick Rothstein | 48 | "The Last Supper" (Leonardo da Vinci) ~ pictured the lone Savior and pals. |
3 | Tony Crafter | 43 | Heavy metal bands ~ have blasted many. |
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We never have any doubt where Toby's politics reside when it comes to GW Bush. This was one of his best. Toby took a clear lead in the first half day, and continued to stay clear of Rosie who also had a clever shot at the President. 16 winners for Toby on the All Time Table. |
1 | Toby Gottfried | 62 | The Second Bush Inauguration = In truth, USA, once is bad enough. |
2 | Rosie Perera | 50 | President's limo = Simpleton's ride. |
3 | Larry Brash | 30 | Voters turned out for the Iraqi elections = A violent terrorist foe not quite crushed. |
3 | Rick Rothstein | 30 | Sumatra, Indonesia= O damn! A sea ruins it. |
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I think most of us were impressed with View's great anagram of Sly Stallone when it appeared on the Forum. The voters also agreed. View was well ahead 24 hours into the competition, but really opened up a huge margin in the last 24 hours. This was View's fifth award. |
1 | View | 63 | Actor Sylvester Stallone = Very cool talentless star. |
2 | Mey Kraus | 35 | CEO William Henry Gates the Third = He cried: "Wealth, that's my religion!" |
3 | Larry Brash | 32 | The entertainer Michael Jackson = Eliminate that jerk... he's a concern. |
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What a one-sided category this was! Mey racked up 46 points with the first 29 votes, after just twelve hours. By the 24 hour mark, he was 30 ahead. At 48 hours, his lead was 50, and nearly 60 at the close of play. Two awards this month give Mey 189 all up. |
1 | Mey Kraus | 97 | The Leaning Tower of Pisa = I spot one giant flaw here... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 38 | The Syrian Desert = It's...er...sandy there. |
3 | Rosie Perera | 30 | American Society of Civil Engineers = I secretly imagine nice roof caves in. |
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Scott open a five point margin after 12 hours with Rosie in second place. That relatively narrow lead was never extended for the rest of the competition. This was Scott's 14th winner. |
1 | Scott Gardner | 52 | The children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland = |
2 | Rosie Perera | 46 | Why does George Mallory desire to climb Mount Everest? = |
3 | Toby Gottfried | 45 | "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." = |
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This looked like it would be a comfortable win to Richard from early on the first day. However, Tony mounted a great final sprint. He briefly took the lead, but Richard scrapped home by one. |
1 | Richard Grantham | 53 | PIANO Softly, in the dusk, a woman is ... = Since I left home, the thing I've foun... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 52 | Apparently, one in five people in the wo... = Inferior logic. It obviously can't be m... |
3 | Paul Pan | 45 | Acknowledging the seven wonders of the ... = Hi, let us assess famed examples of o... |
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No prizes for guessing who was the favorite here. Mike Keith had been relatively absent from the competition in recent years, but his entry here demonstrates his amazing abilities in this genre of anagramming, and also displays the influence that he has had on our long anagrammers, such as Mey, Richard Grantham, Richard Brodie and many others. He shows us that poetry and mathematics can be combined to obtain some amazing results. Mike had a 30 point lead after just 12 hours, extending that to 45 points by the competition's end. This was Mike's 24th win. David's runnerup was his 65th winner. Mey and Richard were always very close for the third place award, with Richard always staying just ahead for his third win this month (from just three anagrams - must be some kind of record) and 149th on the All Time Table |
1 | Mike Keith | 86 | An anagram of Edgar Allan Poe's To Helen |
2 | David Bourke | 41 | Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore sketch |
3 | Richard Grantham | 32 | The Ode to the Amoeba |
4 | Mey Kraus | 30 | Travel Agent (Monty Python) |
5 | Tony Crafter | 13 | Three pieces of advice for men who are aged sixty |
5 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 13 | A poetic verse in an anagrammatic acrostic |
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By the last day of the month, I realised that I had created hardly any anagrams. I threw together some ordinary ones and thought that this was the pick of the bunch. However, I was not expecting too much from it. As a result, I was surprised but delighted that I was leading easily after 12 hours. I kept a comfortable lead to the finish line. This was my 88th win. |
1 | Larry Brash | 59 | The Guinness Book of Records = Fuck! So boring! Needs hooters! |
2 | David Bourke | 48 | I just came in my sleep = Untimely jism escape! |
3 | Mey Kraus | 44 | Stained motel sheets = See that it's old semen. |
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There were a few anagrams up for consideration here this month. We looked closely at Paul Pan's fifth place in General, Rick's narrow loss in Entertainment, Rosie's seconds in Topical and Medium. However, it was Tony's almost-winner in Long that was the one that we chose. The subject and the anagrams were as funny as eachother for a very clever result.
This was his sixth award. |
Name | Points |
Mey Kraus | 65.65 |
Tony Crafter | 61.82 |
Toby Gottfried | 52.39 |
Rosie Perera | 44.09 |
Rick Rothstein | 43.77 |
David Bourke | 42.11 |
Scott Gardner | 31.19 |
Larry Brash | 26.16 |
Richard Grantham | 25.06 |
Horrid Stretchy Pus | 22.29 |
View | 18.98 |
Hans-Peter Reich | 17.41 |
Paul Pan | 15.22 |
Mike Keith | 13.95 |
Adrian Hickford | 13.33 |
palusch | 11.45 |
Don Rogers | 10.10 |
dee4j | 9.82 |
Zoran Radisavlevic | 6.10 |
David A Green | 5.83 |
Joe Fathallah | 5.37 |
KS Mascarenhas | 5.10 |
AlanY | 3.33 |
stephanemot | 0.71 |
Name | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Mey Kraus | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Richard Grantham | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Larry Brash | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Toby Gottfried | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Adrian Hickford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Keith | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Scott Gardner | 1 | 0 | 0 |
View | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Rosie Perera | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Tony Crafter | 0 | 2 | 1 |
David Bourke | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Rick Rothstein | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hans-Peter Reich | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Paul Pan | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Thank you all for participating and voting in this month's awards. Congratulations to the winners.