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Sorry about my lateness in publishing the results for the latest competition and for my lack of activity on the Forum. I seem to have been so busy with running three competitions in the last 5 weeks and also I have been involved in many other non-Anagrammy activities. As so many of you have said, "What a month!". Indeed, it was a month of many new records:
Thank you all for your participation and to the moderators in helping out with the day-to-day monitoring. I have modified the Forum script to block much of the nuisance spam. The number of voters, however, did not go up with the increase of member activity. 45 voters was a reasonable result, but 50+ every month would be better. This month, nine members shared 16 awards. |
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Rosie was the early leader, five points ahead of Mey at the 12 hour mark. Mey overtook her and had opened an eleven point margin by the end of Day One. On Days Two and Three, Mey was 16 points clear for a very comfortable win. Rosie was always going to pick up second place, but the battle for third place was, as usual, very close. Tony, Hans-Peter and Andrew shared third at 12 hours. Hans-Peter was one point ahead of Andrew by 24 hours. Andrew, Neil and Hans-Peter were tied at 48 hours. Hans-Peter dropped off the pace on the last day, leaving Neil and Andrew to share the third place award. Andrew's third place award give him 12 awards all-up. Neil's award was his first Anagrammy. Congratulations, Neil. |
1 | Mey Kraus | 50 | Military weapon = Employ it in a war. |
2 | Rosie Perera | 34 | A child molester = Mother calls: "Die!" |
3 | Andrew | 28 | Shapely girl = Largely hips. |
3 | Neil Ramsay | 28 | Late Shift? ~ That's life! |
5 | Hans-Peter Reich | 22 | The crane operator = Another 'top' career. |
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This was one of the closest categories this month. Horrid took a small lead after 12 hours and was just point ahead of Tony at the end of Day One. At Day Two's end, they shared the lead, and they were tied again at the end of the comeptition. That looked that would be the final result, until I discovered a duplicate vote. When that was deleted, Tony had just made it home by two points. |
1 | Tony Crafter | 44 | 'Oliver Twist'. The novel by Charles Dickens = Scrawny bloke sent child to thieve silver! |
2 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 42 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling = A jolly hyper Hogwarts boy'll thwart dark in the end. |
3 | Mey Kraus | 40 | Puccini's opera 'Madame Butterfly' = Macabre play put to refined music. |
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Half-way though the first day, Mey had a small lead, which he progressively extended over the next two days to win by 12 points. |
1 | Mey Kraus | 48 | United States politics = Suspect it's oil-tainted. |
2 | Andrew | 36 | George 'Dubya' Bush's State of the Union Address = So, the dud threatens a surge in use of body bags. |
3 | Rosie Perera | 26 | President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address = Enough deaths, persistent snob. For we are disgusted! |
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Another very close event. Paul was a clear leader at the 12 hour point, being 8 points clear of Mike. He remained in the lead after 24 hours, three points ahead of Mey who had moved up from 4th place. The final two days saw Mey and Paul see-saw for the lead, with Mey beating him by one point. |
1 | Mey Kraus | 46 | The Immortal Bard, William Shakespeare = This admirable writer shall make a poem. |
2 | Paul Pan | 45 | Tony Blair's ~ a sly Briton! |
3 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 39 | Imelda Romualdez Marcos = A lurid sole-crazed momma. |
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It was nice to see a new member (and a fellow Mac user) win here. Adie shot to lead and was clear by eleven points after 12 hours. Horrid challenged well, narrowing Adie's lead to just three with 24 hours to go. Adie polled well near the end to win comfortably by seven points. Congratulations to Adie on his first Anagrammy. I am sure we will see more wins for him. |
1 | Adie Pena | 53 | Mac iTunes = Neat Music. |
2 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 46 | Microsoft Windows Software = www.off-or-on-it's-disaster.com |
3 | David Bourke | 26 | The Iams Company = My cat's main hope! |
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This was also quite close and the leader for the first two days missed out. Andrew was always just 2-3 points ahead, until the Final Day, when Rosie jumped up and won by four points. Two wins for Rosie take her to 11 on the All-Time Table. |
1 | Rosie Perera | 41 | Hillary: "Perhaps there are better candidates for President than myself." = |
2 | Andrew | 37 | "Plutoed" is nominated and voted Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society = |
3 | David Bourke | 31 | Director Michael Winner facing amputation after holiday illness = |
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This month's Challenge, set by David, was to create a new epitaph about another person, using this text:
Mey was one of the last to post his reply to David's Challenge and it was worth the wait. Mey had quite a modest lead on Day One, but powered on as the competition progressed and won easily by a dozen points. |
1 | Mey Kraus | 38 | Poem at Steve Irwin's burial |
2 | Richard G | 26 | Damn thing's a bit similar to a tiny wreath-fanfare that was scribbled by verbalist W.H.Auden: |
3 | Rosie Perera | 24 | No more derby racing, eating hay -- |
3 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 24 | Earth's Epitaph by God |
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Tony is hard to beat in this category nowadays and this month was no exception! Tony was eight points clear after 12 hours and doubled that lead by the end of the event. |
1 | Tony Crafter | 48 | THE IRISH CHRISTENING Paddy's pregnant sister... = A HOLY CROSSNESS! Seamus asked Pat how he g... |
2 | David Bourke | 32 | A doctor is attending the scene of a very nasty-... = A randy Essex girl, Tracie, of South Woodham F... |
3 | Andrew | 30 | THE COMPUTER SWALLOWED GRANDMA The computer s... = A grandma called Computer Support in a dark f... |
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Mey was always looking good here, but David was in contention with 2nd and 3rd place over the first two days. Mey ended up winning by half a dozen points, with David picking up the second place award and Tony moving one of his into third place on the last day. Mey had another excellent month with five awards, taking him to 284 in total. David's win was his 95th and I can see him catching up with me and getting into 3rd place on the All-Time Table during this year. A good month for Tony, as well, with three awards. That gives him 57 all up. |
1 | Mey Kraus | 42 | Scrabbled Art Puzzle |
2 | David Bourke | 36 | The Tale Of Peter Rabbit |
3 | Tony Crafter | 30 | e-mail to: ALL MY FRIENDS Subject: SOME NEW-YEAR TIPS!! |
4 | David Bourke | 25 | Tony Blair is on an official visit to a hospital in Edinburgh. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 17 | JIVE TALKIN' by Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb |
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For the first two days this category was quite close, with Mey and Horrid exchanging the lead. Horrid finished very strongly to win by nine points. Horrid's win here brings his total up to nine. |
1 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 43 | A huge pair of breasts = Ah, grasp for beauties. |
2 | Mey Kraus | 32 | The US singer Britney Spears = Bares her pussy? Interesting! |
3 | Adie Pena | 25 | Testicles here ~ see clits there. |
3 | Tony Crafter | 25 | The American burlesque performer Dita Von Teese = Termed 'Queen of strip'. Man, I love her cute, bare arse! |
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Two serious contenders stood out for this award: Hans-Peter's General, which I thought was very clever, and Paul Pan's Peoples Names, which very nearly won. A tough choice, but I ended up with Paul's short one.
Paul has now won 16 awards. |
Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you all for voting.